...Most have abandoned their applications around the Iphone 4 days.
...Your friends abandon their apps after 4 days! Hah! Real pros, I'm sure.
Just a clarification, I'm sure GP meant his friends "abandoned their apps around the days of the iPhone 4," not "abandoned their iPhone apps after 4 days."
Oh, and "Heres" is not a word. Neither is "theyre".
Sure they are. Heres was the ancient Greek god of punctuation. He played a stringed instrument called a theyre. It was shaped like an apostrophe which is also a Greek word, a portmanteau of apoplexy and catastrophe, referring to Heres' frequent reaction to poor grammar.
'(and procedure doesn't stop at "receive DMCA notice - take down content").' Unfortunatly that often seems to be the de facto procedure even if it isn't de jure.
YouTube has gone above and beyond DMCA requirements to grant copyright holders special powers - see the many previous discussions here about ContentID false positives and people being unable to restore their videos because some unrelated party adamantly maintains copyright ownership. It's legal, because YouTube holds up the "take down content" part of the DMCA, but they're not required to restore content as they're not a public forum.
Exactly, it's time for him to countersue for copyright infringement. His photos are being used in many places without permission or attribution. Time to pull a page out of the ol' RIAA playbook and sue for maximum damage per instance of infringement. Unfortunately, I doubt he can afford the legal case that would take.
Exactly, it was probably a loose oil line seeping into Mr. Fusion...
Seriously, there could be a short in any one of the many electrical things downstream from the battery. The things are always "on" so there are many wires that have live current at all times.
There's a very simple app called BotSync that can be set to sync a folder either up or down manually or at an interval. It uses SFTP, so no special software is required on your Linux PC. It's pretty barebones, but brain-dead simple.
Other than that, Dropbox is probably the way to go if you want them synced as soon as they're taken. Ubuntu one also has a similar solution that may work for your needs (and do other nifty things as well).
Sorry if I sound like a troll (apparently someone thinks so), but I'm [sarcastically] making a point - I don't think Congress has the authority to prohibit actions solely because they might annoy someone (as many others here have said), or even if they probably, or definitely will annoy someone. There are lots of things about air travel that are potentially annoying, but that quality doesn't qualify them for governmental regulation. I think the recourses (for a passenger) against annoying cell phone talkers should be, in order:
1) ask the person to be quieter 2) ask the flight attendant to make the person be quieter
Flight attendants don't generally tolerate unruly behavior - part of their job is to keep the peace for the duration of the flight. This is why they have so much authority. It should be up to the airlines to set cell phone usage policy, and then up to the flight crew to ensure passengers aren't being unruly, in the same way they already do regarding other behaviors. It's not like a flight attendant, who can currently order an unruly passenger to behave or face penalties, would for some reason not be able to do so if that person was using a cell phone. The comparison to people having annoying loud conversations with the person in the next seat is apt.
Lots of things in life are annoying - that doesn't justify wielding the hammer of government against those things. Liberty requires tolerating a certain amount of obnoxiousness from our neighbors. And there's nothing "magic" about cell phones that gives government extra rights to regulate them as a nuisance.
It's right there, in that article that governs federal power to regulate nuisances. I welcome this new legislation, as well as the presumably forthcoming raft of regulations barring babies, laptops, alcohol, magazines, newspapers, smelly people, ugly people, noisy eaters, overly friendly talkers, people who snore, teenagers, overbearing flight attendants, people who don't share the armrest, late departures, and the TSA.
As a matter of fact, I think Congress can save everyone a whole lot of misery if they just ban air travel entirely. Problem solved!
Think about it - do really want to wear a goggle headset every time you want to play a game? And if you're really doing VR righ then you also have something to hold in each hand plus you're standing up so you can operate a walking platform.
That is a lot of hassle for something I'm supposed to have fun with.
And yet, the holodeck is every nerd's wet dream... Seriously, though, if the experience is sufficiently good, then yes. You could ask similar questions about the Wii's motion controllers. "Do you really want to have to stand up and flail your arms around just to play virtual bowling?" Actually, it's fun, so sure.
I use force feedback wheels with racing games, and yes they are a hassle to constantly mount and unmount everytime you wanted to play a game, but the experience is so much better that they're worth the hassle (actually now that I have a G27 I just leave it mounted to the desk).
And I already have to wear glasses every time I want to play a game, so if the goggles are comfortable and they work, then I don't see what the problem is. And games that involve walking won't need you actually to walk - controllers can handle that part. See this Quake 3 video - the head tracking seems quite responsive, and he's playing sitting down.
There's a problem with the "why haven't we found more fossils" question, and you touch on it. Wiki says we have about 30 T. Rex specimens. If we assume they lived 28 years on average (research indicates that's near the top of the range), and there were only about 1000 alive at once (probably a low estimate), and they existed for about a million years, that comes out to about 35,000,000 total T. Rexes. Which means we've only found one in a million.
If their ancestors are any harder to find (see parent for examples why), we may NEVER find many of them, even if they numbered a hundred million. The fossil record is by nature incomplete.
I dunno. Implying you're sexually provoked by how barely-teens dress and have trouble ignoring that ("dress like whores") seems like a good reason for other people to keep their children away from you, especially in the context of a power relationship involving lots of unsupervised time together.
There was no such implication, and trying to draw one is a disgusting ad-hominem attack. He's complaining that parents demand that their children be allowed to dress like whores. We can agree that whores often tend to dress a certain way, yes? And children should not dress like that? Is this really controversial?
I'm concerned about a reaction I've seen a few times similar to this - a person complains that some child is dressed inappropriately, and others try to attack that person for "sexualizing a minor", when in fact that person is complaining that someone else is doing that. "OMG, you think a child is dressed in a provocative way? You must be a pedophile for thinking that way about children!" There's a non-sequitur at play here, and it's this: a person thinking that children are dressed inappropriately does not imply that that same person is having inappropriate thoughts about that child (see also: Miley Cyrus). People need to stop responding to concern for children with ridiculous ad-hominem allegations like this.
Video ads are the bane of the internet (as far as I'm concerned), but multiple video ads at once? That just seems counterproductive. I wonder if you have an example.
I don't see most ads because I use a CENSORED CENSORED.
The only way it doesn't work, is if you are actually stupid enough to keep talking.
They don't have to charge you! They can take you into custody without charging you for 48 hours! (72 in some states). I don't know how you can not think that's a problem. You want to play hardball, they can also do that.
Also, I'd like to see how well your police system works if everybody genuinely followed that advice. It would be impossible.
I would imagine it would work better, because if the police threw in jail every person who refused to talk without legal representation, they'd quickly be full of innocent people against whom the police don't have sufficient evidence to file charges, thus reducing their capability to actually combat crime. They'd probably have to change their tactics by only detaining people of whom they had reasonable suspicion.
Unless you can show that the vast majority of people detained end up being convicted and are therefore guilty, in which case the system works!
My wife works in the field of retained executive search, and her insights into how this market works have opened my eyes.
Executives are a commodity, and they there's a market for them. The prices for executives fluctuate with market supply and demand, and a very large company will pay obscene amounts of money for a competent executive to lead them, because that's the perceived value to the company of that leadership.
Typically, when a company hires an executive, there's a process to to evaluate a large number of candidates based on their experience, personality, management style, talent, etc. to see if it aligns with the company's needs, goals, culture, etc. etc. It's not always clear whether an executive will work out in a role, and sometimes even a diligent careful search places someone who ends up being a turd.
These golden parachutes we hear about are a negotiated part of the compensation package, and are partly an insurance for the executive against witch-hunts or scapegoating in the case of unfavorable market conditions or other external forces that lead to negative company performance. "The economy tanked and our stock is plummeting due to forces beyond my control, and you want to fire me after a year? Ok, but it'll cost you." They're a disincentive for a company to change leadership just because things aren't going well. Since supply typically outweighs demand, they also function as income for the period of time during which the out-of-work executive is looking for a new job.
Government controls on compensation aren't going to help anything. No one is going to agree to take on the responsibility of a megacorp like BP or Exxon/Mobil if they can't make more than an exec at a company 1/50th that size.
Oh absolutely yes. Piss-poor lane discipline is the bane of every competent highway-traveler's existence. Additional lanes could help too: on many a two-lane (each direction) highway, the semis are less than 100 yards apart, and no one wants to get in the right lane to let faster traffic behind them pass because, "well, I'm just going to have to get back in the left lane in 30 seconds anyway to pass the next truck," creating a long backup behind the slowest truck-passer.
I would be all for an extra license for Interstate travel requiring more rigorous testing, accompanied by enforcement of lane discipline and following distance over speed. High-speed highways are one of those things the Germans do right, and the US does wrong.
The New Scientist article indicated the difference was between 0.005% and 0.008%, which means the effect is fairly small. At the ISS approximate orbital speed of 17,150 mph, this would be a difference of 0.4 to 0.7 mph. At geosynchronous distance, it's more like 0.025 to 0.04 mph (out of ~1000 mph). Satellites in orbit already have to deal with Earth's non-spherical gravitational field, and anything in LEO loses speed due to atmospheric drag. The ISS has to boost its orbit periodically to stay at the proper altitude.
Furthermore, the anomalies that led to the theory were occasional changes in velocity not explained by these other known factors. Some things like relativity and Sun+Moon weren't factored in but aren't considered likely to completely account for the observed discrepancies.
I like the idea of a cloaked fleet of spaceships. Keep your towel handy.
Pulp it's not. I'm also an admirer of the three, and this book is very well-written. Really, it earns all the good Slashdot mods: insightful, informative, interesting, & funny. I would definitely include it on a shortlist of essential books.
Hofstadter's main thesis has to do with what makes an intelligence, but it's by no means the only thing to get out of it. It's given me a tremendous insight into the workings of the brain. It has a section that explains how DNA works. He talks about P/NP, logic, music, lots of things. He didn't convince me of his main conjecture - that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of systems sufficiently complex for self-representation - but he doesn't try to prove it in this work, merely suggest it. Even if you're religious like me and think he's an anti-religious atheist nutjob trying to explain away the soul, it's still worth a read (I don't think those things).
My other suggestions for a short list of essential books (that I've read) would be:
-the Bible (at least some selections, maybe Genesis, Exodus, Gospel of John, and one of Paul's epistles): the Judeo-Christian tradition being one of the foundations of Western civilization -The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo) -Shakespeare play: lots of options; Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet would be top contenders -The Lord of the Rings -Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) -A Brief History of Time
I would consider these to be the shortest list of books that everyone should read that I can make. Of course there are tons that are beneficial, and many that I haven't read. Following these, to be well-rounded there should probably be some Dickens, a Russian tome, some Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, some good 19th & 20th century philosophy (I'm not well-read in this area).
Other strong recommendations by almitydave include Dune, Machine of Death, Salem's Lot (haven't read it yet, but hear it's the best Stephen King), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, Hitchhiker's Guide series, and Paradise Lost.
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...Most have abandoned their applications around the Iphone 4 days.
...Your friends abandon their apps after 4 days! Hah! Real pros, I'm sure.
Just a clarification, I'm sure GP meant his friends "abandoned their apps around the days of the iPhone 4," not "abandoned their iPhone apps after 4 days."
Oh, and "Heres" is not a word. Neither is "theyre".
Sure they are. Heres was the ancient Greek god of punctuation. He played a stringed instrument called a theyre. It was shaped like an apostrophe which is also a Greek word, a portmanteau of apoplexy and catastrophe, referring to Heres' frequent reaction to poor grammar.
'(and procedure doesn't stop at "receive DMCA notice - take down content").'
Unfortunatly that often seems to be the de facto procedure even if it isn't de jure.
YouTube has gone above and beyond DMCA requirements to grant copyright holders special powers - see the many previous discussions here about ContentID false positives and people being unable to restore their videos because some unrelated party adamantly maintains copyright ownership. It's legal, because YouTube holds up the "take down content" part of the DMCA, but they're not required to restore content as they're not a public forum.
I believe YouTube implemented these systems as a way to attract (MP|RI)AA business. See http://www.youtube.com/user/movies and http://www.youtube.com/user/YouTubeShowsUS.
Exactly, it's time for him to countersue for copyright infringement. His photos are being used in many places without permission or attribution. Time to pull a page out of the ol' RIAA playbook and sue for maximum damage per instance of infringement. Unfortunately, I doubt he can afford the legal case that would take.
Exactly, it was probably a loose oil line seeping into Mr. Fusion...
Seriously, there could be a short in any one of the many electrical things downstream from the battery. The things are always "on" so there are many wires that have live current at all times.
There's a very simple app called BotSync that can be set to sync a folder either up or down manually or at an interval. It uses SFTP, so no special software is required on your Linux PC. It's pretty barebones, but brain-dead simple.
Other than that, Dropbox is probably the way to go if you want them synced as soon as they're taken. Ubuntu one also has a similar solution that may work for your needs (and do other nifty things as well).
Sorry if I sound like a troll (apparently someone thinks so), but I'm [sarcastically] making a point - I don't think Congress has the authority to prohibit actions solely because they might annoy someone (as many others here have said), or even if they probably, or definitely will annoy someone. There are lots of things about air travel that are potentially annoying, but that quality doesn't qualify them for governmental regulation. I think the recourses (for a passenger) against annoying cell phone talkers should be, in order:
1) ask the person to be quieter
2) ask the flight attendant to make the person be quieter
Flight attendants don't generally tolerate unruly behavior - part of their job is to keep the peace for the duration of the flight. This is why they have so much authority. It should be up to the airlines to set cell phone usage policy, and then up to the flight crew to ensure passengers aren't being unruly, in the same way they already do regarding other behaviors. It's not like a flight attendant, who can currently order an unruly passenger to behave or face penalties, would for some reason not be able to do so if that person was using a cell phone. The comparison to people having annoying loud conversations with the person in the next seat is apt.
Lots of things in life are annoying - that doesn't justify wielding the hammer of government against those things. Liberty requires tolerating a certain amount of obnoxiousness from our neighbors. And there's nothing "magic" about cell phones that gives government extra rights to regulate them as a nuisance.
It's right there, in that article that governs federal power to regulate nuisances. I welcome this new legislation, as well as the presumably forthcoming raft of regulations barring babies, laptops, alcohol, magazines, newspapers, smelly people, ugly people, noisy eaters, overly friendly talkers, people who snore, teenagers, overbearing flight attendants, people who don't share the armrest, late departures, and the TSA.
As a matter of fact, I think Congress can save everyone a whole lot of misery if they just ban air travel entirely. Problem solved!
I just got 15 today, and I'm not using beta.
Think about it - do really want to wear a goggle headset every time you want to play a game? And if you're really doing VR righ then you also have something to hold in each hand plus you're standing up so you can operate a walking platform.
That is a lot of hassle for something I'm supposed to have fun with.
And yet, the holodeck is every nerd's wet dream... Seriously, though, if the experience is sufficiently good, then yes. You could ask similar questions about the Wii's motion controllers. "Do you really want to have to stand up and flail your arms around just to play virtual bowling?" Actually, it's fun, so sure.
I use force feedback wheels with racing games, and yes they are a hassle to constantly mount and unmount everytime you wanted to play a game, but the experience is so much better that they're worth the hassle (actually now that I have a G27 I just leave it mounted to the desk).
And I already have to wear glasses every time I want to play a game, so if the goggles are comfortable and they work, then I don't see what the problem is. And games that involve walking won't need you actually to walk - controllers can handle that part. See this Quake 3 video - the head tracking seems quite responsive, and he's playing sitting down.
There's a problem with the "why haven't we found more fossils" question, and you touch on it. Wiki says we have about 30 T. Rex specimens. If we assume they lived 28 years on average (research indicates that's near the top of the range), and there were only about 1000 alive at once (probably a low estimate), and they existed for about a million years, that comes out to about 35,000,000 total T. Rexes. Which means we've only found one in a million.
If their ancestors are any harder to find (see parent for examples why), we may NEVER find many of them, even if they numbered a hundred million. The fossil record is by nature incomplete.
Learn to punctuate!
I dunno. Implying you're sexually provoked by how barely-teens dress and have trouble ignoring that ("dress like whores") seems like a good reason for other people to keep their children away from you, especially in the context of a power relationship involving lots of unsupervised time together.
There was no such implication, and trying to draw one is a disgusting ad-hominem attack. He's complaining that parents demand that their children be allowed to dress like whores. We can agree that whores often tend to dress a certain way, yes? And children should not dress like that? Is this really controversial?
I'm concerned about a reaction I've seen a few times similar to this - a person complains that some child is dressed inappropriately, and others try to attack that person for "sexualizing a minor", when in fact that person is complaining that someone else is doing that. "OMG, you think a child is dressed in a provocative way? You must be a pedophile for thinking that way about children!" There's a non-sequitur at play here, and it's this: a person thinking that children are dressed inappropriately does not imply that that same person is having inappropriate thoughts about that child (see also: Miley Cyrus). People need to stop responding to concern for children with ridiculous ad-hominem allegations like this.
how do I handle the inevitable flood of support issues form retards deleting their dialer?
"Go to the app store and type in dialer." Or "Go to the app store and tap downloaded apps, dialer, reinstall." Problem solved.
"App store? I don't see that anywhere, maybe it got deleted..."
Hello, I'm a nerd, and thoughtful analysis of bitcoin (cryptocurrencies being inherently nerdy) matters to me.
Video ads are the bane of the internet (as far as I'm concerned), but multiple video ads at once? That just seems counterproductive. I wonder if you have an example.
I don't see most ads because I use a CENSORED CENSORED.
The only way it doesn't work, is if you are actually stupid enough to keep talking.
They don't have to charge you! They can take you into custody without charging you for 48 hours! (72 in some states). I don't know how you can not think that's a problem. You want to play hardball, they can also do that.
Also, I'd like to see how well your police system works if everybody genuinely followed that advice. It would be impossible.
I would imagine it would work better, because if the police threw in jail every person who refused to talk without legal representation, they'd quickly be full of innocent people against whom the police don't have sufficient evidence to file charges, thus reducing their capability to actually combat crime. They'd probably have to change their tactics by only detaining people of whom they had reasonable suspicion.
Unless you can show that the vast majority of people detained end up being convicted and are therefore guilty, in which case the system works!
No, no, no, this proves that 99.97% of the government's applications are totally reasonable and responsible. The system works!
And yet, everyone refers to the act of cooking in a microwave as "nuking," and no one seems to have a problem with that.
Mankind's millennia-long dream for perfect bacon is nearing realization!
My wife works in the field of retained executive search, and her insights into how this market works have opened my eyes.
Executives are a commodity, and they there's a market for them. The prices for executives fluctuate with market supply and demand, and a very large company will pay obscene amounts of money for a competent executive to lead them, because that's the perceived value to the company of that leadership.
Typically, when a company hires an executive, there's a process to to evaluate a large number of candidates based on their experience, personality, management style, talent, etc. to see if it aligns with the company's needs, goals, culture, etc. etc. It's not always clear whether an executive will work out in a role, and sometimes even a diligent careful search places someone who ends up being a turd.
These golden parachutes we hear about are a negotiated part of the compensation package, and are partly an insurance for the executive against witch-hunts or scapegoating in the case of unfavorable market conditions or other external forces that lead to negative company performance. "The economy tanked and our stock is plummeting due to forces beyond my control, and you want to fire me after a year? Ok, but it'll cost you." They're a disincentive for a company to change leadership just because things aren't going well. Since supply typically outweighs demand, they also function as income for the period of time during which the out-of-work executive is looking for a new job.
Government controls on compensation aren't going to help anything. No one is going to agree to take on the responsibility of a megacorp like BP or Exxon/Mobil if they can't make more than an exec at a company 1/50th that size.
Oh absolutely yes. Piss-poor lane discipline is the bane of every competent highway-traveler's existence. Additional lanes could help too: on many a two-lane (each direction) highway, the semis are less than 100 yards apart, and no one wants to get in the right lane to let faster traffic behind them pass because, "well, I'm just going to have to get back in the left lane in 30 seconds anyway to pass the next truck," creating a long backup behind the slowest truck-passer.
I would be all for an extra license for Interstate travel requiring more rigorous testing, accompanied by enforcement of lane discipline and following distance over speed. High-speed highways are one of those things the Germans do right, and the US does wrong.
The New Scientist article indicated the difference was between 0.005% and 0.008%, which means the effect is fairly small. At the ISS approximate orbital speed of 17,150 mph, this would be a difference of 0.4 to 0.7 mph. At geosynchronous distance, it's more like 0.025 to 0.04 mph (out of ~1000 mph). Satellites in orbit already have to deal with Earth's non-spherical gravitational field, and anything in LEO loses speed due to atmospheric drag. The ISS has to boost its orbit periodically to stay at the proper altitude.
Furthermore, the anomalies that led to the theory were occasional changes in velocity not explained by these other known factors. Some things like relativity and Sun+Moon weren't factored in but aren't considered likely to completely account for the observed discrepancies.
I like the idea of a cloaked fleet of spaceships. Keep your towel handy.
Pulp it's not. I'm also an admirer of the three, and this book is very well-written. Really, it earns all the good Slashdot mods: insightful, informative, interesting, & funny. I would definitely include it on a shortlist of essential books.
Hofstadter's main thesis has to do with what makes an intelligence, but it's by no means the only thing to get out of it. It's given me a tremendous insight into the workings of the brain. It has a section that explains how DNA works. He talks about P/NP, logic, music, lots of things. He didn't convince me of his main conjecture - that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of systems sufficiently complex for self-representation - but he doesn't try to prove it in this work, merely suggest it. Even if you're religious like me and think he's an anti-religious atheist nutjob trying to explain away the soul, it's still worth a read (I don't think those things).
My other suggestions for a short list of essential books (that I've read) would be:
-the Bible (at least some selections, maybe Genesis, Exodus, Gospel of John, and one of Paul's epistles): the Judeo-Christian tradition being one of the foundations of Western civilization
-The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
-Shakespeare play: lots of options; Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet would be top contenders
-The Lord of the Rings
-Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation)
-A Brief History of Time
I would consider these to be the shortest list of books that everyone should read that I can make. Of course there are tons that are beneficial, and many that I haven't read. Following these, to be well-rounded there should probably be some Dickens, a Russian tome, some Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, some good 19th & 20th century philosophy (I'm not well-read in this area).
Other strong recommendations by almitydave include Dune, Machine of Death, Salem's Lot (haven't read it yet, but hear it's the best Stephen King), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, Hitchhiker's Guide series, and Paradise Lost.
Looking just at shapes
Scans faster than not
But be discreet
Or you'll get caught!
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