You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
I wouldn't trust them to properly differentiate between a scientific boondoggle and useful scientific research. Maybe this facility is useless, maybe it's not. But the NTU doesn't share an agenda with those who would fund a program of basic reasearch in this country.
Computers can be helpful, but they can also annoy. Depending on my mood, a beep can be annoying, or it can be informative. A spoken warning can be more informative or irritating when I'm a bit snippy.
For some reason, probably having to do with the raised button on its current case, my ipad will , out of the blue, occasionally wake from sleep, and inform me that "Siri" [is] "not available".Because it's a wifi model, this is not entirely unexpected.
But if it could somehow understand that this normally useful message is inappropriate, that would be lovely.
I suspect that programmers are not always aware that English words are not mere constants, with precise, unwavering definitions. Someone once told you that a "kit is an unassembled collection of parts, requiring a soldering iron and dedication to assemble", and now you have fixated on this idea, unaware that others do not share this unwarranted precision.
Perhaps you should start reading a british tech magazine, such as The Register, and wean yourself of this idée fixe?
The population density of my county is 2455 people per square mile. I prefer the urban bits of my surroundings-- the suburban sprawl of the less dense parts sometimes does little for walkability.
At times, it is substantially cheaper to buy two dimms of memory than it is to buy a single, denser dimm. After a while, the price differential more or less disappears. I understand that 32 Gb dimms are available for about a grand, but you can by two 16 gb dimms for about $500. Memory dealers often sell these as a kit--two, three, or four matched dimms. Sometimes it's a little cheaper than buying two, or three or four packages of single dimms.
The prices will probably fall before the average consumer needs 32 GB, making the single vs kit dilemma obsolete. .
First The Floppy was 400k, not 384k. Second, comparing a computer to a flash drive is disingenuous. I can buy a 16 gb flash drive for twenty bucks. A 16 gb sodimm kit would cost me $180, and a computer to go around those memory chips would probably cost a few hundred bucks if I built it myself, and closer to a thousand If I got it from Apple.
Cheaper than an original Mac, at the time, but not dramatically so. Of course, it is orders of magnitude faster, and more capacious.
But Arcturus is 36.7 light years distant--11.24 parsecs. We're safe. As long as the supernova occurs more than 8 parsecs away. the ozone layer won't be catastrophically damaged.
“Sadly there is no silver bullet when it comes to internet safety and we have always been clear that no solution can ever be 100 per cent. It requires all of us to play our part,” said TalkTalk spokesperson to PinkNews.
Mistakes were made.... but not by us. It's your fault we had to censor you!
Optical devices, such as cameras with optical viewfinders, telescopes and binoculars are designed to to be used with the eye a certain distance away from the eyepiece's lens. This distance is known as "eyepoint", and pesons wearing eyeglasses often have difficulty using "low eyepoint" devices.
Speech without consequence is mindless gibberish, though perhaps you mean speech without criminal consequences. As a piece of law, "shouting fire" is iirc, obsolete, and duplicitous. It's obsolete because the precedent set has been largely overturned. It's duplicitous because it's a slippery slope. Falsely shouting fire could have disastrous consequences, and there's a good argument to be made for not protecting such utterances. The slippery slope argument is that once you prohibit those, you can then proceed to classifying "appeals to reason", such as Schenck's argument, as similarly dangerous. And they're not.
Here is Holmes's original argument, which he subsequently uses to justify the most odious intrusions on the right of free speech.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force.
In 2003, there was a fire at the The Station, a Rhode Island nightclub. Wikipedia notes
By this time, the nightclub's fire alarm had been activated, and, although there were four possible exits, most people naturally headed for the front door through which they had entered. The ensuing stampede led to a crush in the narrow hallway leading to that exit, quickly blocking the exit completely and resulting in numerous deaths and injuries among the patrons and staff.
In other words, there was a real fire, and instead of calmly leaving the nightclub, there was a panicky stampede, and people got killed in that stampede. Fire safety standards were even looser in Holmes's time, so the possibility or being killed in a stampede was even higher. And while a stampede might be an understandable reaction to the threat of fire, "falsely shouting fire and causing a panic" could mean that people would die for no other reason than the shouter's grossly irresponsible prank.
Slashdot Mirror
Both news sources are similar in that they are best avoided.
Ironically, capped bandwidth actually makes sense with wireless...
Since you care to differentiate a hatter from a hater, perhaps the word you're looking for is "blackhatting". Note the spelling.
Are you hoping that the DRM is challenging enough to be amusing?
Legality is overrated. Then again, so are the Olympics.
Yay for indentured servitude.
Or alternatively,
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I wouldn't trust them to properly differentiate between a scientific boondoggle and useful scientific research.
Maybe this facility is useless, maybe it's not. But the NTU doesn't share an agenda with those who would fund a program of basic reasearch in this country.
Computers can be helpful, but they can also annoy. Depending on my mood, a beep can be annoying, or it can be informative. A spoken warning can be more informative or irritating when I'm a bit snippy.
For some reason, probably having to do with the raised button on its current case, my ipad will , out of the blue, occasionally wake from sleep, and inform me that "Siri" [is] "not available".Because it's a wifi model, this is not entirely unexpected.
But if it could somehow understand that this normally useful message is inappropriate, that would be lovely.
I suspect that programmers are not always aware that English words are not mere constants, with precise, unwavering definitions. Someone once told you that a "kit is an unassembled collection of parts, requiring a soldering iron and dedication to assemble", and now you have fixated on this idea, unaware that others do not share this unwarranted precision.
Perhaps you should start reading a british tech magazine, such as The Register, and wean yourself of this idée fixe?
I do my best.
If you ask kingston, or crucial, or micron for a "kit," they'll know exactly what you mean. It is a useful term of art.
Slashdot exists to waste time. I should know.
32 gigabytes in kit form. You'll need four slots. Installation is trivial.
The population density of my county is 2455 people per square mile. I prefer the urban bits of my surroundings-- the suburban sprawl of the less dense parts sometimes does little for walkability.
Haven't you ever bought memory before?
At times, it is substantially cheaper to buy two dimms of memory than it is to buy a single, denser dimm. After a while, the price differential more or less disappears. I understand that 32 Gb dimms are available for about a grand, but you can by two 16 gb dimms for about $500. Memory dealers often sell these as a kit--two, three, or four matched dimms. Sometimes it's a little cheaper than buying two, or three or four packages of single dimms.
The prices will probably fall before the average consumer needs 32 GB, making the single vs kit dilemma obsolete. .
Two things.
First The Floppy was 400k, not 384k.
Second, comparing a computer to a flash drive is disingenuous. I can buy a 16 gb flash drive for twenty bucks. A 16 gb sodimm kit would cost me $180, and a computer to go around those memory chips would probably cost a few hundred bucks if I built it myself, and closer to a thousand If I got it from Apple.
Cheaper than an original Mac, at the time, but not dramatically so. Of course, it is orders of magnitude faster, and more capacious.
But Arcturus is 36.7 light years distant--11.24 parsecs. We're safe. As long as the supernova occurs more than 8 parsecs away. the ozone layer won't be catastrophically damaged.
Obligatory XKCD: Another way to die in a supernova
“Sadly there is no silver bullet when it comes to internet safety and we have always been clear that no solution can ever be 100 per cent. It requires all of us to play our part,” said TalkTalk spokesperson to PinkNews.
Mistakes were made.... but not by us. It's your fault we had to censor you!
It's well within the Virgo Supercluster, but outside the local group, Happy now?
Optical devices, such as cameras with optical viewfinders, telescopes and binoculars are designed to to be used with the eye a certain distance away from the eyepiece's lens. This distance is known as "eyepoint", and pesons wearing eyeglasses often have difficulty using "low eyepoint" devices.
Supernovas can affect the biospheres of planets within eight parsecs
Still, that's nothing compared to the hypothetical death tolls in active galaxies.
But in Abrams, he specifically says that Schenck was decided correctly.
Speech without consequence is mindless gibberish, though perhaps you mean speech without criminal consequences.
As a piece of law, "shouting fire" is iirc, obsolete, and duplicitous. It's obsolete because the precedent set has been largely overturned. It's duplicitous because it's a slippery slope. Falsely shouting fire could have disastrous consequences, and there's a good argument to be made for not protecting such utterances. The slippery slope argument is that once you prohibit those, you can then proceed to classifying "appeals to reason", such as Schenck's argument, as similarly dangerous. And they're not.
Here is Holmes's original argument, which he subsequently uses to justify the most odious intrusions on the right of free speech.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force.
In 2003, there was a fire at the The Station, a Rhode Island nightclub. Wikipedia notes
By this time, the nightclub's fire alarm had been activated, and, although there were four possible exits, most people naturally headed for the front door through which they had entered. The ensuing stampede led to a crush in the narrow hallway leading to that exit, quickly blocking the exit completely and resulting in numerous deaths and injuries among the patrons and staff.
In other words, there was a real fire, and instead of calmly leaving the nightclub, there was a panicky stampede, and people got killed in that stampede. Fire safety standards were even looser in Holmes's time, so the possibility or being killed in a stampede was even higher. And while a stampede might be an understandable reaction to the threat of fire, "falsely shouting fire and causing a panic" could mean that people would die for no other reason than the shouter's grossly irresponsible prank.
But I have a Nikon D3100, you insensitive clod! Hmm. cheaper to get an iPhone.