Unfortunately I have often seen old mechanical workhorses get tossed in the garbage bin and replaced with cheap plastic for trivial reasons such as faded letters or because it didn't have volume controls or media keys.
Early human population dwindled to as few as 2000 individuals with most living in isolated pockets of a few hundred. Given enough time the population and genetic variability rebounded. Colonization of other worlds is most definitely a long-term project and while a bigger sample might give you better chances its probably possible with far fewer individuals.
Also, make sure you've got a 6Gb SATA capable motherboard, or you're essentially wasting half your money putting a hot new drive into a slow bus.
It should read; If you don't have a 6Gb SATA capable motherboard don't buy a SATA3 ssd. Save some money and buy a SATA2 ssd.
In any case, depending on what you do, you may or may not benefit from the increase in sequential speed the new SATA III drives offer. For some people, it is very significant for most is not noticeable.
Landline sound quality in 1975 was better than any mobile phone sound quality in 2014.
This suprises you somehow? A landline provides a lot more bandwidth without any worries of signal interferance from walls or other radio sources. The switches were also analog, no need for converting analog sound into digital bits, compressing and then sending them in discreete packets.
The media is very much to blame for this. By pitting quacks like Genry Mccarthy against doctors and researches they give the impression that the quacks arguments are just as valid and merit the publics attention.
We need to stop telling parents that they need to make a "informed decision" and instead drive in the message that getting their children vaccinated is absolutely necessary to protect their life and well being. Posing it as a decision simply provides an opening for anti-vaccine quacks to employ their fear-mongering and to many fear is more powerful than the truth.
obi boxes let you you use your house's POTS wiring with google voice. It's quite a nice product, at least until Google voice becomes more expensive than free -- though faxing over it can be kind of hit or miss.
Google will end of support for XMPP based calling on May 15, 2014 . On that day 3d party systems such as Obi will no longer be able to use Google voice to make or receive phone calls. Fortunately the OBi device may be used with other service providers but non of them are free http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10....
I can't see many religious people lining up for an expedition to discover if life evolved on another planet. They still don't believe that it evolved on this one.
Animals might not have much to worry about from the radiation, until they try to reproduce that is. Cells are most susceptible to radiation damage during cell division and that is a lot of that happening in a embryo.
Lets completely ignore the fact that what the economy is recovering from is the huge blunder of the private banking sector following deregulation. Lets repeal Dood-Frank, If they screw up again than we will simply bail them out with tax-payer money like last time, but I am sure they learned their lesson the first time around and what we need is even more deregulation.
I cannot believe that on a site that bills itself as news for nerds, we are slamming Microsoft for taking the bold step of bundling what is the most advanced motion sensing, image/voice recognition system available outside of DOD contractors with a gaming console and doing it for just $100 more than its otherwise similarly spec'd competitor. For everybody that complains that the kinetic should have been sold separately you got to remember that because of the lower volume and the added cost of packaging, advertising, etc a standalone kinetic would be priced in the $150-$200 range. Microsoft did its part, now its up to nerds to see where we can take it.
The opposition to this project is in fact just local opposition by people being affected by its construction but unfortunately it underscores a big problem that switching to Renweable Energy faces, namely the need for a lot of land and ugly infrastructure. In industrialized nations where land is expense, property rights are strong and citizens are very vocal in their opposition its almost impossible to envision a large scale sustained switch to Renweables.
"Visa, American Express, and MasterCard have announced that banks and merchants that have not adopted the technology for face-to-face transactions by October 2015 will be liable for fraudulent purchases"
They are already liable. It is called a charge-back. Customers complains that the charge was fraudulent and the credit card company suspends payment to the processor until the merchant can prove that the transaction was not fraudulent. He gets 5-6 of these charge back requests a week, mostly from people who got tipsy and spent far more than they wanted. The processor will find against the merchant if the signature differs even by a little from the one on file. Sometimes the bartenders have to ask a customer to resign 2-3 times before they get one that exactly matches the signature on the card.
Only a handful of Olympians with star-power have sponsors. Some are still in school and receive scholarships. Most of them have normal jobs with which to support themselves and their training, about the only handouts they receive is free travel and lodgings to and from events and the occasional bonus for winning. The U.S Olympic comity awards $25,000 for gold, $10,000 for bronze, smaller events pay far less if anything. Lucky for us they do it for the love of their sport otherwise the Olympics would be reduced to a handful of big name sports with a handful of big name players.
A $50 Roku or $60 Blue Ray player can already stream Amazon content fine. Heck, even a Kindle Fire has a micro-HDMI cable.
$300 for an Android game console would be nuts, but it would actually make a lot more sense than a $300 streaming device.
$100 for an Amazon version of the Ouya would be kind of cool.
Exactly why Amazon doesn't won't to release another media streaming box. Amazon is in the content selling business, what it wants to do is create the center of the living room version of the kindle, of course with so many cheap devices that can stream content it needs to do something else to differentiate itself in the saturated market.
Enter cheap gaming console. Hardware has gotten pretty cheap and unlike previous generation consoles neither the PS4 nor the Xbox 1 are heavily subsidized. Considering that the Amazon box won't be coming to the market for a while its quite likely that it can offer similar performance at the price point its looking to sell it at. If that's the case than I suspect there will be quite some interest from traditional console game developers looking to sell their products without having to pay the steep Sony/Microsoft licensing fees. It could quite literally kill their business model really. Very exciting, I hope its not just wishful thinking on my part
The ink is barely dry on the acquisition of IBM's x86 server business for about $2.3 billion and now the purchase of Motorola for $2.91 billion. These could be genius longsighted moves but to me it seems that Lenovo is in danger of trying to expand too quickly.
Cars are being fitted with an increasing number of crash avoidance technologies to compensate for varying degrees of driver abilities, sluggish or even incorrect response etc. I imagine an autonomous driving system would rely on these same technologies for emergency crash avoidance. In a production autonomous vehicle the driver would be required to operate the vehicle under certain conditions but most definitely, the driver would not be expected to stay alert in order to hit the brakes in a emergency.
I didn't think I had to specify "conventional weapons" since the topic we were discussing was armmament on "Autonomous weapons are robotic systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator". Weapons of mass distraction such as nuclear weapons by their very definition destroy indiscrimintatelly and would not be a very usefull on such systems.
Wait until the system realizes ALL humans are targets.
Don't worry. Fail safe measures will be implemented in order to keep the systems secure. Look all that fabulous advances made on our computer security nowadays and rest assur... Oh, wait!
We still rely on chemical energy to power our weapons and as such they all have the ultimate fail safe system. No matter how large the magazine, sooner or later they all run out of amunition.
People living from wellfare bein treated like dirt etc.
Yeah, they are really not getting enough free money from the people who are working. Beggars can't be choosers.
The problem is that there is a large and growing number of people working full time and needing welfare assistance because they get paid less than the cost of living. This is really corporations gaming the welfare system and exploiting the employment condititions but it the poor bastards breaking their backs for little that also have to deal with being treeted as leeches by society.
Yes the bankers were greedy but a large number of those taking the loans weren't unwitting victims either. A lot of people thought they could make a nice chunk of change by bying a house they couldn't afford and then sell it for a nice profit at the end of the 2 year grace period. Of course once prices got so out of controll that no one could afford to buy anymore than the whole thing crashed to the ground.
Most open source software have development roadmaps with very clear goals of what would constitute a major release milestone. The developers of open source software are truthfull and open with their version numbering system unfortunately closed source software companies are not and often stick a major release number to minor upgrades or beta or even alpha quality software. This is why many people will not install closed source software until a service pack or 2 later.
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Unfortunately I have often seen old mechanical workhorses get tossed in the garbage bin and replaced with cheap plastic for trivial reasons such as faded letters or because it didn't have volume controls or media keys.
Early human population dwindled to as few as 2000 individuals with most living in isolated pockets of a few hundred. Given enough time the population and genetic variability rebounded. Colonization of other worlds is most definitely a long-term project and while a bigger sample might give you better chances its probably possible with far fewer individuals.
SSDs are the next cache layer.
Also, make sure you've got a 6Gb SATA capable motherboard, or you're essentially wasting half your money putting a hot new drive into a slow bus.
It should read; If you don't have a 6Gb SATA capable motherboard don't buy a SATA3 ssd. Save some money and buy a SATA2 ssd. In any case, depending on what you do, you may or may not benefit from the increase in sequential speed the new SATA III drives offer. For some people, it is very significant for most is not noticeable.
Landline sound quality in 1975 was better than any mobile phone sound quality in 2014.
This suprises you somehow? A landline provides a lot more bandwidth without any worries of signal interferance from walls or other radio sources. The switches were also analog, no need for converting analog sound into digital bits, compressing and then sending them in discreete packets.
The media is very much to blame for this. By pitting quacks like Genry Mccarthy against doctors and researches they give the impression that the quacks arguments are just as valid and merit the publics attention.
We need to stop telling parents that they need to make a "informed decision" and instead drive in the message that getting their children vaccinated is absolutely necessary to protect their life and well being. Posing it as a decision simply provides an opening for anti-vaccine quacks to employ their fear-mongering and to many fear is more powerful than the truth.
obi boxes let you you use your house's POTS wiring with google voice. It's quite a nice product, at least until Google voice becomes more expensive than free -- though faxing over it can be kind of hit or miss.
Google will end of support for XMPP based calling on May 15, 2014 . On that day 3d party systems such as Obi will no longer be able to use Google voice to make or receive phone calls. Fortunately the OBi device may be used with other service providers but non of them are free http://blog.obihai.com/2013/10....
I can't see many religious people lining up for an expedition to discover if life evolved on another planet. They still don't believe that it evolved on this one.
Animals might not have much to worry about from the radiation, until they try to reproduce that is. Cells are most susceptible to radiation damage during cell division and that is a lot of that happening in a embryo.
Oh great now there will be nothing to cover the stench of the politicians in congress.
Lets completely ignore the fact that what the economy is recovering from is the huge blunder of the private banking sector following deregulation. Lets repeal Dood-Frank, If they screw up again than we will simply bail them out with tax-payer money like last time, but I am sure they learned their lesson the first time around and what we need is even more deregulation.
I cannot believe that on a site that bills itself as news for nerds, we are slamming Microsoft for taking the bold step of bundling what is the most advanced motion sensing, image/voice recognition system available outside of DOD contractors with a gaming console and doing it for just $100 more than its otherwise similarly spec'd competitor. For everybody that complains that the kinetic should have been sold separately you got to remember that because of the lower volume and the added cost of packaging, advertising, etc a standalone kinetic would be priced in the $150-$200 range. Microsoft did its part, now its up to nerds to see where we can take it.
The opposition to this project is in fact just local opposition by people being affected by its construction but unfortunately it underscores a big problem that switching to Renweable Energy faces, namely the need for a lot of land and ugly infrastructure. In industrialized nations where land is expense, property rights are strong and citizens are very vocal in their opposition its almost impossible to envision a large scale sustained switch to Renweables.
"Visa, American Express, and MasterCard have announced that banks and merchants that have not adopted the technology for face-to-face transactions by October 2015 will be liable for fraudulent purchases" They are already liable. It is called a charge-back. Customers complains that the charge was fraudulent and the credit card company suspends payment to the processor until the merchant can prove that the transaction was not fraudulent. He gets 5-6 of these charge back requests a week, mostly from people who got tipsy and spent far more than they wanted. The processor will find against the merchant if the signature differs even by a little from the one on file. Sometimes the bartenders have to ask a customer to resign 2-3 times before they get one that exactly matches the signature on the card.
Only a handful of Olympians with star-power have sponsors. Some are still in school and receive scholarships. Most of them have normal jobs with which to support themselves and their training, about the only handouts they receive is free travel and lodgings to and from events and the occasional bonus for winning. The U.S Olympic comity awards $25,000 for gold, $10,000 for bronze, smaller events pay far less if anything. Lucky for us they do it for the love of their sport otherwise the Olympics would be reduced to a handful of big name sports with a handful of big name players.
A $50 Roku or $60 Blue Ray player can already stream Amazon content fine. Heck, even a Kindle Fire has a micro-HDMI cable.
$300 for an Android game console would be nuts, but it would actually make a lot more sense than a $300 streaming device.
$100 for an Amazon version of the Ouya would be kind of cool.
Exactly why Amazon doesn't won't to release another media streaming box. Amazon is in the content selling business, what it wants to do is create the center of the living room version of the kindle, of course with so many cheap devices that can stream content it needs to do something else to differentiate itself in the saturated market.
Enter cheap gaming console. Hardware has gotten pretty cheap and unlike previous generation consoles neither the PS4 nor the Xbox 1 are heavily subsidized. Considering that the Amazon box won't be coming to the market for a while its quite likely that it can offer similar performance at the price point its looking to sell it at. If that's the case than I suspect there will be quite some interest from traditional console game developers looking to sell their products without having to pay the steep Sony/Microsoft licensing fees. It could quite literally kill their business model really. Very exciting, I hope its not just wishful thinking on my part
The ink is barely dry on the acquisition of IBM's x86 server business for about $2.3 billion and now the purchase of Motorola for $2.91 billion. These could be genius longsighted moves but to me it seems that Lenovo is in danger of trying to expand too quickly.
Everything will change when you can make anything.' said John Hornick, an IP attorney." I sure do hope so!
Cars are being fitted with an increasing number of crash avoidance technologies to compensate for varying degrees of driver abilities, sluggish or even incorrect response etc. I imagine an autonomous driving system would rely on these same technologies for emergency crash avoidance. In a production autonomous vehicle the driver would be required to operate the vehicle under certain conditions but most definitely, the driver would not be expected to stay alert in order to hit the brakes in a emergency.
I didn't think I had to specify "conventional weapons" since the topic we were discussing was armmament on "Autonomous weapons are robotic systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator". Weapons of mass distraction such as nuclear weapons by their very definition destroy indiscrimintatelly and would not be a very usefull on such systems.
Select targets? Really?
Wait until the system realizes ALL humans are targets.
Don't worry. Fail safe measures will be implemented in order to keep the systems secure. Look all that fabulous advances made on our computer security nowadays and rest assur... Oh, wait!
We still rely on chemical energy to power our weapons and as such they all have the ultimate fail safe system. No matter how large the magazine, sooner or later they all run out of amunition.
People living from wellfare bein treated like dirt etc.
Yeah, they are really not getting enough free money from the people who are working. Beggars can't be choosers.
The problem is that there is a large and growing number of people working full time and needing welfare assistance because they get paid less than the cost of living. This is really corporations gaming the welfare system and exploiting the employment condititions but it the poor bastards breaking their backs for little that also have to deal with being treeted as leeches by society.
Yes if the U.S outlaws gun ownership then I am sure they would disappear just like drugs have.
Yes the bankers were greedy but a large number of those taking the loans weren't unwitting victims either. A lot of people thought they could make a nice chunk of change by bying a house they couldn't afford and then sell it for a nice profit at the end of the 2 year grace period. Of course once prices got so out of controll that no one could afford to buy anymore than the whole thing crashed to the ground.
Most open source software have development roadmaps with very clear goals of what would constitute a major release milestone. The developers of open source software are truthfull and open with their version numbering system unfortunately closed source software companies are not and often stick a major release number to minor upgrades or beta or even alpha quality software. This is why many people will not install closed source software until a service pack or 2 later.