What the hell is this rebooting you speak of? I thought Macs were Unix-based? You only reboot when you install new hardware or when you do a kernel update. (I should add that on a random-joe-system, kernel updates should be pretty infrequent since they don't need bleeding edge kernels). This sounds not much better than windows, IMHO.
Also, I wonder how Apple, the paragon of UI design, has never been able to implement a good window manager? It makes my eyes bleed every time I try to place Firefox and a terminal window side-by-side on a friends machine.
There are problems with MOND indeed. Take a look at the predicted power spectrum of matter: http://i.imgur.com/Ouwin.png
Here the Cold Dark Matter model fits experimental results exactly, while MOND is way off.
(Stolen from http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.1320v1 which is a good review of CDM vs MOND.)
Care to explain what vim in laptop-mode is? (Genuinely interested)
As an aside, I once used vim to take notes in LaTeX from a quantum field theory lecture. Even with vim-latex, shorthand and lots of custom macros, it needed about 5 mins of fixing afterwards to make it compile, and I have never worked so hard at typing in my entire life. (It was a bet against one of my classmates that it would be impossible to take "live" notes in LaTeX. I won.) Moral of the story: if equations are involved, you need a stylus, or just use pencil and paper.
I never said there was a global ban, just a sharp reduction
in use. Wikipedia supports this, and adds
that malaria infections were reduced by
60% in Ecuador when the country started
increasing DDT usage again.
Also, I said tens of thousands, not millions. As the WHO points
out in its 2008 report, there are 800 000 deaths yearly from malaria,
so a 5-10% increase is hardly unlikely.
Look, I'm not some anti-global-warming-nut,
I'm just pointing out an unintended negative consequence
of environmentalism.
Actually, here in Norway, the consumer watchdog has already decided that Apple has been misleading in their advertising of the iPad as 4G. Last time I checked, Norway was in Europe.
There are even worse examples than that. "Silent Spring" caused huge reduction in the use of DDT as a pesticide, as it reported environmental consequences along with some studies linking it to cancer. Of those studies, one had design errors and the others people haven't been able to reproduce. Meanwhile, the reduced use of DDT in Africa and South America caused a huge increase in deaths from malaria, projected to be in the tens of thousands. Countries where malaria is a problem are now starting to use DDT again, and are seing malaria infection rates drop dramatically. Meanwhile, Americans are happy because the population of their national bird has increased.
Why can't it have wifi? It's much easier than dealing with a new card for every new magazine. I have newspaper subscriptions on my Kindle that automagically sync over wifi every morning, and I still get 3 weeks on a single charge. Mind you, I turn on wifi, sync, and then turn off wifi. This takes about as much time as making my cup of coffee.
Also, IMO, sturdiness is not the problem with current e-readers. My Kindle (in a cover) has survived 1.5 years of being tossed around in my backpack with books, water bottles, etc. The problem is that you want a large screen to read on, but a small device to put in your bag. That is the issue these screens may solve.
Alright, let me clarify what I meant. In fusion, the main factors in determining the reaction speed is the energy and the density. While the energy is comparable in the sun and a hydrogen bomb, the density is 2 orders of magnitude higher in a hydrogen bomb than at the sun's core. The tunneling probability is exponentially sensitive to the density; so sensitive that a third of the way out from the sun's core, fusion can no longer happen. This means that those 2 orders of magnitude are translated into 20 orders of magnitude slower explosion. At that point, I wouldn't call it an explosion.
Just to highlight this point: the power production per volume at the sun's core is 280 W/m^3. This is less than for a human being, it's roughly the same power as a crocodile produces per volume.
TL;DR: You're saying that the smoldering pile of flour on my kitchen bench is exactly like a dust explosion. I beg to differ.
Scientists are currently trying, albeit with somewhat smaller objects than a person. What you should understand is that the tunneling probability is exponentially damped in both the width of the barrier and the size of the object.
Already for a hydrogen nucleus tunneling through the (electrostatic) potential barrier presented by another hydrogen nucleus, the probability is around 10^-30 (if memory serves correctly). This fact is what keeps the sun burning for billions of years, and not exploding like a hydrogen bomb in a split second, since it limits the rate of fusion processes in the sun.
You don't even need a motor, you can construct the tracker movement like a huge swiss clock. Some cogs, pins, belts, and a ~50 kg weight that you pull up every morning. Virtually bullet-proof, perfect in third world countries where motors are likely to be cannibalized or break down and not get repaired. (Disclaimer: not my idea, I saw someone testing such a device last summer.)
something that can talk to the OBD2 Bluetooth dongle I have for my car. Not exactly your Angry Birds of smartphone apps.
You mean something like Torque on Android, with over 10^6 installs? Or Garmin Mechanic, with around 2*10^5 installs? There are hundreds of these apps on Android, and it is fair to say they are very popular. If WP7 lacks such apps, then either WP7 has few developers, or it is a pain in the **s developing a WP7 app that makes the phone interface with something else. Or knowing MS, it could be both of the above.
If Linux had the market share, there would need to be a way to install programs and games from other than the distro repos.
You mean like, say, `./configure; make; sudo make install` ? Or maybe `python setup.py install`? Or even converting.deb to.rpm with alien?
Sure, there are no gui frontends, but if that was a popular request, Nautilus and other file managers would quickly gain support for just double-clicking stuff to install.
TL;DR: Troll harder.
Personal favourite: If you have machines on a LAN that are only exposed to that LAN, but there is one "gateway" machine that you can ssh to from the internet: use ProxyCommand, and you can ssh "directly" to the machines on the LAN even from the internet! Put the following in your.ssh/config:
Host gate1
Hostname 128.141.81.163
User joe
Host local12
Hostname 192.168.1.12
User joe
ProxyCommand ssh -e none gate1 exec netcat -w 5 %h %p
You can now ssh to "local12" just by typing "ssh local12", whether you are on the LAN or not.
Meanwhile, with my Mythbuntu-based media center, it takes me about that long to torrent the same movie. Next time I want to watch it, 5 seconds. And I can do it all (including searching and adding torrents) from my Android phone, without even getting out of the sofa.
You might want to look at this article from the arXiv blog. The authors of the paper basically say that for some values of consumer and seller reaction times to a change in pump price, a cartel-like behavior can emerge in the system without any actual conspiracy.
I'm not saying definitely that is what you're seeing, but it is an interesting suggestion.
(Note: assuming that you are defending capitalism; not
expressly stated in your post, but implied.)
I find it funny how people defending capitalism
have had to fall back on the same argument
as used in favor of communism - "True x-ism
has never existed, so you can't say it has failed".
Yes, the outrage! Imagine having to buy a new $12 case every time I buy a new $600 dollar phone!
Also, I find it funny that iPhone users, who are adamant that they care about design, thin-ness and aesthetics are perfectly happy wrapping their phones in ugly (preferrably shock-pink) rubber cases (or "bumpers") that make them twice as thick. iPhones are the only ones I see in such cases.
Mod parent up! The current "micro-SIM" thing is just Apple trying to make it hard to switch from iPhones to Android. Easily defeated by a $2 plastic part from ebay. I see nothing that this "nano-SIM" brings to the table that would benefit the consumer.
They don't even need to do it that advanced. Just keep the existing system, and tell people "County $x can log in today to see their tax returns, county $y can log in tomorrow, etc." Even if they didn't actually have a system blocking a person in county $y from logging in today, it would fix most of the traffic problem. People mainly do as they are told.
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What the hell is this rebooting you speak of? I thought Macs were Unix-based? You only reboot when you install new hardware or when you do a kernel update. (I should add that on a random-joe-system, kernel updates should be pretty infrequent since they don't need bleeding edge kernels). This sounds not much better than windows, IMHO.
Also, I wonder how Apple, the paragon of UI design, has never been able to implement a good window manager? It makes my eyes bleed every time I try to place Firefox and a terminal window side-by-side on a friends machine.
Then obviously you have never dabbled in quantum field theory, where praying away infinities is how we roll.
There are problems with MOND indeed. Take a look at the predicted power spectrum of matter: http://i.imgur.com/Ouwin.png
Here the Cold Dark Matter model fits experimental results exactly, while MOND is way off.
(Stolen from http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.1320v1 which is a good review of CDM vs MOND.)
Care to explain what vim in laptop-mode is? (Genuinely interested)
As an aside, I once used vim to take notes in LaTeX from a quantum field theory lecture. Even with vim-latex, shorthand and lots of custom macros, it needed about 5 mins of fixing afterwards to make it compile, and I have never worked so hard at typing in my entire life. (It was a bet against one of my classmates that it would be impossible to take "live" notes in LaTeX. I won.) Moral of the story: if equations are involved, you need a stylus, or just use pencil and paper.
I never said there was a global ban, just a sharp reduction in use. Wikipedia supports this, and adds that malaria infections were reduced by 60% in Ecuador when the country started increasing DDT usage again. Also, I said tens of thousands, not millions. As the WHO points out in its 2008 report, there are 800 000 deaths yearly from malaria, so a 5-10% increase is hardly unlikely.
Look, I'm not some anti-global-warming-nut, I'm just pointing out an unintended negative consequence of environmentalism.
Actually, here in Norway, the consumer watchdog has already decided that Apple has been misleading in their advertising of the iPad as 4G. Last time I checked, Norway was in Europe.
Mod this up!! OP can't get any better advice than from the American Medical Association...
There are even worse examples than that. "Silent Spring" caused huge reduction in the use of DDT as a pesticide, as it reported environmental consequences along with some studies linking it to cancer. Of those studies, one had design errors and the others people haven't been able to reproduce. Meanwhile, the reduced use of DDT in Africa and South America caused a huge increase in deaths from malaria, projected to be in the tens of thousands. Countries where malaria is a problem are now starting to use DDT again, and are seing malaria infection rates drop dramatically. Meanwhile, Americans are happy because the population of their national bird has increased.
Why can't it have wifi? It's much easier than dealing with a new card for every new magazine. I have newspaper subscriptions on my Kindle that automagically sync over wifi every morning, and I still get 3 weeks on a single charge. Mind you, I turn on wifi, sync, and then turn off wifi. This takes about as much time as making my cup of coffee.
Also, IMO, sturdiness is not the problem with current e-readers. My Kindle (in a cover) has survived 1.5 years of being tossed around in my backpack with books, water bottles, etc. The problem is that you want a large screen to read on, but a small device to put in your bag. That is the issue these screens may solve.
Alright, let me clarify what I meant. In fusion, the main factors in determining the reaction speed is the energy and the density. While the energy is comparable in the sun and a hydrogen bomb, the density is 2 orders of magnitude higher in a hydrogen bomb than at the sun's core. The tunneling probability is exponentially sensitive to the density; so sensitive that a third of the way out from the sun's core, fusion can no longer happen. This means that those 2 orders of magnitude are translated into 20 orders of magnitude slower explosion. At that point, I wouldn't call it an explosion.
Just to highlight this point: the power production per volume at the sun's core is 280 W/m^3. This is less than for a human being, it's roughly the same power as a crocodile produces per volume.
TL;DR: You're saying that the smoldering pile of flour on my kitchen bench is exactly like a dust explosion. I beg to differ.
Scientists are currently trying, albeit with somewhat smaller objects than a person. What you should understand is that the tunneling probability is exponentially damped in both the width of the barrier and the size of the object.
Already for a hydrogen nucleus tunneling through the (electrostatic) potential barrier presented by another hydrogen nucleus, the probability is around 10^-30 (if memory serves correctly). This fact is what keeps the sun burning for billions of years, and not exploding like a hydrogen bomb in a split second, since it limits the rate of fusion processes in the sun.
Sure, I'm not saying he's necessarily wrong, just that he stands to benefit from saying this. And I don't doubt his credentials, either.
Clarke is currently Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, a strategic planning and corporate risk management firm;
Nothing like spreading FUD when your dayjob is selling "risk management".
You don't even need a motor, you can construct the tracker movement like a huge swiss clock. Some cogs, pins, belts, and a ~50 kg weight that you pull up every morning. Virtually bullet-proof, perfect in third world countries where motors are likely to be cannibalized or break down and not get repaired. (Disclaimer: not my idea, I saw someone testing such a device last summer.)
something that can talk to the OBD2 Bluetooth dongle I have for my car. Not exactly your Angry Birds of smartphone apps.
You mean something like Torque on Android, with over 10^6 installs? Or Garmin Mechanic, with around 2*10^5 installs? There are hundreds of these apps on Android, and it is fair to say they are very popular. If WP7 lacks such apps, then either WP7 has few developers, or it is a pain in the **s developing a WP7 app that makes the phone interface with something else. Or knowing MS, it could be both of the above.
If Linux had the market share, there would need to be a way to install programs and games from other than the distro repos.
You mean like, say, `./configure; make; sudo make install` ? Or maybe `python setup.py install`? Or even converting .deb to .rpm with alien?
Sure, there are no gui frontends, but if that was a popular request, Nautilus and other file managers would quickly gain support for just double-clicking stuff to install.
TL;DR: Troll harder.
I clicked this article just to see how far up the Santorum jokes were. Guess it was too obvious, huh?
Host gate1
Hostname 128.141.81.163
User joe
Host local12
Hostname 192.168.1.12
User joe
ProxyCommand ssh -e none gate1 exec netcat -w 5 %h %p
You can now ssh to "local12" just by typing "ssh local12", whether you are on the LAN or not.
Meanwhile, with my Mythbuntu-based media center, it takes me about that long to torrent the same movie. Next time I want to watch it, 5 seconds. And I can do it all (including searching and adding torrents) from my Android phone, without even getting out of the sofa.
You might want to look at this article from the arXiv blog. The authors of the paper basically say that for some values of consumer and seller reaction times to a change in pump price, a cartel-like behavior can emerge in the system without any actual conspiracy.
I'm not saying definitely that is what you're seeing, but it is an interesting suggestion.
(Note: assuming that you are defending capitalism; not expressly stated in your post, but implied.)
I find it funny how people defending capitalism have had to fall back on the same argument as used in favor of communism - "True x-ism has never existed, so you can't say it has failed".
Yes, the outrage! Imagine having to buy a new $12 case every time I buy a new $600 dollar phone!
Also, I find it funny that iPhone users, who are adamant that they care about design, thin-ness and aesthetics are perfectly happy wrapping their phones in ugly (preferrably shock-pink) rubber cases (or "bumpers") that make them twice as thick. iPhones are the only ones I see in such cases.
Mod parent up! The current "micro-SIM" thing is just Apple trying to make it hard to switch from iPhones to Android. Easily defeated by a $2 plastic part from ebay. I see nothing that this "nano-SIM" brings to the table that would benefit the consumer.
This seems very likely. The F5 solution was tacked on after the entire site went down last year due to traffic overload.
They don't even need to do it that advanced. Just keep the existing system, and tell people "County $x can log in today to see their tax returns, county $y can log in tomorrow, etc." Even if they didn't actually have a system blocking a person in county $y from logging in today, it would fix most of the traffic problem. People mainly do as they are told.