I am not sure why we do not do five sensors for critical stuff and three for less critical. This whole cost cutting business is shady as hell when lives are at stake.
Spoiler alert for the whole post. 1. There are explicit references to past sexism in the movie but I am not sure where the "comically-over-the-top sexist men" comment comes from. Certainly, at a critical moment seen also in the trailers when she is gathering her strength, she refers to herself as a human and not as a woman. Also certainly, the one male who gets center stage throughout the movie, Nick Fury, is not depicted as sexist. 2. Truth be told, there is a villain female too. None are supposed to be human and the chief villain apparently has no form but its persona visible to us is female. 3. This mostly true. She does steal some clothes and a motorcycle for no reason. But it seems to be just very weak homage to terminator 2. Otherwise, I agree. What is worse, Brie Larson seems to have trouble conveying any emotional subtlety here. The movie starts when she cannot sleep because she is so troubled by the dreams. But she speaks evenly, has no sweat and shows no outward sign of inner turmoil. She is a good actress so perhaps she was just counting all the money Marvel just paid her. In any case, this is my least favorite part of the movie. 4. Captain Marvel is presented as basically an MCU version of Superman. She is given so much power that you never feel she is at risk of failing. And no kryptonite in sight. Then again, MCU has rarely had good villains. This is just an extreme version of a long tradition. 5. Frankly, the music was so heavy handed that I started tuning it out long before the climactic scene. And I do not mean, feminist heavy handed. I mean the score itself felt like it traded all good taste for that extra bit of pathos.
So in my view, CM was not a good movie, but it is not as bad as Superman IV. I think it is pretty much OK for a March movie.
I own GPD pocket 2 and run ubuntu on it. No issues. I used the mate version pre-made for GPD. Very fast, runs scientific simulations OK (not a beowolf cluster but OK:), runs visual stuff lie simple povray scenes well. No delays on office work or browsing. Best of all, usb-c is thunderbolt so I change and do all data shuffling including sound via one port. Bluetooth works but is a bit quirky.
The biggest thing for me is that they are working on the animations. Which is big because right now animations is the number one horrid thing in LibreOffice. If they can fix this aspect then the office suite will be instantly tons more usable.
I cannot see this as immediately useful for plane construction but I can imagine some uses for it. Most notably, one could power this from a real fuel-powered motor rather than a battery and use it as a secondary propulsion mechanism. So for example, this could maybe eliminate the second rotor on choppers (which is a source of major mechanical complexity and does not do much lifting, just torque balancing).
Bayesian statistics is all fine and good but prior selection is an art. Most biologists have trouble with the frequentist approach (beyond what some software tool produces automagically). Do you think they will suddenly be able to specify a proper prior? I would guess that 99% of papers will be Jeffrey's (uninformative priors). And the vast majority of the remainder will be junk, violating, oh I don't know, causality? Good luck with that proposal.
If the idea is to save costs, at all costs, then the first thing I would do is switch to a plane fleet with flying wing geometry and no passenger windows. Such planes could fit more people, they would have major fuel savings, and they would be far more compatible with standing room passenger compartments.
Never heard of this guy. Not sure how it applies to geek credentials but yeah, between this and not liking Star Wars I am guessing I am not a proper nerd. Oh well. Nothing against nerd culture btw.
I do scientific computing. Yes, RAM and storage are good things for me. It would be nice to take my entire work volume home and work in the evenings without ever exposing my computer or data to the network. And that is doable. But having it pocketable still seems like a dream.
I am personally not excited. The RAM and storage capacities are about 8X lower than required for modern computing. But the biggest issue arises when looking at the pictures: the card seems to have a slot interface of some sort. Why not just give this card a thunderbolt 3 port or two. There are already docking stations fort those. Why does Intel want to reinvent its own wheel?
Pretty much. But There is indeed a case to be made for movie theaters because we are social beings. I have a fancy espresso machine at home but I still stop by a coffee house every once in a while because of this social aspect. So when it comes to movie theaters they can be a plus but they have to know their place and care about their audience. We have one theater I like which is in the more upscale area where people are also more educated and polite. They have big comfy seats with huge arm supports which make everyone sit far away from their neighbor, reducing chatter. The rooms are small and big seats eat into it even further, again reducing chatter. They police cell phones well. They are clean and they are punctual about taking about 10 minutes for previews so I can go in late and be sure to just see the movie. If I want social interaction with friends I will watch at home. But then someone will get up to pee, someone will take a call etc. If I want social but polite and fully focused on the movie then I will go to the movie theater (but you have to know which one is good for this purpose because most can diaf, not literally).
After deciding to advertise during the weather segment on TV (by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast), Windows 10 is now starting to wreak havoc with gamers.
I happen to think it is the exact opposite. Numerous people who would never vote for Trump otherwise will turn out in droves because the alternative is Hillary Clinton. I am a libertarian who cannot stand Trump. But this year I will be sure to vote for the uncultured New York hillbilly because the evil bitch shall not pass. And I have nothing against female politicians. I would vote for Nena Whitfeld long before Rand Paul. But Hillary Clinton, who wipes her servers with a cloth, is not someone I want to see in the Oval office. Ever.
LibreOffice? Photoshop? Matlab? VirtualDub? Illustrator? Draftsight? Comsol? Netfabb? Visual Studio? Handbrake? As soon as these and a few other apps can be run on a phone, I will be impressed. If the phone can also run at least 3 external independent 1080p screens then I will switch.
How about this: 1. Ads should have no dynamic content to them. No HTML5, no javascript, no java. If the ad requires the user's computer to run any code that is supplied by the advertising agency then the website needs to design an effective way for the user to identify when they are infected by the ad and a straightforward path to financial recovery for all users who were served such an ad (class action without going to court). Barring that - no dynamic content.
2. Ads should not alter the user's computer state. In particular, no cookies. The website should make every effort to protect user privacy and prevent user tracking.
3. Ads should not interfere with site usage. In particular, no interstitials or ads that alter or delay user access to the website.
4. Ads should not be distracting the user from content. It is OK for the ad to present information in a way that has a chance to catch their attention but if the user makes a decision that the ad is of no interest then it should be trivial for the user to tune the ad out. For example, no blinking ads, no strobe effect, no sound.
And for mobile: 1. The ads should be small enough to allow easy website navigation. No ads which span more than 75% of overall width or height.
2. The ads should be small enough to present negligible load on the bandwidth consumption. That means that ads need to scale by locale. The typical monthly allowances for users can vary greatly across the globe and the internet is global. It is likely that 10 KB is a good upper limit for each ad though this may change by locale. The number of ads and their refresh rate need to be tuned by locale.
--- The final requirement which would be ideal but is likely unrealistic: the ads need to be designed to fit the aesthetic of the website. For example, contrast between the ad color scheme and the website color scheme can be jarring to the user. At the very least, the websites should saturate/desaturate ad colors automatically to better match the site design.
I want my phone to do messaging, read email, browse the web, call people, I want it as a portable gps and basic camera and maybe a calculator and a flashlight. All these have been available on very old phones, all of these do not tax the processor even back to Snapdragon 800. There has been zero reason to upgrade a phone for the last three years at least. Of course, as soon as phones become capable of actual computing (running real applications, running multiple displays, interfacing with external storage, burn blu ray disks, and print to generic printers) I will upgrade. Until then... why?
In your view, what are the key advantages of R over other scientific computing languages, most notably Matlab (which has to be considered with its plethora of toolboxes of course)?
Yeah, the key is to make planes fast and cheap. No system in existence can deal with a few tens of thousands of planes attacking a target at once. If military planes can be made to follow Moore's law of sorts then that is far better than stealth. The problem is we are taking the opposite track. Every next generation of planes is more fancy but also much more expensive than the previous one.
These are no jetpacks, no matter what the media labels them as. First, they are turboprops. There are no jets. In other words, it is a slightly shrunk down versions of a personal helicopter with all that implies for maneuverability and speed. Second, they are not "...packs". These devices are huge. The cool thing about jetpacks is that they would be devices you could carry with you and they would be the size and weight of a normal bag but then you strap it to your back and you can fly. And when you fly, these devices would not stick out much from your back, thus allowing you to clear very narrow gaps between buildings and so on. There is a reason why bicycles are not generally considered cool but skateboards are. You need to park one but not the other. Finally, these devices are totally useless for their intended purpose. If the building is in trouble (e.g. on fire) then these will not help you put the fire out. To search, survey, or monitoring you are better off with much small drones. They can hang in the air much longer, they provide clear picture and they can navigate much tighter spaces than this monster, plus they have no operator to endanger. If the building is not in trouble but you have e,g, a medical emergency on the top floor then you are better off with an elevator. Part of the reason people are smirking is because this is clearly someone in Dubai buying himself a bunch of toys with public money. Corruption is not sexy.
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I am not sure why we do not do five sensors for critical stuff and three for less critical. This whole cost cutting business is shady as hell when lives are at stake.
Spoiler alert for the whole post.
1. There are explicit references to past sexism in the movie but I am not sure where the "comically-over-the-top sexist men" comment comes from. Certainly, at a critical moment seen also in the trailers when she is gathering her strength, she refers to herself as a human and not as a woman. Also certainly, the one male who gets center stage throughout the movie, Nick Fury, is not depicted as sexist.
2. Truth be told, there is a villain female too. None are supposed to be human and the chief villain apparently has no form but its persona visible to us is female.
3. This mostly true. She does steal some clothes and a motorcycle for no reason. But it seems to be just very weak homage to terminator 2. Otherwise, I agree. What is worse, Brie Larson seems to have trouble conveying any emotional subtlety here. The movie starts when she cannot sleep because she is so troubled by the dreams. But she speaks evenly, has no sweat and shows no outward sign of inner turmoil. She is a good actress so perhaps she was just counting all the money Marvel just paid her. In any case, this is my least favorite part of the movie.
4. Captain Marvel is presented as basically an MCU version of Superman. She is given so much power that you never feel she is at risk of failing. And no kryptonite in sight. Then again, MCU has rarely had good villains. This is just an extreme version of a long tradition.
5. Frankly, the music was so heavy handed that I started tuning it out long before the climactic scene. And I do not mean, feminist heavy handed. I mean the score itself felt like it traded all good taste for that extra bit of pathos.
So in my view, CM was not a good movie, but it is not as bad as Superman IV. I think it is pretty much OK for a March movie.
https://ubuntu-mate.org/gpd-po...
I own GPD pocket 2 and run ubuntu on it. No issues. I used the mate version pre-made for GPD. Very fast, runs scientific simulations OK (not a beowolf cluster but OK :), runs visual stuff lie simple povray scenes well. No delays on office work or browsing. Best of all, usb-c is thunderbolt so I change and do all data shuffling including sound via one port. Bluetooth works but is a bit quirky.
The biggest thing for me is that they are working on the animations. Which is big because right now animations is the number one horrid thing in LibreOffice. If they can fix this aspect then the office suite will be instantly tons more usable.
Sure. But NOTAR has moving parts. If the no moving parts solution could be developed to mean less maintenance costs then this could find a niche.
I cannot see this as immediately useful for plane construction but I can imagine some uses for it. Most notably, one could power this from a real fuel-powered motor rather than a battery and use it as a secondary propulsion mechanism. So for example, this could maybe eliminate the second rotor on choppers (which is a source of major mechanical complexity and does not do much lifting, just torque balancing).
Bayesian statistics is all fine and good but prior selection is an art. Most biologists have trouble with the frequentist approach (beyond what some software tool produces automagically). Do you think they will suddenly be able to specify a proper prior? I would guess that 99% of papers will be Jeffrey's (uninformative priors). And the vast majority of the remainder will be junk, violating, oh I don't know, causality? Good luck with that proposal.
If the idea is to save costs, at all costs, then the first thing I would do is switch to a plane fleet with flying wing geometry and no passenger windows. Such planes could fit more people, they would have major fuel savings, and they would be far more compatible with standing room passenger compartments.
Never heard of this guy. Not sure how it applies to geek credentials but yeah, between this and not liking Star Wars I am guessing I am not a proper nerd. Oh well. Nothing against nerd culture btw.
...somebody wanted to name the droneship RTFM and the politically correct management screwed it up.
I do scientific computing. Yes, RAM and storage are good things for me. It would be nice to take my entire work volume home and work in the evenings without ever exposing my computer or data to the network. And that is doable. But having it pocketable still seems like a dream.
I am personally not excited. The RAM and storage capacities are about 8X lower than required for modern computing. But the biggest issue arises when looking at the pictures: the card seems to have a slot interface of some sort. Why not just give this card a thunderbolt 3 port or two. There are already docking stations fort those. Why does Intel want to reinvent its own wheel?
Pretty much. But There is indeed a case to be made for movie theaters because we are social beings. I have a fancy espresso machine at home but I still stop by a coffee house every once in a while because of this social aspect.
So when it comes to movie theaters they can be a plus but they have to know their place and care about their audience. We have one theater I like which is in the more upscale area where people are also more educated and polite. They have big comfy seats with huge arm supports which make everyone sit far away from their neighbor, reducing chatter. The rooms are small and big seats eat into it even further, again reducing chatter. They police cell phones well. They are clean and they are punctual about taking about 10 minutes for previews so I can go in late and be sure to just see the movie.
If I want social interaction with friends I will watch at home. But then someone will get up to pee, someone will take a call etc. If I want social but polite and fully focused on the movie then I will go to the movie theater (but you have to know which one is good for this purpose because most can diaf, not literally).
After deciding to advertise during the weather segment on TV (by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast), Windows 10 is now starting to wreak havoc with gamers.
The polls say these two jokers are just about equally loathed.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/...
I happen to think it is the exact opposite. Numerous people who would never vote for Trump otherwise will turn out in droves because the alternative is Hillary Clinton. I am a libertarian who cannot stand Trump. But this year I will be sure to vote for the uncultured New York hillbilly because the evil bitch shall not pass. And I have nothing against female politicians. I would vote for Nena Whitfeld long before Rand Paul. But Hillary Clinton, who wipes her servers with a cloth, is not someone I want to see in the Oval office. Ever.
LibreOffice? Photoshop? Matlab? VirtualDub? Illustrator? Draftsight? Comsol? Netfabb? Visual Studio? Handbrake? As soon as these and a few other apps can be run on a phone, I will be impressed. If the phone can also run at least 3 external independent 1080p screens then I will switch.
Just another low ID user offering some encouragement.
How about this:
1. Ads should have no dynamic content to them. No HTML5, no javascript, no java. If the ad requires the user's computer to run any code that is supplied by the advertising agency then the website needs to design an effective way for the user to identify when they are infected by the ad and a straightforward path to financial recovery for all users who were served such an ad (class action without going to court). Barring that - no dynamic content.
2. Ads should not alter the user's computer state. In particular, no cookies. The website should make every effort to protect user privacy and prevent user tracking.
3. Ads should not interfere with site usage. In particular, no interstitials or ads that alter or delay user access to the website.
4. Ads should not be distracting the user from content. It is OK for the ad to present information in a way that has a chance to catch their attention but if the user makes a decision that the ad is of no interest then it should be trivial for the user to tune the ad out. For example, no blinking ads, no strobe effect, no sound.
And for mobile:
1. The ads should be small enough to allow easy website navigation. No ads which span more than 75% of overall width or height.
2. The ads should be small enough to present negligible load on the bandwidth consumption. That means that ads need to scale by locale. The typical monthly allowances for users can vary greatly across the globe and the internet is global. It is likely that 10 KB is a good upper limit for each ad though this may change by locale. The number of ads and their refresh rate need to be tuned by locale.
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The final requirement which would be ideal but is likely unrealistic: the ads need to be designed to fit the aesthetic of the website. For example, contrast between the ad color scheme and the website color scheme can be jarring to the user. At the very least, the websites should saturate/desaturate ad colors automatically to better match the site design.
Slashdot ads on mobile version are way too big. Scrolling past them without activating them is a pain.
I want my phone to do messaging, read email, browse the web, call people, I want it as a portable gps and basic camera and maybe a calculator and a flashlight. All these have been available on very old phones, all of these do not tax the processor even back to Snapdragon 800.
There has been zero reason to upgrade a phone for the last three years at least. Of course, as soon as phones become capable of actual computing (running real applications, running multiple displays, interfacing with external storage, burn blu ray disks, and print to generic printers) I will upgrade. Until then... why?
In your view, what are the key advantages of R over other scientific computing languages, most notably Matlab (which has to be considered with its plethora of toolboxes of course)?
Yeah, the key is to make planes fast and cheap. No system in existence can deal with a few tens of thousands of planes attacking a target at once. If military planes can be made to follow Moore's law of sorts then that is far better than stealth. The problem is we are taking the opposite track. Every next generation of planes is more fancy but also much more expensive than the previous one.
These are no jetpacks, no matter what the media labels them as.
First, they are turboprops. There are no jets. In other words, it is a slightly shrunk down versions of a personal helicopter with all that implies for maneuverability and speed.
Second, they are not "...packs". These devices are huge. The cool thing about jetpacks is that they would be devices you could carry with you and they would be the size and weight of a normal bag but then you strap it to your back and you can fly. And when you fly, these devices would not stick out much from your back, thus allowing you to clear very narrow gaps between buildings and so on.
There is a reason why bicycles are not generally considered cool but skateboards are. You need to park one but not the other.
Finally, these devices are totally useless for their intended purpose. If the building is in trouble (e.g. on fire) then these will not help you put the fire out. To search, survey, or monitoring you are better off with much small drones. They can hang in the air much longer, they provide clear picture and they can navigate much tighter spaces than this monster, plus they have no operator to endanger. If the building is not in trouble but you have e,g, a medical emergency on the top floor then you are better off with an elevator. Part of the reason people are smirking is because this is clearly someone in Dubai buying himself a bunch of toys with public money. Corruption is not sexy.