IMHO, the best tools are beautiful because of their honest functional design. To me, most computer cases are ugly because of unnecessary cruft, and the same goes for user interfaces. This is why I use Gentoo on a Powerbook.
Urinary tract infections are not as common in men (unless there is a disease/disability that interferes with normal urination) because our urethras are so long.
There is a nice counterargument on the Bitcoin forum. To summarize, the card is a great promotional tool, especially for merchants who might consider alternatives to credit card charges.
In a way, the purpose of this card is to make itself obsolete. This is not so strange if you consider many important social movements.
If we are going to do RJ-11, it would make more sense to define a standard for 1Gbps over 2 pairs. It would be easy to do with the electronics available today.
Another solution is to license the XJACK-design.
It's a retractable RJ45-connector with a height of about 5mm.
Much better solution than idiotic adapters.
Good point, I now remember seeing those back in the day. But they do not look exactly robust to me. I can imagine these breaking off as users unplug the cable in a hurry, and shove the laptop in a case. Adapters can be a hassle, but at least they make it obvious that you still have something plugged in. (One of my professors used to do this with USB memory sticks plugged in; he now carries a short extension cable for these, as they have less leverage for breaking things.)
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is so thin actually, that a standard RJ45 port couldn't be squeezed into its side edge, so Lenovo includes a USB Ethernet dongle with the machine.
This is starting to be a wider issue, so perhaps a more robust solution is in order. Some tablets apparently have proprietary connectors, where RJ45 can be plugged with a passive adapter. Could we agree on a smaller standard for such an electrically identical Ethernet connector? Maybe while we are starting over, we could avoid earlier design mistakes, like the plastic tongue that breaks off easily.
For those that may not know. The lead developer's son's first name is My. Maria (from MariaDB fame) being a daughter's name.
Actually, My is a female name. It was coined by Tove Jansson for a character in her Moomin series. The full name of the character is Little My, and it refers to the lowercase Greek letter mu, which in Scandinavian languages is spelled "my".
You asked for it, it can be done. I actually needed something like this not too many days ago, as I was mixing CD-quality sound with another project of higher samplerate and bitness, but the multitrack software took care of it transparently. So there are legitimate uses.
Thanks for the reply, I knew there had to be an obvious explanation. BTW, I finished my undergrad degree 10 years ago, and I understood everything in your post, but I have since moved to engineering and education.
It is interesting that charge Higgses were mentioned. As a physics undergraduate I remember asking my supervisor, if the Higgs causes mass, then what causes charge? To me, mass and charge are equally essential properties of a particle, so why would we look for the cause for only one of them? Of course, mass is kind of special in that it gives inertia; no matter what the force on a particle is, it needs to deal with its inertia.
Moreover, the way that different particles acquire different masses means that there must be some interaction parameter. Why is it then that some particles have zero for this parameter, and why are the others so different? Do we need another particle to explain this, and so on?
Well, technically I agree that if you were to go outside a spaceship to relieve yourself, you would find that the pressure would indeed be below atmospheric.
Well, I guess you could talk about ablative bonds when they are breaking apart, but chemists would probably call it cleavage. Then again, I'm just a single electron and not currently in a dative mode.
*sigh* Oh, for fuck's sake, some hipster asshole found that someone coined some convenient, soundbite-sized phrase, so now all the we're-definitely-not-sheep! are going to think they're smart and clever by linking to it every other fucking article, aren't they?
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No.
Next up: "Does Betteridge's law ever work?"
IMHO, the best tools are beautiful because of their honest functional design. To me, most computer cases are ugly because of unnecessary cruft, and the same goes for user interfaces. This is why I use Gentoo on a Powerbook.
Headline: Does Betteridge's Law Ever Work?
Urinary tract infections are not as common in men (unless there is a disease/disability that interferes with normal urination) because our urethras are so long.
Lucky you.
There is a nice counterargument on the Bitcoin forum. To summarize, the card is a great promotional tool, especially for merchants who might consider alternatives to credit card charges.
In a way, the purpose of this card is to make itself obsolete. This is not so strange if you consider many important social movements.
If we are going to do RJ-11, it would make more sense to define a standard for 1Gbps over 2 pairs. It would be easy to do with the electronics available today.
It seems the cabling requirement might be a problem, not the electronics per se. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_ethernet#1000BASE-TX
Well, they did not invent mobile phones. Besides, Finland was already known for the fine sports of wife carrying and swamp soccer.
Another solution is to license the XJACK-design. It's a retractable RJ45-connector with a height of about 5mm. Much better solution than idiotic adapters.
Good point, I now remember seeing those back in the day. But they do not look exactly robust to me. I can imagine these breaking off as users unplug the cable in a hurry, and shove the laptop in a case. Adapters can be a hassle, but at least they make it obvious that you still have something plugged in. (One of my professors used to do this with USB memory sticks plugged in; he now carries a short extension cable for these, as they have less leverage for breaking things.)
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is so thin actually, that a standard RJ45 port couldn't be squeezed into its side edge, so Lenovo includes a USB Ethernet dongle with the machine.
This is starting to be a wider issue, so perhaps a more robust solution is in order. Some tablets apparently have proprietary connectors, where RJ45 can be plugged with a passive adapter. Could we agree on a smaller standard for such an electrically identical Ethernet connector? Maybe while we are starting over, we could avoid earlier design mistakes, like the plastic tongue that breaks off easily.
For those that may not know. The lead developer's son's first name is My. Maria (from MariaDB fame) being a daughter's name.
Actually, My is a female name. It was coined by Tove Jansson for a character in her Moomin series. The full name of the character is Little My, and it refers to the lowercase Greek letter mu, which in Scandinavian languages is spelled "my".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_My
You could have solved it by using quantum entanglement as your network layer, but nooooooooo :)
No, because quantum teleportation still requires a classical information channel, if you want to transfer anything meaningful.
If you can tell me how to convert my CDs to 96 kHz, 24-bit FLACs, I'd be delighted!
You could use something like
for track 1, and so on.
You asked for it, it can be done. I actually needed something like this not too many days ago, as I was mixing CD-quality sound with another project of higher samplerate and bitness, but the multitrack software took care of it transparently. So there are legitimate uses.
Thanks for the reply, I knew there had to be an obvious explanation. BTW, I finished my undergrad degree 10 years ago, and I understood everything in your post, but I have since moved to engineering and education.
I don't mean to toot my own horn, but maybe those "train workers" could find new jobs with Ruby on Rails.
It is interesting that charge Higgses were mentioned. As a physics undergraduate I remember asking my supervisor, if the Higgs causes mass, then what causes charge? To me, mass and charge are equally essential properties of a particle, so why would we look for the cause for only one of them? Of course, mass is kind of special in that it gives inertia; no matter what the force on a particle is, it needs to deal with its inertia.
Moreover, the way that different particles acquire different masses means that there must be some interaction parameter. Why is it then that some particles have zero for this parameter, and why are the others so different? Do we need another particle to explain this, and so on?
Outhouses do suck without gravity.
Well, technically I agree that if you were to go outside a spaceship to relieve yourself, you would find that the pressure would indeed be below atmospheric.
Cleavage, anatomically known as the intermammary cleft or the intermammary sulcus, is the space between a woman's breasts
Whoa, hold it, right there. What is this "wo-man" you speak of?
Well, I guess you could talk about ablative bonds when they are breaking apart, but chemists would probably call it cleavage. Then again, I'm just a single electron and not currently in a dative mode.
No, for "prefect". Which is a Ford
Fixed that for you.
To me it looks like another variant of covalent bond, which is already known to have stranger forms, such as dative and single-electron bonds.
Saying you've gotten Angry Birds on your platform is kind of like saying you got the prostitute down the street to spend the night with you.
It isn't a matter of principal, it is a matter of money.
True, it would only be a matter of principal if I got one of my students to spend the night with me.
I think this was the original idea behind Coreboot.
+1, Cheesy
*sigh* Oh, for fuck's sake, some hipster asshole found that someone coined some convenient, soundbite-sized phrase, so now all the we're-definitely-not-sheep! are going to think they're smart and clever by linking to it every other fucking article, aren't they?
No.
uh oh, somebody's being case sensitive