Because they're terrorists and sponsors of terrorism. At least historically (the law is from 1994, remember). Seriously. Children suicide bombers, using kindergartens and hospitals as armories and staging grounds for armed assaults, that sort of thing. So a law preventing funding to an organization which they are members of (which would likely result in them receiving funding from said organization which they would quite likely use to make bombs, or at least hide them underneath medical supplies) made sense. Again, made, I don't know if it still does.
Well no, of course not. No more Israel, no more war! Yeah, that's certainly one solution to the problem.
And AFAIK Obama said nothing about the peace process. What he did was follow the law. Good for him. If you want the law changed, protest to Congress. Or Bill Clinton/ previous Congresses, the law passed under his/ their purview (not that complaining now would do much good.) DO NOT complain when a President actually follows the law.
A one-hour flight would cost something near to 6 Euro for electricity
So what is that in non-monopoly money?:) (before I get flamed: US centric site, and USD is the standard international currency.)
More on topic: while that multi-copter looks really cool, it also looks like a good way to loose weight. Specifically, by having your flesh smeared all over the field. Helicopter blades are usually put over the copter for a reason (though that does tend to make ejector seats... problematic.)
This is not a new idea, BTW, I remember reading an article about a copter like this which was intended to be used by the military to pass safely over minefields. Stability is a massive problem, because like I said, if you fall into the blades, you get an action-movie worthy death (or at least major accident, depending on blade speed/ construction).
If the team members are working for and/ or with Google on the project, Google can use their work on the project. Unless Google is using technology from peoples' work outside the team, there is no way a problem should arise. So, unless someone has proof that Google is in fact using work from people outside the development team or work that the members clearly state falls outside what they are doing for Google, where is there a problem?
For that matter, is this just Slashdot speculation or does one of those links actually point to a TFA (full of speculation)? Because I couldn't find one. Seriously, summaries are summaries. Don't try to turn them into not-quite-full articles themselves please Slashdot.
Also, is this actually a question someone is answering? Again, I skimmed all the links and couldn't find it. Even the last link didn't (seem to) say anything about Levandowski (the unnamed "key" team member) claiming the IP was his-and-his alone (although I may have missed it.)
The researchers suspect that the shape of the human ear canal may be to blame for the pain. Previous studies have shown that the ear canal amplifies certain frequencies, including those in the range of 2000 to 4000 Hz. A loud screech on a chalkboard could be amplified within our ears to painful effect, the researchers propose.
So, in a sense they did. They didn't prove this is why it is annoying, but it is definitely a possible (and likely) explanation. I personally have noticed those noises appear extremely loud (and hence very annoying.) This may also explain why some people don't find it quite as annoying (as some comments above note): minor variation in ear canal shape would amplify different specific ranges, so certain frequencies could annoy different people more.
The ratings also changed depending on what the listeners thought the sounds were. If they thought a sound came from a musical composition, they rated it as less unpleasant than if they knew it actually was fingernails on a chalkboard. But their skin conductivity changed consistently even when they thought the chalkboard sound was from music and rated it as less unpleasant.
So yes. They discovered that, even when people said they didn't find it as unpleasant (and thought it was supposed to be music), there was still a physical pain-like reaction in the hearers. Some sounds really are painful.
Of course, I would probably find it even more painful if you told me it was from a modern musical composition. Cannot stand that crap (I'm talking the orchestral-style musical crap, not the Britney Spears-style musical crap.)
You can't default on student loans. But yeah, otherwise you are correct. Not sure what your comment about needing high academics to get into state-run institutes is about, though. Most state universities aren't particularly academically challenging.
I think the biggest problem is the idea that people universally need college degrees. In reality, all you should really need is a high school diploma. If you need specialized training for a job, go to a trade school. People going for 4 year degrees in CS (for example)? Ridiculous. That stuff can and should be learned in a couple of years, dirt cheap. But modern colleges have been turned into trade schools, that cost more and take 4 years plus require you to take a bunch of ultimately unnecessary stuff. All because people think you need a college degree to be employable. To be fair, a lot of employers think this too (which is bullshit). I can certainly learn enough on my own to get a job programming, for instance, without any kind of college degree.
Of course, given how bad our high schools are, I suppose you can't take a HS diploma as meaning jack-shit anymore. But that is a whole nother, and vast, issue.
Pay about $100 more, and you can even get a screen!
I think you are rather missing the point, which is that these are absolute dead cheap, low power devices that can do quite a lot. If you need bluetooth, Wifi, and the rest, get a cheap internet tablet (some exist ion the 100-200 dollar range). The point of these are dead-cheap, low power applications, while still having a full-on computer. I can't even think of any real applications I would use it for, but just because I can't doesn't mean a lot of Linux hackers can't. And producing cheap stuff like this is always good. Otherwise, you end up with the feature-but-price creep so common in nearly all consumer electronics areas. Digital cameras are the best example I can think of. We could produce cheap, but very good quality, 5-6 MP cameras, which is good enough for most people. We don't, because companies would rather phase out older tech so they can keep prices at $90+ minimum (camera phones contributed too, but that is a more recent phenomenon). Netbooks helped change this in the laptop realm, hopefully this will help even more (and more in the desktop are).
The research isn't a scam, just as fusion research isn't a scam. It becomes a scam only when people claim to have working models. Otherwise, it is at worst fraud. And generally, just failure. However, the potential is really there. Any competent scientist will tell you we are quite some ways away from working quantum computers. TV shows and magazines like "Scientific" America like you to think they are close (gets you excited and buying whatever they're selling), but all the real science knows that we have quite some ways to go yet.
What? Why? A lot of businesses already take pics of their store for their website. This'll just make it a little easier to find and less work on the owners part. Win-win. In theory.
Same here. They seem to assume that only people with top end cards will Crossfire, when in reality I think it makes a lot more sense for people with middle-of-the-road cards as an incremental update. Not sure if it's worth the trouble, anyways, but I was curious.
Oh, is that why it has a 90% composite critic score? Yeah yeah, technical glitches and whatnot, but as for actual gameplay... oh yeah, you must play CoD and are just trolling. Carry on.
Oh how I wish I had mod points. This is exactly how I feel. I recognize the Earth is getting warmer, and I know CO2 concentrations can cause warming effects, but I am by no means convinced that there is a causation link between the two, or that most (obviously not all) of the people preaching AGW aren't doing it because they benefit from "green" research and development, which is more often than not (and unfortunately) a rip-off.
Of course we should move away from oil as fast as possible: but there are a dozen good, incontrovertible reasons to do so, and harping on global warming only makes your argument look weak (it tends to make people think that is the strongest reason to shift to cleaner energy: it isn't, by a long shot.) On the other hand, pouring millions of government dollars into subsidies to build (research is completely different) solar panels or electric cars is wasteful and probably mostly the result of corruption, at one level or another.
Oh yes, because a blog about Apple products is oh so unbiased. How about you look at the actual charts from the company that did the analysis here? Notice something? The figures for both Apple and Samsung are listed as "shipped." Unfortunately, Strategy Analytics proper report is only available to paying clients.
I know exactly what the difference between sold and shipped is. In this case? None, whatesoever, because the report doesn't list shipments. Except in the mind of some nitpicking blog posters who apparently only see the words they want to, which is "ship" in one case (despite the fact that all the sources clearly state that Samsung "sold" that many units).
"Strategy Analytics estimates that amounts to total sales of nearly 28 million devices, while Apple moved 17 million during the same period.
See? They say SALES. Samsung says their shipments are up 40% (meaningless to us), Strategy Analytics from this estimates their SALES are at 27.8 million, vs Apple's SALES of 17.1. Please, stop reposting some idiot fanboy's memes who can't even be bothered to properly read what they comment on. Just because the estimate comes from the statements about shipments doesn't mean a professional business report company is conflating the two.
If you wanted to bring up an actual point? This is purely an "estimate." Damn, you miss the elephant in the playground to focus on the bullshit. Maybe because you have no contrary evidence to actually debate Strategy Analytics on the merits of their claims, and instead have to claim they are saying something they aren't? Just a thought.
Not by a long shot. In fact, I don't know a single person who doesn't despise them, and I am a conservative. Come to think of it, I don't remember ever seeing anyone on the Internet saying anything but negatives about the TSA.
At the very end of the clip, you can see another trick: The robot can kick!
There is now officially a robot that can kick you in the balls. Thanks, science! Exactly what we needed! Now Skynet will not only be able to nuke and shoot us, but will be able to kick us.
Apple has only lead in smartphone sales for a single quarter. Ever. And "shipped" and "sold" mean the same thing. Smasung didn't release these figures BTW, they are analyst guesses.
And while I haven't been following Apple (at all), my understanding was a lot of people were expecting an iPhone 5. The 4S may not garner as many sales as a completely new version would have.
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Because they're terrorists and sponsors of terrorism. At least historically (the law is from 1994, remember). Seriously. Children suicide bombers, using kindergartens and hospitals as armories and staging grounds for armed assaults, that sort of thing. So a law preventing funding to an organization which they are members of (which would likely result in them receiving funding from said organization which they would quite likely use to make bombs, or at least hide them underneath medical supplies) made sense. Again, made, I don't know if it still does.
Well no, of course not. No more Israel, no more war! Yeah, that's certainly one solution to the problem.
And AFAIK Obama said nothing about the peace process. What he did was follow the law. Good for him. If you want the law changed, protest to Congress. Or Bill Clinton/ previous Congresses, the law passed under his/ their purview (not that complaining now would do much good.) DO NOT complain when a President actually follows the law.
This is Japan. Since the reactor's weren't in the city, they probably figured they were safe from their #1 concern, which is Godzilla attacks.
Well, considering that Chernobyl was the only catastrophic nuclear power plant accident in human history until Fukishima, hopefully forever.
Hmm, I wonder if there is an HTML tag for "JOKE"? I've needed it several times on /., and apparently so do the mods...
A one-hour flight would cost something near to 6 Euro for electricity
So what is that in non-monopoly money? :) (before I get flamed: US centric site, and USD is the standard international currency.)
More on topic: while that multi-copter looks really cool, it also looks like a good way to loose weight. Specifically, by having your flesh smeared all over the field. Helicopter blades are usually put over the copter for a reason (though that does tend to make ejector seats... problematic.)
This is not a new idea, BTW, I remember reading an article about a copter like this which was intended to be used by the military to pass safely over minefields. Stability is a massive problem, because like I said, if you fall into the blades, you get an action-movie worthy death (or at least major accident, depending on blade speed/ construction).
Or that people's perception of it is real. Price has at least as much to do with that as with reality.
If the team members are working for and/ or with Google on the project, Google can use their work on the project. Unless Google is using technology from peoples' work outside the team, there is no way a problem should arise. So, unless someone has proof that Google is in fact using work from people outside the development team or work that the members clearly state falls outside what they are doing for Google, where is there a problem?
For that matter, is this just Slashdot speculation or does one of those links actually point to a TFA (full of speculation)? Because I couldn't find one. Seriously, summaries are summaries. Don't try to turn them into not-quite-full articles themselves please Slashdot.
Also, is this actually a question someone is answering? Again, I skimmed all the links and couldn't find it. Even the last link didn't (seem to) say anything about Levandowski (the unnamed "key" team member) claiming the IP was his-and-his alone (although I may have missed it.)
See, for that you need is Dwarf Fortress. It's free, too.
Oh and just a little more challenging. And by a little I mean "holy shit a lot".
The researchers suspect that the shape of the human ear canal may be to blame for the pain. Previous studies have shown that the ear canal amplifies certain frequencies, including those in the range of 2000 to 4000 Hz. A loud screech on a chalkboard could be amplified within our ears to painful effect, the researchers propose.
So, in a sense they did. They didn't prove this is why it is annoying, but it is definitely a possible (and likely) explanation. I personally have noticed those noises appear extremely loud (and hence very annoying.) This may also explain why some people don't find it quite as annoying (as some comments above note): minor variation in ear canal shape would amplify different specific ranges, so certain frequencies could annoy different people more.
They also tested Styrofoam squeaks and forks scraping on plates. You are welcome :)
The ratings also changed depending on what the listeners thought the sounds were. If they thought a sound came from a musical composition, they rated it as less unpleasant than if they knew it actually was fingernails on a chalkboard. But their skin conductivity changed consistently even when they thought the chalkboard sound was from music and rated it as less unpleasant.
So yes. They discovered that, even when people said they didn't find it as unpleasant (and thought it was supposed to be music), there was still a physical pain-like reaction in the hearers. Some sounds really are painful.
Of course, I would probably find it even more painful if you told me it was from a modern musical composition. Cannot stand that crap (I'm talking the orchestral-style musical crap, not the Britney Spears-style musical crap.)
You can't default on student loans. But yeah, otherwise you are correct. Not sure what your comment about needing high academics to get into state-run institutes is about, though. Most state universities aren't particularly academically challenging.
I think the biggest problem is the idea that people universally need college degrees. In reality, all you should really need is a high school diploma. If you need specialized training for a job, go to a trade school. People going for 4 year degrees in CS (for example)? Ridiculous. That stuff can and should be learned in a couple of years, dirt cheap. But modern colleges have been turned into trade schools, that cost more and take 4 years plus require you to take a bunch of ultimately unnecessary stuff. All because people think you need a college degree to be employable. To be fair, a lot of employers think this too (which is bullshit). I can certainly learn enough on my own to get a job programming, for instance, without any kind of college degree.
Of course, given how bad our high schools are, I suppose you can't take a HS diploma as meaning jack-shit anymore. But that is a whole nother, and vast, issue.
Pay about $100 more, and you can even get a screen!
I think you are rather missing the point, which is that these are absolute dead cheap, low power devices that can do quite a lot. If you need bluetooth, Wifi, and the rest, get a cheap internet tablet (some exist ion the 100-200 dollar range). The point of these are dead-cheap, low power applications, while still having a full-on computer. I can't even think of any real applications I would use it for, but just because I can't doesn't mean a lot of Linux hackers can't. And producing cheap stuff like this is always good. Otherwise, you end up with the feature-but-price creep so common in nearly all consumer electronics areas. Digital cameras are the best example I can think of. We could produce cheap, but very good quality, 5-6 MP cameras, which is good enough for most people. We don't, because companies would rather phase out older tech so they can keep prices at $90+ minimum (camera phones contributed too, but that is a more recent phenomenon). Netbooks helped change this in the laptop realm, hopefully this will help even more (and more in the desktop are).
The research isn't a scam, just as fusion research isn't a scam. It becomes a scam only when people claim to have working models. Otherwise, it is at worst fraud. And generally, just failure. However, the potential is really there. Any competent scientist will tell you we are quite some ways away from working quantum computers. TV shows and magazines like "Scientific" America like you to think they are close (gets you excited and buying whatever they're selling), but all the real science knows that we have quite some ways to go yet.
What? Why? A lot of businesses already take pics of their store for their website. This'll just make it a little easier to find and less work on the owners part. Win-win. In theory.
Same here. They seem to assume that only people with top end cards will Crossfire, when in reality I think it makes a lot more sense for people with middle-of-the-road cards as an incremental update. Not sure if it's worth the trouble, anyways, but I was curious.
Oh, is that why it has a 90% composite critic score? Yeah yeah, technical glitches and whatnot, but as for actual gameplay... oh yeah, you must play CoD and are just trolling. Carry on.
Oh how I wish I had mod points. This is exactly how I feel. I recognize the Earth is getting warmer, and I know CO2 concentrations can cause warming effects, but I am by no means convinced that there is a causation link between the two, or that most (obviously not all) of the people preaching AGW aren't doing it because they benefit from "green" research and development, which is more often than not (and unfortunately) a rip-off.
Of course we should move away from oil as fast as possible: but there are a dozen good, incontrovertible reasons to do so, and harping on global warming only makes your argument look weak (it tends to make people think that is the strongest reason to shift to cleaner energy: it isn't, by a long shot.) On the other hand, pouring millions of government dollars into subsidies to build (research is completely different) solar panels or electric cars is wasteful and probably mostly the result of corruption, at one level or another.
Oh yes, because a blog about Apple products is oh so unbiased. How about you look at the actual charts from the company that did the analysis here? Notice something? The figures for both Apple and Samsung are listed as "shipped." Unfortunately, Strategy Analytics proper report is only available to paying clients.
I know exactly what the difference between sold and shipped is. In this case? None, whatesoever, because the report doesn't list shipments. Except in the mind of some nitpicking blog posters who apparently only see the words they want to, which is "ship" in one case (despite the fact that all the sources clearly state that Samsung "sold" that many units).
"Strategy Analytics estimates that amounts to total sales of nearly 28 million devices, while Apple moved 17 million during the same period.
See? They say SALES. Samsung says their shipments are up 40% (meaningless to us), Strategy Analytics from this estimates their SALES are at 27.8 million, vs Apple's SALES of 17.1. Please, stop reposting some idiot fanboy's memes who can't even be bothered to properly read what they comment on. Just because the estimate comes from the statements about shipments doesn't mean a professional business report company is conflating the two.
If you wanted to bring up an actual point? This is purely an "estimate." Damn, you miss the elephant in the playground to focus on the bullshit. Maybe because you have no contrary evidence to actually debate Strategy Analytics on the merits of their claims, and instead have to claim they are saying something they aren't? Just a thought.
Not by a long shot. In fact, I don't know a single person who doesn't despise them, and I am a conservative. Come to think of it, I don't remember ever seeing anyone on the Internet saying anything but negatives about the TSA.
Why the hell it still exists is a mystery to me.
At the very end of the clip, you can see another trick: The robot can kick!
There is now officially a robot that can kick you in the balls. Thanks, science! Exactly what we needed! Now Skynet will not only be able to nuke and shoot us, but will be able to kick us.
So long as it's Justin Beiber doing the failing, there shouldn't be a problem. He's too small to damage the door.
Yes. That was how they came up with this new catalyst.
Apple has only lead in smartphone sales for a single quarter. Ever. And "shipped" and "sold" mean the same thing. Smasung didn't release these figures BTW, they are analyst guesses.
And while I haven't been following Apple (at all), my understanding was a lot of people were expecting an iPhone 5. The 4S may not garner as many sales as a completely new version would have.