What makes you think it is just one robot? There is probably a whole ARMY of frikken robots with lasers and stuff all of them mad at NASA and us too. And the 250 foot one may be just one of the smaller Japanese models built in Canada.
Most people don't need mathematics beyond basic arithmetic and fractions. Outside of a classroom, the concepts taught in algebra and above are rarely, if ever, encountered by the day to day people. And precisely because they hardly, if ever, use it, they forget all of it anyway.
My experience is that to really gain mastery of one level of mathematics you need to have passed the level above it. People do forget stuff they haven't mastered, but if you teach them a year of algebra the likelihood is that they will never have a problem with basic math. To me it really pathetic to see an adult floored when given a problem requiring subtraction of a negative number (I saw a business manager exclaim that is CALCULUS or something). That is a bit more than basic arithmetic and fractions, and yet should be within the grasp of everyone who has a high school degree.
And it will be a crappy implementation besides. Just like the crap that is Halo and Halo 2 for the PC.
I am royally pissed off at Microsoft. The original Halo was being demoed as a Mac game long before the existence of any MS game console. Bungie was primarily a Mac development house releasing great titles like Marathon and Myth. When Bungie was bought there were all sorts of promises made about Bungie being independent, continuing to release Mac and PC games yadda yadda. All broken.
I still like Bungie games. I may eventually buy an XBox 360 for Halo 3, depending on the reviews. But I will still hate Microsoft for ruining a great, creative gaming developer.
Then OS virtualization is something that you really should not need. It would just be a way of installing something that would be hidden from the OS, meaning that Windows does not have full control of the machine. Can't possibly want that.
What is stupid is when people read a description of a technical patent written by a communications major and think that they understand what the patent is about.
The Xerox Star had the first graphical onscreen keyboard that I remember. But I am afraid that taking two different sources and adding them up to try be prior art isn't going to work unless you can wrap that in a claim of obviousness and get that to stick.
There are also other features of the patent that coincide with the Apple iPhone keyboard - like the keys disappearing when the input is complete that you didn't mention.
I can't believe this made it to slashdot. I can understand confused articles about patent law, copyright law and politics, but this is supposed to be a web site that appeals to people who have some clue about how computer software works. The article referred to is a pile of drivel, full of technical errors written in something that is a long way from coherent English. Maybe this belongs of the OMG!!! version of slashdot, but certainly not anywhere else.
The threads don't execute simultaneously anyway. They are there so that processes can continue when there are I/O waits, i.e. for memory. An FPU per core should be enough.
By then I figure I'm going to be a disembodied intelligence powered by solar energy. This will be a great high.
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I believe there is a hardware crack to SACD - basically a modified player that gives you access to unencrypted bit perfect stream via a 6-channel SPDIF board. Supposedly it is possible buy one of these players from a swiss company named dvdupgrades.
I have a couple of SACDs that are not hybrid and contain music unavailable in other formats that piss me off because I cannot transcode them for use in other (more portable) hardware. But not enough to get the hardware, which is somewhat pricey and I am sure illegal under US law meaning if I try to import it who knows what will happen at customs.
If a camera crew followed you around and streamed everything you did live onto the net for example, you would change behavior - as would most of us (and don't try to claim otherwise - you'd just make yourself a liar).
That would be known as stalking. There are legal restraints on that sort of behavior.
While scanning license plates as you go by a police car is fine with me, I have a problem with the data retention aspects of this. Maintaining a database on all plates with time and position, regardless of whether a hit in a warrant database pops up is something I think people would find violates their expectation of privacy.
Maybe so, but the INS has many resources freely available that describe what is necessary. They are pretty explicit that you cannot legally come to the US and get paid for something you do without getting an appropriate visa type. Tourist visas don't allow someone else to pay you while you are in the US.
Apartment taxes do exist in some areas, for example the state of AZ charges a percentage on rentals, and of course by paying rent you are indirectly also paying real estate taxes which are pretty much universal. This is why people who live in apartments are entitled to send their children to schools and otherwise use services in the town where they rent.
Some states (example NJ) also give some sort of rebate to renters that is tied to property taxes.
I am sure that academics traveling to the US generally realize what visa they will need. For example here is a web page provided by Duke Unversity that describes what is needed for visiting professors.
It's a technicality because he wouldn't have needed a visa had the contract been between Blackhat and his company. What determines whether he gets in is whether he signed the contract as an individual or as the CEO of his company.
That's actually incorrect. If he is coming under those circumstances he still needs a work visa, but instead of an H1-B it may be an E-1 or similar other classification that doesn't require as stringent an application process.
I am sure they pay taxes, either directly or indirectly. How do you buy gas, rent an apartment, or anything else in the US without getting taxes involved? The answer is that you can't. And the sad thing is some of these taxes like SS and Medicare will be for benefits that are never be traceable back to the person who paid for them.
The first automatic switchgear was deployed in the US in 1892, 115 years ago. By the 1920's automatic switch gear was in wide use. AT&T's 1ESS electronic switch from the 1960s was the first electronic switch. It was also the first non-blocking minimal spanning switch.
The research arm of AT&T is where the transistor, laser, information theory, statistical quality control, data networking, cellular technology, solar cells, fax transmission, communications satellites, the first binary digital computer, CCDs, DSPs, doped fiber amplifiers, UNIX and C and radio astronomy were invented or constructed for the first time. Six Nobel Prizes were awarded to that organization. One of the Bell Lab researchers, John Bardeen is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics.
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What makes you think it is just one robot? There is probably a whole ARMY of frikken robots with lasers and stuff all of them mad at NASA and us too. And the 250 foot one may be just one of the smaller Japanese models built in Canada.
My sig said 'probably', which is certainly true.
Most people don't need mathematics beyond basic arithmetic and fractions. Outside of a classroom, the concepts taught in algebra and above are rarely, if ever, encountered by the day to day people. And precisely because they hardly, if ever, use it, they forget all of it anyway.
My experience is that to really gain mastery of one level of mathematics you need to have passed the level above it. People do forget stuff they haven't mastered, but if you teach them a year of algebra the likelihood is that they will never have a problem with basic math. To me it really pathetic to see an adult floored when given a problem requiring subtraction of a negative number (I saw a business manager exclaim that is CALCULUS or something). That is a bit more than basic arithmetic and fractions, and yet should be within the grasp of everyone who has a high school degree.
A stellarator is not a new design. The first examples were built here in 1951.
And it will be a crappy implementation besides. Just like the crap that is Halo and Halo 2 for the PC.
I am royally pissed off at Microsoft. The original Halo was being demoed as a Mac game long before the existence of any MS game console. Bungie was primarily a Mac development house releasing great titles like Marathon and Myth. When Bungie was bought there were all sorts of promises made about Bungie being independent, continuing to release Mac and PC games yadda yadda. All broken.
I still like Bungie games. I may eventually buy an XBox 360 for Halo 3, depending on the reviews. But I will still hate Microsoft for ruining a great, creative gaming developer.
MS - you are teh suck.
I'm 55 years old. By the time there are browsers that supports this properly AND most people are using them I'll be retired.
Then OS virtualization is something that you really should not need. It would just be a way of installing something that would be hidden from the OS, meaning that Windows does not have full control of the machine. Can't possibly want that.
No, he is an autonomous collective off mind-melded cyborgs. This is slashdot, after all.
If you think black and white is different from color, yes.
What is stupid is when people read a description of a technical patent written by a communications major and think that they understand what the patent is about.
The Xerox Star had the first graphical onscreen keyboard that I remember. But I am afraid that taking two different sources and adding them up to try be prior art isn't going to work unless you can wrap that in a claim of obviousness and get that to stick.
There are also other features of the patent that coincide with the Apple iPhone keyboard - like the keys disappearing when the input is complete that you didn't mention.
I can't believe this made it to slashdot. I can understand confused articles about patent law, copyright law and politics, but this is supposed to be a web site that appeals to people who have some clue about how computer software works. The article referred to is a pile of drivel, full of technical errors written in something that is a long way from coherent English. Maybe this belongs of the OMG!!! version of slashdot, but certainly not anywhere else.
The threads don't execute simultaneously anyway. They are there so that processes can continue when there are I/O waits, i.e. for memory. An FPU per core should be enough.
http://www.sun.com/2003-1014/feature/
Erlang C to be precise.
It really doesn't matter if you can recreate what is on the disk or not - it's what goes into the dacs that counts.
By then I figure I'm going to be a disembodied intelligence powered by solar energy. This will be a great high.
I believe there is a hardware crack to SACD - basically a modified player that gives you access to unencrypted bit perfect stream via a 6-channel SPDIF board. Supposedly it is possible buy one of these players from a swiss company named dvdupgrades.
I have a couple of SACDs that are not hybrid and contain music unavailable in other formats that piss me off because I cannot transcode them for use in other (more portable) hardware. But not enough to get the hardware, which is somewhat pricey and I am sure illegal under US law meaning if I try to import it who knows what will happen at customs.
If a camera crew followed you around and streamed everything you did live onto the net for example, you would change behavior - as would most of us (and don't try to claim otherwise - you'd just make yourself a liar).
That would be known as stalking. There are legal restraints on that sort of behavior.
While scanning license plates as you go by a police car is fine with me, I have a problem with the data retention aspects of this. Maintaining a database on all plates with time and position, regardless of whether a hit in a warrant database pops up is something I think people would find violates their expectation of privacy.
Maybe so, but the INS has many resources freely available that describe what is necessary. They are pretty explicit that you cannot legally come to the US and get paid for something you do without getting an appropriate visa type. Tourist visas don't allow someone else to pay you while you are in the US.
Apartment taxes do exist in some areas, for example the state of AZ charges a percentage on rentals, and of course by paying rent you are indirectly also paying real estate taxes which are pretty much universal. This is why people who live in apartments are entitled to send their children to schools and otherwise use services in the town where they rent.
Some states (example NJ) also give some sort of rebate to renters that is tied to property taxes.
I am sure that academics traveling to the US generally realize what visa they will need. For example here is a web page provided by Duke Unversity that describes what is needed for visiting professors.
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http://www.internationaloffice.duke.edu/int_visa_
The fact is this guy didn't do his homework, and was was caught up. He screwed up.
It's a technicality because he wouldn't have needed a visa had the contract been between Blackhat and his company. What determines whether he gets in is whether he signed the contract as an individual or as the CEO of his company.
That's actually incorrect. If he is coming under those circumstances he still needs a work visa, but instead of an H1-B it may be an E-1 or similar other classification that doesn't require as stringent an application process.
Getting work visas seems to be an issue for Germans. Here is a story about a guy being deported from Thailand for the same reason:
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He lucked out getting a suspended sentence on the jail time.
And here is an article where a Tibetan was deported from Germany when he was trying to attend a conference in Brussels (he was only in transit):
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=G
Conclusion: This sort of thing happens all over the world, and you really need someone experienced to set up your papers.
I am sure they pay taxes, either directly or indirectly. How do you buy gas, rent an apartment, or anything else in the US without getting taxes involved? The answer is that you can't. And the sad thing is some of these taxes like SS and Medicare will be for benefits that are never be traceable back to the person who paid for them.
The first automatic switchgear was deployed in the US in 1892, 115 years ago. By the 1920's automatic switch gear was in wide use. AT&T's 1ESS electronic switch from the 1960s was the first electronic switch. It was also the first non-blocking minimal spanning switch.
The research arm of AT&T is where the transistor, laser, information theory, statistical quality control, data networking, cellular technology, solar cells, fax transmission, communications satellites, the first binary digital computer, CCDs, DSPs, doped fiber amplifiers, UNIX and C and radio astronomy were invented or constructed for the first time. Six Nobel Prizes were awarded to that organization. One of the Bell Lab researchers, John Bardeen is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics.
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