In this day and age, the mighty United States of America has been reduced to feeling "terror" from "twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years."
I have a 200mW green laser. It is strong enough to be seen on a clear night, up to some 10km away. If I use it during rain or fog it is seem as a very strong light cylinder.
The patent is only for a specific type of joint connector (not for all of them), and for this type, there is no prior art. The patent, if granted, secures only the schematics/diagrams mentioned in it.
Even the title being generic, this does not mean they are patenting the abstract idea of combined ports. You have to read the patent to see what it mentions.
Way to go xkcd, you've been referenced in a legitimate research paper!
To get a visual overview of ICMP records we converted the one-dimensional, 32-bit IP addresses into two dimensions using a Hilbert Curve, inspired by xkcd.
Almost all papers from the fields of economics, administration and the like are posted (many even on draft status) on http://ssrn.com/ for free.Even if they are selected and put into a journal after, you will probably will have free acess to them if you just look for then into there.
The transition to Windows 95 from Windows 3.1 was huge, but they did a better job explaining the differences. I remember people wanted to change, the felt the newer version was better.
Apple designs a iDevice in the USA, buys it built from another company in China, sells it to a subsidiary in Brazil, where it is ultimatily sold. Where is the profit generated exactely? Can you pinpoint a place?
This! People only use these things for examinations. Nobody that I know uses these to do Real Work® . If you are in the field, you use a laptop with Matlab and/or Mathematica, and for surprise stuff, there are very good apps you can carry in your phone.
Also make sure there is a decent lock on the door, that the bare minimum number of people can physically get into the room, and that all access is logged electronically. That way you can find out who knocked some random cable out of position causing an outage and you can cancel their access and/or shout at them.
Also works wonders to have a camera recording all the activity in the server room.
Also worth mentioning, DirectX made gaming possible without the need to directly manipulate the interruptions, adding a much needed abstraction layer. Before that, the games needed to be able to recognize the soundboard, sometimes you were manually requested to do it.
In Brazil we have a lot of fast food chains that deliver burgers, including BK and MacDonalds, but also many others that non-Brazilians would not know. Also, many types of stuff that you would not expect to be delivered I normally order here.
The list is long:icecream, medicines (even prescriptions), charged car batteries with free replacement service, smoothies, açaí berry creams, etc
I work in a brokerage house in brazil, and the (sole) brazilian exchange has a lot of procedures regarding this fact of large orders, being thinked throughly, accidental, or manipulative (one can't rapdily jugde anyway).
The real problem is: If the volume of a stock raises a lot rapidily (even it is a single order) there is reason to believe a significant piece of news came regarding that company, and that the current stated price is not valid. So the stock enters in a state of Eletronic Auction, where orders can be inserted, but not closed. The brazilian market reacted very diffently to the flash crash, in a way that most of our stocks entered Auction state for about 10 minutes, because all HFT who wanted to arbitrage the spread between Brazil and US. In this ten minutes, everyone saw that nothing bad had really happend, and purchased the stocks from the HFTs, gaining a profit. Other exchanges in the U.S. were much more affected by this happening because of not having this kind of safety projected.
60 year old glass? Most enterprises can't even think past the next couple quarters or to the next FY, much less this far. Almost any other company would have long since chucked the manufacturing process for it because it wasn't immediately profitable.
Alos Ground-breaking achievments sometimes are from misguided R&D, like post-it, or many medicines that were created poisonous bacteria and plantae.
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I like how he lumps "activists" in together with Lulzsec and Anonymous.
Within a couple of years, the US media will be using "activist" as a synonym for "terrorist".
Sadly, most Americans will go right along with this.
Fox News does that already.
In this day and age, the mighty United States of America has been reduced to feeling "terror" from "twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years."
Wasn't that a standup joke 20 years ago?
So, it has come to this.
I have a 200mW green laser. It is strong enough to be seen on a clear night, up to some 10km away.
If I use it during rain or fog it is seem as a very strong light cylinder.
The patent is only for a specific type of joint connector (not for all of them), and for this type, there is no prior art. The patent, if granted, secures only the schematics/diagrams mentioned in it.
Even the title being generic, this does not mean they are patenting the abstract idea of combined ports. You have to read the patent to see what it mentions.
Why is on slashdot homepage?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=digg
So I heard you like games, so I made a game within a game
I would say first, but Voyager came in front of me.
Way to go xkcd, you've been referenced in a legitimate research paper!
To get a visual overview of ICMP records we converted the one-dimensional, 32-bit IP addresses into two dimensions using a Hilbert Curve, inspired by xkcd.
There, I am fixing it for you: illegitimate paper
Where are my modpoints when I need them?
Almost all papers from the fields of economics, administration and the like are posted (many even on draft status) on http://ssrn.com/ for free.Even if they are selected and put into a journal after, you will probably will have free acess to them if you just look for then into there.
The transition to Windows 95 from Windows 3.1 was huge, but they did a better job explaining the differences. I remember people wanted to change, the felt the newer version was better.
My life is not possible without Kongregate and Newsgrounds.
How this piece relates to a news-for-nerds site? Is there any new technology involved in the making of it? This has no place in the front page of /.
Apple designs a iDevice in the USA, buys it built from another company in China, sells it to a subsidiary in Brazil, where it is ultimatily sold.
Where is the profit generated exactely? Can you pinpoint a place?
Don't be so simplistic.
This!
People only use these things for examinations. Nobody that I know uses these to do Real Work® . If you are in the field, you use a laptop with Matlab and/or Mathematica, and for surprise stuff, there are very good apps you can carry in your phone.
Also make sure there is a decent lock on the door, that the bare minimum number of people can physically get into the room, and that all access is logged electronically. That way you can find out who knocked some random cable out of position causing an outage and you can cancel their access and/or shout at them.
Also works wonders to have a camera recording all the activity in the server room.
Also worth mentioning, DirectX made gaming possible without the need to directly manipulate the interruptions, adding a much needed abstraction layer.
Before that, the games needed to be able to recognize the soundboard, sometimes you were manually requested to do it.
Let us lobby him to use Windows to do it. This way, nothing will happen at all.
TFA cites the 3Mbs mithical barrier.
For me, this is good enough, as I don't use streaming or am a heavy downloader.
Just ten years ago, my broadband was 512kbps, and it was damn fast.
My first reading of the article:
"1.6-GHz POWER BBQ chips."
Well, that is some fast barbecue.
There is a nice $ (dollar sign) in front of the 350, you insensitive clod.
In Brazil at least, the main reason one gets an auto insurance is for theft insurance, not for damages and accidents.
In Brazil we have a lot of fast food chains that deliver burgers, including BK and MacDonalds, but also many others that non-Brazilians would not know. :icecream, medicines (even prescriptions), charged car batteries with free replacement service, smoothies, açaí berry creams, etc
Also, many types of stuff that you would not expect to be delivered I normally order here.
The list is long
I work in a brokerage house in brazil, and the (sole) brazilian exchange has a lot of procedures regarding this fact of large orders, being thinked throughly, accidental, or manipulative (one can't rapdily jugde anyway).
The real problem is: If the volume of a stock raises a lot rapidily (even it is a single order) there is reason to believe a significant piece of news came regarding that company, and that the current stated price is not valid. So the stock enters in a state of Eletronic Auction, where orders can be inserted, but not closed. The brazilian market reacted very diffently to the flash crash, in a way that most of our stocks entered Auction state for about 10 minutes, because all HFT who wanted to arbitrage the spread between Brazil and US. In this ten minutes, everyone saw that nothing bad had really happend, and purchased the stocks from the HFTs, gaining a profit. Other exchanges in the U.S. were much more affected by this happening because of not having this kind of safety projected.
All the regulation (english): http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/en-us/regulation/equities/operational-procedures-manual/operational-procedures-manual.aspx?Idioma=en-us
Just the auction procedures(english): http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/en-us/regulation/download/Operational-Procedures-Manual-Chapter4.pdf
60 year old glass? Most enterprises can't even think past the next couple quarters or to the next FY, much less this far. Almost any other company would have long since chucked the manufacturing process for it because it wasn't immediately profitable.
Alos Ground-breaking achievments sometimes are from misguided R&D, like post-it, or many medicines that were created poisonous bacteria and plantae.