So there are over 3 times as many Android phones as iPhones, yet internet usage by Android is *lower*?
Something is fishy here.
I'm guessing android users are spoofing the user agent on their browser to iPhone because so many websites still look and work better on mobile when the web server thinks you have an iPhone.
The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers.
Not quite. If all the retail stores are going broke because everyone is buying stuff off the internet, then USPS should be doing a roaring trade in package deliveries.
Not sure why USPS don't seem to be able to leverage off all that traffic to make a profit.
We're talking about China deciding that the USA needs to be taught a lesson.
Why would China want to teach the USA a lesson? The Chinese already own most US debt.
The only reason the US could be justifiably paranoid about what China can/can't do to them, is if the US intends to default on China, stop paying interest, and pre-emptively attack China to get out of the situation.
How about actually, you know, shipping the things? Ordered a month ago, only thing I've got from it so far is an automated email and a PI-shaped hole in my paypal account..
I see this comment all over the place. Who did you order from?
I have two already. Bought mine from element14.
I don't mind about the extra ram, cause the tasks I'm using these ones for don't require it.
As I understand it, we're still waiting to find out if gravitational waves/radiation propagates at the speed of light.
You are correct, we are still waiting for experimental validation, however, if gravity waves exist, then the gravitons that carry gravitation force are expected to fit into the Standard Model as a massless gauge boson. Theoretically, according to the Standard Model, all massless particles travel at the speed of light.
It will be *very* interesting if we find that gravitation waves do not travel at the speed of light.
Seems they have taken a clue from Albert Einstein, who supposedly owned 6 or 7 of the exact same brown suits for the same reason - so he wouldn't waste any mental energy with such useless minutiae such as what to wear that day.
Einstein also didn't wear socks - because they took too much time to put on, and shoes already did the job well enough.
p>What they did not think of and what now causes the slow sales is that the price makes ultrabooks a LUXURY item
The people I've been talking to who can afford ultrabooks have been avoiding them because of the SSD drive rather than the price. Max hard drive space on an ultrabook with SSD is 256 GB, which isn't enough for people who have gotten used to having 500 GB to 1 TB on their laptops.
Having said that, I love my ASUS zenbook - especially when travelling.
So, the next time you have something glib to say about Mormons, just run it by a real Mormon first. We'll tell you the truth.
If I ask a Catholic about Catholicism, they'll tell me the truth, if I ask a Muslim about Islam, they'll tell me the truth, if I ask a Hindu about Hindi, they'll tell me the truth, etc.
When I add all those truths together, I'll realise that none of them can be correct without falsifying the others, and so it is unlikely that any of their statements can objectively be considered truth. Especially when there is no existing external evidence to support any of these truths.
I know about the three and the eight witnesses, and other people in this thread have debunked them adequately- including the reasons why they didn't recant. You may be a nice person, and I'm sorry that you base your morals and ethics on a foundation that has no basis in fact. For the record, my statement was about the Mormon religion, not the Mormon people. I don't blame people for holding beliefs that they were indoctrinated with from an early age. However, I believe that people can have sound morals and ethics without appealing to a supernatural authority.
A bigot is someone who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief or opinion. As a strong atheist, I am a bigot about religion in much the same way I am a bigot about my mathematical belief that 1+1=2, that is, there is no question about the facts.
I don't believe that religions should get a pass when being analysed under the spot light of critical thinking, and I certainly don't think that they should get tax-exempt status. It is a pity that so much of the world labours under the misconceptions of their religious belief. I can only hope that one day, with enough education, religions will become as rare as they deserve.
Does it take more double think than that required for someone dying on Friday and coming back on Sunday?
Well Mormonism includes all the christian/catholic double think, and then adds the extra levels of Joseph Smith double think. So by definition I guess that it requires more .
you shouldn't need to censor your personal thoughts just for political correctness. Or even "professionalism", as TFA asks for. Even if you're someone of popularity. It shouldn't reflect at all on the Linux community
Exactly. On top of this - every actor, actress, musician on the planet is allowed to voice their opinion on politics, religion, etc - but if a technical guy such as Linus does, it is unprofessional?
And just for the record - Mormonism is batshit crazy. It takes an unprecedented level of double-think to believe Joseph Smith's story about the golden plates that no-one ever saw, and his excuses for why he couldn't translate the same transcript the same way twice.
Linus shouldn't need to apologise for a statement that is objectively and obviously correct.
This being Slashdot, would it not make sense for there to be more Android articles? Is there just too much Apple astroturfing going on Slashdot or is it just me?
I was just thinking that there is a slightly less iPhone astroturfing on Slashdot compared to the iPhone launch in previous years. In the past you would get 3 or 4 stories in a row on the iPhone here.
No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
PETA is a terrorist organisation, members of whom have made credible death threats to close friends of mine because PETA disagreed with the morality of the animal research that my friends where doing.
I do hold PETA activists in far lower esteem than I do your average corrupt politician, because the majority of them are dangerous lunatics.
Who gets to decide what is, and is not, trolling? Will trolling be a crime, and under what statute? How much will the "troll patrol" cost?
Clearly, if they don't like you, everything you say will be considered trolling, and you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, if they do like you, everything you say will be considered witty, charming, innovative and magical.
When the wiring in the retina changes, it is no longer able to mediate normal retinal signaling...
My understanding is that this device bypasses the retina completely, and stimulates the optic nerve directly - it is essentially an array of diamond spikes shooting electricity into the optic nerve. They are hoping that they can then retrain someone's brain to "see" images based on the electric signal they supply
Are you saying that the neurons in the brain completely change their behaviour as a retina degrades, making this technique useless? If so, is this true for all forms of retina failure?
Note that tfa refers to a woman who is experiencing what she calls "flashes of light" from the device. Do you think it will be impossible to arrange those flashes into images?
I don't work for or with CalTech, but I am currently active in the field of MEMS/NEMS biological and chemical sensing. I'm happy to hang around and answer any general questions people might have about this technology.
Apple's P/E ratio is only 15.64. They're greatly undervalued.
I'm not sure how you can say that they are greatly undervalued. Any P/E over 17 is considered overvalued, and a P/E in the range of 10-17 is considered fair value.
So I would say that a P/E of 15.64 is on the high side of being fairly valued, but certainly not greatly undervalued. Greatly undervalued would be if their P/E was below 10.
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So there are over 3 times as many Android phones as iPhones, yet internet usage by Android is *lower*?
Something is fishy here.
I'm guessing android users are spoofing the user agent on their browser to iPhone because so many websites still look and work better on mobile when the web server thinks you have an iPhone.
The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers.
Not quite. If all the retail stores are going broke because everyone is buying stuff off the internet, then USPS should be doing a roaring trade in package deliveries.
Not sure why USPS don't seem to be able to leverage off all that traffic to make a profit.
Bugger.
Now I have to.
"Our chief weapon is surprise"
We're talking about China deciding that the USA needs to be taught a lesson.
Why would China want to teach the USA a lesson? The Chinese already own most US debt.
The only reason the US could be justifiably paranoid about what China can/can't do to them, is if the US intends to default on China, stop paying interest, and pre-emptively attack China to get out of the situation.
Meditation is a poor substitute for sex.
Hmmm, has anyone run this brain scan on Hugh Hefner?
Who knew a process by which the ultimate goal is to produce ethanol would be a good starting point to produce ethanol?
True that. I'm far more impressed by the people who realized that you could make dresses from wine making waste.
How about actually, you know, shipping the things? Ordered a month ago, only thing I've got from it so far is an automated email and a PI-shaped hole in my paypal account..
I see this comment all over the place. Who did you order from?
I have two already. Bought mine from element14.
I don't mind about the extra ram, cause the tasks I'm using these ones for don't require it.
A bunch of loonies declaring they represent 1.6 billion people. Grow up.
This. None of the muslims I know or work with are protesting or even care about this absolute nothing of a video.
The guys doing the protest are embarrassing fundies.
I'm just confused because I'm not sure whether this is a slashvertisement for the new 007 movie or this SpyMaster store.
As I understand it, we're still waiting to find out if gravitational waves/radiation propagates at the speed of light.
You are correct, we are still waiting for experimental validation, however, if gravity waves exist, then the gravitons that carry gravitation force are expected to fit into the Standard Model as a massless gauge boson. Theoretically, according to the Standard Model, all massless particles travel at the speed of light.
It will be *very* interesting if we find that gravitation waves do not travel at the speed of light.
Seems they have taken a clue from Albert Einstein, who supposedly owned 6 or 7 of the exact same brown suits for the same reason - so he wouldn't waste any mental energy with such useless minutiae such as what to wear that day.
Einstein also didn't wear socks - because they took too much time to put on, and shoes already did the job well enough.
Anybody want a peanut?
p>What they did not think of and what now causes the slow sales is that the price makes ultrabooks a LUXURY item
The people I've been talking to who can afford ultrabooks have been avoiding them because of the SSD drive rather than the price. Max hard drive space on an ultrabook with SSD is 256 GB, which isn't enough for people who have gotten used to having 500 GB to 1 TB on their laptops.
Having said that, I love my ASUS zenbook - especially when travelling.
So, the next time you have something glib to say about Mormons, just run it by a real Mormon first. We'll tell you the truth.
If I ask a Catholic about Catholicism, they'll tell me the truth, if I ask a Muslim about Islam, they'll tell me the truth, if I ask a Hindu about Hindi, they'll tell me the truth, etc.
When I add all those truths together, I'll realise that none of them can be correct without falsifying the others, and so it is unlikely that any of their statements can objectively be considered truth. Especially when there is no existing external evidence to support any of these truths.
I know about the three and the eight witnesses, and other people in this thread have debunked them adequately- including the reasons why they didn't recant. You may be a nice person, and I'm sorry that you base your morals and ethics on a foundation that has no basis in fact. For the record, my statement was about the Mormon religion, not the Mormon people. I don't blame people for holding beliefs that they were indoctrinated with from an early age. However, I believe that people can have sound morals and ethics without appealing to a supernatural authority.
A bigot is someone who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief or opinion. As a strong atheist, I am a bigot about religion in much the same way I am a bigot about my mathematical belief that 1+1=2, that is, there is no question about the facts.
I don't believe that religions should get a pass when being analysed under the spot light of critical thinking, and I certainly don't think that they should get tax-exempt status. It is a pity that so much of the world labours under the misconceptions of their religious belief. I can only hope that one day, with enough education, religions will become as rare as they deserve.
Does it take more double think than that required for someone dying on Friday and coming back on Sunday?
Well Mormonism includes all the christian/catholic double think, and then adds the extra levels of Joseph Smith double think. So by definition I guess that it requires more .
you shouldn't need to censor your personal thoughts just for political correctness. Or even "professionalism", as TFA asks for. Even if you're someone of popularity. It shouldn't reflect at all on the Linux community
Exactly. On top of this - every actor, actress, musician on the planet is allowed to voice their opinion on politics, religion, etc - but if a technical guy such as Linus does, it is unprofessional?
And just for the record - Mormonism is batshit crazy. It takes an unprecedented level of double-think to believe Joseph Smith's story about the golden plates that no-one ever saw, and his excuses for why he couldn't translate the same transcript the same way twice.
Linus shouldn't need to apologise for a statement that is objectively and obviously correct.
I just read that the TSA is training their agents in this techniques.
I doubt it. Surely the last thing the TSA wants is a whole bunch of motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' plane.
This being Slashdot, would it not make sense for there to be more Android articles? Is there just too much Apple astroturfing going on Slashdot or is it just me?
I was just thinking that there is a slightly less iPhone astroturfing on Slashdot compared to the iPhone launch in previous years. In the past you would get 3 or 4 stories in a row on the iPhone here.
So IMHO things are improving.
No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
PETA is a terrorist organisation, members of whom have made credible death threats to close friends of mine because PETA disagreed with the morality of the animal research that my friends where doing.
I do hold PETA activists in far lower esteem than I do your average corrupt politician, because the majority of them are dangerous lunatics.
The four basic food groups are:
1) Amano Chocolate -- There is no other chocolate.
Amano isn't bad for something made in the US - but you should head over to Italy and give Amedei chocolate a go before making a call as large as that.
Who gets to decide what is, and is not, trolling? Will trolling be a crime, and under what statute? How much will the "troll patrol" cost?
Clearly, if they don't like you, everything you say will be considered trolling, and you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, if they do like you, everything you say will be considered witty, charming, innovative and magical.
When the wiring in the retina changes, it is no longer able to mediate normal retinal signaling...
My understanding is that this device bypasses the retina completely, and stimulates the optic nerve directly - it is essentially an array of diamond spikes shooting electricity into the optic nerve. They are hoping that they can then retrain someone's brain to "see" images based on the electric signal they supply
Are you saying that the neurons in the brain completely change their behaviour as a retina degrades, making this technique useless? If so, is this true for all forms of retina failure?
Note that tfa refers to a woman who is experiencing what she calls "flashes of light" from the device. Do you think it will be impossible to arrange those flashes into images?
Otherwise, just ask your favorite academic,
I don't work for or with CalTech, but I am currently active in the field of MEMS/NEMS biological and chemical sensing. I'm happy to hang around and answer any general questions people might have about this technology.
How is this anything more than a high-tech version of the old "Beware of guard dog" signs?
Yeah, there is also the plethora of dummy security cameras that have been around for ages to act as a deterrent: http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1311&_nkw=dummy+security+camera&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Apple's P/E ratio is only 15.64. They're greatly undervalued.
I'm not sure how you can say that they are greatly undervalued. Any P/E over 17 is considered overvalued, and a P/E in the range of 10-17 is considered fair value.
So I would say that a P/E of 15.64 is on the high side of being fairly valued, but certainly not greatly undervalued. Greatly undervalued would be if their P/E was below 10.