brick (v. tr.) - Some action which reduces the functionality of a product in some undesired way, but which the person reporting wants to exaggerate as making the device no more useful than a brick.
I'm surprised you clicked on this discussion and replied, given that you aren't interested in anything more about the iPad. Oh well, gotta go and read some discussions about washing dogs, as I have no interested in washing dogs...
I think getting their electronics analyzed by NASA is the smartest thing Toyota can do. They need a detached third party body with a stellar reputation to reassure people to clear their name.
So the goal is to prove that there are no problems, rather to find whether there are problems? Too bad Feynman isn't around anymore...
Wow... "increase the speed of learning?". Given crackpotery on their site, the poor science, the ridiculous claims that instead of focusing on fucking light delivered, focus on subjective, unmeasurable bullshit, the complete lack of details, video, specs, etc. this product doesn't sound very serious...
See, if the designers of the site had more natural lighting, they wouldn't create such crackpottery!
If you'd get a normal tablet or computer, you wouldn't need to jailbreak it.
Yes, but by keeping it locked down, Apple makes it more usable. The lack of multitasking is a good thing. So it's obvious why you'd want to jailbreak it, so you could put multitasking and unlock it, er... wait, maybe I haven't thought this through.
"If there is precisely zero evidence for heaven, why do people believe it exists?" - This is a legitimate scientific question that isn't satisfyingly answered at present.
It's not that there's zero evidence, it's that there's plenty of evidence against that requires critical evaluation. There's plenty of evidence that the sun revolves around Earth, but much more that it doesn't, and it also took a long time before the latter was appreciated.
I was in bed in the early morning, I just awoke a couple of minutes before. Without prior warning it felt like all my internal organs started to move up through my trachea. [...] It later turned out my diaphragm had ruptured and my stomach had gone through that hole, collapsing my left lung and displacing my heart by 10 centimeter. It took five years to diagnose correctly.
I was reading Slashdot one evening, I just awoke a few minutes before. Without prior warning a post that seemed like it was going to be interesting blindsided me and got very graphic, displacing my peaceful state. I wished the poster had put some kind of warning.
I think the question is of right, not expectation. But what differentiates between a right and a merely desired-for right? It seems it comes down to the family not feeling OK with the photos being shown to anyone. Is this enough to establish it as a right that one can block usage of any photos of one's offspring, for any reason? Why stop at photos? Maybe we should allow someone to block mention of someone's name, or a color, etc. if it offends someone somewhere.
The video seems impressive until you realize it has been sped up 50 times actual speed... it took more than an hour and a half to fold 5 towels!
You have to think ahead about the towel-folding singularity. Once these robots can design more towel-folding robots, it's all over for us humans. First it'll be 10 minutes to fold a towel, then 5, then 1, then 10 seconds, and then... then, they will overtake us, folding towels in less than a second, and then who knows. We can't even imagine what it will be like at that point.
I used to think the 6502 was superior for its lower clocks-per-instruction, but I've since learned more. The 6502 uses a two-phase clock, so it's really double the apparent clock rate. The Z-80 uses a higher clock, but runs memory at a lower rate. That was one of the limiting factors of those days, the speed of the external bus. So you could use the same speed memory with a 4 MHz Z-80 as with a 1 MHz 6502 (don't know the exact numbers, but it's basically like this). The Z-80 also had more registers and you could do many register-to-register operations, whereas on the 6502 you must use memory for things like ORing two values together.
That said, I much prefer the 6502 for its simple and clean instruction set, and the fact that it didn't use any microcode when decoding instructions. It feels like a RISC machine, while the Z-80 feels just like x86, as it's an extension of the 8080, itself not very elegant either. Things like two-byte relative jump instructions are SLOWER than three-byte absolute jumps, for example.
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I think I've figured out the new definition:
brick (v. tr.) - Some action which reduces the functionality of a product in some undesired way, but which the person reporting wants to exaggerate as making the device no more useful than a brick.
Same critique. Maybe it holds four megawatt-hours of power, but holding four megawatts is meaningless.
The ranking program isn't written in C.
Now they just need to make a tool for web articles like this that customizes the UI to just show the article, without all that crap around it.
To add to your pedanticism, it's also not a photograph, as sonar involves sound, not photons.
I'm surprised you clicked on this discussion and replied, given that you aren't interested in anything more about the iPad. Oh well, gotta go and read some discussions about washing dogs, as I have no interested in washing dogs...
The program would have to be spending 100% in memory allocation. But hey, every one of their test programs did so, so it can't be that uncommon!
So the goal is to prove that there are no problems, rather to find whether there are problems? Too bad Feynman isn't around anymore...
See, if the designers of the site had more natural lighting, they wouldn't create such crackpottery!
Sounds like a bad idea, since Windows have lots of security issues. They let all sorts of malthings in, just read the news.
You could always find an Asus Eee PC on eBay and bid $499 for it. I'm sure the seller would be happy to oblige.
Yes, but by keeping it locked down, Apple makes it more usable. The lack of multitasking is a good thing. So it's obvious why you'd want to jailbreak it, so you could put multitasking and unlock it, er... wait, maybe I haven't thought this through.
I came across an early production picture, apparently with the compressed air hose connected.
It's not that there's zero evidence, it's that there's plenty of evidence against that requires critical evaluation. There's plenty of evidence that the sun revolves around Earth, but much more that it doesn't, and it also took a long time before the latter was appreciated.
I was reading Slashdot one evening, I just awoke a few minutes before. Without prior warning a post that seemed like it was going to be interesting blindsided me and got very graphic, displacing my peaceful state. I wished the poster had put some kind of warning.
I think the question is of right, not expectation. But what differentiates between a right and a merely desired-for right? It seems it comes down to the family not feeling OK with the photos being shown to anyone. Is this enough to establish it as a right that one can block usage of any photos of one's offspring, for any reason? Why stop at photos? Maybe we should allow someone to block mention of someone's name, or a color, etc. if it offends someone somewhere.
That would be the first time you drop it on someone's head.
Don't take it or nobody will be able to buy it. Leave a copy at least.
Yeah, well, your reply is below my first one.
You have to think ahead about the towel-folding singularity. Once these robots can design more towel-folding robots, it's all over for us humans. First it'll be 10 minutes to fold a towel, then 5, then 1, then 10 seconds, and then... then, they will overtake us, folding towels in less than a second, and then who knows. We can't even imagine what it will be like at that point.
It's evolved beyond those other languages that don't limit population growth, and later crash due to overconsumption.
You stole my joke. Now you've left me censored.
Now that it's more Intel-based, maybe it will be randomly chosen.
That said, I much prefer the 6502 for its simple and clean instruction set, and the fact that it didn't use any microcode when decoding instructions. It feels like a RISC machine, while the Z-80 feels just like x86, as it's an extension of the 8080, itself not very elegant either. Things like two-byte relative jump instructions are SLOWER than three-byte absolute jumps, for example.
When making a submission, please summarize the facts, and if you have opinions about it, reply in a comment as we common folks do. Your opinion isn't above ours. Thank you.