I like it for when I'm cooking - "okay Google, set a timer for fifteen minutes" or "what's 500 milliliters in cups?" Don't have to get the phone dirty with whatever meat juices I've got on my hands.
As much as I'm a fan of electric vehicles, this analysis looks pretty flawed. They talk about "energy" efficiency (and cite "electricity + natural gas" as money spent by refineries), then immediately turn around and assume it's all electricity.
it can be estimated that about 21,000 Btu—the equivalent of 6 kWh—of energy are used per gallon of gasoline refined. It is a simple fact that the refining of gasoline requires approximately 6 kWh of electricity per gallon of gasoline.
Here is a counterpoint that seems to make more sense. http://longtailpipe.com/ebooks... Main points: 1) Not all the energy they use is electricity, most is actually burnt oil. 2) The process of refinement produces several products; it's unfair to attribute all the electricity to the gasoline produced.
The researchers saw the most pronounced effects, as you'd expect, when their study included candidates that the subjects had no prior knowledge on. In their first study, they asked Californians about 2010 candidates for PM of Australia.
In their followup, they again note that it's only really effective on people who don't know what's going on (and aren't likely voters anyway): "Divorcees, Republicans, and subjects who reported low familiarity with the candidates were among the easiest groups to influence, whereas participants who were better informed, married, or reported an annual household income between $40,000 and $50,000 were harder to sway. Moderate Republicans were the most susceptible of any group: The manipulated search results increased the number of undecided voters who said they would choose the favored candidate by 80%."
When they tried a third study in India, about Indian elections, that impressive 80% figure dropped to only 12% (of undecided voters).
"Are there any software packages (open source preferred) that pretty much allow engineers to upload a patch with a description to a web server, and allow customers with credentials that are registered in LDAP to browse and download them quickly?" If you've already got LDAP set up, you probably already got a network-accessible directory. Just put the patches in there.
The difference is a lot closer to a $5 burger vs a $4 one. I'll happily pay an extra buck to ensure that the employees can afford to feed their families.
But they aren't loading & unloading all of the theaters simultaneously, nor are they at peak capacity for all their theaters - maybe a few theaters for the new summer blockbuster, but not all of them simultaneously. (Each theater seats maybe a hundred or two hundred people).
Requiring each business to be able to provide parking for their absolute maximum capacity 24/7 is a good way to make operating any business in the city much more expensive. Peak usage times for a laundromat is not the same as the peak usage for the theater, nor the same as restaurants. Much of your parking is going to be laying unused most of the time! You've wasted a lot of (valuable) real estate just marking off empty car areas.
If you're going to require a certain amount of parking (most cities do have thresholds, they're just not 1.5 * maximum capacity), you should require less than maximum utilization, to take advantage of de-synced demand (i.e: the same spot will be used by a laundromat patron at 2pm, a family dining at 6pm, and a couple seeing a film at 9pm).
I'm a little curious as to in what universe you live in which each person brings 1.5 cars to the movie theater. Or four cars for a 1 bedroom apartment?
I can go to the bar by myself and get hammered, and not worry about driving home. However I don't think this will happen in my lifetime, regardless of all the Slashdot submissions we've seen lately.
If you're using ChromeOS (which you probably are), go to: Settings -> Keyboard Settings and adjust the "Search" dropdown to your choice. (Search;Ctrl;Alt;Escape;Caps; or disabled).
The flashing red is the yellow phase. Many even have a timer, to let you know how long the "yellow" is. A young fit person can enter the crosswalk with 5 seconds left and be out before red. Granny, not so much.
If you're so loaded that you're buying a 50 inch 4k TV and a $500+ graphics card, I'm sure you can shell out $20 for an adapter. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9...
The crowdfunding project to sequence the black rhino genome is not a prerequisite to their goal of making rhino horns, no. If you click through, it appears to just research that they hope will lead to better understanding of black rhino subspecies:
Sequencing the black rhino genome is just the first step. The data from this project will be used to create a biobank of genomic data for the remaining 8 subspecies of black rhino. Three are already extinct. We intend to use this project as a catalyst to sequence all subspecies of black rhino and understand the genetic divergence within and between rhino species.
This will be a foundation that future researcher can utilize and could possibly help bring the three currently extinct black rhinoceros subspecies back into existence
Whether that last goal is at all realistic... that depends largely on whether they have DNA from the extinct rhinos on hand.
Every so often, I get email intended for some 40+ year-old guy who has [myemailaddress]@yahoo.com (instead of at gmail). Most of it is spam or websites that he's trying to sign up for, but occasionally it's a human being on the other end.
The first time this happened, it was information about his ongoing domestic violence court case (legal documents, copy of police report, etc). I notified them that they had the wrong address, and they proceeded to email me three more times with more information. Eventually I yelled at them enough and they corrected it.
The second time this happened was a few years later - it was some tiny ~20 year old girl who desperately wanted to convince him to get back with her (by sending him nudes). I can't say that I didn't take a little joy in telling her to check out his domestic violence record. I got a really angry email from him a couple days later (subject line: FUCKING IDIOT), so I think she must have heeded my advice (and dodged a bullet).
There's no expectation that an Apple Store app is going to work on Android, or a windows laptop, or a PS3. When I look for Android apps, I check an android app store - I know that the vast majority of what I find will work on my device.
But everyone who visits a website expects that website to render and work for them - there's no segregation between "the apple web" and "the microsoft web" when you're at your computer, it's all just one big pile of sites. Users are aware that sometimes there are browser-specific issues, of course, but trying to load a site that is incompatible with your browser is *much* more frustrating than being unaware of an app that exists for another platform.
Personally, I'm rooting for a Sanders/Warren ticket. It's farther left than might be safe, but I don't think anyone the republicans have are any good this cycle, so I think it could work out.
Exactly - a meritocracy would be great, if it existed. But instead it's a bunch of relatively well-off white guys looking around at their buddies, saying "Yep! We sure are all the best, that's why it's just people like me here. If a group is underrepresented, it's definitely because they're bad at tech - this is a meritocracy, after all!"
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I like it for when I'm cooking - "okay Google, set a timer for fifteen minutes" or "what's 500 milliliters in cups?" Don't have to get the phone dirty with whatever meat juices I've got on my hands.
As much as I'm a fan of electric vehicles, this analysis looks pretty flawed. They talk about "energy" efficiency (and cite "electricity + natural gas" as money spent by refineries), then immediately turn around and assume it's all electricity.
it can be estimated that about 21,000 Btu—the equivalent of 6 kWh—of energy are used per gallon of gasoline refined.
It is a simple fact that the refining of gasoline requires approximately 6 kWh of electricity per gallon of gasoline.
Here is a counterpoint that seems to make more sense. http://longtailpipe.com/ebooks...
Main points:
1) Not all the energy they use is electricity, most is actually burnt oil.
2) The process of refinement produces several products; it's unfair to attribute all the electricity to the gasoline produced.
They only send you rides when you're working. They're not phoning you up during dinner and telling you to go pick somebody up.
"Turning down a ride" happens when you say "hello Uber I'd like a passenger .... No, not that one."
The researchers saw the most pronounced effects, as you'd expect, when their study included candidates that the subjects had no prior knowledge on. In their first study, they asked Californians about 2010 candidates for PM of Australia.
In their followup, they again note that it's only really effective on people who don't know what's going on (and aren't likely voters anyway): "Divorcees, Republicans, and subjects who reported low familiarity with the candidates were among the easiest groups to influence, whereas participants who were better informed, married, or reported an annual household income between $40,000 and $50,000 were harder to sway. Moderate Republicans were the most susceptible of any group: The manipulated search results increased the number of undecided voters who said they would choose the favored candidate by 80%."
When they tried a third study in India, about Indian elections, that impressive 80% figure dropped to only 12% (of undecided voters).
This whole question is a trainwreck.
"Are there any software packages (open source preferred) that pretty much allow engineers to upload a patch with a description to a web server, and allow customers with credentials that are registered in LDAP to browse and download them quickly?"
If you've already got LDAP set up, you probably already got a network-accessible directory. Just put the patches in there.
The difference is a lot closer to a $5 burger vs a $4 one. I'll happily pay an extra buck to ensure that the employees can afford to feed their families.
Do you think voting for any other candidate would have created a better outcome?
But they aren't loading & unloading all of the theaters simultaneously, nor are they at peak capacity for all their theaters - maybe a few theaters for the new summer blockbuster, but not all of them simultaneously. (Each theater seats maybe a hundred or two hundred people).
Requiring each business to be able to provide parking for their absolute maximum capacity 24/7 is a good way to make operating any business in the city much more expensive. Peak usage times for a laundromat is not the same as the peak usage for the theater, nor the same as restaurants. Much of your parking is going to be laying unused most of the time! You've wasted a lot of (valuable) real estate just marking off empty car areas.
If you're going to require a certain amount of parking (most cities do have thresholds, they're just not 1.5 * maximum capacity), you should require less than maximum utilization, to take advantage of de-synced demand (i.e: the same spot will be used by a laundromat patron at 2pm, a family dining at 6pm, and a couple seeing a film at 9pm).
I'm a little curious as to in what universe you live in which each person brings 1.5 cars to the movie theater. Or four cars for a 1 bedroom apartment?
You think Americans have a monopoly on spelling English words?
I can go to the bar by myself and get hammered, and not worry about driving home. However I don't think this will happen in my lifetime, regardless of all the Slashdot submissions we've seen lately.
Not if you keep drinking like that, it won't.
Seriously, I don't know how people don't get this. Wish I had mod points today!
If you're using ChromeOS (which you probably are), go to:
Settings -> Keyboard Settings
and adjust the "Search" dropdown to your choice. (Search;Ctrl;Alt;Escape;Caps; or disabled).
You can also adjust ctrl & alt in the same way.
You seriously can't tell that's a troll? I thought slashdotters were supposed to be good at the internet.
Women generally don't go around lynching men and starting geno^Wandrocidal wars?
Why on earth would Adobe want to kill flash?
The flashing red is the yellow phase. Many even have a timer, to let you know how long the "yellow" is. A young fit person can enter the crosswalk with 5 seconds left and be out before red. Granny, not so much.
If you're approaching the crosswalk too fast to stop if you need to, then you're clearly turning too quickly.
If you're so loaded that you're buying a 50 inch 4k TV and a $500+ graphics card, I'm sure you can shell out $20 for an adapter. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9...
The summary is pretty misleading.
The crowdfunding project to sequence the black rhino genome is not a prerequisite to their goal of making rhino horns, no. If you click through, it appears to just research that they hope will lead to better understanding of black rhino subspecies:
Sequencing the black rhino genome is just the first step. The data from this project will be used to create a biobank of genomic data for the remaining 8 subspecies of black rhino. Three are already extinct. We intend to use this project as a catalyst to sequence all subspecies of black rhino and understand the genetic divergence within and between rhino species.
This will be a foundation that future researcher can utilize and could possibly help bring the three currently extinct black rhinoceros subspecies back into existence
Whether that last goal is at all realistic... that depends largely on whether they have DNA from the extinct rhinos on hand.
Every so often, I get email intended for some 40+ year-old guy who has [myemailaddress]@yahoo.com (instead of at gmail). Most of it is spam or websites that he's trying to sign up for, but occasionally it's a human being on the other end.
The first time this happened, it was information about his ongoing domestic violence court case (legal documents, copy of police report, etc). I notified them that they had the wrong address, and they proceeded to email me three more times with more information. Eventually I yelled at them enough and they corrected it.
The second time this happened was a few years later - it was some tiny ~20 year old girl who desperately wanted to convince him to get back with her (by sending him nudes). I can't say that I didn't take a little joy in telling her to check out his domestic violence record. I got a really angry email from him a couple days later (subject line: FUCKING IDIOT), so I think she must have heeded my advice (and dodged a bullet).
It was kind of wild.
There's no expectation that an Apple Store app is going to work on Android, or a windows laptop, or a PS3. When I look for Android apps, I check an android app store - I know that the vast majority of what I find will work on my device.
But everyone who visits a website expects that website to render and work for them - there's no segregation between "the apple web" and "the microsoft web" when you're at your computer, it's all just one big pile of sites. Users are aware that sometimes there are browser-specific issues, of course, but trying to load a site that is incompatible with your browser is *much* more frustrating than being unaware of an app that exists for another platform.
Personally, I'm rooting for a Sanders/Warren ticket. It's farther left than might be safe, but I don't think anyone the republicans have are any good this cycle, so I think it could work out.
Is that you, apk?
Exactly - a meritocracy would be great, if it existed. But instead it's a bunch of relatively well-off white guys looking around at their buddies, saying "Yep! We sure are all the best, that's why it's just people like me here. If a group is underrepresented, it's definitely because they're bad at tech - this is a meritocracy, after all!"
It's a self-perpetuating feel-good lie.