In the comments of TFA, one of the judges of the fair noted that the kid's presentation looked interesting. It was indeed a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor -- and that the kid stated he wasn't related.
CPUs are magnitudes faster today than they were 10 years ago. Why is it that pages still take seconds to load? Go back 10 years and they still took the same amount of time. Why?
The two major updates so far this week: Google Chrome, which now renders faster, and flickr, which has significantly more complex and larger graphics. As things get able to and display process more, more is asked of them. We aren't targeting 580px wide simple HTML, no CSS and 15 color gifs. Nor are we targeting a single platform and the simple display of information. Even if you're just displaying stuff, if you're doing it right, you're divorcing content from presentation and sending a handful of files for each page: each a solution to a problem that was at one time annoying. Or "solved" poorly with the likes of early Frontpage or Dreamweaver.
They'd likely be in your social circles, too, so you'd catch shit for your evil deed.
Thank goodness that people sending photographs of their genitals to other people don't have any impulsive friends, make poor choices in who to hang out with, or have ever befriended random people on the net and quickly deem them friends.
Teens in particular are well known for making choices based on long term thinking and a strong sense of never engaging in revenge or social warfare. First world schools are a shining beacon on the hill for compassion, empathy and an overwhelming sense of equality and egalitarian concern for the mental well being of others. You are right: these people would never engage in behavior that damaged another peer. Skilled bullies and social climbers are never popular in middle school and high school, and embarrassing events are quickly hushed up.
And yes, if they forget to update the game firmware, that counts as a fault and your winnings will be denied.
I may be wrong, but I believe they do get fined and the fault recorded. Gaming associations are intended to close down establishments who have too many "mistakes" like that.
Now, I have zero experience with the reality. The way the article reads, it seems that the Nevada’s Gaming Control Board swooped in to oversee things closely. The jaded or masturbacynical will see this as "the system is rotten, they are there just to protect the casinos run by the *man*, man!", and the naive will believe government enforcement always works for the innocent person. The reality is somewhere between Goofy and the "we are nihilists" crowd's view, and egregious errors are corrected according to regulations.
Which really hits the thing this article never covered (or I missed it). Sure there's legal prosecution going on now, but were the winnings illegitimate according to the Pennsylvania and Nevada statutes?
And pagers, smartphones, laptops and computers. Which would only have about five customers. Then the PC, which would only have about 250k sales in the first five years. The videogame industry was "dead" when the NES came out, and videogames are only for children. And so are movies about comic book characters. And cartoons on television.
It has nothing to do with "Nerdy". Society simply shifts focus: Calvin Klein revolutionized the prosaic jeans and men's underwear market and turned them into something people would pay decent money for. Popular foods, fashion and social conventions are always changing. Food suddenly starts getting delivered, and a few years later, nobody thinks anything of it. There were newspaper articles warning people never to buy anything off the web, and how internet retail was a fad. Now those newspapers are websites and sending bills to subscribers via email.
Of course people can easily accept Google Glasses, plus the dozens of other companies making them. We got used to the Walkman, and jamming small speakers next to your eardrums and blocking out the outside is far more strange and alienating. Yet it's still common today, through 30 years of changes in what those headphones or earbuds plug in to.
Infrastructure is not the problem - thermodynamics is. Hydrogen is not a source of energy, since there isn't any of it laying around that we can use.
Pick one: fission, fusion, or "Little House on the Prarie" standard of living. Wind and solar fall into the last category, by the way.
Or you can use your nice fission, fusion or orbital solar conversion (which does *not* fall into that last category), and make hydrogen. Why? Because then you have a transportable energy... as opposed to transmittable energy, a la power lines. Vehicles, especially those pesky planes, do poorly with extension cords.
To reproduce modern tech with a new energy source, you need to have a transportable energy "fuel". If you have a solid source of power, you can generate hydrogen and carry it from here to there, using it along the way. You're going to be doing it somehow, since the internal chemistry of rechargeable batteries is basically doing the same thing (making transportable energy). Hydrogen just allows separate (and hopefully more efficient) creation, refueling and use processes, rather than putting it all in the same unit, like a rechargeable battery. You can certainly refill an empty fuel cell faster than recharge an empty battery.
There's no cost for most inquiries (where the cost to the government body to respond is less than £600. It covers the bulk of public bodies. Anyone, anywhere on the world can use it. Replies are expected within 20 business days.
Are you sure you'e not comparing it to Sunshine laws? What you're describing sounds like the already existing set of laws that demand most government bodies operate transparently and have openly available records (often requiring they be available online for instant viewing for free, in more recent updates). The FOIA allows citizens to request sealed and classified information: it is reviewed against a set of very limited criteria, and if it doesn't fit any, it is released. If only portions fit, those parts of the information are struck out and the rest released.
There is some overlap between Sunshine laws and FOIA, and Sunshine laws tend to be State laws, versus FOIA, which is Federal. But most of what government agencies do in the US is already a matter of public record, and has been such from the beginning (in the past resulting in vast libraries of printed material).
Don't worry. The economics of solar and wind will crush gas, natural gas and coal.
But the portability and current infrastructure of petroleum energy is tough to beat. I'd like to see hydrogen do it, but there's still the infrastructure cost to ameliorate -- with the next generation of infrastructure tools likely coming out before the first widely used generation is paid for. It's a tough problem, only easy when you handwave the real concerns (or throw in massively improbable solutions like "we just need to change society", the ultimate universal solvent of non-practical discussions).
Beyond the many parents who have chimed in, I'd be running in the front if my wife were on the plane.
I've been in situations like that. And I've run into some really bad things. It's a powerful instinct. Sure your life is valuable: but if you're living it right, it isn't the most valuable thing in your care.
I wonder how this will eventually change the topology of the net. Is Google implementing a new Tier-1 network down the center of the US?
Pure speculation, as I have zero idea what their backend in these cities look like. But I'm hoping by tossing it out, I'll have either confirmation or a fast assessment that it isn't likely.
I absolutely agree with you. But I'm also not really sure what they need to apologize for. An employee stated an opinion on the net.
true, if said employee is a low level grunt, but when that employee is high level management, don't you think that changes things?
"director something" is very very very far from "high level management" at a company like Microsoft. Somebody else here posted that "creative director" at Microsoft was one small step up from the art school intern, you get to decide both colors and fonts. That is perhaps exaggerating a bit, but closer to truth than calling it a high level management position.
Right, that's how I'm viewing this. I could certainly have the wrong context here (which would change my view). Opportunist replied to my post saying "if it wasn't a clerk, and instead a bank manager" (paraphrased). No, I still wouldn't care if a branch manager was saying stupid things, even related to finance. There are between five thousand and six thousand bank managers at Bank of America. Some of them are going to say things on their private social media that doesn't jibe with BoA policies. That should not be surprising: that should be assumed. Knowing a bit about the finance industry, I wouldn't care if it was a vice-president: there are a ton of those at every bank as well.
I do think that they needed to put out a notice, "He doesn't speak for Microsoft", but that's only because it was being picked up as if he was doing so. Which is disingenuous of the media (including anybody on social media who should have known better).
I absolutely agree with you. But I'm also not really sure what they need to apologize for. An employee stated an opinion on the net.
The opinion might have been stupid, and you might even be able to connect it to prevailing attitudes at Microsoft. That said, I'm not sure what Microsoft actually needs to apologize for, so this whole thing started off on a purely invented media vs. public relations theater footing. Nothing actually apology-worthy was done, so the "apology" being flaccid is unsurprising. At most they could say, "The opinions expressed on private Twitter accounts do not necessarily represent those of Microsoft." Although you kind of have to be fairly naive to think that a private twitter feed spoke for the company. If one employee spouting off in public dictated the official stance, then I can say from experience that Bank of America's corporate policy is that the moon landing was faked, and Burger King officially believes in ghosts.
Then you, long-time/. member JabberWokky, come along and cry "Hypocrisy!" This is apparently based solely on the content of his post and your lack of reading comprehension.
Actually, I didn't cry anything. I just found the message amusing, and replied with that mild amusement. That is all. If I twisted context (and I certainly shaved that quote down to within an picometer of context), it was purely for entertainment value. Lightweight fare, not really worth getting in such a tizzle over. I picture you foaming at the mouth, writing correction letters in a long feather pen to the Onion and Colbert Report every night. In this picture, you are wearing a long red sleeping cap and a monocle.
If you're talking about issues of actual weight, I have no problem with somebody famous who has recently died being attacked. Even personally. I don't know them. Shall I illustrate? I bet he was really good at giving blowjobs right at the end there, what with not having a jaw and all. I wouldn't say that to his family or friends, of course, but this is not a forum where tastelessness is a necessarily bad thing (nor is it likely their family will visit). And by the voting, you'll note that a lighthearted reply is also appreciated by the people who visit Slashdot. I fear the voting on this comment might also demonstrate they like blowjob jokes, but that is the nature of dirty jokes: perpetually popular.
You certainly took a fluff reply personally for some reason. And your tagline says you've found serenity...
(Yes, that tagline comment was a joke. I note this lest you bullet point the Whedonverse to me in a long diatribe about how my minor joke about your tagline is factually incorrect. That was a joke, too. In fact, just print this out, highlight it all in yellow. The yellow bits are silliness.)
So you're against how he attacked somebody immediately following their death. I see. Tell me more about his -- in your words -- "tastelessness and cruelty" he demonstrated by doing so...
Okay, then, what English speaking country uses the word America to refer to the continents, or American to refer to the inhabitants of, say, Brazil?
I'm not being rhetorical... I'm seeing plenty of Canadians popping in and saying "American means somebody from the US; we call ourselves Canadians". I can vouch for the Virgin Islands (US and British) being the same way. It would seem that the common usage is that America is the US, and the citizens are Americans.
I believe there is a touch of hyper-analyzing going on here. People wanting to look scientific use H2O to refer to water. But when my wife publishes her papers, they just call them water molecules, just like all other Molecular Dynamics papers do. It's only when you're trying to be fancy that you get out of using the common terms so long as there isn't a direct ambiguity. In this case there isn't. The Americas refer to the continents, North America refers to one, South America to the other, and America refers to a country.
I use dolphin's synced terminal and file view quite a bit. Some tasks are easier with a mouse (picking out a subset of files by previewing them) and some tasks are easier with a terminal (running imagemagick across a slew of files). Having a terminal integrated into a GUI file manager makes sense. This is simply moving toward the same kind of thing from the other direction, adding these things things in a terminal-focused interface.
I've always liked how Target seems to position their pick up area -- at least in their newer stores. Right by the front, almost a distinct area from the rest of the store. Walk in, take care of business, walk out. They've got a pretty good system for things like wedding registrations where they hand you a scanner, and you can walk through the store, look at items and add them to your list. It's a good position to be in for integrating physical retail into a mixed online/offline retail era.
I'd love to show up, wave a NFC device at a terminal, wait a few minutes and have a couple boxes full of my shopping items, from groceries to USB cables, slid to me to take back to my vehicle. Or, if I want to look at something like clothes in person, walk father into the store and either browse or go right to an item from the website.
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In the comments of TFA, one of the judges of the fair noted that the kid's presentation looked interesting. It was indeed a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor -- and that the kid stated he wasn't related.
I believe this initial release is still Webkit, and that they will move to Blink in future releases. Or so TFA says (could be wrong, of course).
CPUs are magnitudes faster today than they were 10 years ago. Why is it that pages still take seconds to load? Go back 10 years and they still took the same amount of time. Why?
The two major updates so far this week: Google Chrome, which now renders faster, and flickr, which has significantly more complex and larger graphics. As things get able to and display process more, more is asked of them. We aren't targeting 580px wide simple HTML, no CSS and 15 color gifs. Nor are we targeting a single platform and the simple display of information. Even if you're just displaying stuff, if you're doing it right, you're divorcing content from presentation and sending a handful of files for each page: each a solution to a problem that was at one time annoying. Or "solved" poorly with the likes of early Frontpage or Dreamweaver.
Let's not forget about operation Poutine.
I have a feeling that will be the downfall of Canadians in space. Can you imagine gravy covered cheese curds bouncing into equipment in zero-G?
They'd likely be in your social circles, too, so you'd catch shit for your evil deed.
Thank goodness that people sending photographs of their genitals to other people don't have any impulsive friends, make poor choices in who to hang out with, or have ever befriended random people on the net and quickly deem them friends.
Teens in particular are well known for making choices based on long term thinking and a strong sense of never engaging in revenge or social warfare. First world schools are a shining beacon on the hill for compassion, empathy and an overwhelming sense of equality and egalitarian concern for the mental well being of others. You are right: these people would never engage in behavior that damaged another peer. Skilled bullies and social climbers are never popular in middle school and high school, and embarrassing events are quickly hushed up.
And yes, if they forget to update the game firmware, that counts as a fault and your winnings will be denied.
I may be wrong, but I believe they do get fined and the fault recorded. Gaming associations are intended to close down establishments who have too many "mistakes" like that.
Now, I have zero experience with the reality. The way the article reads, it seems that the Nevada’s Gaming Control Board swooped in to oversee things closely. The jaded or masturbacynical will see this as "the system is rotten, they are there just to protect the casinos run by the *man*, man!", and the naive will believe government enforcement always works for the innocent person. The reality is somewhere between Goofy and the "we are nihilists" crowd's view, and egregious errors are corrected according to regulations.
Which really hits the thing this article never covered (or I missed it). Sure there's legal prosecution going on now, but were the winnings illegitimate according to the Pennsylvania and Nevada statutes?
And pagers, smartphones, laptops and computers. Which would only have about five customers. Then the PC, which would only have about 250k sales in the first five years. The videogame industry was "dead" when the NES came out, and videogames are only for children. And so are movies about comic book characters. And cartoons on television.
It has nothing to do with "Nerdy". Society simply shifts focus: Calvin Klein revolutionized the prosaic jeans and men's underwear market and turned them into something people would pay decent money for. Popular foods, fashion and social conventions are always changing. Food suddenly starts getting delivered, and a few years later, nobody thinks anything of it. There were newspaper articles warning people never to buy anything off the web, and how internet retail was a fad. Now those newspapers are websites and sending bills to subscribers via email.
Of course people can easily accept Google Glasses, plus the dozens of other companies making them. We got used to the Walkman, and jamming small speakers next to your eardrums and blocking out the outside is far more strange and alienating. Yet it's still common today, through 30 years of changes in what those headphones or earbuds plug in to.
Infrastructure is not the problem - thermodynamics is. Hydrogen is not a source of energy, since there isn't any of it laying around that we can use.
Pick one: fission, fusion, or "Little House on the Prarie" standard of living. Wind and solar fall into the last category, by the way.
Or you can use your nice fission, fusion or orbital solar conversion (which does *not* fall into that last category), and make hydrogen. Why? Because then you have a transportable energy... as opposed to transmittable energy, a la power lines. Vehicles, especially those pesky planes, do poorly with extension cords.
To reproduce modern tech with a new energy source, you need to have a transportable energy "fuel". If you have a solid source of power, you can generate hydrogen and carry it from here to there, using it along the way. You're going to be doing it somehow, since the internal chemistry of rechargeable batteries is basically doing the same thing (making transportable energy). Hydrogen just allows separate (and hopefully more efficient) creation, refueling and use processes, rather than putting it all in the same unit, like a rechargeable battery. You can certainly refill an empty fuel cell faster than recharge an empty battery.
There's no cost for most inquiries (where the cost to the government body to respond is less than £600. It covers the bulk of public bodies. Anyone, anywhere on the world can use it. Replies are expected within 20 business days.
Are you sure you'e not comparing it to Sunshine laws? What you're describing sounds like the already existing set of laws that demand most government bodies operate transparently and have openly available records (often requiring they be available online for instant viewing for free, in more recent updates). The FOIA allows citizens to request sealed and classified information: it is reviewed against a set of very limited criteria, and if it doesn't fit any, it is released. If only portions fit, those parts of the information are struck out and the rest released.
There is some overlap between Sunshine laws and FOIA, and Sunshine laws tend to be State laws, versus FOIA, which is Federal. But most of what government agencies do in the US is already a matter of public record, and has been such from the beginning (in the past resulting in vast libraries of printed material).
We could simply rename the enzyme.
Hey, it worked for Rapeseed oil: when they cultivated it, they renamed it Canola oil.
Don't worry. The economics of solar and wind will crush gas, natural gas and coal.
But the portability and current infrastructure of petroleum energy is tough to beat. I'd like to see hydrogen do it, but there's still the infrastructure cost to ameliorate -- with the next generation of infrastructure tools likely coming out before the first widely used generation is paid for. It's a tough problem, only easy when you handwave the real concerns (or throw in massively improbable solutions like "we just need to change society", the ultimate universal solvent of non-practical discussions).
Considering CCP owns White Wolf[1], wouldn't it be better to compare it to Kindred: the Embraced?
[1] - Yes, I know about Onyx Path, and Rich and Eddy and everything, let's keep it simple; ruleslight as it were.
Yes. It will be hard. You are talking about becoming a gatekeeper of quality and trust. There should not be a short cut to make it easy.
That's kind of the point.
Now that this is a fairly old Slashdot post, I'll toss in a quick thank you for the information.
Beyond the many parents who have chimed in, I'd be running in the front if my wife were on the plane.
I've been in situations like that. And I've run into some really bad things. It's a powerful instinct. Sure your life is valuable: but if you're living it right, it isn't the most valuable thing in your care.
I wonder how this will eventually change the topology of the net. Is Google implementing a new Tier-1 network down the center of the US?
Pure speculation, as I have zero idea what their backend in these cities look like. But I'm hoping by tossing it out, I'll have either confirmation or a fast assessment that it isn't likely.
I absolutely agree with you. But I'm also not really sure what they need to apologize for. An employee stated an opinion on the net.
true, if said employee is a low level grunt, but when that employee is high level management, don't you think that changes things?
"director something" is very very very far from "high level management" at a company like Microsoft. Somebody else here posted that "creative director" at Microsoft was one small step up from the art school intern, you get to decide both colors and fonts. That is perhaps exaggerating a bit, but closer to truth than calling it a high level management position.
Right, that's how I'm viewing this. I could certainly have the wrong context here (which would change my view). Opportunist replied to my post saying "if it wasn't a clerk, and instead a bank manager" (paraphrased). No, I still wouldn't care if a branch manager was saying stupid things, even related to finance. There are between five thousand and six thousand bank managers at Bank of America. Some of them are going to say things on their private social media that doesn't jibe with BoA policies. That should not be surprising: that should be assumed. Knowing a bit about the finance industry, I wouldn't care if it was a vice-president: there are a ton of those at every bank as well.
I do think that they needed to put out a notice, "He doesn't speak for Microsoft", but that's only because it was being picked up as if he was doing so. Which is disingenuous of the media (including anybody on social media who should have known better).
I absolutely agree with you. But I'm also not really sure what they need to apologize for. An employee stated an opinion on the net.
The opinion might have been stupid, and you might even be able to connect it to prevailing attitudes at Microsoft. That said, I'm not sure what Microsoft actually needs to apologize for, so this whole thing started off on a purely invented media vs. public relations theater footing. Nothing actually apology-worthy was done, so the "apology" being flaccid is unsurprising. At most they could say, "The opinions expressed on private Twitter accounts do not necessarily represent those of Microsoft." Although you kind of have to be fairly naive to think that a private twitter feed spoke for the company. If one employee spouting off in public dictated the official stance, then I can say from experience that Bank of America's corporate policy is that the moon landing was faked, and Burger King officially believes in ghosts.
Then you, long-time /. member JabberWokky, come along and cry "Hypocrisy!" This is apparently based solely on the content of his post and your lack of reading comprehension.
Actually, I didn't cry anything. I just found the message amusing, and replied with that mild amusement. That is all. If I twisted context (and I certainly shaved that quote down to within an picometer of context), it was purely for entertainment value. Lightweight fare, not really worth getting in such a tizzle over. I picture you foaming at the mouth, writing correction letters in a long feather pen to the Onion and Colbert Report every night. In this picture, you are wearing a long red sleeping cap and a monocle.
If you're talking about issues of actual weight, I have no problem with somebody famous who has recently died being attacked. Even personally. I don't know them. Shall I illustrate? I bet he was really good at giving blowjobs right at the end there, what with not having a jaw and all. I wouldn't say that to his family or friends, of course, but this is not a forum where tastelessness is a necessarily bad thing (nor is it likely their family will visit). And by the voting, you'll note that a lighthearted reply is also appreciated by the people who visit Slashdot. I fear the voting on this comment might also demonstrate they like blowjob jokes, but that is the nature of dirty jokes: perpetually popular.
You certainly took a fluff reply personally for some reason. And your tagline says you've found serenity...
(Yes, that tagline comment was a joke. I note this lest you bullet point the Whedonverse to me in a long diatribe about how my minor joke about your tagline is factually incorrect. That was a joke, too. In fact, just print this out, highlight it all in yellow. The yellow bits are silliness.)
So you're against how he attacked somebody immediately following their death. I see. Tell me more about his -- in your words -- "tastelessness and cruelty" he demonstrated by doing so...
In a word... Tachyons!
You mean those hypothetical particles that modern physics generally does not support as actually existing?
Charliemopps was talking science. If you're going to go science fiction, might as well invoke something like Andromeda's Slipstream.
Okay, then, what English speaking country uses the word America to refer to the continents, or American to refer to the inhabitants of, say, Brazil?
I'm not being rhetorical... I'm seeing plenty of Canadians popping in and saying "American means somebody from the US; we call ourselves Canadians". I can vouch for the Virgin Islands (US and British) being the same way. It would seem that the common usage is that America is the US, and the citizens are Americans.
I believe there is a touch of hyper-analyzing going on here. People wanting to look scientific use H2O to refer to water. But when my wife publishes her papers, they just call them water molecules, just like all other Molecular Dynamics papers do. It's only when you're trying to be fancy that you get out of using the common terms so long as there isn't a direct ambiguity. In this case there isn't. The Americas refer to the continents, North America refers to one, South America to the other, and America refers to a country.
If people are discussing options, I'll toss out Zim: a nice python GTK+ personal wiki with a simple basic interface and lots of plugins for features.
I use dolphin's synced terminal and file view quite a bit. Some tasks are easier with a mouse (picking out a subset of files by previewing them) and some tasks are easier with a terminal (running imagemagick across a slew of files). Having a terminal integrated into a GUI file manager makes sense. This is simply moving toward the same kind of thing from the other direction, adding these things things in a terminal-focused interface.
I've always liked how Target seems to position their pick up area -- at least in their newer stores. Right by the front, almost a distinct area from the rest of the store. Walk in, take care of business, walk out. They've got a pretty good system for things like wedding registrations where they hand you a scanner, and you can walk through the store, look at items and add them to your list. It's a good position to be in for integrating physical retail into a mixed online/offline retail era.
I'd love to show up, wave a NFC device at a terminal, wait a few minutes and have a couple boxes full of my shopping items, from groceries to USB cables, slid to me to take back to my vehicle. Or, if I want to look at something like clothes in person, walk father into the store and either browse or go right to an item from the website.