I was gonna say that:(
If you have to drive farther than a charge will get you to get to the "free" recharge station, what's the point?
The point is these stations will eventually be everywhere. But you can't really start at the end, you have to start at the beginning. Which is just three states, in this case.
Re: the 4 ports. It's OK, without porn, jokes against religion, and banking, no more than four people will want to use the Internet at any given time anyways, so that'll be fine. Probably won't even have to set up timesharing.
Oh and Linksys is unfortunately not CAMEL compatible. I'm not sure where you could get a router that is, but you can probably Goog... oh, wait, right.
Sounds like a big LAN to me. But, it might be harder for us to get viruses into them now.
A big LAN is a WAN. There are also some technical differences that make a WAN a WAN (WANs use different IP address space, and most specifically are a network composed of networks, unlike a LAN which is almost always a single network), although there isn't really a set rule that I am aware of that distinguishes a large LAN from a WAN.
I know, it's a shame. Of course, we just need the millions of dollars to ship the food half-way around the world to the people who need it, and the refrigeration to keep it so it doesn't spoil in the process, all of which costs more than the damned food in the first place (not to mention using a vast amount of fossil fuels which will probably just make the problem worse in the long run). See, thats the problem: starvation doesn't happen because there isn't enough food in the world, it happens because there isn't enough food where people need the food the most. The problem isn't human-consumable food in the US being fed to cows: it was never viable to feed that to starving people in Africa in the first place. It's just not logistically viable. The problem is Africa (et alia) isn't producing enough of it's own food to feed its people (which is the result of a combination of problems).
Yes. Website, singular. It's the only major site I'm aware of that uses it, which is a really really bad sign for Silverlight. And it only really worked for Netflix (IMO) because there wasn't a lot of serious competition in that field (unlimited streaming in addition to DVD rentals, although those are now split, they weren't at the time), so people could complain, but not really chose another option.
Dump Silverlight? Well in that case I have good news for you as Silverlight is still widely used and on huge websites. It's not going anywhere.
Haha. HAHAHA!! Way to prove you're not a shill. Haha, that was funny. Oh and since OP was your second post on Slashdot and was posted at the exact same time as the story went live: you're very very definitely a shill, probably a paid one. So... go away, I hear Twitter is nice to your kind.
NASA is notorious for stating "water" interchangeably with the fluid state of gasses.
This is cause the wild cry of "WATER" fuels media cycles and helps to obtain and justify project funding,
First of all, you could comment with somewhat less flame-bait (it usually isn't NASA that does that but the media itself)... but yes, they found evidence of actual water. Not proof, mind you, since they didn't actually land and take a sample, but they found an excess of hydrogen and certain surface features that are characteristic of water. It's possible all that is caused by something besides water, but it's most likely water.
"Five-Point Tamper-Resistant Torx-Plus" =/= Pentalobe, the shape is very definitely different (Torx-Plus is pentagonal with straight side, pentalobe has... lobular sides). See Wikipedia for a picture. Note that this is probably the source of the confusion: it looks almost, but not quite, like a Torx.
I've had pentalobe drivers since before Jobs went back to apple and at least 15 years before the iPhone ever existed.
Just because you aren't used to seeing them on all the crap you buy designed to be as cheap as possible.
I call BS on this, everything I've googled is stating that Pentalobe is a new design that Apple came up with. It is very similar to the Torx screw, but incompatible by design. Unless you have some link to prove that pentalobe is not a new design, I'm gonna say you are shilling or mistaken.
Reactors which require running pumps to not fail are not designed to be fail safe.
Yes, they are. They are not designed to be fail safe if everything fails, but they are designed to be fail-safe if there is one or two failures, that's what the back-up pumps are for. Just because it is possible for a system to fail in a 1-in-a-trillion case doesn't mean the system isn't "fail-safe", if you used that definition it would apply to absolutely nothing (literally nothing).
So if xerox an out-of-print book, is it now an original work? I can control many of the same factors on any good Xerox machine.
If you go in front of a judge and try to defend it, maybe (IANAL and don't know if there is case law around this subject already, so I could be completely wrong). Probably not though, since most of the copying is done by a machine (whereas photography involves vastly more manual effort e.g. positioning lights, cameras, shutters, etc.), but you certainly could try.
Which was what exactly?!?!?!? the 1 million dollar bail is higher than a normal murder charge bail. While making comments like this might be illegal, or in poor taste, the response seems a bit over the top.
Yes, but for most murderers the judge doesn't have strong reason to suspect they might go out and murder again. With the threats this guy made, the judge does have strong reason to suspect he might go and murder people. Hence, a high bail.
Hmm, now that I google it looks like my memory may have been bad. I remember there was plans to do this on some laptops (ultrabooks specifically, I think), but looks like they never followed through. Or I just can't find them.
IIRC some laptops do exactly this to recover energy. However, it isn't terribly effective or cost-efficient. You certainly can, though (tends to reduce the effectiveness of the sink as well, although that depends on the exact design.)
The gun does explode: the idea is that they are cheap plastic guns which it is easier to simply make again ("digistruct") than to bother reloading. It doesn't teleport back, you replicate a whole new (identical but full clip) gun.
There is a "star" button by weapons/items, I'm not 100% sure what it does though since I haven't tested it. There isn't a sell-all function (that I've seen), but the star will definitely help (or would if I used it).
That isn't the goal of the system at all. The goal is to integrate the system with a person on the battlefield so that humans and computers can work together to identify threats (possibly miles away) far faster than either could do alone. Mount that on a tank or helicopter, or eventually even on a Google Glass-like display, and you have soldiers who are vastly better informed than they would otherwise be.
Of course, being DARPA technology, it is quite likely it will never be used by the military. It might, however, have some very interesting civilian applications (such as in an evolution of Google Glass, for example).
But for the most part on the desktop Solid State doesn't make too much sense.
Are you kidding? SSDs are about 5-10 times faster than HDD. Considering that in many computers, the HDD is by far the slowest component, not a bottleneck for some applications, but usually a minor one for everything (everything comes from storage at some point). Upgraded to an SSD and saw a stunning gain in responsiveness for nearly every single usage on my desktop. It was obviously massive for boot times (probably ~3 times faster), but overall everything is vastly snappier. And I'm only running a SATA II connection from my motherboard, which means I'm only getting about 1/2 the top speed of the SSD.
No. Well, probably not. That's one problem in cosmology that goes back a few hundred years (at least to the time of Netwon through Einstein). Not sure what the current theory states about it.
The fact that this price might be "subsidized" doesn't really matter since my phone bill won't go down if I'm kinder to the planet and forgo a phone upgrade.
It would if you went with a different provider (pre-paid mostly, but I believe T-Mobile offers a reduced-cost plan after the phone itself is paid off... I'm assuming you are in the US, but the same is true internationally). The fact is you are paying quite a lot more for the phone than you are for a new quite good desktop or even laptop, sometimes twice as much. Most people just don't notice since the cost is spread out over several years.
...or the judges are very bad at distinguishing human from bot. One interesting thing to note is that lower skill default bots were rated quite highly on the "humanness" rating (higher than the average for humans), which might suggest the judges thought human players are worse than bots. The default bots "humanness" average was only slightly below the average for the actual human players (~37% vs ~41%), which suggests the methodology is a little questionable. If you can't distinguish the default, "non-humanized" bots from actual humans, how would you expect to distinguish bots that have been intended to be "humanized"?
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"Your Rights Online". Sounds like a nerd issue to me.
I was gonna say that :(
If you have to drive farther than a charge will get you to get to the "free" recharge station, what's the point?
The point is these stations will eventually be everywhere. But you can't really start at the end, you have to start at the beginning. Which is just three states, in this case.
Re: the 4 ports. It's OK, without porn, jokes against religion, and banking, no more than four people will want to use the Internet at any given time anyways, so that'll be fine. Probably won't even have to set up timesharing.
Oh and Linksys is unfortunately not CAMEL compatible. I'm not sure where you could get a router that is, but you can probably Goog... oh, wait, right.
Sounds like a big LAN to me. But, it might be harder for us to get viruses into them now.
A big LAN is a WAN. There are also some technical differences that make a WAN a WAN (WANs use different IP address space, and most specifically are a network composed of networks, unlike a LAN which is almost always a single network), although there isn't really a set rule that I am aware of that distinguishes a large LAN from a WAN.
I know, it's a shame. Of course, we just need the millions of dollars to ship the food half-way around the world to the people who need it, and the refrigeration to keep it so it doesn't spoil in the process, all of which costs more than the damned food in the first place (not to mention using a vast amount of fossil fuels which will probably just make the problem worse in the long run). See, thats the problem: starvation doesn't happen because there isn't enough food in the world, it happens because there isn't enough food where people need the food the most. The problem isn't human-consumable food in the US being fed to cows: it was never viable to feed that to starving people in Africa in the first place. It's just not logistically viable. The problem is Africa (et alia) isn't producing enough of it's own food to feed its people (which is the result of a combination of problems).
Yes. Website, singular. It's the only major site I'm aware of that uses it, which is a really really bad sign for Silverlight. And it only really worked for Netflix (IMO) because there wasn't a lot of serious competition in that field (unlimited streaming in addition to DVD rentals, although those are now split, they weren't at the time), so people could complain, but not really chose another option.
Dump Silverlight? Well in that case I have good news for you as Silverlight is still widely used and on huge websites. It's not going anywhere.
Haha. HAHAHA!! Way to prove you're not a shill. Haha, that was funny. Oh and since OP was your second post on Slashdot and was posted at the exact same time as the story went live: you're very very definitely a shill, probably a paid one. So... go away, I hear Twitter is nice to your kind.
NASA is notorious for stating "water" interchangeably with the fluid state of gasses. This is cause the wild cry of "WATER" fuels media cycles and helps to obtain and justify project funding,
First of all, you could comment with somewhat less flame-bait (it usually isn't NASA that does that but the media itself)... but yes, they found evidence of actual water. Not proof, mind you, since they didn't actually land and take a sample, but they found an excess of hydrogen and certain surface features that are characteristic of water. It's possible all that is caused by something besides water, but it's most likely water.
"Five-Point Tamper-Resistant Torx-Plus" =/= Pentalobe, the shape is very definitely different (Torx-Plus is pentagonal with straight side, pentalobe has... lobular sides). See Wikipedia for a picture. Note that this is probably the source of the confusion: it looks almost, but not quite, like a Torx.
I've had pentalobe drivers since before Jobs went back to apple and at least 15 years before the iPhone ever existed.
Just because you aren't used to seeing them on all the crap you buy designed to be as cheap as possible.
I call BS on this, everything I've googled is stating that Pentalobe is a new design that Apple came up with. It is very similar to the Torx screw, but incompatible by design. Unless you have some link to prove that pentalobe is not a new design, I'm gonna say you are shilling or mistaken.
Nuclear reactors are designed to be "fail safe".
Reactors which require running pumps to not fail are not designed to be fail safe.
Yes, they are. They are not designed to be fail safe if everything fails, but they are designed to be fail-safe if there is one or two failures, that's what the back-up pumps are for. Just because it is possible for a system to fail in a 1-in-a-trillion case doesn't mean the system isn't "fail-safe", if you used that definition it would apply to absolutely nothing (literally nothing).
Don't you hate it when politicians do what they said they would?
Well, that is the opposite of what we generally expect them to do.
And this just goes to show you... no matter how wrong you are, as long as you're a big enough asshole, you'll at least get most of your way.
Really? I'd say his neighbors won, in this case: they get to not live in New Mexico, especially not next to this guy. Major win for them.
So if xerox an out-of-print book, is it now an original work? I can control many of the same factors on any good Xerox machine.
If you go in front of a judge and try to defend it, maybe (IANAL and don't know if there is case law around this subject already, so I could be completely wrong). Probably not though, since most of the copying is done by a machine (whereas photography involves vastly more manual effort e.g. positioning lights, cameras, shutters, etc.), but you certainly could try.
Which was what exactly?!?!?!? the 1 million dollar bail is higher than a normal murder charge bail. While making comments like this might be illegal, or in poor taste, the response seems a bit over the top.
Yes, but for most murderers the judge doesn't have strong reason to suspect they might go out and murder again. With the threats this guy made, the judge does have strong reason to suspect he might go and murder people. Hence, a high bail.
Hmm, now that I google it looks like my memory may have been bad. I remember there was plans to do this on some laptops (ultrabooks specifically, I think), but looks like they never followed through. Or I just can't find them.
IIRC some laptops do exactly this to recover energy. However, it isn't terribly effective or cost-efficient. You certainly can, though (tends to reduce the effectiveness of the sink as well, although that depends on the exact design.)
The gun does explode: the idea is that they are cheap plastic guns which it is easier to simply make again ("digistruct") than to bother reloading. It doesn't teleport back, you replicate a whole new (identical but full clip) gun.
There is a "star" button by weapons/items, I'm not 100% sure what it does though since I haven't tested it. There isn't a sell-all function (that I've seen), but the star will definitely help (or would if I used it).
That isn't the goal of the system at all. The goal is to integrate the system with a person on the battlefield so that humans and computers can work together to identify threats (possibly miles away) far faster than either could do alone. Mount that on a tank or helicopter, or eventually even on a Google Glass-like display, and you have soldiers who are vastly better informed than they would otherwise be.
Of course, being DARPA technology, it is quite likely it will never be used by the military. It might, however, have some very interesting civilian applications (such as in an evolution of Google Glass, for example).
But a screen or even a whole laptop can be replaced. The data on a hard drive sometimes can't (everyone should have a backup, but not everyone does).
But for the most part on the desktop Solid State doesn't make too much sense.
Are you kidding? SSDs are about 5-10 times faster than HDD. Considering that in many computers, the HDD is by far the slowest component, not a bottleneck for some applications, but usually a minor one for everything (everything comes from storage at some point). Upgraded to an SSD and saw a stunning gain in responsiveness for nearly every single usage on my desktop. It was obviously massive for boot times (probably ~3 times faster), but overall everything is vastly snappier. And I'm only running a SATA II connection from my motherboard, which means I'm only getting about 1/2 the top speed of the SSD.
No. Well, probably not. That's one problem in cosmology that goes back a few hundred years (at least to the time of Netwon through Einstein). Not sure what the current theory states about it.
The fact that this price might be "subsidized" doesn't really matter since my phone bill won't go down if I'm kinder to the planet and forgo a phone upgrade.
It would if you went with a different provider (pre-paid mostly, but I believe T-Mobile offers a reduced-cost plan after the phone itself is paid off... I'm assuming you are in the US, but the same is true internationally). The fact is you are paying quite a lot more for the phone than you are for a new quite good desktop or even laptop, sometimes twice as much. Most people just don't notice since the cost is spread out over several years.
...or the judges are very bad at distinguishing human from bot. One interesting thing to note is that lower skill default bots were rated quite highly on the "humanness" rating (higher than the average for humans), which might suggest the judges thought human players are worse than bots. The default bots "humanness" average was only slightly below the average for the actual human players (~37% vs ~41%), which suggests the methodology is a little questionable. If you can't distinguish the default, "non-humanized" bots from actual humans, how would you expect to distinguish bots that have been intended to be "humanized"?