The deviation between magnetic and geographic north depends not just on the poleâ(TM)s degree of movement, but also the angle you are away from the pole. In some areas of the US, yes, the movement has been about 10 degrees since the mid 20th century.
The old general aviation runway at San Jose International Airport was runway 29. It was exactly parallel to runways 30R and 30L, they were just built at different times and the pole wandered. The pilots all knew the deal; it seems more confusing to change everything than for pilots to just deal with it.
"Prankster"? That doesn't even begin to describe the act of getting armed police to think a life-or-death situation is going on, and that the perpetrators are your target. Even the best police occasionally make mistakes, and anyone who sets someone else up to be at the receiving end of a situation where deadly force is authorized has a reasonable chance of getting his target killed. The caller was the murderer and the police were his weapon, just as if he had hired a hit man.
... who is living in Russia at the pleasure of the Russian Government. Do you REALLY want to give a Russian-supplied application access to all the device's sensors? I know it's open source, but a lot of stuff can get hidden in code...
Because youâ(TM)re not really âoemining bitcoinsâ, youâ(TM)re mining blocks. Blocks contain transactions, and as a reward for mining the block you get a reward of bitcoins (for nowâ" those will eventually disappear) and any transaction fees for the transactions in the block. So basically the ONLY real metric is power per transaction block. Thereâ(TM)s no real Bitcoin to âoemineâ
Any company which depends on anything called something like "the community" is in trouble. Members of "the community" never want to pay much, want to share everything for free, and are generally interested in small-scale hobbies or personal projects. That is awesome for a $1M/year company, but at some point SOME company in any industry has to move beyond "the community" to "the public" or "the industry". MakerBot tried to thread that needle and failed, in part because 3D printers aren't useful enough yet to Ma and Pa, and in part because nothing but open source purity is enough for this "community" while they had to actually create a self-sustaining business, and the economics just didn't work. So despite the fact that they run ThingiVerse for free where anyone can download a million 3D printable models and share everything, and run chat groups for free and give away software for free, "the community" is not happy.
Apple has had major facilities in Cork, Ireland since 1980-- 37 years ago, well before the Euro or modern EU existed. This isn't some non-operating legal entity deal like some other companies, which is what makes the EU going after Apple in particular so odd. Maybe some other companies have hopped onto some kind of Ireland loophole, and maybe Apple is getting a good deal there, but they moved into Ireland when that country wasn't in very good shape and have employed a generation of Irish, so it doesn't surprise me that Ireland is friendly to them.
So provide some alternate data. It looks like in all benchmarks I can find that compare the two, the iPhone comes out in anything from a tie to a significant advantage, except for one. If you run the benchmarks in parallel with the exact number of cores the S8 has, it eeks out a win. So near as I can tell, its the Samsung that can only win in a highly contrived scenario.
And this was last year's iPhone.
This is a very fast phone for an Android, though. If that is your world and basis of comparison, this speed bump will probably be significant. If you're already used to an iPhone, this one will start to get you close to last year's model, so isn't really going to satisfy you.
Ignoring the reason for the split, this quote from RMS seems really weird: "That was her decision to make. She also asserted that Libreboot was no longer a GNU package -- something she could not unilaterally do."
This confuses me. Wasn't she and her team the original developers before it was part of GNU? Didn't they thus own the Copyright and "Libreboot" trademark? Why on Earth would GNU have any say in it whatsoever?
Nintendo could also make a standardized Apple Gamepad if they ported their games with it, then everyone would adopt the standard!
Apple introduced this over three years ago, called MFi controllers. You can go to an Apple Store today and chose a wrap-around controller for a phone, or a separate bluetooth controller for a phone, iPad, or Apple TV. From a few manufacturers.
A 3d scanner as well might have been able to enable reproducing the part from scanning its broken pieces
Not with current technology. I have two different 3d scanners and what you end up with is a "blobby" version of the object that also has any tight corners, occluded areas, or holes very distorted. It's nice for larger objects but precise parts are way beyond home-grade 3d scanners today, and many parts are just physically incompatible with being scanned in that way.
Democrats have not only recently rediscovered the virtues of limit government, but also the virtues of following rules?
Well, it's frustrating since the email issue is literally the only thing that lost her the election. And it was intended to increase security, was never hacked, and was a step above the activities of her predecessors. Now we have Trump's man intentionally giving out secret information, setting up open network connections in secure facilities, and doing all this in an operational military environment, but meh. At least we kept the woman out of the White House amirite?
Now that we've gotten the "why is this on Slashdot?" post out of the way, can someone please complain about Slashdot editors and then somehow find a way to work in a criticism of SJW's and Microsoft so we can get on with the rest of the comments?
Nope. Just racist, misogynistic, hateful messages. Go discuss small government, interventionist vs isolationist policies, or financial policy all you want. But if you're going to spend the millions you got from a product I supported on turning political debate into 4chan, I'm going to stop supporting that product.
I'm afraid none of that addresses the suspicious way in which these buildings collapsed. That's why anti-conspiracy theorists are often even worse. They extrapolate their own ideas out of it so they can have a comfort blanket to hold on to and stop looking at what is in front of them.
The buildings collapsed exactly how you'd expect a building with strong center and shell supports would collapse, thus there's not much to explain there. Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades. The outer shell and inner shell hold it all together as its going down. Every single thing that happened to all three buildings and the field in PA is easily explained by physics, and doesn't need the conspiracy. Nothing that happened that day is "comforting," and insulting people doesn't help your case.
Someone didn't actually read the article, let alone the study, I guess.
Lerner dug into her data and came up with her own guess for the cause of the surprising results: women were leaving the platform after having one or two bad interviews. In other words, women, feeling discouraged, seemed to be just giving up on interviewing altogether. “Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews,” she writes, “the disparity goes away entirely.”
In this light, your reply I think highlights the problem, not the reason. Your attitude, and those of the ones who marked you "Insightful" (when you obviously weren't very), are probably the reason women are more likely to just give up.
Agreed, never do this. We had a problem with our cable company in the 90's (before online bill pay) who kept claiming our checks arrived late and billing us late fees. So we set up automatic bank deduction. The next month, they deducted the amount 3 days late WITH the late fee! They were pretty much caught in the act, but they just refunded the late fee and we dropped it...
This is all very interesting. However, there is no indication of when the sticks will become generally available. Their website indicates that they intend to create 1000 sticks shortly for use by selected customers. It is difficult to know how real this is, actually.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is a "please buy us out!" advertisement-product. I could see Apple buying them and integrating their chip into the next A-series processor to do client-side Siri among other things.
Leap Motion released an update which dramatically improved their hand tracking. You may not have to kill anyone to experience something better than the Power Glove.
Yes, keyboard controls are problematic. Yes, it's possible to type with your eyes closed, but if your hands lose the keyboard entirely it really brings you out of the experience to find it again and reposition. And many times the movement keys are not necessarily on the "home row" so you end up hunting around a bit. Plus, oftentimes the experiences work better if you're a bit back from your desk with some space to lean forward or shift a bit. Keyboards really detract from the experience.
I have this problem sometimes. My kids have my last name, Kass, and several of the new interactive things at Disney World a few years ago refused to accept their names, or later refused to accept my email address as a place to email their creations.
In this case, by someone hacking the installer to a BitTorrent client, hacking the server that distributes it, and signing it with a valid Apple developer cert and swapping their version in. Then hoping no one notices until the few days pass before it does its job and triggers. That last part didn't happen. Apple patched the built-in anti-malware, the company released a new version that removes the malware, and it was only downloaded about 6,500 times before disappearing. Unless any of those machines stayed completely off the internet in that time, it probably didn't strike anyone in the wild. That's what bein "tormented" by a Trojan Horse looks like on the Mac.
As I type this, the license link on the product's page leads to the variant of the Creative Commons License, that explicitly allows commercial use:
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
What's the problem? Did the author pick wrong license by mistake — and will they apologize to the folks now harmed by eBay's overreaction?
You forgot the "Under the Following Terms" bit, which is the whole point!
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
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The deviation between magnetic and geographic north depends not just on the poleâ(TM)s degree of movement, but also the angle you are away from the pole. In some areas of the US, yes, the movement has been about 10 degrees since the mid 20th century.
The old general aviation runway at San Jose International Airport was runway 29. It was exactly parallel to runways 30R and 30L, they were just built at different times and the pole wandered. The pilots all knew the deal; it seems more confusing to change everything than for pilots to just deal with it.
"Prankster"? That doesn't even begin to describe the act of getting armed police to think a life-or-death situation is going on, and that the perpetrators are your target. Even the best police occasionally make mistakes, and anyone who sets someone else up to be at the receiving end of a situation where deadly force is authorized has a reasonable chance of getting his target killed. The caller was the murderer and the police were his weapon, just as if he had hired a hit man.
... who is living in Russia at the pleasure of the Russian Government. Do you REALLY want to give a Russian-supplied application access to all the device's sensors? I know it's open source, but a lot of stuff can get hidden in code...
Because youâ(TM)re not really âoemining bitcoinsâ, youâ(TM)re mining blocks. Blocks contain transactions, and as a reward for mining the block you get a reward of bitcoins (for nowâ" those will eventually disappear) and any transaction fees for the transactions in the block. So basically the ONLY real metric is power per transaction block. Thereâ(TM)s no real Bitcoin to âoemineâ
Any company which depends on anything called something like "the community" is in trouble. Members of "the community" never want to pay much, want to share everything for free, and are generally interested in small-scale hobbies or personal projects. That is awesome for a $1M/year company, but at some point SOME company in any industry has to move beyond "the community" to "the public" or "the industry". MakerBot tried to thread that needle and failed, in part because 3D printers aren't useful enough yet to Ma and Pa, and in part because nothing but open source purity is enough for this "community" while they had to actually create a self-sustaining business, and the economics just didn't work. So despite the fact that they run ThingiVerse for free where anyone can download a million 3D printable models and share everything, and run chat groups for free and give away software for free, "the community" is not happy.
(Worst. Episode. Ever.)
Apple has had major facilities in Cork, Ireland since 1980-- 37 years ago, well before the Euro or modern EU existed. This isn't some non-operating legal entity deal like some other companies, which is what makes the EU going after Apple in particular so odd. Maybe some other companies have hopped onto some kind of Ireland loophole, and maybe Apple is getting a good deal there, but they moved into Ireland when that country wasn't in very good shape and have employed a generation of Irish, so it doesn't surprise me that Ireland is friendly to them.
So provide some alternate data. It looks like in all benchmarks I can find that compare the two, the iPhone comes out in anything from a tie to a significant advantage, except for one. If you run the benchmarks in parallel with the exact number of cores the S8 has, it eeks out a win. So near as I can tell, its the Samsung that can only win in a highly contrived scenario.
And this was last year's iPhone.
This is a very fast phone for an Android, though. If that is your world and basis of comparison, this speed bump will probably be significant. If you're already used to an iPhone, this one will start to get you close to last year's model, so isn't really going to satisfy you.
You sweat the same stuff as you get in pee.
...which was my thought when I read about how much more of the substance was in a hot tub. How do they know they weren't just measuring sweat?
A headphone jack? How retro!
Ignoring the reason for the split, this quote from RMS seems really weird: "That was her decision to make. She also asserted that Libreboot was no longer a GNU package -- something she could not unilaterally do."
This confuses me. Wasn't she and her team the original developers before it was part of GNU? Didn't they thus own the Copyright and "Libreboot" trademark? Why on Earth would GNU have any say in it whatsoever?
Nintendo could also make a standardized Apple Gamepad if they ported their games with it, then everyone would adopt the standard!
Apple introduced this over three years ago, called MFi controllers. You can go to an Apple Store today and chose a wrap-around controller for a phone, or a separate bluetooth controller for a phone, iPad, or Apple TV. From a few manufacturers.
A 3d scanner as well might have been able to enable reproducing the part from scanning its broken pieces
Not with current technology. I have two different 3d scanners and what you end up with is a "blobby" version of the object that also has any tight corners, occluded areas, or holes very distorted. It's nice for larger objects but precise parts are way beyond home-grade 3d scanners today, and many parts are just physically incompatible with being scanned in that way.
Democrats have not only recently rediscovered the virtues of limit government, but also the virtues of following rules?
Well, it's frustrating since the email issue is literally the only thing that lost her the election. And it was intended to increase security, was never hacked, and was a step above the activities of her predecessors. Now we have Trump's man intentionally giving out secret information, setting up open network connections in secure facilities, and doing all this in an operational military environment, but meh. At least we kept the woman out of the White House amirite?
Now that we've gotten the "why is this on Slashdot?" post out of the way, can someone please complain about Slashdot editors and then somehow find a way to work in a criticism of SJW's and Microsoft so we can get on with the rest of the comments?
Nope. Just racist, misogynistic, hateful messages. Go discuss small government, interventionist vs isolationist policies, or financial policy all you want. But if you're going to spend the millions you got from a product I supported on turning political debate into 4chan, I'm going to stop supporting that product.
I'm afraid none of that addresses the suspicious way in which these buildings collapsed. That's why anti-conspiracy theorists are often even worse. They extrapolate their own ideas out of it so they can have a comfort blanket to hold on to and stop looking at what is in front of them.
The buildings collapsed exactly how you'd expect a building with strong center and shell supports would collapse, thus there's not much to explain there. Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades. The outer shell and inner shell hold it all together as its going down. Every single thing that happened to all three buildings and the field in PA is easily explained by physics, and doesn't need the conspiracy. Nothing that happened that day is "comforting," and insulting people doesn't help your case.
Someone didn't actually read the article, let alone the study, I guess.
Lerner dug into her data and came up with her own guess for the cause of the surprising results: women were leaving the platform after having one or two bad interviews. In other words, women, feeling discouraged, seemed to be just giving up on interviewing altogether. “Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews,” she writes, “the disparity goes away entirely.”
In this light, your reply I think highlights the problem, not the reason. Your attitude, and those of the ones who marked you "Insightful" (when you obviously weren't very), are probably the reason women are more likely to just give up.
Agreed, never do this. We had a problem with our cable company in the 90's (before online bill pay) who kept claiming our checks arrived late and billing us late fees. So we set up automatic bank deduction. The next month, they deducted the amount 3 days late WITH the late fee! They were pretty much caught in the act, but they just refunded the late fee and we dropped it...
This is all very interesting. However, there is no indication of when the sticks will become generally available. Their website indicates that they intend to create 1000 sticks shortly for use by selected customers. It is difficult to know how real this is, actually.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is a "please buy us out!" advertisement-product. I could see Apple buying them and integrating their chip into the next A-series processor to do client-side Siri among other things.
Leap Motion released an update which dramatically improved their hand tracking. You may not have to kill anyone to experience something better than the Power Glove.
Yes, keyboard controls are problematic. Yes, it's possible to type with your eyes closed, but if your hands lose the keyboard entirely it really brings you out of the experience to find it again and reposition. And many times the movement keys are not necessarily on the "home row" so you end up hunting around a bit. Plus, oftentimes the experiences work better if you're a bit back from your desk with some space to lean forward or shift a bit. Keyboards really detract from the experience.
I have this problem sometimes. My kids have my last name, Kass, and several of the new interactive things at Disney World a few years ago refused to accept their names, or later refused to accept my email address as a place to email their creations.
In this case, by someone hacking the installer to a BitTorrent client, hacking the server that distributes it, and signing it with a valid Apple developer cert and swapping their version in. Then hoping no one notices until the few days pass before it does its job and triggers. That last part didn't happen. Apple patched the built-in anti-malware, the company released a new version that removes the malware, and it was only downloaded about 6,500 times before disappearing. Unless any of those machines stayed completely off the internet in that time, it probably didn't strike anyone in the wild. That's what bein "tormented" by a Trojan Horse looks like on the Mac.
As I type this, the license link on the product's page leads to the variant of the Creative Commons License, that explicitly allows commercial use:
What's the problem? Did the author pick wrong license by mistake — and will they apologize to the folks now harmed by eBay's overreaction?
You forgot the "Under the Following Terms" bit, which is the whole point!