Don't know why you've been modded troll, perhaps just a little too enthusiastic about the abilities of the iPad, but in essence I agree. With one added thought: kindergarteners are unlikely to be able to use a traditional PC without actually being taught how to use its input devices (I suspect that most won't have used one before, at least in the earlier years). A touchscreen, however, is intuitive enough that with the right software you can just give one to the kid and they can actually figure it out themselves. Particularly if it has voice prompts, rather than just textual information on screen.
There's more cost than just the hardware: as has already been mentioned, there's going to be software put on these, they aren't just giving out iPads for the hell of it. Also, at a guess, they're insuring them against loss or accidental damage (which, given they're being given to kids, is quite a high risk, so the premium will be pricey). And admin of the scheme won't be free, either -- they'll have to account for the cost of employee time in making the acquisitions and distributing the devices.
Depending on how you measure it, this really isn't anywhere near true. Pretty clearly, one of the most important things to consider is how likely you were/are to end up being killed for no good reason in these countries. In Somalia there are currently about 230 violent deaths per million population per annum (approx. 200 due to their ongoing civil war, and 30 from other causes). In Stalin's Soviet Union, however, the figure was (at least some years) many, many times higher than this. At the absolute worst, the figure rose to somewhere around 40,000 (including the victims of intentionally created famine). Total estimates of the number of people Stalin killed in the period from 1930 to 1940 put the figure in the region of 15 million. That's out of a population of about 160 million, so if you were there you had a pretty significant chance of ending up daed, unlike in Somalia where for the most part people are relatively safe.
The Soviet Union *really* sucked. Don't underestimate by how much.
No, it is not absolutely their job. They can't make up the laws. They have to follow what is written.
Juries don't *have* to do anything. They're *told* to follow the law as written, but they are perfectly free to return any verdict they choose for whatever reason they want.
The problem isn't detecting the loss after the event the problem is predicting 23 sigma moves. [...] Why did he have such a large position ? That Risk & Management MUST have known about.
A few things occur: if it really was a 23 sigma move (I haven't been watching the markets lately, so didn't know what was going on), then the fault really is neither the trader's nor particularly the management of the bank's, but rather the entire industry's. We're talking about an international system of de-facto standard risk management that assumes the worst net losses these traders will sustain is around 5 * sigma. If he'd lost what the models predict he was risking, which is to say about $400 million, I doubt anyone would have made this much fuss. He may have been fired (or perhaps he just wouldn't be getting his bonus this year), but we wouldn't have heard about it. They simply need to start thinking more about the non-trivial risk of unexpected large scale movements (which are not readily accounted for by the standard statistical approaches that are commonly used) and the effects they can have.
Yes, although both the thermal capacity and conductivity of ferrofluids are lower than the equivalents for water. so you'd need to pump it somewhat faster than you would a water cooling system, but it could be a completely hermetically sealed unit, which has obvious advantages...
The problem is that producing a programming language with verbose keywords and so on doesn't actually make it any easier to work with, at least once you get beyond trivial levels. The easiness is superficial. Once you get beyond the surface level (which most people can do in a matter of just a few weeks working with a language) the verbosity just gets in the way of seeing the truly important things. And the consistency of c-like syntax means there's actually less stuff to remember. How do you end the block of instructions for a while loop? Oh, yes, '}'. The same as every other block. In BASIC, however, I have to stop and think, is it 'END WHILE'? 'NEXT'? Ah, no, it's 'WEND'. 'NEXT' is for 'FOR' loops, and 'END (keyword)' is for 'IF'.
If verbosity were the key to making programming languages understandable, COBOL would have been the last language we ever needed.
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
True, I might have to look at it again around Windows 9 or 10.
So: Windows NT 6.1 was released as Windows 7. Windows NT 7.0 will be released as Windows 8. Will 7.1 become Windows 9, or do you think they'll realise the naming scheme is crazy before then?
Here's another idea - why not just NOT buy windows 8 and stick with windows 7 if it bothers you that much?
Because MS operate a support policy where support for old OSs is phased out a fixed length of time after the next version launches. Eventually, we'll all be forced to switch to either windows 8 or windows 9 if we want to keep getting security updates.
The user does not need to "switch" to classic, they just launch it, because its an application.
Yeah. And then when they want to launch a new application they press the start button, which switches them back. What was wrong with the start menu? It worked, didn't it?
they described as "running out of frames" when people torrent. I don't know what they meant by that really.
Allow me to translate: we haven't paid for enough bandwidth to cope with the demands of all of our clients. We'll use word "frames" here to refer to data transfer capacity as it will confuse most people and they won't realise it's because we're cheapskate bastards. A minority of our clients use bittorrent, but use a large proportion of our available bandwidth to do so. By blocking bittorrent, we have enough bandwidth for the rest of our clients.
Seriously, get a new ISP. If they've blocked bittorrent the smart installers and autoupdaters for a lot of popular software won't work for you.
It's quite difficult to download a popular torrent without also uploading. You'd need a hacked client in order to be able to achieve it, and most such clients get blacklisted by trackers when they're discovered.
About ten or twelve years back [...] when idle cycles used just as much power as processing an instruction
Bullshit. Intel processors have been using lower power when idle since at least the 486DX2 models (which switched down their clock multipliers when idle), and the optimizations have only been getting more aggressive with time.
From where I stand, screen resolutions are *decreasing*. Used to be that 19" monitors would typically support 1600x1200, but most that I see advertised for sale these days are either 1440x900 or 1366x768. That's actually fewer pixels than my 17" at 1280x1024.
I don't understand how this property works. As soon as you trade your bitcoin for a service/product your psuedonymity appears to dissapear.
Yes & no. The only thing that can be tracked is the individual flow of coins. There's no way of tying two coins together and saying the same person owns both of them, unless they're both used in the same transaction. You can easily partition your coins so that you have two completely separate identitities, for example. Or you can trade coins with other users to confuse the transaction records (there are services that will do this for a small fee, so you pick up coins provided by a completely random network user, and they end up with your coins). There are some issues with stastical analysis, but in the end it is very difficult to tie down different transactions as being from the same person.
Chances are they simply use a monochrome CCD; such cameras are sensitive to IR, so IR illumination works at night. During the day, they'll pick up regular light as well, though, and even at night the illumination on your license plate ought to be enough for them to detect it some of the time.
Frankly, based on what I see here, there was nothing wrong with Vista. Sure, it needed a bit of tweaking, but this new version sounds hideous. A full screen application selection interface that's triggered whenever you press the 'start' button or when you first log in. MS pushing application developers down a route where their apps will only run full screen (or at least not coexist with traditional desktop apps). And it sounds like if you disable it (IF that's even possible -- the article doesn't discuss the possibility), you won't get the new features. Yeah, Vista was fine in comparison to this.
They should do their research before inventing things that duplicate things that already exist. Most professions have a day dedicated to them simply because most professions have a patron saint, and all saints have a day allocated to them by the Catholic church.
In the case of programming, the relevant saint is Isidore of Seville, whose saint's day is 4th of April.
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Don't know why you've been modded troll, perhaps just a little too enthusiastic about the abilities of the iPad, but in essence I agree. With one added thought: kindergarteners are unlikely to be able to use a traditional PC without actually being taught how to use its input devices (I suspect that most won't have used one before, at least in the earlier years). A touchscreen, however, is intuitive enough that with the right software you can just give one to the kid and they can actually figure it out themselves. Particularly if it has voice prompts, rather than just textual information on screen.
There's more cost than just the hardware: as has already been mentioned, there's going to be software put on these, they aren't just giving out iPads for the hell of it. Also, at a guess, they're insuring them against loss or accidental damage (which, given they're being given to kids, is quite a high risk, so the premium will be pricey). And admin of the scheme won't be free, either -- they'll have to account for the cost of employee time in making the acquisitions and distributing the devices.
The Soviet Union sucked, but Somalia sucks worse.
Depending on how you measure it, this really isn't anywhere near true. Pretty clearly, one of the most important things to consider is how likely you were/are to end up being killed for no good reason in these countries. In Somalia there are currently about 230 violent deaths per million population per annum (approx. 200 due to their ongoing civil war, and 30 from other causes). In Stalin's Soviet Union, however, the figure was (at least some years) many, many times higher than this. At the absolute worst, the figure rose to somewhere around 40,000 (including the victims of intentionally created famine). Total estimates of the number of people Stalin killed in the period from 1930 to 1940 put the figure in the region of 15 million. That's out of a population of about 160 million, so if you were there you had a pretty significant chance of ending up daed, unlike in Somalia where for the most part people are relatively safe.
The Soviet Union *really* sucked. Don't underestimate by how much.
No, it is not absolutely their job. They can't make up the laws. They have to follow what is written.
Juries don't *have* to do anything. They're *told* to follow the law as written, but they are perfectly free to return any verdict they choose for whatever reason they want.
The problem isn't detecting the loss after the event the problem is predicting 23 sigma moves. [...] Why did he have such a large position ? That Risk & Management MUST have known about.
A few things occur: if it really was a 23 sigma move (I haven't been watching the markets lately, so didn't know what was going on), then the fault really is neither the trader's nor particularly the management of the bank's, but rather the entire industry's. We're talking about an international system of de-facto standard risk management that assumes the worst net losses these traders will sustain is around 5 * sigma. If he'd lost what the models predict he was risking, which is to say about $400 million, I doubt anyone would have made this much fuss. He may have been fired (or perhaps he just wouldn't be getting his bonus this year), but we wouldn't have heard about it. They simply need to start thinking more about the non-trivial risk of unexpected large scale movements (which are not readily accounted for by the standard statistical approaches that are commonly used) and the effects they can have.
Like the song says: You can't always get what you want...
... but if you try sometimes you get decapitated in a plane crash?
Yes, although both the thermal capacity and conductivity of ferrofluids are lower than the equivalents for water. so you'd need to pump it somewhat faster than you would a water cooling system, but it could be a completely hermetically sealed unit, which has obvious advantages...
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The problem is that producing a programming language with verbose keywords and so on doesn't actually make it any easier to work with, at least once you get beyond trivial levels. The easiness is superficial. Once you get beyond the surface level (which most people can do in a matter of just a few weeks working with a language) the verbosity just gets in the way of seeing the truly important things. And the consistency of c-like syntax means there's actually less stuff to remember. How do you end the block of instructions for a while loop? Oh, yes, '}'. The same as every other block. In BASIC, however, I have to stop and think, is it 'END WHILE'? 'NEXT'? Ah, no, it's 'WEND'. 'NEXT' is for 'FOR' loops, and 'END (keyword)' is for 'IF'.
If verbosity were the key to making programming languages understandable, COBOL would have been the last language we ever needed.
That's what most people said about XP when Vista was on the horizon.
True, I might have to look at it again around Windows 9 or 10.
So: Windows NT 6.1 was released as Windows 7. Windows NT 7.0 will be released as Windows 8. Will 7.1 become Windows 9, or do you think they'll realise the naming scheme is crazy before then?
Well guess what? I'm sure there will be a checkbox to make your system boot into the Win7 UI every time.
Apparently not, at least in the preview release, although there is a registry hack. Unfortunately, it apparently disables some of the other advanced features of Win8 that aren't related to the metro UI at the same time. See: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/how-to-get-a-windows-7-start-menu-in-windows-8-20110914
Here's another idea - why not just NOT buy windows 8 and stick with windows 7 if it bothers you that much?
Because MS operate a support policy where support for old OSs is phased out a fixed length of time after the next version launches. Eventually, we'll all be forced to switch to either windows 8 or windows 9 if we want to keep getting security updates.
The user does not need to "switch" to classic, they just launch it, because its an application.
Yeah. And then when they want to launch a new application they press the start button, which switches them back. What was wrong with the start menu? It worked, didn't it?
Shouldn't that be "CRASH!"?
If you insist.
they described as "running out of frames" when people torrent. I don't know what they meant by that really.
Allow me to translate: we haven't paid for enough bandwidth to cope with the demands of all of our clients. We'll use word "frames" here to refer to data transfer capacity as it will confuse most people and they won't realise it's because we're cheapskate bastards. A minority of our clients use bittorrent, but use a large proportion of our available bandwidth to do so. By blocking bittorrent, we have enough bandwidth for the rest of our clients.
Seriously, get a new ISP. If they've blocked bittorrent the smart installers and autoupdaters for a lot of popular software won't work for you.
It's quite difficult to download a popular torrent without also uploading. You'd need a hacked client in order to be able to achieve it, and most such clients get blacklisted by trackers when they're discovered.
actually all mainstream music and film sucks indeed. and games. and im no generation x.
No. If you were, you'd be more likely to punctuate correctly and use at-least-approximately correct grammar. ;)
Yes, but would he be banned from using the postal system?
The presence of BDRIPs on TPB suggests it may have been.
About ten or twelve years back [...] when idle cycles used just as much power as processing an instruction
Bullshit. Intel processors have been using lower power when idle since at least the 486DX2 models (which switched down their clock multipliers when idle), and the optimizations have only been getting more aggressive with time.
From where I stand, screen resolutions are *decreasing*. Used to be that 19" monitors would typically support 1600x1200, but most that I see advertised for sale these days are either 1440x900 or 1366x768. That's actually fewer pixels than my 17" at 1280x1024.
I don't understand how this property works. As soon as you trade your bitcoin for a service/product your psuedonymity appears to dissapear.
Yes & no. The only thing that can be tracked is the individual flow of coins. There's no way of tying two coins together and saying the same person owns both of them, unless they're both used in the same transaction. You can easily partition your coins so that you have two completely separate identitities, for example. Or you can trade coins with other users to confuse the transaction records (there are services that will do this for a small fee, so you pick up coins provided by a completely random network user, and they end up with your coins). There are some issues with stastical analysis, but in the end it is very difficult to tie down different transactions as being from the same person.
Chances are they simply use a monochrome CCD; such cameras are sensitive to IR, so IR illumination works at night. During the day, they'll pick up regular light as well, though, and even at night the illumination on your license plate ought to be enough for them to detect it some of the time.
Frankly, based on what I see here, there was nothing wrong with Vista. Sure, it needed a bit of tweaking, but this new version sounds hideous. A full screen application selection interface that's triggered whenever you press the 'start' button or when you first log in. MS pushing application developers down a route where their apps will only run full screen (or at least not coexist with traditional desktop apps). And it sounds like if you disable it (IF that's even possible -- the article doesn't discuss the possibility), you won't get the new features. Yeah, Vista was fine in comparison to this.
They should do their research before inventing things that duplicate things that already exist. Most professions have a day dedicated to them simply because most professions have a patron saint, and all saints have a day allocated to them by the Catholic church.
In the case of programming, the relevant saint is Isidore of Seville, whose saint's day is 4th of April.