They probably have a client-side script that makes it hard to submit a long password.
Those of you who think that there mustn't be a limit to the size, consider what happens when some joker opens a text editor, types a word and then does this repeatedly a few times:
AMD CPU:s reportedly return exactly the same values as Intel CPU:s. I'm guessing they do so for compatibility reasons, so that any workarounds that software developers have implemented work as expected.
Maybe people are catching on to the fact that a lot of what passes for advanced technology these days only amounts to the arrangement of pixels on screens.
Previous waves of technologies liberated us from hard work. The Internet wave, while impressive, has not really been able to do that.
And no, sites that help wealthier people buy services such as cooking, cleaning and driving from poorer people don't count, since the work is still done by a human. I'm talking about machines or devices that physically make work easier, or does work automatically. Like the washing machine. The washing machine is so far probably the best machine, or robot really, that we have invented in terms of how much work it saves per dollar. A 1930's invention, which predates computers. It's sad when you think about it.
I hope the breakthroughs are just around the corner and that soon we will have our self-driving cars and our household robots that do chores and what not. Until then I doubt we will see much excitement from the general public.
We'd obviously have to situate it off-world and use some sort of electromagnetic beam to send the generated energy to earth. Heck, given the amount of extra power generated, we could just send off the energy everywhere and there'd still be enough hitting the earth. We could then use devices here to convert that energy into electricity.
I oppose this idea, especially out of care for the children. I think the giant fusion reactor would have to be situated too close to schools and nature preserves and other sensitive areas and I don't think the radiation risks have been thoroughly analyzed and quantified.
Look, I'm not opposed to giant balls of hydrogen as long as you build them in suitable places. There are many examples where they have put them light-years away from Earth, where there aren't any schools or preschools, and I'm all in favor of those ones.
Oh, look, this guy just bought a new fridge. Let's show him lots of fridge ads. Oh, look he clicked one of the fridge ads! Wow, this guy is really into fridges.
Meanwhile in guy's home...
Guy: "Hmm, this fridge looks about as good as the one I bought and the price is about the same. Yeah, I feel good about my purchase. Not going to return it. See you in 15 years, fridge sellers."
The battle against overly authoritarian shitheads is not a 30-year battle. It is likely an eternal battle (for moderate values of the concepts of "battle" and "eternity").
(There is no Islamic State in the west, but there are other examples one could name. For example: despite mountains of evidence to the contrary there are still hundreds of millions of people in the western world who think that sending drug addicts to prison is a great idea.)
It is also not a battle that can be successfully fought by anyone who does not picture themselves having their great grandchildren live in the region, because only those who do will have the stamina to keep fighting forever. Americans or Europeans can't be responsible for fighting the battle for a Middle east free of The Islamic State, or whatever other pretentious banner these guys will be fighting under next year.
The fastest way to breed a population increase would be multiple females for every male.
Multiple uteri at any rate. Our ability to grow organs and have them live outside of the human body is improving rapidly. I don't think it is too far out to imagine that we might one day grow babies inside artificial uteri outside of the human body.
If science keeps progressing there may come a day when only the poor make their children the old fashioned way.
The population density is just way higher in Africa nowadays, which makes it easier for diseases to infect more people and spread farther away from the community where the initial outbreak happened.
Just remember that you will probably have many moments when you think that the tool doesn't solve the problem adequately, when in reality the tool does actually solve the problem adequately if you know how to use it. The real problem then is that the tool comes with inadequate documentation, or that it needs more or better tutorials and sample projects for novice users.
Note the part about forcing.ru websites to have their servers in Russia where they can be shut down at the discretion of the leader. I suspect this will first be condemned by western countries, then copied.
I want all devices to end up running HTML5 apps or some kind of compatible format. I'm working on a mobile game using CocoonJS. Phonegap is also pretty good, especially now that modern HTML5 canvas are rendering using webgl.
If one prefers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to write applications there is this thing called a "web browser" that can parse HTML and CSS and run JavaScript, as well as access various local resources on the device.
It often works reasonably well on phones and tablets too!
What about the non-HIV positive women they had sex with?
Penis in anus sex has a much higher risk of transmitting HIV compared to penis in vagina sex. We're talking something like a factor of ten difference.
It has always been a little bit mysterious that HIV manages to spread epidemically among heterosexual people who don't use iv drugs in Africa. I don't know if this mystery has been resolved yet.
Call me old fashioned, but if you know you're HIV+, and have unprotected sex with hundreds of people... you're an asshole.
I find it hard to believe all of those people have had the benefit of informed consent.
And, for what it's worth, yes, I do know people who are HIV+, and yes, they're gay men.
Stuff like this is what people have been trying to combat.
Yeah, the reason why these anecdotes are believable is that they are based on criminal investigations and court proceedings. As you might guess, some of those hundreds of men were not too happy.
Little known fact: a person with HIV who has access to the right retroviral drugs and takes them on time is practically unable to transmit HIV during sex. There are now anecdotes about HIV positive men who have had sex without using a condom with hundreds of non-HIV positive men without a single instance of transmitting the virus.
Of course, these people still transmit other STD:s.
There are actually Chinese noname watches that are basically fully fledged smartphones with most of what you'd expect from a smartphone in terms of features, including a camera. Example: http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|1016721942
Good luck getting that battery to last you through the day!
What would be nice and I don't know if we'll ever get there for lots of reasons (technological and sales/marketing) would be a watch-sized device becoming the root device with the phone or tablet being the kind of screen/user interface, tethered to the phone for network access. That way you could pick your "phone" based on size preference, or none at all if all you wanted was bluetooth audio and phone calling.
That is unlikely, barring some miraculous breakthrough in radio efficiency or battery capacity. The radio in the watch would drain the battery way too fast if it was constantly communicating with other devices.
A lot of fun ideas about how one might use mobile devices fall flat as soon as you factor in the energy storage constraint.
This is a popular sentiment, and it is true in the simple sense that if other people are satisfied with 3 GHz CPU:s then you will be satisfied too.
This hides the real reason why clock speeds of new CPU designs are no longer increasing at the rate that that they used to. The reasons are basically that they current way of making chips has largely run its course down to a dead end where it is not feasible to increase the clock speed. Maybe someone will think of a better way to make circuits, but for now we're stuck in the 3-5 GHz range.
Now you might say "but seriously, 3 GHz is enough for anyone". To which I would say: game makers and the makers of software IDE:s will think of ways to waste any amount CPU cycles available. Any amount. There would be a market for 3 THz CPU:s if it were possible to could make them (and sell them at a reasonable price point).
When you click the search box it often triggers a popup ad. I would imagine that ad sees hundreds of millions of impressions per month, which would translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars in monthly revenue at an average of $1 per 1000 impressions.
There are also some regular ads on the site. They could easily be making more than $10 million a year in ad revenue.
You can capture the sound and record it as a file in a format of your choice, but the average consumer will have a hard time recreating something that matches the experience that a well maintained streaming music service can offer.
We no longer even have to create playlist. We can just find an interesting playlist that someone else has created (for example a friend with good music taste, or a staff member who is payed to create playlist) and play it with one click. We can be pretentious all day long, but in the end instant gratification is instantly gratifying.
My library of pirated music is so out of date with my music taste that I would probably delete 95% of it, assuming the old drive that I put it on still works. It must be half a decade since I last spun it up. The only thing that leaves me unenthusiastic about streaming music is that these corporations hardly lift a finger to make it easy to contribute money to the artists.
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They probably have a client-side script that makes it hard to submit a long password.
Those of you who think that there mustn't be a limit to the size, consider what happens when some joker opens a text editor, types a word and then does this repeatedly a few times:
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Arrow key down, Ctrl-v
IIRC you needed a stylus to write effectively on those, no?
Microsoft may actually have made some genuine progress in signal processing and machine learning to allow you to write with your fingertips.
Wiktionary is your friend: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/...
AMD CPU:s reportedly return exactly the same values as Intel CPU:s. I'm guessing they do so for compatibility reasons, so that any workarounds that software developers have implemented work as expected.
Maybe people are catching on to the fact that a lot of what passes for advanced technology these days only amounts to the arrangement of pixels on screens.
Previous waves of technologies liberated us from hard work. The Internet wave, while impressive, has not really been able to do that.
And no, sites that help wealthier people buy services such as cooking, cleaning and driving from poorer people don't count, since the work is still done by a human. I'm talking about machines or devices that physically make work easier, or does work automatically. Like the washing machine. The washing machine is so far probably the best machine, or robot really, that we have invented in terms of how much work it saves per dollar. A 1930's invention, which predates computers. It's sad when you think about it.
I hope the breakthroughs are just around the corner and that soon we will have our self-driving cars and our household robots that do chores and what not. Until then I doubt we will see much excitement from the general public.
We'd obviously have to situate it off-world and use some sort of electromagnetic beam to send the generated energy to earth. Heck, given the amount of extra power generated, we could just send off the energy everywhere and there'd still be enough hitting the earth. We could then use devices here to convert that energy into electricity.
I oppose this idea, especially out of care for the children. I think the giant fusion reactor would have to be situated too close to schools and nature preserves and other sensitive areas and I don't think the radiation risks have been thoroughly analyzed and quantified.
Look, I'm not opposed to giant balls of hydrogen as long as you build them in suitable places. There are many examples where they have put them light-years away from Earth, where there aren't any schools or preschools, and I'm all in favor of those ones.
Oh, look, this guy just bought a new fridge. Let's show him lots of fridge ads. Oh, look he clicked one of the fridge ads! Wow, this guy is really into fridges.
Meanwhile in guy's home...
Guy: "Hmm, this fridge looks about as good as the one I bought and the price is about the same. Yeah, I feel good about my purchase. Not going to return it. See you in 15 years, fridge sellers."
The battle against overly authoritarian shitheads is not a 30-year battle. It is likely an eternal battle (for moderate values of the concepts of "battle" and "eternity").
(There is no Islamic State in the west, but there are other examples one could name. For example: despite mountains of evidence to the contrary there are still hundreds of millions of people in the western world who think that sending drug addicts to prison is a great idea.)
It is also not a battle that can be successfully fought by anyone who does not picture themselves having their great grandchildren live in the region, because only those who do will have the stamina to keep fighting forever. Americans or Europeans can't be responsible for fighting the battle for a Middle east free of The Islamic State, or whatever other pretentious banner these guys will be fighting under next year.
The fastest way to breed a population increase would be multiple females for every male.
Multiple uteri at any rate. Our ability to grow organs and have them live outside of the human body is improving rapidly. I don't think it is too far out to imagine that we might one day grow babies inside artificial uteri outside of the human body.
If science keeps progressing there may come a day when only the poor make their children the old fashioned way.
Two words: population growth.
The population density is just way higher in Africa nowadays, which makes it easier for diseases to infect more people and spread farther away from the community where the initial outbreak happened.
Just remember that you will probably have many moments when you think that the tool doesn't solve the problem adequately, when in reality the tool does actually solve the problem adequately if you know how to use it. The real problem then is that the tool comes with inadequate documentation, or that it needs more or better tutorials and sample projects for novice users.
Fortunately bozos like this doofus only have jurisdiction over a couple of square miles of land, not the entire global internet.
Wanker.
This guy has jurisdiction over more than 1/10 of the planet's land area: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Note the part about forcing .ru websites to have their servers in Russia where they can be shut down at the discretion of the leader. I suspect this will first be condemned by western countries, then copied.
I want all devices to end up running HTML5 apps or some kind of compatible format. I'm working on a mobile game using CocoonJS. Phonegap is also pretty good, especially now that modern HTML5 canvas are rendering using webgl.
If one prefers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to write applications there is this thing called a "web browser" that can parse HTML and CSS and run JavaScript, as well as access various local resources on the device.
It often works reasonably well on phones and tablets too!
What about the non-HIV positive women they had sex with?
Penis in anus sex has a much higher risk of transmitting HIV compared to penis in vagina sex. We're talking something like a factor of ten difference.
It has always been a little bit mysterious that HIV manages to spread epidemically among heterosexual people who don't use iv drugs in Africa. I don't know if this mystery has been resolved yet.
Call me old fashioned, but if you know you're HIV+, and have unprotected sex with hundreds of people ... you're an asshole.
I find it hard to believe all of those people have had the benefit of informed consent.
And, for what it's worth, yes, I do know people who are HIV+, and yes, they're gay men.
Stuff like this is what people have been trying to combat.
Yeah, the reason why these anecdotes are believable is that they are based on criminal investigations and court proceedings. As you might guess, some of those hundreds of men were not too happy.
Little known fact: a person with HIV who has access to the right retroviral drugs and takes them on time is practically unable to transmit HIV during sex. There are now anecdotes about HIV positive men who have had sex without using a condom with hundreds of non-HIV positive men without a single instance of transmitting the virus.
Of course, these people still transmit other STD:s.
What about SUPER t, e, r, ENTER?
Holy shit! Mod parent up!
+1 scary
The good news is human fertility rate is about to skyrocket before that happens!
There are actually Chinese noname watches that are basically fully fledged smartphones with most of what you'd expect from a smartphone in terms of features, including a camera. Example: http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|1016721942
Good luck getting that battery to last you through the day!
What would be nice and I don't know if we'll ever get there for lots of reasons (technological and sales/marketing) would be a watch-sized device becoming the root device with the phone or tablet being the kind of screen/user interface, tethered to the phone for network access. That way you could pick your "phone" based on size preference, or none at all if all you wanted was bluetooth audio and phone calling.
That is unlikely, barring some miraculous breakthrough in radio efficiency or battery capacity. The radio in the watch would drain the battery way too fast if it was constantly communicating with other devices.
A lot of fun ideas about how one might use mobile devices fall flat as soon as you factor in the energy storage constraint.
This is a popular sentiment, and it is true in the simple sense that if other people are satisfied with 3 GHz CPU:s then you will be satisfied too.
This hides the real reason why clock speeds of new CPU designs are no longer increasing at the rate that that they used to. The reasons are basically that they current way of making chips has largely run its course down to a dead end where it is not feasible to increase the clock speed. Maybe someone will think of a better way to make circuits, but for now we're stuck in the 3-5 GHz range.
Now you might say "but seriously, 3 GHz is enough for anyone". To which I would say: game makers and the makers of software IDE:s will think of ways to waste any amount CPU cycles available. Any amount. There would be a market for 3 THz CPU:s if it were possible to could make them (and sell them at a reasonable price point).
Most of the ads are for things that you can't pirate, like online casinos, free to play games, "dating" sites...
When you click the search box it often triggers a popup ad. I would imagine that ad sees hundreds of millions of impressions per month, which would translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars in monthly revenue at an average of $1 per 1000 impressions.
There are also some regular ads on the site. They could easily be making more than $10 million a year in ad revenue.
You can capture the sound and record it as a file in a format of your choice, but the average consumer will have a hard time recreating something that matches the experience that a well maintained streaming music service can offer.
We no longer even have to create playlist. We can just find an interesting playlist that someone else has created (for example a friend with good music taste, or a staff member who is payed to create playlist) and play it with one click. We can be pretentious all day long, but in the end instant gratification is instantly gratifying.
My library of pirated music is so out of date with my music taste that I would probably delete 95% of it, assuming the old drive that I put it on still works. It must be half a decade since I last spun it up. The only thing that leaves me unenthusiastic about streaming music is that these corporations hardly lift a finger to make it easy to contribute money to the artists.
The only way to make something unpiratable is to have it be a continuous interaction between a client and a server where you control the server.
I guess this music "format" is essentially going to be Apple's answer to Pandora, Spotify, et al.