Is there a meaningful/relevant difference between "memory" and "cell fatigue"? If the battery stops working because "chemistry", does the label matter? (I accept that the underlying chemistry is different.)
I got curious and did the math. (Now that I said that, I probably did it wrong). Obviously there's too few electrons to chemically supply the energy, but what about mass->energy? The mass of an AAA battery averages about 12 g (some types more, some less). Mass-energy equivalence (E=mc^2) gives an energy of 1E15 joules. The sun's power is 4E24 joules/second (Wikipedia)...so it's not even that there are too few electrons, there's not enough matter in general, by many orders of magnitude.
My office has exposed cable trays. Some of the length has a toy model train running through it. Perhaps you can leave the exposed cable runs but spice it up with toy trains and hamster tubes?
I was really curious about the need to "disguise" the chargers as manhole covers - it's not like they'd be an eyesore, and they'll be "public enough" that they won't be secret, either. Unfortunately it was poetic licence in TFS, not in TFA...
I had the same thought...but the problem is, you're off by many orders of magnitude. From TFS, the comet was 28 million years ago; Wikipedia was discussing climate on the order of tens of thousands of years. No dice.
I was intrigued until I noticed that where I put the quote marks, and where the quote marks actually were, were not the same place. So much for the "Mr. Perl Extreme-Fluxing Agile Capacitor."
I also misread anorexia. Anorexia is, of course, what led to mass extinction...although I guess there's a difference between "no food is available to eat" (starvation/malnutrition) and "I won't eat food" (anorexia).
Why would they remove the kinect? They want to make sure devs know it is a universal resource so they program for it.
Because a lot of us do not want Kinect, or go further and hate or fear Kinect. First, because Kinect games are widely regarded as having poorer control systems than controller-based games, and second paranoia over webcams/microphones watching you in your living room. (I'm in the former camp).
Steam has huge regular sales. Microsoft keeps the digital versions of games in sync with the retail versions as much as possible. People don't build huge libraries of 60$ Steam games, they build libraries of 5$ Humble Bundle games, and they don't care about resale because they paid so little going in. Microsoft's digitial-instead-of-disc games that GP suggests are going to be 60$ digital. Not that I have any concrete evidence of what they'll do half a year from now...buy certainly on Xbox 360 the downloadable AAA games are the same price as retail MSRP.
Yes, the tape solution has occurred to me...I've so far avoided buying a computer with a built-in webcam, but that's the solution I'd use. I fully expect there to be DIY microphone disconnection demos online within a week of the console releasing (who knows what functionality it would gimp, though).
How awesome would it be if there was a line-in instead of an actual microphone? You could hook it up to something that would play pre-recorded taunts over Live (like that great robot-voiced "I am the alpha and the omega" from Unreal Tournament). Actually...maybe that would be a bad idea...
If you've followed the Xbox One conversation at all (there, I used the real word, now I can call it Xbone), you know that there's only one thing Microsoft could possibly do as damage control at this point, and they just did it. Everyone has expected them to tone down the phoning home and used games policies. The "halfway" is, as many commenters below have pointed out, that they've yet to remove the built-in Kinect.
Military still seems "proprietary" to me. If they meant "commercial", I could see a difference.
You're right on the denotations...but I think by connotation and common use, there's a difference. For example, there is no way the US government is reporting bugs in its fighter jet code to Coverity, even anonymously. Maybe we can call military "ultraproprietary" or "hyperproprietary" or "guys-in-black-suits-etary."
I think maybe the "standard" is the old average - in past years, with no way to accurately get data, error rates were estimated at 1 defect per 1000 lines. Now they're lower - either code is getting better, or the old estimate was too high.
There is a huge third group: the military and aerospace industries. Unfortunately, their standards are even higher, like one bug per 420000 lines of code, so they're obviously not the group we need to make this math work.
Maybe the "industry standard" is whatever buggy math it is that makes that statement make sense to the original author?
I can totally see the editors mangling the submission type. I liked your idea a lot! I also think that most of the "no gloves" people are insensitive through acclimatization: they make stuff hot often enough that they've just deadened/quieted the nerves in their fingers. (In other words your fingers are normal.)
This thread is surreal. It claims to be a book review. Most of "TFA" is actually complaining (legitmately) about the sorry state of cooking instructions on the web, which is a tangent (in the strictest sense) to the book review. We never return to the book review. Then, most of the comments are about how the submitter's fingers are too sensitive to capsaicin!
Did anyone notice the legal document has wrong dates? Bottom of the first page: "This motion is made following the L.R. 7-3 conference of counsel which took place on August 21, 2013"
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Is there a meaningful/relevant difference between "memory" and "cell fatigue"? If the battery stops working because "chemistry", does the label matter? (I accept that the underlying chemistry is different.)
I got curious and did the math. (Now that I said that, I probably did it wrong). Obviously there's too few electrons to chemically supply the energy, but what about mass->energy? The mass of an AAA battery averages about 12 g (some types more, some less). Mass-energy equivalence (E=mc^2) gives an energy of 1E15 joules. The sun's power is 4E24 joules/second (Wikipedia)...so it's not even that there are too few electrons, there's not enough matter in general, by many orders of magnitude.
My office has exposed cable trays. Some of the length has a toy model train running through it. Perhaps you can leave the exposed cable runs but spice it up with toy trains and hamster tubes?
Everyone knows prop planes are drawn to mountains like tornadoes to trailer parks.
By gravity?
I was really curious about the need to "disguise" the chargers as manhole covers - it's not like they'd be an eyesore, and they'll be "public enough" that they won't be secret, either. Unfortunately it was poetic licence in TFS, not in TFA...
I had the same thought...but the problem is, you're off by many orders of magnitude. From TFS, the comet was 28 million years ago; Wikipedia was discussing climate on the order of tens of thousands of years. No dice.
It seems like /. runs Schneier's blog posts all the time...and I'm ok with that! They're usually great reads.
I was intrigued until I noticed that where I put the quote marks, and where the quote marks actually were, were not the same place. So much for the "Mr. Perl Extreme-Fluxing Agile Capacitor."
I also misread anorexia. Anorexia is, of course, what led to mass extinction...although I guess there's a difference between "no food is available to eat" (starvation/malnutrition) and "I won't eat food" (anorexia).
Why would they remove the kinect? They want to make sure devs know it is a universal resource so they program for it.
Because a lot of us do not want Kinect, or go further and hate or fear Kinect. First, because Kinect games are widely regarded as having poorer control systems than controller-based games, and second paranoia over webcams/microphones watching you in your living room. (I'm in the former camp).
Steam has huge regular sales. Microsoft keeps the digital versions of games in sync with the retail versions as much as possible. People don't build huge libraries of 60$ Steam games, they build libraries of 5$ Humble Bundle games, and they don't care about resale because they paid so little going in. Microsoft's digitial-instead-of-disc games that GP suggests are going to be 60$ digital. Not that I have any concrete evidence of what they'll do half a year from now...buy certainly on Xbox 360 the downloadable AAA games are the same price as retail MSRP.
How many have you seen that have say taped over the Facetime camera on their Mac Books?
The iMac in the cubicle next to me is that way. Admittedly it's the only one nearby like that.
Yes, the tape solution has occurred to me...I've so far avoided buying a computer with a built-in webcam, but that's the solution I'd use. I fully expect there to be DIY microphone disconnection demos online within a week of the console releasing (who knows what functionality it would gimp, though).
How awesome would it be if there was a line-in instead of an actual microphone? You could hook it up to something that would play pre-recorded taunts over Live (like that great robot-voiced "I am the alpha and the omega" from Unreal Tournament). Actually...maybe that would be a bad idea...
If you've followed the Xbox One conversation at all (there, I used the real word, now I can call it Xbone), you know that there's only one thing Microsoft could possibly do as damage control at this point, and they just did it. Everyone has expected them to tone down the phoning home and used games policies. The "halfway" is, as many commenters below have pointed out, that they've yet to remove the built-in Kinect.
"Microsoft has--"
"Yeah, I saw."
"Well...they didn't have a choice. They're halfway there."
"Do you know why your smartphone isn't working?" "What direction should you walk in towards civilization (no, not Civilization)?"
even worse than for those that represented themselves.
I read it as "repretended themselves".
Military still seems "proprietary" to me. If they meant "commercial", I could see a difference.
You're right on the denotations...but I think by connotation and common use, there's a difference. For example, there is no way the US government is reporting bugs in its fighter jet code to Coverity, even anonymously. Maybe we can call military "ultraproprietary" or "hyperproprietary" or "guys-in-black-suits-etary." I think maybe the "standard" is the old average - in past years, with no way to accurately get data, error rates were estimated at 1 defect per 1000 lines. Now they're lower - either code is getting better, or the old estimate was too high.
There is a huge third group: the military and aerospace industries. Unfortunately, their standards are even higher, like one bug per 420000 lines of code, so they're obviously not the group we need to make this math work.
Maybe the "industry standard" is whatever buggy math it is that makes that statement make sense to the original author?
The Wikipedia article (first link) explains that they have no natural predators, but there is a parasite that can limit their size.
I can totally see the editors mangling the submission type. I liked your idea a lot! I also think that most of the "no gloves" people are insensitive through acclimatization: they make stuff hot often enough that they've just deadened/quieted the nerves in their fingers. (In other words your fingers are normal.)
This thread is surreal. It claims to be a book review. Most of "TFA" is actually complaining (legitmately) about the sorry state of cooking instructions on the web, which is a tangent (in the strictest sense) to the book review. We never return to the book review. Then, most of the comments are about how the submitter's fingers are too sensitive to capsaicin!
Your fourth link (cbu restore final, comodo.com) has the central problem promeniently displayed: the bar is at 50% but it says "0 seconds remaining".
I sincerely believe that most of my classmates cheated, too. Is it really cheating when everyone does it?
YES.
Did anyone notice the legal document has wrong dates? Bottom of the first page: "This motion is made following the L.R. 7-3 conference of counsel which took place on August 21, 2013"