Freespace optical communication has been around for a long, long time. It's a problematic system to use in an atmosphere, since anything and everything can degrade the throughput. So, now we get to use a system the is horribly degraded whenever it's foggy, rains, or birds are flying around? No thank you.
Other systems have shown to achieve 10GB/s, so their test of 2GB/s isn't that revolutionary.
Let's stop the clickbait of *random famous company does something that other people have done before*.
This article is a load of crap that contradicts the study's conclusion:
"those subjects maintaining greater weight loss at 6 years also experienced greater concurrent metabolic slowing."...
"Metabolic adaptation persists over time and is likely a proportional, but incomplete, response to contemporaneous efforts to reduce body weight."
What they're saying is that the body will adapt to the change in calorie intake such that the person can maintain the weight loss. The NYT article makes wild and incompatible conclusions based on this very simple and narrow study.
...it strikes me as almost surreal that they are floating the idea that consumers should 'trust them' in their ability to produce this technology safely and bug-free.
Please feel free to name any tech company that can produce bug-free systems. I'll wait.
I would be more worried about getting into a car made by a tech company that is used to a constant cycle of development and patching. A car running software by Adobe or Oracle? You couldn't pay me to drive in that. Even the majority of complaints against recent Ford cars is due to bad software for their Sync system... written by Microsoft. What if every bug in software written by Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. got the media attention of an auto industry recall? We'd be inundated...
You have to remember that 1 recall = 1 bug in the auto industry. What other major industry (besides aerospace) has such a low instance of issues in their products that operate in horrendously harsh environments and temperature ranges are designed to last 10+ years?
He downplays them, just like he accuses everyone else of doing
The exploit you refer to is an IPv6 only issue. Considering that the internet doesn't use IPv6, you're only left with attacks on an internal network (if it happens to use IPv6), which should be, at least, trusted.
A physical limitation to any transmission medium is the propagation delay from one point to another. Sure, you may get the same unidirectional transfer rate with copper compared to wire (which I doubt considering the possible frequencies involved), but bi-directional communication will be hampered by the propagation delay, in which fiber obviously has the upper hand. There are other issues regarding the resistance of the medium, forcing you to add repeaters periodically, but I digress for now.
Note: electrical signals do *not* propagate at the speed of light through copper.
Now that Macs are developing/supporting a BSD based OS, I think Linux will also lose some desktop share here as well.
In fact, I know of a few friends who chose to get a MacBook and keep OSX on it because they described it as "Linux with more hardware support" (or at least better support directly for the Mac). Not saying this is true, but that it is another well supported Unix alternative.
But...it's pretty obvious why auto manufacturers don't want you to use your audio hardware in their cars.
Not quite. Many auto manufacturers are sympathetic to the people who put aftermarket devices in their vehicles. In fact many design their systems to include extra circuitry and possibly connectors such that it makes it much easier for aftermarket devices to be installed.
The extra feature in this case is a line in jack consisting of 2 pairs of twisted and shielded wires (possibly just twisted). Note that this is not the extent of the extra features I talk about, but just what the article is about.
With the help of a statistician, a computer scientist and a supercomputer, Olson has calculated just how interconnected the human family tree is. You would have to go back in time only 2,000 to 5,000 years -- and probably on the low side of that range -- to find somebody who could count every person alive today as a descendant.
Oh yea, because a statistician and a computer scientist are so infallible to being with, put them together and the result must be absolutely perfect!
I've known it always as the P comes from "Per". Same with acronyms such as RPM. If there is no slash used, then you must specify that it is a "per" in some other fashion, hence the P.
1) Turn off your cell phone. 2) Leave it somewhere. 3) Pay some kid to carry it around (making it look like you're still moving) 4) Hang out in tunnels. 5) Line pockets with tin foil. 6) Get better parents.
If the kid doesn't want their parents to know where they are... then the parent's won't know where they are. All the company is doing is marketing a product to paranoid and overly-protective parents.
However... that being said it does have some merits for emergency situations, knowing where to pick your kid up from, and it could be a fun project to map the paths of a group/herd of friends.
I gave it some thought before I installed it earlier. I knew all it did was report to MS that I had a legal copy of Windows, but the bad part about it was that it seemed I had to install it before I could download any other critical updates.
It's a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't situation...
But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11.
Also works with the normal Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Windows. No DMCA mumbo-jumbo... whoever did it just had no idea what they were doing.
Society does. That's how the world works. The school only gets involved if there is a complaint (and I would imagine a number of complaints or a significant complaint). Hence, *society* external to the school decides on what is offensive. The school mediates. Again, I'm assuming there are rational people in charge at the school and care not about "Jimmy said the F-word on myspace!", but more serious issues like physical threats or mental abuse.
What is really happening is the school is turning into a "social services" type agency here. Like it or not, these kids are minors, and will be treated like minors. They should be following a path better than just what is legal. Many need direction and guidance. Who is to say that the school has this right? Well, society, again. Just like society dictates the laws (let's not get too picky there) and came up with the social services body.
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Microsoft's repos *are* that large. That's why they implemented this.
Microsoft Office's repository is over 1 TB in size. Yes, terabyte. For *office*. They absolutely cannot (could not, I suppose now) use Git on it.
Freespace optical communication has been around for a long, long time. It's a problematic system to use in an atmosphere, since anything and everything can degrade the throughput. So, now we get to use a system the is horribly degraded whenever it's foggy, rains, or birds are flying around? No thank you.
Other systems have shown to achieve 10GB/s, so their test of 2GB/s isn't that revolutionary.
Let's stop the clickbait of *random famous company does something that other people have done before*.
This article is a load of crap that contradicts the study's conclusion:
"those subjects maintaining greater weight loss at 6 years also experienced greater concurrent metabolic slowing." ...
"Metabolic adaptation persists over time and is likely a proportional, but incomplete, response to contemporaneous efforts to reduce body weight."
What they're saying is that the body will adapt to the change in calorie intake such that the person can maintain the weight loss. The NYT article makes wild and incompatible conclusions based on this very simple and narrow study.
...it strikes me as almost surreal that they are floating the idea that consumers should 'trust them' in their ability to produce this technology safely and bug-free.
Please feel free to name any tech company that can produce bug-free systems. I'll wait.
I would be more worried about getting into a car made by a tech company that is used to a constant cycle of development and patching. A car running software by Adobe or Oracle? You couldn't pay me to drive in that. Even the majority of complaints against recent Ford cars is due to bad software for their Sync system... written by Microsoft. What if every bug in software written by Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. got the media attention of an auto industry recall? We'd be inundated...
You have to remember that 1 recall = 1 bug in the auto industry. What other major industry (besides aerospace) has such a low instance of issues in their products that operate in horrendously harsh environments and temperature ranges are designed to last 10+ years?
The exploit you refer to is an IPv6 only issue. Considering that the internet doesn't use IPv6, you're only left with attacks on an internal network (if it happens to use IPv6), which should be, at least, trusted.
Netcraft has also released new information that the internet now has 999,956,522 pornographic websites currently.
Happy browsing everyone!
...but what ever happened to natural selection? I see modern science totally mucking up the gene pool.
Oh well, hopefully gene therapy will be here sooner than later to fix it.
A physical limitation to any transmission medium is the propagation delay from one point to another. Sure, you may get the same unidirectional transfer rate with copper compared to wire (which I doubt considering the possible frequencies involved), but bi-directional communication will be hampered by the propagation delay, in which fiber obviously has the upper hand. There are other issues regarding the resistance of the medium, forcing you to add repeaters periodically, but I digress for now.
Note: electrical signals do *not* propagate at the speed of light through copper.
Now that Macs are developing/supporting a BSD based OS, I think Linux will also lose some desktop share here as well.
In fact, I know of a few friends who chose to get a MacBook and keep OSX on it because they described it as "Linux with more hardware support" (or at least better support directly for the Mac). Not saying this is true, but that it is another well supported Unix alternative.
...this is only true if you're "smart" enough to publicly share the calendar with everyone.
By default the caldendar is unshared, so the fault is in the end user.
With the slow adoption of 3G, I doubt 4G will take off any time soon.
You've never run Matlab for a big project, I take it...
There seems to be a bug in your link...
But...it's pretty obvious why auto manufacturers don't want you to use your audio hardware in their cars.
Not quite. Many auto manufacturers are sympathetic to the people who put aftermarket devices in their vehicles. In fact many design their systems to include extra circuitry and possibly connectors such that it makes it much easier for aftermarket devices to be installed.
The extra feature in this case is a line in jack consisting of 2 pairs of twisted and shielded wires (possibly just twisted). Note that this is not the extent of the extra features I talk about, but just what the article is about.
To get in the 2007 model year vehicles, this had to be planned years ago. The announcement just comes out right before product launch.
Oh yea, because a statistician and a computer scientist are so infallible to being with, put them together and the result must be absolutely perfect!
That timeline seems absolutely ridiculous.
I've known it always as the P comes from "Per". Same with acronyms such as RPM. If there is no slash used, then you must specify that it is a "per" in some other fashion, hence the P.
Ways around it:
1) Turn off your cell phone.
2) Leave it somewhere.
3) Pay some kid to carry it around (making it look like you're still moving)
4) Hang out in tunnels.
5) Line pockets with tin foil.
6) Get better parents.
If the kid doesn't want their parents to know where they are... then the parent's won't know where they are. All the company is doing is marketing a product to paranoid and overly-protective parents.
However... that being said it does have some merits for emergency situations, knowing where to pick your kid up from, and it could be a fun project to map the paths of a group/herd of friends.
I gave it some thought before I installed it earlier. I knew all it did was report to MS that I had a legal copy of Windows, but the bad part about it was that it seemed I had to install it before I could download any other critical updates.
It's a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't situation...
...and I one a scholarship.
It wasn't for spelling or grammar was it?
Title: Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter
Body: NASA is reporting that the two biggest storms in the solar system are about to collide on Jupiter.
(emphasis added)
Let's not jump the gun here... try to make subject/title lines more accurate please!
What the hell topic does *this* fall under?
I think they should have a section called "Slow News Day". Everyone is already tagging things that.
Fourth graders, ironically, are actually better at reasoning in the sciences now than they were ten years ago.
Well they better... I'd hope our 4th graders can reason better than a newborn...
But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11.
Also works with the normal Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Windows. No DMCA mumbo-jumbo... whoever did it just had no idea what they were doing.
And who gets to decide what's offensive?
Society does. That's how the world works. The school only gets involved if there is a complaint (and I would imagine a number of complaints or a significant complaint). Hence, *society* external to the school decides on what is offensive. The school mediates. Again, I'm assuming there are rational people in charge at the school and care not about "Jimmy said the F-word on myspace!", but more serious issues like physical threats or mental abuse.
What is really happening is the school is turning into a "social services" type agency here. Like it or not, these kids are minors, and will be treated like minors. They should be following a path better than just what is legal. Many need direction and guidance. Who is to say that the school has this right? Well, society, again. Just like society dictates the laws (let's not get too picky there) and came up with the social services body.
Remember that inaction can be worse than action.