People who always say: 'I have nothing to hide' haven't thought that out very carefully.
Of course, should their government become arbitrarily oppressive, they might have a great deal to hide. But it'll be too late.
At a lesser extreme, should their 'innocent' but insecured information fall into the wrong hands -- identity theft is but one example -- or be manipulated by malicious people (e.g. 'your mama is now an escaped convict') -- they might find their lives severely damaged.
The article clearly states that the oldest bacterium MAY be 8 myo -- but that the sample may have been contaminated. Therefore the age claim is UNVERIFIED.
THIS IS A TECHNICAL SITE with readers who RESPECT precision. Some sites might be able to get away with this kind of sloppy representation. It shouldn't be happening here.
I loathe and lament the whole decades-long trend of hyperexpensive proprietary everything, including batteries. Was it RS's "Trash-80" that started the "cheap-basics, sockem' on accesssories" trend? Only, now, even expensive stuff is playing this stupid game.
$175 laptop batteries that consist of 6 AA cells wired together? Appalling.
There used to be 4 or 5 batteries that powered everything electronic. The fundamental character of electronics hasn't changed. (Alas, battery technology hasn't changed much either.) Yeah, I know, bitch on grandpa. Well ok, kiddies, but you're the ones that are $100,000 in debt on average. Yeah, I know, standardized parts are "too socialist for America." Ha, take that.
Stop buying the crap. My TV remote takes an AA. Any AA. If your phone-du-jour doesn't, tough bounce. Demand better. Every dollar is a vote.
When they quit changing the meaning of AI to make a little progress seem important, I'll be able to get a better focus on it. Of course I meant general intelligence -- ants are specialized. Playing checkers: whoopee.
1. The information may not be familiar to some members of the audience.
2. To see how many chickenshit AC's will come out of the closet to drive their dumbmobile.
I know a couple things about him. He moved out of Minnesota, leaving behind his Elmo Gunn period, to discover his talent... and stayed that way. Even before I got to hear Spider John live in the Triangle, and get seriously shit-faced in The Joint.
Anyway, my scribbling made you misconstrue my intended meaning... anti-RIAA, pro-Indy. My bad.
Last week I had to use a brand-new MacbookPro. I was reminded that, having used a multitude of keyboards (going back to a Model 19 TTY), I can't *stand* those dinky, squashed little keyboards.
Apart from that, there'll always be a sizeable contingent of geeks who actually want to be able to put custom boards in their machines. That may have been on the wane, but it may even perk up (Make magazine anyone?).
REAL computers need BIG FANS. Keep your hipster luser boxes.
I made many mobius strips when I was young. It puzzled me where the "other side" went when I taped the two ends together, and *really* frustrated me when, despite *self-evident* demonstrations, "other people" (stubbornly less mathematically-inclined) insisted that there were still two sides!
It... the other side... was there before the taping, *not* there after the taping. Where does it go? Clearly it must go into AN INVISIBLE DIMENSION. Is it a dimension of sound? of sight? of mind? Is it vast as space, timeless as infinity?
Is there no human being, anywhere on the earth, tall, emaciated, daring, who will undertake to have his feet taped to his head, and report to us the nature of this invisible dimension? So many questions arise: when held to a mirror, will he see himself? Will he discover other feet-taped people there? Will it dark in the day, light in the night there?
Furthermore, just because we "think" we see a spiral doesn't mean we're seeing one. If you Google "elliptical galaxy" and look closely at a few dozen of those (nice, clean) examples, you'll see that many ellipticals have quite a bit of structure -- just not rotational.
Now, put one of these in Photoshop and smear it with "Gaussian blur" and almost anybody can "sort of" see spiral arms.
The GZ tutorial fails to say much about ellipticals, including that they're the majority (70 percent, IIRC) of galaxies. But are GZ's blobs ellipticals, or just badly out-of-focus spirals?
Because of the "blobbiness", and because of the obvious repeats (hey: take my first word for it!) I quickly burned out.
Google's request is intended to diminish the value of those licenses IOW: "It would result in downward pricing pressures on the rest of the industry" So much for "free-market economy", huh?
equivalent to solving the artificial intelligence problem
... Without actually contributing anything to the development of artificial intelligence (an entity capable of understanding and interacting with the real world in an intelligent way).
It's impressive as it stands. The hype is superfluous.
It was always "trivial" to change the hardware in a hardware radio "to emit... over a restricted wavelength" or just about any other thing you want the hardware to do, if you could afford it and have the expertise. A capacitor here, a crystal there, presto.
I'm not so sure the same is true in the case of open-source. And of course, to "emit at an arbitrarily high power level" is still a question of hardware, not software.
CD was not the first technology to read discs without physical contact. RCA had a turntable capable of "reading" vinyl records with a light-beam in the late 1930s.
The RCA Magic Brain Victrola/Radio "was advertised as being able to play both sides of a record without turning it over and used a jewel-lite scanner that eliminated the needle and you could stack up to 15 records at a time."
Good point... though a quick calc assuming a smooth accel. from 0 to 0.25c at 2LY works out to 16 years at the midway point, 16 years of deceleration, 32 years one-way, 64 years round-trip. Generously assuming Glenn's 3-orbit CPU could handle the task (1963), I get a return year of 2027.
Sadly, while the engineering and money were probably capable and available then, we've moved farther into chaos in the interim.
These simulations of 'you' en masse may be getting pretty good by now. A number of psychologists at prestigious institutions were working on predictive 'black-box psychology' in the early 70s.
What they will predict is how masses are likely to respond to certain stimuli. What they'll never predict is individual variations... especially in people aware how they're being manipulated, making 'corrections'.
Slashdot Mirror
People who always say: 'I have nothing to hide' haven't thought that out very carefully.
Of course, should their government become arbitrarily oppressive, they might have a great deal to hide. But it'll be too late.
At a lesser extreme, should their 'innocent' but insecured information fall into the wrong hands -- identity theft is but one example -- or be manipulated by malicious people (e.g. 'your mama is now an escaped convict') -- they might find their lives severely damaged.
The article clearly states that the oldest bacterium MAY be 8 myo -- but that the sample may have been contaminated. Therefore the age claim is UNVERIFIED.
THIS IS A TECHNICAL SITE with readers who RESPECT precision. Some sites might be able to get away with this kind of sloppy representation. It shouldn't be happening here.
I loathe and lament the whole decades-long trend of hyperexpensive proprietary everything, including batteries. Was it RS's "Trash-80" that started the "cheap-basics, sockem' on accesssories" trend? Only, now, even expensive stuff is playing this stupid game.
$175 laptop batteries that consist of 6 AA cells wired together? Appalling.
There used to be 4 or 5 batteries that powered everything electronic. The fundamental character of electronics hasn't changed. (Alas, battery technology hasn't changed much either.) Yeah, I know, bitch on grandpa. Well ok, kiddies, but you're the ones that are $100,000 in debt on average. Yeah, I know, standardized parts are "too socialist for America." Ha, take that.
Stop buying the crap. My TV remote takes an AA. Any AA. If your phone-du-jour doesn't, tough bounce. Demand better. Every dollar is a vote.
George Carlin has the answer: America bends over, and corporations Service Their Account.
What's keeping consumer internet bandwidth at 1/10 the speed of countries? Same answer.
They own the wires. Without free spectrum, it's game over.
The WP editors are, in large, a bunch of snarky bitches ... often they know nothing about articles they criticize, nor do they care.
WP has hoisted itself by it's own petard. They will not be missed.
If the "mob" is so wise, why does the world suck so much?
(Jose Ortega y Gasset, if memory serves)
Hardly a new idea.
"Download the Safari 3 public beta and experience the world's fastest, easiest-to-use web browser. Free for Mac and PC."
When they quit changing the meaning of AI to make a little progress seem important, I'll be able to get a better focus on it. Of course I meant general intelligence -- ants are specialized. Playing checkers: whoopee.
1. The information may not be familiar to some members of the audience. 2. To see how many chickenshit AC's will come out of the closet to drive their dumbmobile.
I know a couple things about him. He moved out of Minnesota, leaving behind his Elmo Gunn period, to discover his talent ... and stayed that way. Even before I got to hear Spider John live in the Triangle, and get seriously shit-faced in The Joint.
Anyway, my scribbling made you misconstrue my intended meaning ... anti-RIAA, pro-Indy. My bad.
Last week I had to use a brand-new MacbookPro. I was reminded that, having used a multitude of keyboards (going back to a Model 19 TTY), I can't *stand* those dinky, squashed little keyboards.
Apart from that, there'll always be a sizeable contingent of geeks who actually want to be able to put custom boards in their machines. That may have been on the wane, but it may even perk up (Make magazine anyone?).
REAL computers need BIG FANS. Keep your hipster luser boxes.
It's too bad the Rovers can't tip their solar panels N degrees to let gravity clean (much of) the dust off.
It's also too bad there's not a human being there -- but hey, we got problems here on Earth. Just wait'l we get those cleared up.
Geez, it was so easy in Forbidden Planet.
Put a hot babe with a pet tiger on the surface, the engineers will have a brainstorm in no time.
I made many mobius strips when I was young. It puzzled me where the "other side" went when I taped the two ends together, and *really* frustrated me when, despite *self-evident* demonstrations, "other people" (stubbornly less mathematically-inclined) insisted that there were still two sides!
... the other side ... was there before the taping, *not* there after the taping. Where does it go? Clearly it must go into AN INVISIBLE DIMENSION. Is it a dimension of sound? of sight? of mind? Is it vast as space, timeless as infinity?
It
Is there no human being, anywhere on the earth, tall, emaciated, daring, who will undertake to have his feet taped to his head, and report to us the nature of this invisible dimension? So many questions arise: when held to a mirror, will he see himself? Will he discover other feet-taped people there? Will it dark in the day, light in the night there?
(Continued next issue)
Furthermore, just because we "think" we see a spiral doesn't mean we're seeing one. If you Google "elliptical galaxy" and look closely at a few dozen of those (nice, clean) examples, you'll see that many ellipticals have quite a bit of structure -- just not rotational.
Now, put one of these in Photoshop and smear it with "Gaussian blur" and almost anybody can "sort of" see spiral arms.
The GZ tutorial fails to say much about ellipticals, including that they're the majority (70 percent, IIRC) of galaxies. But are GZ's blobs ellipticals, or just badly out-of-focus spirals?
Because of the "blobbiness", and because of the obvious repeats (hey: take my first word for it!) I quickly burned out.
Google's request is intended to diminish the value of those licenses
IOW: "It would result in downward pricing pressures on the rest of the industry"
So much for "free-market economy", huh?
It's impressive as it stands. The hype is superfluous.
Rock on, Mpls indies! Seriously good { sarcasm }.
"This is a classic case of an idea and organization formed with good intentions that has slowly become an uncontrollable machine."
If it makes you feel any better, the next generation will be using all the old churches for free practice spaces.
Once out of warranty, it shouldn't be too hard to custom-mod the iPhone to accept an external battery. Taking orders now.
I'm not so sure the same is true in the case of open-source. And of course, to "emit at an arbitrarily high power level" is still a question of hardware, not software.
"It stumped scientists for years. Finally, one exceptionally observant woman discovered, hidden in the base, a tiny cold-fusion reactor."
CD was not the first technology to read discs without physical contact. RCA had a turntable capable of "reading" vinyl records with a light-beam in the late 1930s.
s g_0000018187.shtml
The RCA Magic Brain Victrola/Radio "was advertised as being able to play both sides of a record without turning it over and used a jewel-lite scanner that eliminated the needle and you could stack up to 15 records at a time."
Sometimes seen advertised on RCA 78rpm record labels of the period.
http://www.phonoland.com/archives/mboards/18100/m
The testimony of Roswell citizens suggests that they were terrified into silence. Conceivable that a hundred GIs could be too.
Good point ... though a quick calc assuming a smooth accel. from 0 to 0.25c at 2LY works out to 16 years at the midway point, 16 years of deceleration, 32 years one-way, 64 years round-trip.
Generously assuming Glenn's 3-orbit CPU could handle the task (1963), I get a return year of 2027.
Sadly, while the engineering and money were probably capable and available then, we've moved farther into chaos in the interim.
These simulations of 'you' en masse may be getting pretty good by now. A number of psychologists at prestigious institutions were working on predictive 'black-box psychology' in the early 70s.
What they will predict is how masses are likely to respond to certain stimuli. What they'll never predict is individual variations... especially in people aware how they're being manipulated, making 'corrections'.