New cars are wonderfully simple under the hood, once you strip away all the plastic. Ever taken apart an old carburetor before? Ever try to get it back together in working order? Give me a FI computer, airflow sensor, and fuel injector any day. Not surprisingly, cars went from a maintenance interval of 1,000 miles with a life expectancy of 50,000 miles to a maintenance interval of 10,000 miles and a life expectancy of 250,000 miles by *avoiding* complexity.
How will the student then apply his knowledge to modern languages such as Java, C# ?
It's really pretty simple. After seeing what a computer can do with code intimately optimized for the machine it's running on, they will be exposed to the status quo in Java or C# and their heads will explode. Problem solved on our end!
Good advice, but your stereo equipment idea fails the "would someone steal it even if not looking for hidden loot" test... A great spot I would add to the list (not that I have anything to hide, ahem) is the underside of just about any heavy furniture like a hutch, dresser, entertainment center, etc. If it's not already boxed in, a few pieces of masonite can make it look like it was meant to be that way, and a few furniture sliders on the bottom can make it easy to get to the back, while the wood tacks traditionally used will make it easy to open if you need to retrieve the items in short order (without destroying the furniture).
Perhaps he just didn't think he would get caught since the money wasn't going through banks. After all, that's pretty much what I would do. Actually, that's where I would start. Then I would probably set up some sort of business, accept "cash payment" for whatever services rendered and then pay some taxes to make it all look legitimate. I know... that just makes too much sense, but then again, I believe my greed has limits where many others' does not.
Ah, er, hey old article, help me out here... "The alleged scheme used an elaborate chain of US and foreign bank accounts and one front company to receive payments, the indictment said, and code words like 'sample' were used to refer to the payments so that Apple co-workers wouldn't become suspicious."
Sounds like he thought of everything except what to do with the money once it was in his hands. What ever happened to burying it?
I call BS, he must be doing something else wrong; the camera is dirty or not configured right, the lenses aren't genuine, he's just too close to the subject, etc. With my 400D and an array of cheap (but genuine Canon) lenses, center point one-shot AF on a centered subject is super fast and accurate in all but the lowest of lighting. Hell, I almost always leave my camera in AI-focus (notoriously picky) and it rarely lets me down.
I couldn't agree more the myth of the liberal media is just that - something the GOP has told so many times people think its true - there is nothing liberal about the MSM - cheers
It comes entirely down to whatever will drive ratings. Republicans have popular sentiment? Time to talk up the war! Time to talk up hurtful high taxes! Wait, Democrats are winning elections again? Oops! War was a bad idea! Rich people don't pay taxes! Come listen to us! We have something important to say!
As for how the liberal media myth got it's legs, what on earth could be an easier ratings-generator for right wing media than saying every other outlet is dangerously left wing?
Xrays and backscatters? Bruce Schneier needs none of these things to identify you by your skeleton. Bruce Schneier simply removes your skeleton from your body and gives it a once-over.
Sorry, my bad. I clicked the link to the 450MB source image they conveniently provided. Hmm maybe I should go with the scaled down version... only 123MB!
It's not like any other slashdotters are going to want those files. What could possibly go wrong?
That would be low-temperature gas liquefaction, of course! What, you want it to be as easy and cheap as finding it buried in the ground? Well, keep dreaming!
The world's first publicly available LTE-service was opened in the two Scandinavian capitals Stockholm (Ericsson system) and Oslo (a Huawei system) on the 14 December 2009, and branded 4G.
Pre-4G != 4G... On either side of the pond.
Re:"3G" has always been meaningless
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From the first paragraph;
a 3G system must allow simultaneous use of speech and data services, and provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s according to the IMT-2000 specification.
Except on Sprint.
And Verizon. Where is the class action suit considering that more than half of the "3G" phones in the US (those held by Verizon and Sprint subscribers) are not really 3G despite being labeled as such?
A few places are deploying LTE or WiMax, and this is 4G, or 3.9G if it doesn't quite meet the requirements of 4G.
Ah, er, what? TFA explains it this way "You might notice that Sprint is currently selling Mobile WiMAX as “4G.” Mobile WiMAX is part of IMT-2000 — the 3G standard. Verizon Wireless is selling something called “LTE” as “4G” — it ain’t in IMT-Advanced either. Today’s “4G” products are like the “3G” of 2002 and 2003 — they will become “3.75G” as soon as the next hot thing comes out."
So, everything called 4G today is a lie vs the ITU spec in IMT-Advanced. Faster than 3g, possibly, but not 4G in any stretch of the imagination (unless you are in sales). Sounds like you've been sold. Give TFA a try, it's a good read!
This whole discussion reminds me way too much of the million partisan pundit sissy fights that rage endlessly on the internet. If I wanted to see two guys argue about what the other did or didnt say, I would gladly head over to DailyKos or BigJournalism and drown myself in their pedantry. This is slashdot; please save the inanity for the comments and at least give us stories that have meaning!
Zombies are the new vampires, and to date none of them sparkle in the sun.
Want to know why zombies are so cool? Because Hollywood will never be able to get 14 year old girls interested in crappy zombie romance/emo books and movies....
That's what they said about JK Rowling... Didn't stop her from making boxcars of money off of one lousy (but adolescent-appealing) series, either. Fame is a bitch, huh?
Super interesting Wikipedia article! You would think that if they were so good at it (the french judges) they could at least tell the difference between American and French grapes (even if they secretly found the American taste "Better")...
Actually, the snobs of both fields probably do have something in common: They enjoy spending money on things (Even if it's only for spending's sake)... Behold: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9849949-39.html, a study that demonstrated the ability of something to be better (read: more enjoyable) so long as (and solely if) it is more expensive. Maybe the Audio guys aren't so crazy after all... Just deluded by their medial orbitofrontal cortex!
The problem is as they get older and (hopefully) more wealthy, their hearing is at the same time inevitably getting worse and worse. Before too long, their wealth easily eclipses their ability to hear and their ability to resist snakeoil like this. Salesmen score a slam-dunk appeal to ego as soon as they plug in a set of "unbelieveable, not just digital, SUPERDIGITAL" cables and laud the *obvious* improvement in sound. Not being able to hear a damn thing anyway, the audiophile quickly opens his wallet lest he be discovered for having gone deaf long ago.
Exactly. It would be pretty hard to make something that sells for less by ultimately putting more of [xyz] material in it... Making them smaller pretty directly leads to same-size price reduction. GP needs a -1, Whining mod created just for him.
Here's how it could work: solder a 16GB version to the motherboard, make it fast, give it a dedicated SATA channel. Then write a storage driver for windows (or whatever) that masks space from the primary disk for the OS and moves the data to the SSD. Think of it as a lower level cache for the hard drive before going to RAM. Hell, you could keep a synced copy on your actual hard disk to remove the risk of losing anything at all. Bottom line is it's basically "readyboost done right" since it makes for a very fast place to store files that's not as expensive as adding that much RAM (in dollars, watts, space, etc.)
I'm fairly certain you were being sarcastic in your post but relativity doesn't invalidate Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics is still correct, it's just less accurate than relativity and quantum mechanics.
Newton was a hack... That apple was perturbed, I tell you, PERTURBED!!!
(Newtonian physics and Einsteinian physics are close enough for me, at least to make jokes about)
For his next trick, he is going to unwrap GoogleNameChange(beta), where you can automate your transition from old life to new... Just be careful that you *dont* keep the same friends otherwise it will be trivial for anyone looking carefully to find your new identity. And for god's sake make sure you don't go with the default privacy settings of "allow anyone to see my old and new name, along with email and postal addresses and pictures of me drinking at a high school party".
To that, Schmidt will admit that the two practical options to escaping your past are 1) eliminate anyone who knew or could find out information about you (this may involve killing everyone on the planet) or 2) Combine your DNA with a willing partner, creating an offspring, and raise it to your specifications so that it may carry your life forward (giving it a unique name, of course.)
There was a moderate earthquake while the scantily clad women were trying to prove that immodest dress didn't cause earthquakes.
Pretty funny actually.
Imagine the size of the earthquake if, instead of "immodest", the dress was scaled all the way up to "lascivious"! Clearly this is cause for concern. Small scale tests must be conducted at once to determine the extent of this threat.
You know how they say evolution would be falsified by a bunny in the pre-cambrian.
Well, it's not a bunny, but it's not in the stratum it's supposed to be.
Time to stop teaching the discredited theory of evolution.
Not to mention that General Relativity and Quantum Relativity don't mix... obviously they are both wrong and we can quit teaching Newtonian physics in school too! I think we are really on to something. If we weed out all the nonsense being taught, we will have enough time in the day to bring back art class!
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New cars are wonderfully simple under the hood, once you strip away all the plastic. Ever taken apart an old carburetor before? Ever try to get it back together in working order? Give me a FI computer, airflow sensor, and fuel injector any day. Not surprisingly, cars went from a maintenance interval of 1,000 miles with a life expectancy of 50,000 miles to a maintenance interval of 10,000 miles and a life expectancy of 250,000 miles by *avoiding* complexity.
How will the student then apply his knowledge to modern languages such as Java, C# ?
It's really pretty simple. After seeing what a computer can do with code intimately optimized for the machine it's running on, they will be exposed to the status quo in Java or C# and their heads will explode. Problem solved on our end!
Good advice, but your stereo equipment idea fails the "would someone steal it even if not looking for hidden loot" test... A great spot I would add to the list (not that I have anything to hide, ahem) is the underside of just about any heavy furniture like a hutch, dresser, entertainment center, etc. If it's not already boxed in, a few pieces of masonite can make it look like it was meant to be that way, and a few furniture sliders on the bottom can make it easy to get to the back, while the wood tacks traditionally used will make it easy to open if you need to retrieve the items in short order (without destroying the furniture).
Perhaps he just didn't think he would get caught since the money wasn't going through banks. After all, that's pretty much what I would do. Actually, that's where I would start. Then I would probably set up some sort of business, accept "cash payment" for whatever services rendered and then pay some taxes to make it all look legitimate. I know... that just makes too much sense, but then again, I believe my greed has limits where many others' does not.
Ah, er, hey old article, help me out here... "The alleged scheme used an elaborate chain of US and foreign bank accounts and one front company to receive payments, the indictment said, and code words like 'sample' were used to refer to the payments so that Apple co-workers wouldn't become suspicious."
Sounds like he thought of everything except what to do with the money once it was in his hands. What ever happened to burying it?
He would have gotten away with it by using an apple product box, but they were too small to hold all that cash!
I call BS, he must be doing something else wrong; the camera is dirty or not configured right, the lenses aren't genuine, he's just too close to the subject, etc. With my 400D and an array of cheap (but genuine Canon) lenses, center point one-shot AF on a centered subject is super fast and accurate in all but the lowest of lighting. Hell, I almost always leave my camera in AI-focus (notoriously picky) and it rarely lets me down.
I couldn't agree more the myth of the liberal media is just that - something the GOP has told so many times people think its true - there is nothing liberal about the MSM - cheers
It comes entirely down to whatever will drive ratings. Republicans have popular sentiment? Time to talk up the war! Time to talk up hurtful high taxes! Wait, Democrats are winning elections again? Oops! War was a bad idea! Rich people don't pay taxes! Come listen to us! We have something important to say!
As for how the liberal media myth got it's legs, what on earth could be an easier ratings-generator for right wing media than saying every other outlet is dangerously left wing?
Xrays and backscatters? Bruce Schneier needs none of these things to identify you by your skeleton. Bruce Schneier simply removes your skeleton from your body and gives it a once-over.
(apologies to schneierfacts.com)
Sorry, my bad. I clicked the link to the 450MB source image they conveniently provided. Hmm maybe I should go with the scaled down version... only 123MB!
It's not like any other slashdotters are going to want those files. What could possibly go wrong?
That would be low-temperature gas liquefaction, of course! What, you want it to be as easy and cheap as finding it buried in the ground? Well, keep dreaming!
OK if you want to make it about that:
The world's first publicly available LTE-service was opened in the two Scandinavian capitals Stockholm (Ericsson system) and Oslo (a Huawei system) on the 14 December 2009, and branded 4G.
Pre-4G != 4G... On either side of the pond.
From the first paragraph;
a 3G system must allow simultaneous use of speech and data services, and provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s according to the IMT-2000 specification.
Except on Sprint.
And Verizon. Where is the class action suit considering that more than half of the "3G" phones in the US (those held by Verizon and Sprint subscribers) are not really 3G despite being labeled as such?
A few places are deploying LTE or WiMax, and this is 4G, or 3.9G if it doesn't quite meet the requirements of 4G.
Ah, er, what? TFA explains it this way "You might notice that Sprint is currently selling Mobile WiMAX as “4G.” Mobile WiMAX is part of IMT-2000 — the 3G standard. Verizon Wireless is selling something called “LTE” as “4G” — it ain’t in IMT-Advanced either. Today’s “4G” products are like the “3G” of 2002 and 2003 — they will become “3.75G” as soon as the next hot thing comes out."
So, everything called 4G today is a lie vs the ITU spec in IMT-Advanced. Faster than 3g, possibly, but not 4G in any stretch of the imagination (unless you are in sales). Sounds like you've been sold. Give TFA a try, it's a good read!
This whole discussion reminds me way too much of the million partisan pundit sissy fights that rage endlessly on the internet. If I wanted to see two guys argue about what the other did or didnt say, I would gladly head over to DailyKos or BigJournalism and drown myself in their pedantry. This is slashdot; please save the inanity for the comments and at least give us stories that have meaning!
Zombies are the new vampires, and to date none of them sparkle in the sun.
Want to know why zombies are so cool? Because Hollywood will never be able to get 14 year old girls interested in crappy zombie romance/emo books and movies....
That's what they said about JK Rowling... Didn't stop her from making boxcars of money off of one lousy (but adolescent-appealing) series, either. Fame is a bitch, huh?
Super interesting Wikipedia article! You would think that if they were so good at it (the french judges) they could at least tell the difference between American and French grapes (even if they secretly found the American taste "Better")...
Actually, the snobs of both fields probably do have something in common: They enjoy spending money on things (Even if it's only for spending's sake)... Behold: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9849949-39.html, a study that demonstrated the ability of something to be better (read: more enjoyable) so long as (and solely if) it is more expensive. Maybe the Audio guys aren't so crazy after all... Just deluded by their medial orbitofrontal cortex!
The problem is as they get older and (hopefully) more wealthy, their hearing is at the same time inevitably getting worse and worse. Before too long, their wealth easily eclipses their ability to hear and their ability to resist snakeoil like this. Salesmen score a slam-dunk appeal to ego as soon as they plug in a set of "unbelieveable, not just digital, SUPERDIGITAL" cables and laud the *obvious* improvement in sound. Not being able to hear a damn thing anyway, the audiophile quickly opens his wallet lest he be discovered for having gone deaf long ago.
Exactly. It would be pretty hard to make something that sells for less by ultimately putting more of [xyz] material in it... Making them smaller pretty directly leads to same-size price reduction. GP needs a -1, Whining mod created just for him.
Here's how it could work: solder a 16GB version to the motherboard, make it fast, give it a dedicated SATA channel. Then write a storage driver for windows (or whatever) that masks space from the primary disk for the OS and moves the data to the SSD. Think of it as a lower level cache for the hard drive before going to RAM. Hell, you could keep a synced copy on your actual hard disk to remove the risk of losing anything at all. Bottom line is it's basically "readyboost done right" since it makes for a very fast place to store files that's not as expensive as adding that much RAM (in dollars, watts, space, etc.)
You *did* have a backup, right?
we can quit teaching Newtonian physics in school
I'm fairly certain you were being sarcastic in your post but relativity doesn't invalidate Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics is still correct, it's just less accurate than relativity and quantum mechanics.
Newton was a hack... That apple was perturbed, I tell you, PERTURBED!!!
(Newtonian physics and Einsteinian physics are close enough for me, at least to make jokes about)
For his next trick, he is going to unwrap GoogleNameChange(beta), where you can automate your transition from old life to new... Just be careful that you *dont* keep the same friends otherwise it will be trivial for anyone looking carefully to find your new identity. And for god's sake make sure you don't go with the default privacy settings of "allow anyone to see my old and new name, along with email and postal addresses and pictures of me drinking at a high school party".
To that, Schmidt will admit that the two practical options to escaping your past are 1) eliminate anyone who knew or could find out information about you (this may involve killing everyone on the planet) or 2) Combine your DNA with a willing partner, creating an offspring, and raise it to your specifications so that it may carry your life forward (giving it a unique name, of course.)
At least it's not Sak D. Octor... Sakdoc Tor? Sak Doctor??? Ahem
Don't you remember?
There was a moderate earthquake while the scantily clad women were trying to prove that immodest dress didn't cause earthquakes.
Pretty funny actually.
Imagine the size of the earthquake if, instead of "immodest", the dress was scaled all the way up to "lascivious"! Clearly this is cause for concern. Small scale tests must be conducted at once to determine the extent of this threat.
You know how they say evolution would be falsified by a bunny in the pre-cambrian.
Well, it's not a bunny, but it's not in the stratum it's supposed to be.
Time to stop teaching the discredited theory of evolution.
Not to mention that General Relativity and Quantum Relativity don't mix... obviously they are both wrong and we can quit teaching Newtonian physics in school too! I think we are really on to something. If we weed out all the nonsense being taught, we will have enough time in the day to bring back art class!