Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can tell you that there is a plethora of digital FM stations that my car stereo simply cannot receive. Their FM counterparts come in just fine. A lot of listeners are likely to find that listening dead zones are going to increase significantly.
I thought I was being targeted in a scam when that woman with the Indian accent and claiming to be from Microsoft told me my computer was spreading viruses on the internet, but maybe it was all true. I hang my head in shame for the things I said to her.
As to the outrageously high housing prices, a lot of it has to do with the fact that technology companies are pretty tightly clustered and mostly refuse to move out to the nearby valleys where Dublin, Pleasanton, and even Tracy are much less expensive. Coupled with this is an unhealthy dose of NIMBYism where city managers keep saying no to high-density, affordable housing. So instead, people who need housing either crowd into what's locally available to split rents, or they move out to those valley cities mentioned earlier. This creates a traffic nightmare for the rest of us who live modestly close to places like Sunnyvale and need to commute there.
With housing prices what they are, my house *is* my nest-egg. When I get to the right age, selling it will represent a sizable percentage of my retirement funding.
Respectfully, I disagree. The headline title is intentionally provocative, and the parent makes a funny and relevant point. As a point of reference, I remember my cousin's GF being all sorts of bewildered that my wife and I hadn't yet jumped on the smartphone bandwagon when Apple had released their smartphone. She said, "Oh my god you need one of these. It will change your life." Ehh, maybe it changed her life, but mine is pretty much the same after getting around to buying said device. Personally I bailed on Firefox a long time ago in favor of Chrome. It had a negligible impact on the way I work, but not what I would call a life-altering experience...
I'm very interested in this work. I have as a rule tried to stay away from ice and even water as I didn't want to dilute the product for its own sake. But with science indicating that the flavors of the whiskey are unlocked, my favorite pastime gets a new technique!
Okay, they said the London riots were predictable from Twitter. Did they get additional positive correlation from other twitter --> actual riots? Did they attempt this and find that they couldn't get the correlation? Did they predict other riots that simply didn't materialize? I'd like to believe there's more to the study than is found in the story, but frankly there just isn't enough there to indicate a xx% rate. A data point of 1 is not a recipe for actionable data.
I'll second this. I've been listening to hair metal, classic rock, bluegrass, blues, and new wave. It's a service that works in my car without the need for an internet connection, and there's something very cool about that. I do wish the electronica music was better. I have yet to find a station that plays anything along the lines of John Digweed or Nick Warren mixes from the range of about 1998 - 2005.
I watched the WWII series when I was a teen and the way the producers introduce both the political and war machine elements are remarkably effective. I actually thought about buying this for my son, or will maybe look to see if it's on Neflix.
There are interesting things that genes do besides what you think you're doing. For example, the famous Russian experiments to breed aggression towards humans out of captive foxes over several generations has had the curious side effect of the foxs' progeny having more dog-like physical characteristics such as floppy ears and less bushy tails.
One looks at tomato plants, thinks about their evolutionary imperative to spread their own genes through fruit creation, and still those plants engage in "excessive" branching. There may an evolutionary reason for this that possibly has nothing to do with spreading fruit and instead makes the plant more resistant to disease, for example. The branching is perhaps just a side effect of disease tolerance.
This isn't to say that I'm nervous about this, but when monoculture crops are established you also run other kinds of agricultural risks. The Cavendish banana is apparently in serious trouble due to its inability to resist fungal infections.
When I first heard about this idea of our existence being nothing more than a computer simulation and was then given some credibility by other technological luminaries, I assumed that the original idea started with physics. To my surprise, I learned here today that the notion started with a philosopher. There's nothing wrong with philosophy per se, but this particular thought experiment strikes me as particularly nihilistic in nature. When Christians and humanists debate the meaning of our existences, it becomes a question of whether we are working hard in this life to save our souls, or to save each other. The philosophy of simulation would seem to inherently mandate that neither argument from Christians or humanists is in the least bit relevant, as our existence is nothing more than a lie. I have to believe that Nick Bostrom is likely a very depressed human being who proferred a notion that fits with his world view but is unable to support it with any verifiable evidence.
The physicist mentioned in this article is at least saying that such an extraordinary claim requires some sort of evidence to demonstrate that our lives are perhaps not worth living.
I'd pay good money for a 29" 4:3 aspect LCD screen. Don't care about light guns, but I find the RGB convergence problems of my VGA CRT to be somewhat nauseating to look at, especially with a low refresh rate running through a Windows-based front-end.
The OP's comment was mean to be taken as funny, and it was. Your solution to put it in quotes is helpful, but then it suggests somebody at Samsung made an explicit statement matching what you put in quotes. Ironic that you should then indict the American educational system given your solution is a little bit sloppy.
A better title might have read, 'Samsung to reveal this month the cause of Galaxy Note 7 fires"
Choosing not to reveal my political affiliation here, my neutral statement on the state of political discourse in this country is that it has for too long deteriorated into something that is sad, deplorable, innately violent, and frankly shameful. There is no leading political voice in either party who after uttering anything no matter how high-minded wouldn't be skewered for his or her position. The hate on both sides is rabid and irrational, and big thoughts have been replaced by cheap taglines on Facebook meant only to score cheap political points rather than argue for policies and positions that will lift all of us up. The culmination of this behavior has led to a death-spiral that has fake(?) death threats serving as a proxy for joking, or maybe not joking. America has become a nation participating in the Jerry Springer show. We need another enlightenment, and I seriously doubt there's one waiting for us on the horizon or anybody left who is willing to join in it.
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Maybe Amazon will be the guys who finally make it possible to legally watch Discovery without paying for a dumb service.
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can tell you that there is a plethora of digital FM stations that my car stereo simply cannot receive. Their FM counterparts come in just fine. A lot of listeners are likely to find that listening dead zones are going to increase significantly.
This is exactly what Stephen Hawking was warning us about. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Until today, I was unfamiliar with Betteridge's law.
I thought I was being targeted in a scam when that woman with the Indian accent and claiming to be from Microsoft told me my computer was spreading viruses on the internet, but maybe it was all true. I hang my head in shame for the things I said to her.
As to the outrageously high housing prices, a lot of it has to do with the fact that technology companies are pretty tightly clustered and mostly refuse to move out to the nearby valleys where Dublin, Pleasanton, and even Tracy are much less expensive. Coupled with this is an unhealthy dose of NIMBYism where city managers keep saying no to high-density, affordable housing. So instead, people who need housing either crowd into what's locally available to split rents, or they move out to those valley cities mentioned earlier. This creates a traffic nightmare for the rest of us who live modestly close to places like Sunnyvale and need to commute there.
With housing prices what they are, my house *is* my nest-egg. When I get to the right age, selling it will represent a sizable percentage of my retirement funding.
Respectfully, I disagree. The headline title is intentionally provocative, and the parent makes a funny and relevant point. As a point of reference, I remember my cousin's GF being all sorts of bewildered that my wife and I hadn't yet jumped on the smartphone bandwagon when Apple had released their smartphone. She said, "Oh my god you need one of these. It will change your life." Ehh, maybe it changed her life, but mine is pretty much the same after getting around to buying said device. Personally I bailed on Firefox a long time ago in favor of Chrome. It had a negligible impact on the way I work, but not what I would call a life-altering experience...
I'm very interested in this work. I have as a rule tried to stay away from ice and even water as I didn't want to dilute the product for its own sake. But with science indicating that the flavors of the whiskey are unlocked, my favorite pastime gets a new technique!
I would have thought everybody knew those lists were nothing more than awful clickbait. How did such idiocy end up on /. ?
Close. Rabbit ears were for VHF, and that round / bow tie antenna was for UHF
Okay, they said the London riots were predictable from Twitter. Did they get additional positive correlation from other twitter --> actual riots? Did they attempt this and find that they couldn't get the correlation? Did they predict other riots that simply didn't materialize? I'd like to believe there's more to the study than is found in the story, but frankly there just isn't enough there to indicate a xx% rate. A data point of 1 is not a recipe for actionable data.
This guy was hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'll second this. I've been listening to hair metal, classic rock, bluegrass, blues, and new wave. It's a service that works in my car without the need for an internet connection, and there's something very cool about that. I do wish the electronica music was better. I have yet to find a station that plays anything along the lines of John Digweed or Nick Warren mixes from the range of about 1998 - 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I watched the WWII series when I was a teen and the way the producers introduce both the political and war machine elements are remarkably effective. I actually thought about buying this for my son, or will maybe look to see if it's on Neflix.
There are interesting things that genes do besides what you think you're doing. For example, the famous Russian experiments to breed aggression towards humans out of captive foxes over several generations has had the curious side effect of the foxs' progeny having more dog-like physical characteristics such as floppy ears and less bushy tails. One looks at tomato plants, thinks about their evolutionary imperative to spread their own genes through fruit creation, and still those plants engage in "excessive" branching. There may an evolutionary reason for this that possibly has nothing to do with spreading fruit and instead makes the plant more resistant to disease, for example. The branching is perhaps just a side effect of disease tolerance. This isn't to say that I'm nervous about this, but when monoculture crops are established you also run other kinds of agricultural risks. The Cavendish banana is apparently in serious trouble due to its inability to resist fungal infections.
A Great White reference! Can we be friends? :)
No, that's your phone.
When I first heard about this idea of our existence being nothing more than a computer simulation and was then given some credibility by other technological luminaries, I assumed that the original idea started with physics. To my surprise, I learned here today that the notion started with a philosopher. There's nothing wrong with philosophy per se, but this particular thought experiment strikes me as particularly nihilistic in nature. When Christians and humanists debate the meaning of our existences, it becomes a question of whether we are working hard in this life to save our souls, or to save each other. The philosophy of simulation would seem to inherently mandate that neither argument from Christians or humanists is in the least bit relevant, as our existence is nothing more than a lie. I have to believe that Nick Bostrom is likely a very depressed human being who proferred a notion that fits with his world view but is unable to support it with any verifiable evidence.
The physicist mentioned in this article is at least saying that such an extraordinary claim requires some sort of evidence to demonstrate that our lives are perhaps not worth living.
Not sure why you were modded down. I think this is interesting.
I'd pay good money for a 29" 4:3 aspect LCD screen. Don't care about light guns, but I find the RGB convergence problems of my VGA CRT to be somewhat nauseating to look at, especially with a low refresh rate running through a Windows-based front-end.
The OP's comment was mean to be taken as funny, and it was. Your solution to put it in quotes is helpful, but then it suggests somebody at Samsung made an explicit statement matching what you put in quotes. Ironic that you should then indict the American educational system given your solution is a little bit sloppy. A better title might have read, 'Samsung to reveal this month the cause of Galaxy Note 7 fires"
Some news sites have gone straight to embedding Tweets rather than using classic citation. Frankly, I think it's sloppy writing.
Choosing not to reveal my political affiliation here, my neutral statement on the state of political discourse in this country is that it has for too long deteriorated into something that is sad, deplorable, innately violent, and frankly shameful. There is no leading political voice in either party who after uttering anything no matter how high-minded wouldn't be skewered for his or her position. The hate on both sides is rabid and irrational, and big thoughts have been replaced by cheap taglines on Facebook meant only to score cheap political points rather than argue for policies and positions that will lift all of us up. The culmination of this behavior has led to a death-spiral that has fake(?) death threats serving as a proxy for joking, or maybe not joking. America has become a nation participating in the Jerry Springer show. We need another enlightenment, and I seriously doubt there's one waiting for us on the horizon or anybody left who is willing to join in it.
And maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I like cash. Splitting the lunch bill with coworkers is easiest that way.
I lol'd