Without silly software patents such as this one, we'd all enjoy simple, non CPU-intensive encryption that just works. DES, RSA, AES, RC4 and all the other overly-complicated encryption schemes we "enjoy" today were invented specifically to route around that single patent. Well thanks a buncharoony...
The one distinctive feature of children's books is the thick cardboard cover and thick pages, because children aren't exactly known for their carefulness.
I'm not sure how a E-ink device would fare after a few months of being aggressively fingered, scratched, thrown, banged, sat and vomited upon, especially considering that, unlike a real book that would be used occasionally and then shelved, an e-book would used all the time, precisely because it can display any book.
However long life may survive in space, when the organisms reach Europa, they get a message saying "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAND THERE" and get blasted out of the sky.
They go spend time with new things, bear with teething troubles and root out bugs so that normal consumers like me don't have to a couple of years down the line. Go Russel Holly!
I am very anal about being photographed, and usually stay clear away from group photos. So unless someone made photos of me secretly, which they haven't because I'm mister Nobody and I have no interest to anybody outside of my family, I'm fairly sure there are no image of me on Facebook, or indeed anywhere on the internet.
I'm glad I stayed out of Facebook (not that it ever held any interest to me in the first place), I'm glad I stayed away from Skype before it got gobbled up by Microsoft and made to go to bed with Facebook (who needs super secret telephony protocols when SIP is around), and therefore I'm doubly glad none of my personal information is on any of Zuckerberg's or Balmer's servers.
I am intrigued at the idea of commuting by air though. My employer often brings in people to discuss commuting options (as traffic is somewhat fickle here in Atlanta) and none of them would even discuss the potential of commuting via gyrocopter with me.
I've read many times a comment that's particularly relevant here: there are enough idiots, mayhem and disasters on a 2 dimensional road network without adding a 3rd dimension into the picture.
Flying cars (or drivable aircraft) for the average Joe Blow will never happen for that very reason, and that's also why nobody is discussing that option as a commuting solution seriously. As for people who already hold a pilot's license, they're an incredibly small minority, and I don't think any of them wants to buy a machine that's a mediocre airplane and a mediocre car at the same time for the price of a Cessna.
Bangalore has several top security installments like ISRO, DRDO and HAL and the fear could be that a 360 degree view of the roads leading to them could be used by a terrorist in the future.
So THAT is what their concern with Streetview is. Always terror and terrorism isn't it, when in reality, the real concern is that, public images or not, people might actually not like living in a f*ing worldwide Panopticon...
Who the heck is Valador, and why do they think they have so much experience in space technologies that they can sell advices to other players in the field?
NASA doing that I could understand (I mean you know, they have nothing else to do these days, and if anybody knows about blowing space vehicles, it's them), but "Valador"?
I think only a small number of computer users upgrade components these days - gamers and power users. But the majority of people these days buy a beige box or a laptop and never ever open them. From a business point of view, combining the GPU and the CPU makes sense. Heck, nobody cried when separate math coprocessors disappeared.
and any other company following this issue is that they're essentially at the mercy of the business decisions of a third company, Intel, and that's not a very smart business position to get in in the first place.
Why would you want to be an engineer? Seriously why, when you could do manual labour, be an electrician, cementer, crane driver, or work in a number of other trades? The other trades pay more, give you better conditions, and you don't need to go work for some mining company in the middle of no where to earn a wage.
It's not just the wages and the other advantages. Me, I used to be a software engineer with a pretty damn good pay, and I gave it all up to retrain and work as a gunsmith. Why? Because I'm happier creating beautiful rifles with my hands, that my customers are happy to own and use, than be a stressed-out project manager in a software company where everybody, from management to the customers, prefers quick development over a job well done.
I'm paid a lot less, but I also work fewer hours, the hours I work are good time, I get to spend quality time with my family and forge a bond with my customers. In short, I'm happier. Besides, being an engineer isn't all it's cracked up to be, there's pride in being a good honest craftsman too.
the people who dreamt up the new coding system didn't even try to make it backward-compatible with the old one, hence the headaches and waste of money.
If ICD-10 was a superset of ICD-9, in a way similar to how UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, the transition would be perfectly seamless and painless...
Apple Daily says they took the device to a university professor and a private investigator, both of whom attested to the espionage potential of the units.
or this:
An Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, Zheng Liming, took apart one of the devices and confirmed that it can listen in on conversations
and see a photo in which a hole in the plastic shell is marked "cavity for receiving sound" (a microphone would have been more convincing), two quartz crystals (the likes of which can be found in almost every modern electronic devices) marked "generate carrier frequency for radio transmission" and a nondescript chip that "turns voice signals into digital information".
You know what? I think I'll take a photo of my cellphone's innards, photoshop conveniently spy-sounding labels into the photo, bring my cellphone to a university professor who will testify that my device has a microphone, a crystal, an antenna and a processor that definitely has the potential to turn it into spying device then write an article about it.
if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
As an average web user who doesn't care what development experience developers have, I can tell you YOU are losing potential users of your application by the boatload because many, many people have better things to do than install yet another plugin that'll slow down / crash the browser even more.
they should just admit that they fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, nothing more fitting to commemorate the death of the founder of Project Gutenberg than to kill their server under a proper slashdotting...
They should just use Detroit: it's already built, it's realistic and it's a lot larger than a 35,000 inhabitant city.
Without silly software patents such as this one, we'd all enjoy simple, non CPU-intensive encryption that just works. DES, RSA, AES, RC4 and all the other overly-complicated encryption schemes we "enjoy" today were invented specifically to route around that single patent. Well thanks a buncharoony...
The one distinctive feature of children's books is the thick cardboard cover and thick pages, because children aren't exactly known for their carefulness.
I'm not sure how a E-ink device would fare after a few months of being aggressively fingered, scratched, thrown, banged, sat and vomited upon, especially considering that, unlike a real book that would be used occasionally and then shelved, an e-book would used all the time, precisely because it can display any book.
Actually no, it's easier to make stem cells. That's why they take the trouble...
I think not. Alanis Morrissette never mentioned Wikileaks.
Don't forget: when you're perfectly synchronized with the traffic lights at 30 mph, you are also at 60 and 120 :)
However long life may survive in space, when the organisms reach Europa, they get a message saying "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAND THERE" and get blasted out of the sky.
Payback is a bitch. That's what you get for sending us Rupert Murdoch.
Wouldn't you raise the price of your products if you had to sell each and every one of them with a Velcro pad to hang upside down?
Progress: It's gonna happen, whether Uncle Sam wants it or not
Uncle Sam ain't the one holding progress, it's corporate America and its shills who do, and it's nothing new either...
They go spend time with new things, bear with teething troubles and root out bugs so that normal consumers like me don't have to a couple of years down the line. Go Russel Holly!
I am very anal about being photographed, and usually stay clear away from group photos. So unless someone made photos of me secretly, which they haven't because I'm mister Nobody and I have no interest to anybody outside of my family, I'm fairly sure there are no image of me on Facebook, or indeed anywhere on the internet.
I'm glad I stayed out of Facebook (not that it ever held any interest to me in the first place), I'm glad I stayed away from Skype before it got gobbled up by Microsoft and made to go to bed with Facebook (who needs super secret telephony protocols when SIP is around), and therefore I'm doubly glad none of my personal information is on any of Zuckerberg's or Balmer's servers.
I know you yanks do not like corners; but motorcycle wheels are not designed to take large lateral loadings . .
Phew, good thing you told me, I was about to buy a sidecar...
I am intrigued at the idea of commuting by air though. My employer often brings in people to discuss commuting options (as traffic is somewhat fickle here in Atlanta) and none of them would even discuss the potential of commuting via gyrocopter with me.
I've read many times a comment that's particularly relevant here: there are enough idiots, mayhem and disasters on a 2 dimensional road network without adding a 3rd dimension into the picture.
Flying cars (or drivable aircraft) for the average Joe Blow will never happen for that very reason, and that's also why nobody is discussing that option as a commuting solution seriously. As for people who already hold a pilot's license, they're an incredibly small minority, and I don't think any of them wants to buy a machine that's a mediocre airplane and a mediocre car at the same time for the price of a Cessna.
From TFA:
Bangalore has several top security installments like ISRO, DRDO and HAL and the fear could be that a 360 degree view of the roads leading to them could be used by a terrorist in the future.
So THAT is what their concern with Streetview is. Always terror and terrorism isn't it, when in reality, the real concern is that, public images or not, people might actually not like living in a f*ing worldwide Panopticon...
Who the heck is Valador, and why do they think they have so much experience in space technologies that they can sell advices to other players in the field?
NASA doing that I could understand (I mean you know, they have nothing else to do these days, and if anybody knows about blowing space vehicles, it's them), but "Valador"?
I think only a small number of computer users upgrade components these days - gamers and power users. But the majority of people these days buy a beige box or a laptop and never ever open them. From a business point of view, combining the GPU and the CPU makes sense. Heck, nobody cried when separate math coprocessors disappeared.
and any other company following this issue is that they're essentially at the mercy of the business decisions of a third company, Intel, and that's not a very smart business position to get in in the first place.
Why would you want to be an engineer? Seriously why, when you could do manual labour, be an electrician, cementer, crane driver, or work in a number of other trades? The other trades pay more, give you better conditions, and you don't need to go work for some mining company in the middle of no where to earn a wage.
It's not just the wages and the other advantages. Me, I used to be a software engineer with a pretty damn good pay, and I gave it all up to retrain and work as a gunsmith. Why? Because I'm happier creating beautiful rifles with my hands, that my customers are happy to own and use, than be a stressed-out project manager in a software company where everybody, from management to the customers, prefers quick development over a job well done.
I'm paid a lot less, but I also work fewer hours, the hours I work are good time, I get to spend quality time with my family and forge a bond with my customers. In short, I'm happier. Besides, being an engineer isn't all it's cracked up to be, there's pride in being a good honest craftsman too.
the people who dreamt up the new coding system didn't even try to make it backward-compatible with the old one, hence the headaches and waste of money.
If ICD-10 was a superset of ICD-9, in a way similar to how UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, the transition would be perfectly seamless and painless...
Those who RTFA can read this:
Apple Daily says they took the device to a university professor and a private investigator, both of whom attested to the espionage potential of the units.
or this:
An Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, Zheng Liming, took apart one of the devices and confirmed that it can listen in on conversations
and see a photo in which a hole in the plastic shell is marked "cavity for receiving sound" (a microphone would have been more convincing), two quartz crystals (the likes of which can be found in almost every modern electronic devices) marked "generate carrier frequency for radio transmission" and a nondescript chip that "turns voice signals into digital information".
You know what? I think I'll take a photo of my cellphone's innards, photoshop conveniently spy-sounding labels into the photo, bring my cellphone to a university professor who will testify that my device has a microphone, a crystal, an antenna and a processor that definitely has the potential to turn it into spying device then write an article about it.
Some journalism...
if you haven't worked with Silverlight or WPF, you're really missing out on an amazing development experience.
As an average web user who doesn't care what development experience developers have, I can tell you YOU are losing potential users of your application by the boatload because many, many people have better things to do than install yet another plugin that'll slow down / crash the browser even more.
they should just admit that they fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
A great development experience indeed...
No, 2.6.40 + 0.3.60 = 2.9.100
I think he meant 1.-6.-40 more advanced.