"Currently, plans are underway for a reburial ceremony for the remains."
Well yeah, but where? Back under the parking lot where he's been resting comfortably for centuries? Another outlying low-key area where he'll be lost again until the 28th century?
That's right British people, make sure this murderer of the true heir to the English throne gets a royal burial with all the pomp and ceremony due him. In other words, dump his body in the nearest sewer.
That or it was an shitty product. I'm starting to remember the DAT/Minidisk wars....Debates. Funny thing, i never bought any of the two systems, instead i went right ahead to mp3's.
-Ahh, that day i decided to rip my cd-collection and store the music on my computer, those where the days.
Yep, same here, never looked back after mp3s. I've even spent the last 6 months borrowing my local library's CDs and ripping them to Mp3. All that music is backed up to micro Sdcards and 64gb flashdrives, and now I have all the music I'd lost from the days of older formats, and far more. Finally it's a great time to be a music lover!
Just more lies from the decadent western press. Iran's space program is so far advanced that we had a super-secret dermatoligist waiting for this monkey in orbit, where his mole was removed. To believe otherwise goes against our religion, and dis-believers shall be beheaded! - Signed, The current Ayatollah of Iran
Yeah, Lance Armstrong used artificial stimulants to enhance performance. Armstrong shouldn't be punished for it, he should be rewarded, his face should be put on the 100 USD bill. The entire US economy is based on the same exact principle.
There are, believe it or not, good and honorable people in this life, they just don't make headlines like the others.
The reason you shouldn't cheat in life is this: You need to face that person in your mirror every morning, and like and respect that person. And if you can't respect that person you'd best change up your act.
You know what bugs me, in the U.S. there are all these cheating types who apologize AFTER they get caught, then go on talk shows to try to explain themselves away. Lance Armstrong saw the walls closing in from the Dept. of Justice, THEN he 'fesses up, to try to get to keep as much ill-gotten money as possible.
And he let Oprah interview him for damage control, since a lot of orginizations will be suing him for the money he sued them for when they said he was taking enhancing drugs. He even shed a tear on Oprah, crying for the money he might lose, not for the reason he said, his son's belief in him. He's a pathological liar who got caught in his web of lies, and he's probably convinced himself he can still get out of any future problems by lying. A sad example of greed and lust for fame, and nothing he says should ever be believed. I've known his type in my own life, con artists who think their sh*t doesn't stink,. Eventually people catch on to their game, and honorable people will have nothing to do with them, because once trust is blown, it's usually blown for good.
You know what bugs me, in the U.S. there are all these cheating types who apologize AFTER they get caught, then go on talk shows to try to explain themselves away. Lance Armstrong saw the walls closing in from the Dept. of Justice, THEN he 'fesses up, to try to get to keep as much ill-gotten money as possible. CEO's get caught, usually get little or no jail time, and pay back 'some' of the total amount stolen, and can be free to live out their lives afterward in comfort. And our culture is okay with this, thereby condoning it. When there are real real-life penalties for all forms of cheating in life, only then can we truly be as moral as we tell people we are.
Sports figures, politicians, business leaders, Ivy college students... all cheat to get what they want. At least Beyonce wouldn't lie to us. Oh, wait...
If Microsoft is really seriou about having a successful mobile presence this late to the party then they need to be bold. Lose money with high end, top of the line hardware in their phones to start out, they've got the cash to spare. Give away the entire XBox catalog as an enticement for IOS/Android users, if they don't win over the users with games the others can't offer now, there will never be a good enough reason to ever switch to MS. Anything else but a bold move like this they might as well concede the mobile market to the existing dominant players and get out now.
I worked for a guy who had "E.S.A.D." in the lower left corner of his business cards. When his customers would ask what it meant he'd tell them the letters stood for "Excellent Service And Dependability", when they really stood for "Eat S*** And Die". (Granted, the guy had anger issues.)
Elon Musk of Tesla Motors agrees with the un-safeness of these batteries.
..." Musk, who has run Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] for several years, laid out his thoughts on battery design in a detailed e-mail to the website Flightglobal.
In it, he termed the architecture of the GS Yuasa battery packs supplied to Boeing "inherent unsafe," and predicted more fires from the same causes due to its design.
Specifically, Musk criticized the use of large-format lithium-ion cells "without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect."
He also noted that when thermal runaway occurs in the larger cells, more energy is released by the single cell than comes from a small-format "commodity" cell, of the type used by the thousands in Tesla battery packs.
And he went on to highlight what he viewed as the dangers of batteries using those large-format cells, saying they have a "fundamental safety issue" because it's harder to keep the internal temperature of a large-format cell consistent from the center to the edges.
Not surprisingly, Mike Sinnett--Boeing's chief engineer for the 787 project--counters that the company designed the pack to cope with not only a single cell failure but to contain runaway thermal events as well."
Use of the term "bug" to describe inexplicable defects has been a part of engineering jargon for many decades and predates computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:
'It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise — this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs" — as such little faults and difficulties are called — show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached."
There is some controversy over the origin of the term "debugging".
The terms "bug" and "debugging" are both popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s.[1] While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved.
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "debug" quotes the term "debugging" used in reference to airplane engine testing in a 1945 article in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Hopper's bug was found on September 9, 1947. The term was not adopted by computer programmers until the early 1950s. The seminal article by Gill [2] in 1951 is the earliest in-depth discussion of programming errors, but it does not use the term "bug" or "debugging". In the ACM's digital library, the term "debugging" is first used in three papers from 1952 ACM National Meetings.[3][4][5] Two of the three use the term in quotation marks. By 1963, "debugging" was a common enough term to be mentioned in passing without explanation on page 1 of the CTSS manual.[6]
Kidwell's article Stalking the Elusive Computer Bug[7] discusses the etymology of "bug" and "debug" in greater detail..
From the linked article's interview of Lee Cheng, Newegg's Chief Legal Officer:
" Just think about the dynamic if you're a juror. Most of the jury could be very pro defense, and think the plaintiff is full of it. But all you need is a single one who is friendly to the plaintiff and holds out on the verdict. You just need one really stubborn person—that can drive a whole jury to make a decision that swings the other way. Everyone wants to go home. It's not their money. Defense oriented jurors are more likely to compromise and say, 'Maybe we'll just split the baby. Maybe we'll just give them $2.5 million and call it a day.'
When a jury rules against a defendant, even if you are 100 percent certain that prevailing case law supports an appeal where you will win completely, you have to put up a bond for the amount of the damages. That requires you to tie up that amount on your corporate balance sheet until the appeal comes through. So procedurally, defendants tend to be driven to settle."
"Reform needs to occur there. If we have to post a bond if we lose, they should have to post a bond if they win. In this case, for example, if they wanted to pursue review by an en banc panel of the Federal Circuit, they should have to post a bond."
It's not quite the cupholder call, but in the '90s I did phone support for an ISP that had a lot of elderly customers, and one time I really did get the "any key" call.
You aren't kidding, really huh? That's the old Simpsons joke, "Press any key."
Homer: "Oh, where's the 'anykey'? I can't find the 'anykey'!"
Well, I believe you. Walls have more common sense than some people I've met.
Often forgotten is that pornography was the reason for lots guys improving computer tech. It started with badly pixellated drawings of naked women. Then (OMG) eventually actual pictures! Porn was a driving force of internet/computer development. Here's to the lovely ladies!:)
Back in the day when tower computers first had cd drives, a novice user calls up tech support to complain his computer's cup holder had broken. The clueless guy thought the popout cd tray was a convenient cup holder.
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground", but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. Indeed, a report in the 24 January Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that, even on the darkest of nights, African ball-rolling insects are guided by the soft glow of the Milky Way.
While birds and people are known to navigate by the stars, the discovery is the first convincing evidence for such abilities in insects, the researchers say. It is also the first known example of any animal getting around by the Milky Way as opposed to the stars.
"Even on clear moonless nights, many dung beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths," said Marie Dacke of Lund University in Sweden. "This led us to suspect that the beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation – a feat that had, to our knowledge, never before been demonstrated in an insect."
Dacke and her colleagues found that dung beetles can transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky, but lose the ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles stayed on track equally well under a full starlit sky and one showing only the diffuse streak of the Milky Way.
That makes sense, the researchers explained, because the night sky is sprinkled with stars, but the vast majority of those stars should be too dim for the beetles' tiny compound eyes to see.
The findings raise the possibility that other nocturnal insects also use stars to guide them at night. On the other hand, dung beetles are pretty special. Upon locating a suitable dung pile, ball-rolling dung beetles shape a piece of dung into a ball and roll it away in a straight line. That behaviour guarantees them that they will not return to the dung pile, where they risk having their ball stolen by other beetles.
"Dung beetles are known to use celestial compass cues such as the sun, the moon and the pattern of polarised light formed around these light sources to roll their balls of dung along straight paths," Dacke said. "Celestial compass cues dominate straight-line orientation in dung beetles so strongly that, to our knowledge, this is the only animal with a visual compass system that ignores the extra orientation precision that landmarks can offer.
An excerpt of a synopsis? Really? Is that what we're down to these days? Seems to me like the upper management method of running things has come into full swing.
Whenever I submit a story to/., it's a synopsis I found on google news, usually it's a straight copy/paste. That's usually what the editors here get and have to work with. I suppose that their job involves doing far more behind the scenes than, as/. viewers, we're privy to. Seems to me they do the best they can with what they get, and do clean up the sloppy story submissions they recieve.
Many's been the time that the/. eds research a story idea I submitted much further/deeper, providing a far more improved, informative story synopsis, entirely re-doing my submission over from scratch.
My hat gets doffed to the editors, they all do their best to keep improving this site. Samzepus, Soulskill, Timothy and the rest. For example, I have more respect and understanding of 'Timothy', who when I first started reading/., I assumed was some smartass techie kid, and who I'm guilty of goofing on a bit in some of my earliest posts (sorry 'bout those, Tim) . I learned that he's an intelligent man who knows a great deal about varied subjects. Live and learn.
The editors provide the content here, and it is up to the users of the site to expand on the provided story, and they almost always come through. I know I've expanded my world knowledge from reading this site over the last several years.
Slashdot editors are human too, and I don't think I'd want the job myself, and I've got a pretty thick skin. To have the whole world watching and critiquing my work (especially while I'm having a bad day anyway, the commenters can get really brutal here), no thanks!
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"Currently, plans are underway for a reburial ceremony for the remains."
Well yeah, but where? Back under the parking lot where he's been resting comfortably for centuries? Another outlying low-key area where he'll be lost again until the 28th century?
That's right British people, make sure this murderer of the true heir to the English throne gets a royal burial with all the pomp and ceremony due him. In other words, dump his body in the nearest sewer.
That or it was an shitty product. I'm starting to remember the DAT/Minidisk wars.. ..Debates. Funny thing, i never bought any of the two systems, instead i went right ahead to mp3's.
-Ahh, that day i decided to rip my cd-collection and store the music on my computer, those where the days.
Yep, same here, never looked back after mp3s. I've even spent the last 6 months borrowing my local library's CDs and ripping them to Mp3. All that music is backed up to micro Sdcards and 64gb flashdrives, and now I have all the music I'd lost from the days of older formats, and far more. Finally it's a great time to be a music lover!
NY Daily News story says Iran claims they just issued the wrong photo, though there's no video of the rockets return to earth. (Mobile site) http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/iranian-space-monkey-flight-fake-article-1.1253425
Just more lies from the decadent western press. Iran's space program is so far advanced that we had a super-secret dermatoligist waiting for this monkey in orbit, where his mole was removed. To believe otherwise goes against our religion, and dis-believers shall be beheaded! - Signed, The current Ayatollah of Iran
Yeah, Lance Armstrong used artificial stimulants to enhance performance. Armstrong shouldn't be punished for it, he should be rewarded, his face should be put on the 100 USD bill. The entire US economy is based on the same exact principle.
Here is that point made in a form that an average American can understand.
These Harward kids are doing exactly the thing that their government and the entire leadership is doing, so why all this fake outrage?
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There are, believe it or not, good and honorable people in this life, they just don't make headlines like the others.
The reason you shouldn't cheat in life is this: You need to face that person in your mirror every morning, and like and respect that person. And if you can't respect that person you'd best change up your act.
You know what bugs me, in the U.S. there are all these cheating types who apologize AFTER they get caught, then go on talk shows to try to explain themselves away. Lance Armstrong saw the walls closing in from the Dept. of Justice, THEN he 'fesses up, to try to get to keep as much ill-gotten money as possible.
Sports Illustrated magazine pointed out that Armstrong waited until the five-year statute of limitations (on federal perjury charges) ran out before be confessed to Oprah: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130118/lance-armstrong-legal-implications/
And he let Oprah interview him for damage control, since a lot of orginizations will be suing him for the money he sued them for when they said he was taking enhancing drugs. He even shed a tear on Oprah, crying for the money he might lose, not for the reason he said, his son's belief in him. He's a pathological liar who got caught in his web of lies, and he's probably convinced himself he can still get out of any future problems by lying. A sad example of greed and lust for fame, and nothing he says should ever be believed. I've known his type in my own life, con artists who think their sh*t doesn't stink,. Eventually people catch on to their game, and honorable people will have nothing to do with them, because once trust is blown, it's usually blown for good.
You know what bugs me, in the U.S. there are all these cheating types who apologize AFTER they get caught, then go on talk shows to try to explain themselves away. Lance Armstrong saw the walls closing in from the Dept. of Justice, THEN he 'fesses up, to try to get to keep as much ill-gotten money as possible. CEO's get caught, usually get little or no jail time, and pay back 'some' of the total amount stolen, and can be free to live out their lives afterward in comfort. And our culture is okay with this, thereby condoning it. When there are real real-life penalties for all forms of cheating in life, only then can we truly be as moral as we tell people we are.
Sports figures, politicians, business leaders, Ivy college students... all cheat to get what they want. At least Beyonce wouldn't lie to us. Oh, wait...
http://gizmodo.com/5980917/report-leaked-documents-confirm-totally-obvious-non+surprise-android-key-lime-pie-launch-this-spring
If Microsoft is really seriou about having a successful mobile presence this late to the party then they need to be bold. Lose money with high end, top of the line hardware in their phones to start out, they've got the cash to spare. Give away the entire XBox catalog as an enticement for IOS/Android users, if they don't win over the users with games the others can't offer now, there will never be a good enough reason to ever switch to MS. Anything else but a bold move like this they might as well concede the mobile market to the existing dominant players and get out now.
Sorry, I live in the 95% of the world that doesn't use imperial units. What's a yard?
It's that thing on the ground outside your front/back door.
I worked for a guy who had "E.S.A.D." in the lower left corner of his business cards. When his customers would ask what it meant he'd tell them the letters stood for "Excellent Service And Dependability", when they really stood for "Eat S*** And Die". (Granted, the guy had anger issues.)
There is a workaround (without rooting) for that... http://carman58.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-use-external-memory-on-the-Nexus-7-WITHOUT-rooting
In it, he termed the architecture of the GS Yuasa battery packs supplied to Boeing "inherent unsafe," and predicted more fires from the same causes due to its design.
Specifically, Musk criticized the use of large-format lithium-ion cells "without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect."
He also noted that when thermal runaway occurs in the larger cells, more energy is released by the single cell than comes from a small-format "commodity" cell, of the type used by the thousands in Tesla battery packs.
And he went on to highlight what he viewed as the dangers of batteries using those large-format cells, saying they have a "fundamental safety issue" because it's harder to keep the internal temperature of a large-format cell consistent from the center to the edges.
Not surprisingly, Mike Sinnett--Boeing's chief engineer for the 787 project--counters that the company designed the pack to cope with not only a single cell failure but to contain runaway thermal events as well."
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1082007_tesla-ceo-musk-boeing-787-batteries-inherently-unsafe
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs/about/links/resources/arthistory/what.html
'It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise — this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs" — as such little faults and difficulties are called — show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
There is some controversy over the origin of the term "debugging".
The terms "bug" and "debugging" are both popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s.[1] While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved.
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "debug" quotes the term "debugging" used in reference to airplane engine testing in a 1945 article in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Hopper's bug was found on September 9, 1947. The term was not adopted by computer programmers until the early 1950s. The seminal article by Gill [2] in 1951 is the earliest in-depth discussion of programming errors, but it does not use the term "bug" or "debugging". In the ACM's digital library, the term "debugging" is first used in three papers from 1952 ACM National Meetings.[3][4][5] Two of the three use the term in quotation marks. By 1963, "debugging" was a common enough term to be mentioned in passing without explanation on page 1 of the CTSS manual.[6] Kidwell's article Stalking the Elusive Computer Bug[7] discusses the etymology of "bug" and "debug" in greater detail..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Origin
" Just think about the dynamic if you're a juror. Most of the jury could be very pro defense, and think the plaintiff is full of it. But all you need is a single one who is friendly to the plaintiff and holds out on the verdict. You just need one really stubborn person—that can drive a whole jury to make a decision that swings the other way. Everyone wants to go home. It's not their money. Defense oriented jurors are more likely to compromise and say, 'Maybe we'll just split the baby. Maybe we'll just give them $2.5 million and call it a day.' When a jury rules against a defendant, even if you are 100 percent certain that prevailing case law supports an appeal where you will win completely, you have to put up a bond for the amount of the damages. That requires you to tie up that amount on your corporate balance sheet until the appeal comes through. So procedurally, defendants tend to be driven to settle."
"Reform needs to occur there. If we have to post a bond if we lose, they should have to post a bond if they win. In this case, for example, if they wanted to pursue review by an en banc panel of the Federal Circuit, they should have to post a bond."
It's not quite the cupholder call, but in the '90s I did phone support for an ISP that had a lot of elderly customers, and one time I really did get the "any key" call.
You aren't kidding, really huh? That's the old Simpsons joke, "Press any key."
Homer: "Oh, where's the 'anykey'? I can't find the 'anykey'!"
Well, I believe you. Walls have more common sense than some people I've met.
Often forgotten is that pornography was the reason for lots guys improving computer tech. It started with badly pixellated drawings of naked women. Then (OMG) eventually actual pictures! Porn was a driving force of internet/computer development. Here's to the lovely ladies! :)
I just registered an account to make a joke about this, damn you!
Oh well, "you snooze, you lose". That's a good name, though. :^)
Back in the day when tower computers first had cd drives, a novice user calls up tech support to complain his computer's cup holder had broken. The clueless guy thought the popout cd tray was a convenient cup holder.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026236/phone-unlocking-ban-could-could-hit-you-in-the-wallet.html
While birds and people are known to navigate by the stars, the discovery is the first convincing evidence for such abilities in insects, the researchers say. It is also the first known example of any animal getting around by the Milky Way as opposed to the stars.
"Even on clear moonless nights, many dung beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths," said Marie Dacke of Lund University in Sweden. "This led us to suspect that the beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation – a feat that had, to our knowledge, never before been demonstrated in an insect."
Dacke and her colleagues found that dung beetles can transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky, but lose the ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles stayed on track equally well under a full starlit sky and one showing only the diffuse streak of the Milky Way.
That makes sense, the researchers explained, because the night sky is sprinkled with stars, but the vast majority of those stars should be too dim for the beetles' tiny compound eyes to see.
The findings raise the possibility that other nocturnal insects also use stars to guide them at night. On the other hand, dung beetles are pretty special. Upon locating a suitable dung pile, ball-rolling dung beetles shape a piece of dung into a ball and roll it away in a straight line. That behaviour guarantees them that they will not return to the dung pile, where they risk having their ball stolen by other beetles.
"Dung beetles are known to use celestial compass cues such as the sun, the moon and the pattern of polarised light formed around these light sources to roll their balls of dung along straight paths," Dacke said. "Celestial compass cues dominate straight-line orientation in dung beetles so strongly that, to our knowledge, this is the only animal with a visual compass system that ignores the extra orientation precision that landmarks can offer.
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24890&news_item=5999
An excerpt of a synopsis? Really? Is that what we're down to these days? Seems to me like the upper management method of running things has come into full swing.
Whenever I submit a story to /., it's a synopsis I found on google news, usually it's a straight copy/paste. That's usually what the editors here get and have to work with. I suppose that their job involves doing far more behind the scenes than, as /. viewers, we're privy to. Seems to me they do the best they can with what they get, and do clean up the sloppy story submissions they recieve.
Many's been the time that the /. eds research a story idea I submitted much further/deeper, providing a far more improved, informative story synopsis, entirely re-doing my submission over from scratch.
My hat gets doffed to the editors, they all do their best to keep improving this site. Samzepus, Soulskill, Timothy and the rest. For example, I have more respect and understanding of 'Timothy', who when I first started reading /., I assumed was some smartass techie kid, and who I'm guilty of goofing on a bit in some of my earliest posts (sorry 'bout those, Tim) . I learned that he's an intelligent man who knows a great deal about varied subjects. Live and learn.
The editors provide the content here, and it is up to the users of the site to expand on the provided story, and they almost always come through. I know I've expanded my world knowledge from reading this site over the last several years.
Slashdot editors are human too, and I don't think I'd want the job myself, and I've got a pretty thick skin. To have the whole world watching and critiquing my work (especially while I'm having a bad day anyway, the commenters can get really brutal here), no thanks!