So... you're saying you wear really small pants? Pants so small that a phone with a 5" screen wouldn't fit?
For reference, I actually regularly carry my Kindle Fire (that's a 7" tabletette) in my pant pocket. Insert various "That's what she said" type jokes here. The Fire just about squeezes in (shut up) but it does fit, I've not found cellphone large enough to be a problem - and I've had some big ones (I said, shut up) including two models of the Nokia 9000 series.
Seriously, I don't quite understand where this obsession with Zoolanderesque phones comes from.
- The LTE roll-outs are just beginning and right now we have a mixture of "standards" as to how to roll-out LTE. Over time, I suspect the big four US operators will converge on a single standard, covering two or three different spectrum bands (700, 800, and AWS), and adjust their networks accordingly, but it's not happened yet.
- HSPA+ is about as fast as LTE is, in practice, right now.
I'm very, very, disappointed by the progress of LTE thus far, but I have to say in this case it looks like Google are simply acknowledging the crappy state of the US market. Hopefully by next year, things will have progressed a little.
I've only ever heard geeks complain about being able to wash any item of clothing in a washing machine. In practice, the vast majority of people like only being able to wash clothes bought from a Fridgidaire store in their Fridgidaire washing machine. After years of buying clothes that fall apart or are scratchy, you'd feel the same way.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but getters/setters isn't a programming language thing, it's a programming pattern thing. I'd expect an IDE to help with that. I can't see how a better language would deal with not having to put in a particular pattern.
Yes, a major problem with the whole JavaBeans concept is that it requires you code like that. And I'm equally sure Sun could have standardized on an entirely different implementation that would have been less verbose, but they didn't, and that has nothing to do with Java.
BTW, if you RTFA, you'd see that's he's specifically talking about people with AD(H)D, autism, OCD, and perhaps soft drug use. He's also talking about redesigning clearances and pushing back on overweighted HR/legal interests, not outright circumvention of existing rules.
Ok, but several questions spring to mind.
First, what the hell does this have to do with geeks?
Second, does he think all these rules were introduced solely to get nice, clean, honest workers employed, or because of blatent corruption?
Lest you think the latter is flamebait, my state's governor's first act was to introduce rules mandating drug tests for all new government employees, random ones for existing employees, and similar tests for people signing up for unemployment benefits.
Why? A massive surge in accidents on the job? Too many media stories of pot smokers eating microwaved tax assessments? His Tea Party backers were making a big deal about how the government isn't spending enough money on cracking down on otherwise law-abiding pot smokers?
No. Governor Rick Scott owns a medical services company that includes a drug testing service. As one of the few in the state, it could be expected to benefit massively from such rules. Which it probably has.
Some of the laws may be there to ensure honest workers get employed. But the author needs to wise up to the fact that getting quality employees is not always an aim of the rules he's railing against.
From that graph, I'd also characterize the growth rate in regulation as vaguely exponential over time with a doubling every 30-40 years.
That's a more important figure than a vague handwave about the number of pages being added to the CFR. But here's a question: over the space of 30-40 years, has the number of products, product-types, and amount of money involved, doubled, less than doubled, or more than doubled? Would you expect regulation to become more or less complex with a more complex economy?
(Not to say there's a lot of crap in the CFR. I get the impression that despite the various reform acts of the 1980s, the Railroads are still predominantly governed by regulations that assume it's still the early 1900s - something that was brought home to me when I read the FEC's Federal submissions asking for permission to restart their own passenger services.)
What I said is that "Social Justice is a code word for Marxism", which is absolutely true in our modern society
No, it isn't. I use the term myself. I know many people who use it. Rarely is it used to advocate Marxism.
The only way it can be true is if you redefine the term Marxism. That seems popular on the right: I've seen the same thing happen to the word "socialism". Somebody will say "You know, wouldn't it be good if we had universal healthcare?" And a rightist will say "No! Because that's socialism!" And the first person will say "Hold on, then this socialism thing sounds pretty good". And the rightist will say "No it isn't! Socialism is where the government runs and owns everything, according to this made up definition I and many others use that kinda ignores socialism's origins and what socialism actually is." And the first person will say "But I didn't advocate the government running and owning everything. I just advocated universal healthcare."
And the rightist will bitch and whine and protest that the first person is a damned commie, because while he doesn't believe that the government should run and own everything, he did advocate universal healthcare, ergo he advocated socialism, ergo he believes the government should run and own everything.
That's how stupid political debate is, especially when it's over code words. You picked the wrong one incidentally. Social justice is a description. The code word in a sentence that includes the term "social justice" and "marxism" is "marxism". Social justice is a goal. Marxism? That's anything you want it to be, and is always a code word for something.
I think Dawkins has spent too much time in modern England, where, yeah, Christian fundamentalists are very, very, rare, and alas, the Muslim fundamentalist group is surprisingly large (largely because of a substantial refugee population from Pakistan.)
I agree that "Government take-over of healthcare" is a lie, but there are better organizations to cite in support of that fact than Polit-"Replacing a Single Payer Healthcare system called Medicare with a system of partial subsidies for private insurance companies and calling that Medicare is not abolishing Medicare because the new program has the same name as the old one even if it doesn't work the same way or do the same thing"-fact.
The "Fact check" websites are basically the same Beltway "She said he said we're impartial if we say "Views differ on shape of the world" both-sides-do-it" idiots that run our media, just with a slightly different way of presenting the same crap.
He never pushed for the public option, except before his election. It was pretty much the first major sign to liberals we were going to be screwed over.
That's not actually the case. In the TV world, lines are a horizontal measurement of resolution, dating back to analog days - the concept being that the resolution of a particular display was measured in the maximum number of individually distinguishable black and white lines before bandwidth or similar issues lead to the lines blending together into gray.
Outside of the industry, it generates some confusion because of the unrelated concept of "scanlines", that CRTs have, but while scanlines also imply a resolution (a vertical measurement), it's a discrete, fixed, measurement and has little to do with bandwidth.
If you want to see the term in use, look at contemporary articles on the improvements brought by DVD over VHS. Both formats have the same number of scanlines (they can hardly differ), but the comparison is always made in terms of "lines". They're not talking scanlines, they're talking about the horizontal measurement.
There are certain applications that tablet advocates are convinced tablets should be used for in place of "desktops" (which includes laptops as a category.) Presumably "A portable computing device one uses in airports" would be one of them.
I guess Windows 8 may finally answer the question "Is this tablet thing real, or is it a phase like the Palm Pilot or 1980s micro-home-computers?"
Note I used the word fad. The Commodore 64 wasn't part of a "fad", but it was part of a phase - a phase that had an expiry date at approximately the time people turned around and said "OK, I see the promise of these computers you keep going on about, now I want a computer actually capable of doing these things."
Supposedly the TSA exists in large part because we don't have enough Air Marshalls to cover enough flights. After 9/11, the idea that every flight should have at least one Air Marshall was floated, and then repeatedly rejected as impractical. So I assume it's possible.
We could retrain these guys and up their salaries at the same time to be Air Marshalls. That way, everyone wins, except for idiot Tea Partiers who'll find they're suddenly in favor of random government gropings if it means 0.001% lower taxes.
If Russell was traumatized upon losing his kid when his kid was vulnerable, with limited communication and survival skills, I can't wait to see what happens to Russell when the kid becomes obnoxious, but able to fend for himself for the most part and with the skills to get help if necessary.
Maybe, but a three year old has considerably less in the way of reasoning and communication skills than slightly older children (and thus a worse ability to get help under those circumstances), and, quite honestly, I have to say I fail to see the harm in giving a child some form of tracking device, be it a cellphone or whatever "just in case". I can't see how that would cause a "modern childhood problem."
As a new father myself (one who was once a kid...), I suspect that you're reading it right and that's what's intended. Children running off to play in places unknown can be very traumatic for parents, and fun for children.
From the article, yes, it appears the mathematician thought, strangely, that he was being sent some kind of test, by Google, because the original recruitment email to him didn't appear to be particularly relevent to his skillset.
Yeah, exactly. Like a lot of very (genuinely) smart people, not very smart!
It depends on what they mean by "Web App", but it is, indeed, perfectly possible to produce an app in HTML5, for most HTML5 browsers, that's initially delivered by a web server that's 100% stored offline. Here's some information: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/offline
My suspicion though is that both the web app and the native app require an online connection, given the description.
In this particular case, the purchase, if done at all, is for some kind of a corporate account. It's hard to see that really working with the App Store model, something Apple appears to have overlooked.
Back when I used an Amiga, I always wondered if it was capable of generating a valid teletext signal, given it had tremendous versitility in terms of accessing overscan and generating TV signals. If I'd had the specs...
What I like about it is that I get a clear chocie between 2 moderate people
For you maybe, unfortunately the rest of us are generally stuck with two unlikeable characters, and end up having to vote holding our nose knowing that the person we vote for, at least, will be "moderated" by his or her party.
I'm kinda fortunate in that there's a moderate Democrat in my local race. Unfortunately the Republican in my race is Allen West, and he's going to win barring some miracle.
I'd much rather vote for a party. Hell, I don't even see much benefit in having an identifiable person to vote for - that's a single point of entry for those wanting to bribe politicians, but a complex collection of character flaws combined with the knowledge that the person's actual record will be somewhere between his or her party's and what he or her claims to stand for. How does that help me?
I still have CFLs that I bought in 1998 working properly - that's when I moved to the US. The few CFLs I've had to replace have generally done so for external reasons (such as a bizarre one I bought that started to fall out of its base. I assume it wasn't glued together properly or something. Bizarre both in the sense that it did it, and that it still actually seemed to work OK.)
I'd be very surprised, at current prices, if LEDs actually represent value for money against CFLs if the quality and capabilities of both types of "bulb" are close enough to not be a consideration for the task at hand (like lighting a living room.)
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So... you're saying you wear really small pants? Pants so small that a phone with a 5" screen wouldn't fit?
For reference, I actually regularly carry my Kindle Fire (that's a 7" tabletette) in my pant pocket. Insert various "That's what she said" type jokes here. The Fire just about squeezes in (shut up) but it does fit, I've not found cellphone large enough to be a problem - and I've had some big ones (I said, shut up) including two models of the Nokia 9000 series.
Seriously, I don't quite understand where this obsession with Zoolanderesque phones comes from.
Anyone on T-Mobile?
Seriously though:
- Yes, I agree it sucks.
- The LTE roll-outs are just beginning and right now we have a mixture of "standards" as to how to roll-out LTE. Over time, I suspect the big four US operators will converge on a single standard, covering two or three different spectrum bands (700, 800, and AWS), and adjust their networks accordingly, but it's not happened yet.
- HSPA+ is about as fast as LTE is, in practice, right now.
I'm very, very, disappointed by the progress of LTE thus far, but I have to say in this case it looks like Google are simply acknowledging the crappy state of the US market. Hopefully by next year, things will have progressed a little.
I've only ever heard geeks complain about being able to wash any item of clothing in a washing machine. In practice, the vast majority of people like only being able to wash clothes bought from a Fridgidaire store in their Fridgidaire washing machine. After years of buying clothes that fall apart or are scratchy, you'd feel the same way.
Leading to the number of complaints about slowness and memory usage at Firefox's bugzilla to be _way_ down...
That today would be a great day to float your business on the stock exchange?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but getters/setters isn't a programming language thing, it's a programming pattern thing. I'd expect an IDE to help with that. I can't see how a better language would deal with not having to put in a particular pattern.
Yes, a major problem with the whole JavaBeans concept is that it requires you code like that. And I'm equally sure Sun could have standardized on an entirely different implementation that would have been less verbose, but they didn't, and that has nothing to do with Java.
Ok, but several questions spring to mind.
First, what the hell does this have to do with geeks?
Second, does he think all these rules were introduced solely to get nice, clean, honest workers employed, or because of blatent corruption?
Lest you think the latter is flamebait, my state's governor's first act was to introduce rules mandating drug tests for all new government employees, random ones for existing employees, and similar tests for people signing up for unemployment benefits.
Why? A massive surge in accidents on the job? Too many media stories of pot smokers eating microwaved tax assessments? His Tea Party backers were making a big deal about how the government isn't spending enough money on cracking down on otherwise law-abiding pot smokers?
No. Governor Rick Scott owns a medical services company that includes a drug testing service. As one of the few in the state, it could be expected to benefit massively from such rules. Which it probably has.
Some of the laws may be there to ensure honest workers get employed. But the author needs to wise up to the fact that getting quality employees is not always an aim of the rules he's railing against.
That's a more important figure than a vague handwave about the number of pages being added to the CFR. But here's a question: over the space of 30-40 years, has the number of products, product-types, and amount of money involved, doubled, less than doubled, or more than doubled? Would you expect regulation to become more or less complex with a more complex economy?
(Not to say there's a lot of crap in the CFR. I get the impression that despite the various reform acts of the 1980s, the Railroads are still predominantly governed by regulations that assume it's still the early 1900s - something that was brought home to me when I read the FEC's Federal submissions asking for permission to restart their own passenger services.)
No, it isn't. I use the term myself. I know many people who use it. Rarely is it used to advocate Marxism.
The only way it can be true is if you redefine the term Marxism. That seems popular on the right: I've seen the same thing happen to the word "socialism". Somebody will say "You know, wouldn't it be good if we had universal healthcare?" And a rightist will say "No! Because that's socialism!" And the first person will say "Hold on, then this socialism thing sounds pretty good". And the rightist will say "No it isn't! Socialism is where the government runs and owns everything, according to this made up definition I and many others use that kinda ignores socialism's origins and what socialism actually is." And the first person will say "But I didn't advocate the government running and owning everything. I just advocated universal healthcare."
And the rightist will bitch and whine and protest that the first person is a damned commie, because while he doesn't believe that the government should run and own everything, he did advocate universal healthcare, ergo he advocated socialism, ergo he believes the government should run and own everything.
That's how stupid political debate is, especially when it's over code words. You picked the wrong one incidentally. Social justice is a description. The code word in a sentence that includes the term "social justice" and "marxism" is "marxism". Social justice is a goal. Marxism? That's anything you want it to be, and is always a code word for something.
I think Dawkins has spent too much time in modern England, where, yeah, Christian fundamentalists are very, very, rare, and alas, the Muslim fundamentalist group is surprisingly large (largely because of a substantial refugee population from Pakistan.)
I agree that "Government take-over of healthcare" is a lie, but there are better organizations to cite in support of that fact than Polit-"Replacing a Single Payer Healthcare system called Medicare with a system of partial subsidies for private insurance companies and calling that Medicare is not abolishing Medicare because the new program has the same name as the old one even if it doesn't work the same way or do the same thing"-fact.
The "Fact check" websites are basically the same Beltway "She said he said we're impartial if we say "Views differ on shape of the world" both-sides-do-it" idiots that run our media, just with a slightly different way of presenting the same crap.
He never pushed for the public option, except before his election. It was pretty much the first major sign to liberals we were going to be screwed over.
That's not actually the case. In the TV world, lines are a horizontal measurement of resolution, dating back to analog days - the concept being that the resolution of a particular display was measured in the maximum number of individually distinguishable black and white lines before bandwidth or similar issues lead to the lines blending together into gray.
Outside of the industry, it generates some confusion because of the unrelated concept of "scanlines", that CRTs have, but while scanlines also imply a resolution (a vertical measurement), it's a discrete, fixed, measurement and has little to do with bandwidth.
If you want to see the term in use, look at contemporary articles on the improvements brought by DVD over VHS. Both formats have the same number of scanlines (they can hardly differ), but the comparison is always made in terms of "lines". They're not talking scanlines, they're talking about the horizontal measurement.
There are certain applications that tablet advocates are convinced tablets should be used for in place of "desktops" (which includes laptops as a category.) Presumably "A portable computing device one uses in airports" would be one of them.
I guess Windows 8 may finally answer the question "Is this tablet thing real, or is it a phase like the Palm Pilot or 1980s micro-home-computers?"
Note I used the word fad. The Commodore 64 wasn't part of a "fad", but it was part of a phase - a phase that had an expiry date at approximately the time people turned around and said "OK, I see the promise of these computers you keep going on about, now I want a computer actually capable of doing these things."
Supposedly the TSA exists in large part because we don't have enough Air Marshalls to cover enough flights. After 9/11, the idea that every flight should have at least one Air Marshall was floated, and then repeatedly rejected as impractical. So I assume it's possible.
We could retrain these guys and up their salaries at the same time to be Air Marshalls. That way, everyone wins, except for idiot Tea Partiers who'll find they're suddenly in favor of random government gropings if it means 0.001% lower taxes.
If Russell was traumatized upon losing his kid when his kid was vulnerable, with limited communication and survival skills, I can't wait to see what happens to Russell when the kid becomes obnoxious, but able to fend for himself for the most part and with the skills to get help if necessary.
*cough*
Thank you. Bruno Mars is music's answer to comedy's Dane Cook.
Maybe, but a three year old has considerably less in the way of reasoning and communication skills than slightly older children (and thus a worse ability to get help under those circumstances), and, quite honestly, I have to say I fail to see the harm in giving a child some form of tracking device, be it a cellphone or whatever "just in case". I can't see how that would cause a "modern childhood problem."
As a new father myself (one who was once a kid...), I suspect that you're reading it right and that's what's intended. Children running off to play in places unknown can be very traumatic for parents, and fun for children.
From the article, yes, it appears the mathematician thought, strangely, that he was being sent some kind of test, by Google, because the original recruitment email to him didn't appear to be particularly relevent to his skillset.
Yeah, exactly. Like a lot of very (genuinely) smart people, not very smart!
It depends on what they mean by "Web App", but it is, indeed, perfectly possible to produce an app in HTML5, for most HTML5 browsers, that's initially delivered by a web server that's 100% stored offline. Here's some information: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/offline
My suspicion though is that both the web app and the native app require an online connection, given the description.
In this particular case, the purchase, if done at all, is for some kind of a corporate account. It's hard to see that really working with the App Store model, something Apple appears to have overlooked.
Back when I used an Amiga, I always wondered if it was capable of generating a valid teletext signal, given it had tremendous versitility in terms of accessing overscan and generating TV signals. If I'd had the specs...
For you maybe, unfortunately the rest of us are generally stuck with two unlikeable characters, and end up having to vote holding our nose knowing that the person we vote for, at least, will be "moderated" by his or her party.
I'm kinda fortunate in that there's a moderate Democrat in my local race. Unfortunately the Republican in my race is Allen West, and he's going to win barring some miracle.
I'd much rather vote for a party. Hell, I don't even see much benefit in having an identifiable person to vote for - that's a single point of entry for those wanting to bribe politicians, but a complex collection of character flaws combined with the knowledge that the person's actual record will be somewhere between his or her party's and what he or her claims to stand for. How does that help me?
I still have CFLs that I bought in 1998 working properly - that's when I moved to the US. The few CFLs I've had to replace have generally done so for external reasons (such as a bizarre one I bought that started to fall out of its base. I assume it wasn't glued together properly or something. Bizarre both in the sense that it did it, and that it still actually seemed to work OK.)
I'd be very surprised, at current prices, if LEDs actually represent value for money against CFLs if the quality and capabilities of both types of "bulb" are close enough to not be a consideration for the task at hand (like lighting a living room.)