sometimes: adv., when they aren't illegally dumping it: Sometimes the gas producers dispose of this fracking wastewater by sending it to treatment plants that deal with sewage and water from other industrial sources.
Google Reader was the last web app I use, and Google decided to cement the reason why I moved to local apps in the first place. So with Google finally abandoning me and fellow Reader users, what Linux replacements are there? I'm trying out Liferea at the moment, going to see how that works out.
The default calculator for Cyanogenmod is surprisingly good, like all of the default apps on it. Interestingly, it can do 2x2 matrix operations as well. (Although it isn't a replacement for a hardcore graphing/scientific calculator.)
Call me ignorant, but the recent wave of Java bugs, are they Oracle implementation bugs, or problems with the Java specification? Are OpenJDK/IcedTea affected?
This just goes to show how intelligent the average Apple user is. The only resemblence is part of the name (The Apple Shop vs. Apple store, almost 50% difference there), and in context, I simply can't fathom how one would mistake a cider store for a "hipster" tech store. You'd think if I put a sign that said "Free iPhones" next to a 50m deep pit with spikes, I'd a hefty body collection in a day or two.
Can you sue a company for having a consumer base with lower-than-average intelligence and disrupting business as an unfair act of subterfuge?
We've created a completely, utterly useless specification that every single (mainstream) browser now implements as a feature. In all, countless megabytes (gigabytes?) and countless manhours and processing-hours have been wasted, all for the sake of doing nothing.
Of course, anyone with half a brain saw this coming.
There's no law of preservation of heat, only preservation of energy. Presumably, part of the heat energy is transformed into light, and part of it is stored into the reactant products. Think of those portable heat packs. "If the pack itself is at room temperature, where does the heat come from?" Also, heat != temperature.
But in all seriousness, even the summary says that this only applies to a species as a whole. Even if there was a hard quota on how many heartbeats you had, there's no point saving up your heartbeats not exercising just to die early from a heart attack.
I'd imagine. If you asked me, just a random person, to design nuclear plant failsafes, the first thing I would say would be to install a hard mechanical failsafe where if temperatures exceed a certain point, all control rods plus emergency control rod/lead reaction shield are dropped automatically. No computers, no electricity, nothing, if the temperatures hit that point, the plant is shutting down.
Yes, any and all authentication methods have a vulnerability. This is unavoidable. The point is to balance security with ease of use. As it is now, the password system provides a low level of security (arbitrary password length limits coupled with human inability to make new passwords) and low ease of use (hard to remember and keep track of so many passwords across so many domains (e-mail, website, video game, applications, etc.). The solution was password managers, which is essentially the same as what is being talking about here: have one point of authentication which is then properly secured (two-factor, etc.). Which is more secure, having passwords some 90% of which can be cracked with a 1000-long list, or having to steal each person's key individually?
Although personally, I'd prefere password managers since I don't have to rely on Google for Yet Another Thing.
It won't be long when we start getting neural-computer implants. What then, when computer assistance becomes part of ourselves? Chess as a game will be beneath us (though some may still play, neural linkers off, for fun). Hopefully we'll be able to find a strategy game suited to our levels.
I personally don't see the point playing a mechanically simple game, handicapping ourselves by removing computers. We ARE our tools, more than any other species. I would much rather see a mechanically superior game that requires computer assistance to play well. Just imagine: different players relying on different computer helpers, and even some players playing specifically to trip up certain algorithms. That'll leave us to do what we do best: using our tools to maximum effect and in creative ways, as opposed to memorizing a bunch of openings and situations and trying to think algorithmically many moves ahead (which is what chess demands).
I'm not sure how Watson's AI is designed, but couldn't they install a "spank" switch, and whenever it used profanity, hit it? (for the literal-minded, dynamically decrement a "this combination of words/data/semantic units is bad" counter.) I'm pretty sure that's how (active?) machine learning works, in a nutshell, though it's been a while since AI 101.
No, it isn't. There's no reason why a Hello Word program NEEDS to declare classes, methods, or functions. That's obviously overhead forced by the particular language.
"Until a 15 year old student, Neil Ibata, working with his father at the astronomic observatory wanted to check it out."
From TFA, "Neil Ibata said he completed work experience with his father’s team to learn about the computer programming language Python.
He told the newspaper Le Monde his father asked him to help out with the coding, and they completed the remarkable modelling within the space of a weekend in September."
My guess is "Boy, aren't you learning Python? C'mere and help me write this for loop" I'm sure half the people here could've wrote a program according to an already-written design when they were 15.
Neither does a hard drive, and a hard drive can store MUCH more data, it's not even comparable. Now, you need a computer to read it, but don't you need light to read a book?
You can buy them used without DRM
You can get ebooks without DRM, and you can replicate and distribute them infinitely. Can you do that with a physical book? Nope.
They smell interesting
...Oookay. Whatever floats your boat.
Old books have their own story aside from what is printed in them
True, but everything has a story. Even ebooks (well, DRM free ebooks anyway). Maybe it was passed around piratebay (hopefully legally). Maybe someone edited it a little before passing it on. Someone ripped it to text, translated it, signed it with PGP key, etc. etc. Another guy saw some typos and fixed them. And so on. There's no reason why electronic books have less "history" than paper ones.
Each book feels different
I suppose I'll let this one slide.
Do not require infrastructure to maintain
Oh yeah? Leave a book outside and see how long it'll last. Books require a LOT of special infrastructure to maintain: acid-free paper, acid-free ink, stringent temperature and humidity control, and most importantly, lots of SPACE. On the other hand, as long as a hard drive is kept online, you don't need too much maintenance, and unlike paper books, can easily be copied thousands of times to thousands of separate hard drives, and even with hundreds of redundant copies, still takes up less physical space.
I don't have to buy something to reads my book- I just buy the book, the "reader" is free.
Arguably not so. Everything has an initial cost. There's a lot of upfront cost to be able to read a book: you have to learn the language, learn to read written text, possibly invest in a light, dictionary, bookmark or magnifier, as well as have a place to keep the book, as well as a way to carry the book around if you travel. Now, you can argue that the upfront cost for ebooks is greater, but the marginal benefit-to-cost ratio is much higher.
While an e-book is technically the same thing, content wise, the *experience* of reading a book is something that cannot be duplicated.
Neither can reading a paper book duplicate the experience of reading an e-book.
A large, LARGE portion of the population apparently agrees.
There's a logical fallacy here. Just because you don't like/buy ebooks because of these reasons, doesn't mean everyone who doesn't buy ebooks agrees.
Touchtyping is a breeze as they keyboard remains in your peripheral vision
Do you know what touchtyping means? It means typing using touch, not vision. That's called "hunting for keys" or "pecking". There's a reason people take courses for touchtyping, and not "pecking".
Typing at a steady pace gives you time to consider your words and boosts creativity.
That's a common misunderstanding. It's like saying "programmers spend a lot of time thinking so having an extremely powerful editor doesn't save time". Time wasted typing is NOT time spent thinking creatively.
If you struggle, it's because you haven't used it enough. You were terrible with a regular keyboard when you first starting using those too.
Indeed. A carpenter learns to use his tools well with experience and time. Try convincing one to replace his claw hammer with a rock and toothpick. "If you struggle, it's because you haven't used it enough. You were terrible with the hammer when you first started using it too."
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sometimes: adv., when they aren't illegally dumping it: Sometimes the gas producers dispose of this fracking wastewater by sending it to treatment plants that deal with sewage and water from other industrial sources.
I'm no expert, but perhaps you're just spouting FUD? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation
Google Reader was the last web app I use, and Google decided to cement the reason why I moved to local apps in the first place. So with Google finally abandoning me and fellow Reader users, what Linux replacements are there? I'm trying out Liferea at the moment, going to see how that works out.
Sayonara Google, it's been fun.
The default calculator for Cyanogenmod is surprisingly good, like all of the default apps on it. Interestingly, it can do 2x2 matrix operations as well. (Although it isn't a replacement for a hardcore graphing/scientific calculator.)
That's genius. Must be a pain to grade though.
Bring out... THE JOKE.
Call me ignorant, but the recent wave of Java bugs, are they Oracle implementation bugs, or problems with the Java specification? Are OpenJDK/IcedTea affected?
This just goes to show how intelligent the average Apple user is. The only resemblence is part of the name (The Apple Shop vs. Apple store, almost 50% difference there), and in context, I simply can't fathom how one would mistake a cider store for a "hipster" tech store. You'd think if I put a sign that said "Free iPhones" next to a 50m deep pit with spikes, I'd a hefty body collection in a day or two.
Can you sue a company for having a consumer base with lower-than-average intelligence and disrupting business as an unfair act of subterfuge?
They are in fact triplets and the triplet no one heard about, not even these two, actually committed the crime!
Call me if you want to sign a publishing deal.
We've created a completely, utterly useless specification that every single (mainstream) browser now implements as a feature. In all, countless megabytes (gigabytes?) and countless manhours and processing-hours have been wasted, all for the sake of doing nothing.
Of course, anyone with half a brain saw this coming.
Why do we have soldiers fly drones anyway? I imagine gamers would do a MUCH better job with the drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLIaZUOnBU
There's no law of preservation of heat, only preservation of energy. Presumably, part of the heat energy is transformed into light, and part of it is stored into the reactant products. Think of those portable heat packs. "If the pack itself is at room temperature, where does the heat come from?" Also, heat != temperature.
Ditto.
But in all seriousness, even the summary says that this only applies to a species as a whole. Even if there was a hard quota on how many heartbeats you had, there's no point saving up your heartbeats not exercising just to die early from a heart attack.
I'd imagine. If you asked me, just a random person, to design nuclear plant failsafes, the first thing I would say would be to install a hard mechanical failsafe where if temperatures exceed a certain point, all control rods plus emergency control rod/lead reaction shield are dropped automatically. No computers, no electricity, nothing, if the temperatures hit that point, the plant is shutting down.
Yes, any and all authentication methods have a vulnerability. This is unavoidable. The point is to balance security with ease of use. As it is now, the password system provides a low level of security (arbitrary password length limits coupled with human inability to make new passwords) and low ease of use (hard to remember and keep track of so many passwords across so many domains (e-mail, website, video game, applications, etc.). The solution was password managers, which is essentially the same as what is being talking about here: have one point of authentication which is then properly secured (two-factor, etc.). Which is more secure, having passwords some 90% of which can be cracked with a 1000-long list, or having to steal each person's key individually?
Although personally, I'd prefere password managers since I don't have to rely on Google for Yet Another Thing.
It won't be long when we start getting neural-computer implants. What then, when computer assistance becomes part of ourselves? Chess as a game will be beneath us (though some may still play, neural linkers off, for fun). Hopefully we'll be able to find a strategy game suited to our levels.
I personally don't see the point playing a mechanically simple game, handicapping ourselves by removing computers. We ARE our tools, more than any other species. I would much rather see a mechanically superior game that requires computer assistance to play well. Just imagine: different players relying on different computer helpers, and even some players playing specifically to trip up certain algorithms. That'll leave us to do what we do best: using our tools to maximum effect and in creative ways, as opposed to memorizing a bunch of openings and situations and trying to think algorithmically many moves ahead (which is what chess demands).
https://xkcd.com/221/ So you don't fall for this.
Someone give this AC a cookie and a +1 Insightful.
I'm not sure how Watson's AI is designed, but couldn't they install a "spank" switch, and whenever it used profanity, hit it? (for the literal-minded, dynamically decrement a "this combination of words/data/semantic units is bad" counter.) I'm pretty sure that's how (active?) machine learning works, in a nutshell, though it's been a while since AI 101.
Is Watson a tsundere, then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan
No, it isn't. There's no reason why a Hello Word program NEEDS to declare classes, methods, or functions. That's obviously overhead forced by the particular language.
Um, the linux kernel is one line, too. Just sed away all the newlines. Your argument is invalid.
Hello World in Java (one line):
public class Test { public static void main(Strings[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World"); } }
Hello World in Python (one line):
print("Hello World")
I think Java keeps it to a minimum
Interesting definition of minimum you've got there. Are you using the same dictionary our politicians are using?
"Until a 15 year old student, Neil Ibata, working with his father at the astronomic observatory wanted to check it out."
From TFA, "Neil Ibata said he completed work experience with his father’s team to learn about the computer programming language Python.
He told the newspaper Le Monde his father asked him to help out with the coding, and they completed the remarkable modelling within the space of a weekend in September."
My guess is "Boy, aren't you learning Python? C'mere and help me write this for loop" I'm sure half the people here could've wrote a program according to an already-written design when they were 15.
They don't need batteries
Neither does a hard drive, and a hard drive can store MUCH more data, it's not even comparable. Now, you need a computer to read it, but don't you need light to read a book?
You can buy them used without DRM
You can get ebooks without DRM, and you can replicate and distribute them infinitely. Can you do that with a physical book? Nope.
They smell interesting
...Oookay. Whatever floats your boat.
Old books have their own story aside from what is printed in them
True, but everything has a story. Even ebooks (well, DRM free ebooks anyway). Maybe it was passed around piratebay (hopefully legally). Maybe someone edited it a little before passing it on. Someone ripped it to text, translated it, signed it with PGP key, etc. etc. Another guy saw some typos and fixed them. And so on. There's no reason why electronic books have less "history" than paper ones.
Each book feels different
I suppose I'll let this one slide.
Do not require infrastructure to maintain
Oh yeah? Leave a book outside and see how long it'll last. Books require a LOT of special infrastructure to maintain: acid-free paper, acid-free ink, stringent temperature and humidity control, and most importantly, lots of SPACE. On the other hand, as long as a hard drive is kept online, you don't need too much maintenance, and unlike paper books, can easily be copied thousands of times to thousands of separate hard drives, and even with hundreds of redundant copies, still takes up less physical space.
I don't have to buy something to reads my book- I just buy the book, the "reader" is free.
Arguably not so. Everything has an initial cost. There's a lot of upfront cost to be able to read a book: you have to learn the language, learn to read written text, possibly invest in a light, dictionary, bookmark or magnifier, as well as have a place to keep the book, as well as a way to carry the book around if you travel. Now, you can argue that the upfront cost for ebooks is greater, but the marginal benefit-to-cost ratio is much higher.
While an e-book is technically the same thing, content wise, the *experience* of reading a book is something that cannot be duplicated.
Neither can reading a paper book duplicate the experience of reading an e-book.
A large, LARGE portion of the population apparently agrees.
There's a logical fallacy here. Just because you don't like/buy ebooks because of these reasons, doesn't mean everyone who doesn't buy ebooks agrees.
Touchtyping is a breeze as they keyboard remains in your peripheral vision
Do you know what touchtyping means? It means typing using touch, not vision. That's called "hunting for keys" or "pecking". There's a reason people take courses for touchtyping, and not "pecking".
Typing at a steady pace gives you time to consider your words and boosts creativity.
That's a common misunderstanding. It's like saying "programmers spend a lot of time thinking so having an extremely powerful editor doesn't save time". Time wasted typing is NOT time spent thinking creatively.
If you struggle, it's because you haven't used it enough. You were terrible with a regular keyboard when you first starting using those too.
Indeed. A carpenter learns to use his tools well with experience and time. Try convincing one to replace his claw hammer with a rock and toothpick. "If you struggle, it's because you haven't used it enough. You were terrible with the hammer when you first started using it too."