Keeping the revolutionaries in their parents' basements is how they do that.
Or how about keeping the counter-revolutionaries in their dorms? Mainland Chinese rich enough to have a basement are less likely to protest in public than those lliving in cramped quarters with ten other poorly fed workers. Most of the public disturbance in China appear to be triggered by poor working conditions or, less often, government abuse of ordinary citizens.
Right. The athletes are the tools for the gamblers to bet on, the commercial sponsors to sell their stuff, and sometimes governments to score political points (e.g. US vs. USSR).
Okay, it's kind of like the difference between vi and emacs. Wayland is kind of like vi and emacs is like the X system. To a vi user, emacs appears to be doing too much. Which is what X is to the typical desktop user. In fact, the ability not to run a Wayland app remotely directly seems like a security feature, one less (admittedly small) path for an attacker to gain control of your system.
Journalism sucks. But let me qualify. Science journalism and journalism in general suck when they're written to beat the deadline in attempt to be "fresh" or "hot off the press" (conference). You can picture the reporter emailing his or her story to the editorial department and the editor, finding the report, a bit dull decides to sex it up just a little, adding "factoids" lifted from Google or Wikipedia (the two not being mutually exclusive) or making snappy generalizations that can reduce to two or three words WTF the whole event is about.
Let's be honest, which would you rather read: "God particle may explain creation" or "CERN scientists discover new subatomic particle"?
A common trick in newspaper headlines is to give off the impression of certainty where there is none. When you read something like "500 feared dead" the day after a disaster, you can be sure that the "500" is an approximation that most likely came from some random bloke or bureaucart.
Wait a few more weeks or months, and the science reporting will get more sober.
Ubuntu is sparking a new 'unix war', dividing the linux ecosystem. It first pushed hard for its own Unity now with Wayland that breaks all current X apps. Theyr'e only in it for themselves.
Wayland doesn't break X, if by "break" you mean stop something from working. You can run Wayland concurrently with X. All those X-incompatible will simply run under X.
They should clone the jockeys also. So we can find out who among them trained the hardest. While at it, while not clone all athletes, so we can have the Clone Games.
Not if the drive has firmware that detects if it's plugged into a Windows host.
Interesting. But can Linux detect the presence of the firmware, which presumably has to send some sort of message down the USB bus? My closest experience to this is with a combo USB 3G modem and flash drive.
To handle such devices under Linux, there's a program called USB modeswitch. From the package description:
Mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,
especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act
like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If
the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and
a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the
"ZeroCD" feature.
On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a
Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still
shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that
issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching
of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".
What you have to remember with China is it is not a corporation suing Apple but in effect the government suing Apple.
Remember how Japan used to be called Japan Inc? China Incorporated sounds more apt given the tigher integration between government and business, including the military.
Heat was very obviously external as the outside was melted and the inside was only slightly marked [...]
It might still be the case (pun unintended) that a microwave was used as the heat source. However, I've always been told that microwave ovens burn things from the inside (where there are more trapped water molecules to excite) out (presumably drier since the skin can be wiped prior to microwaving).
My own experience when using a microwave to toast bread is that the center gets burnt. Which isn't exactly the inside of the bread, but I haven't microwaved anything thicker than pizza to find out if I can, say burn the filling of a turkey before the skin gets done.
And if you use a slightly more reasonable definition of 'repair' - replace a bad screen or other component - who actually does that these days? The person interested in such things is definitely an edge case (or nut case). The average consumer and the average store is going to toss a defective device and pick up a new shiny.
Spoken from a First World perspective. In the Third World people still get their secondhand cellphones fixed. Okay, that isn't Apple's market but with the company's position as the market follow-the-leader things can only get worse. Maybe Apple is doing the rest of the world by suing alleged copycats.
For a fraction of the cost of what they invested in this cable, they could open up a datacenter in Asia and replicate their content closer to their Asian customers.
TFA says "Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause". So unless you have another source, we really don't know how big a fraction of the cost was footed by Facebook. Facebook could, after all, be merely the pretty face, the celebrity endorser, among investors with a more significant stake in the project.
There are precedents for a newcomer overwhelming the dominant player, or at least gaining significant marketshare, in a given software category. Android has surpassed iOS as the dominant smartphone OS in terms of total deployment. First released in 2004, Nginx gained significant marketshare against Apache, first released in 1995, and even IIS.
97M pages @ $2.9M = 3 cents/page. Pretty reasonable since "copying and organizing" presumably includes labor.
That's right about the cost per page of a pretty decent personal printer. I know, only a fool would bother printing 97M pages for a court case. But maybe that's just Google's out-of-season April Fool's Joke for Oracle.
Open should mean, "It's my device to do whatever I want with." I should be able to do a clean load. I should be able to sideload. I should be able to load non-AM apps without hassle. I should be able to easily upgrade the OS myself. etc.
This is one instance where the distinction between "open source" (you get the source code) and "free" (to do what you want with it) makes sense.
Wouldn't this thing require a whole slew of regulatory approvals since you'd be fishing for different types of signals? Or would this involve mere processing of data already available to, say, the smartphone armed with this technology?
Yeah, and those budgetary issues had a lot more zeroes behind them than some Windows licenses would have. The price of proprietary OSs on every computer at CERN would be a rounding error compared to the overall cost of the project.
Besides the fact that Microsoft would be more than willing to offer deep discounts for what would effectively be a high-profile advertising project. Imagine the bragging rights it would buy MS in the enterprise if Windows was widely deployed in the front lines of such an important scientific project. (I have no doubt that Windows runs on some CERN computers.)
China is inept at waging war for several reasons. Unlike the US, it's a more or less atheistic one-party country. There's less reason for them to die for God and a country which they don't have even the illusion of having a say in. With the possible of Tibet, China hasn't really fought a war that they won, in contrast to the US, which managed to destroy Saddam Hussein and beat the Taliban into retreat. (Some may argue that they lost the peace.) Again, the one-party nature of China is its weakest point in any protracted war. In the US, a disastrous military adventure by, say, one party will simply swing public opinion over to the other side, rather than against the entire state apparatus. So, no, China won't be a threat to those who don't share a border or a sea lane with it.
So how different is this from a retinal display system? (Too lazy to read the patent application itself, which I suspect will be filled with vague descriptions and drawings that give the barest hint as to what it's all about.)
Like I said, China tends to be a threat mainly to its immediate neighbors ("well beyond its borders" and "across continents"). If the Chinese were Martian invadiers, they won't be conquering the Earth any time soon. They'd first be raiding the two rocks (Phobos and Deimos) above their heads. And no, I didn't say they were the friendliest and most peace-loving neighbors around. I say, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, if China sends a naval armada to annex Taiwan by force, then let everybody start re-arming.
Note also that the China that invaded Vietnam, their last major war, is several million iPhones different from the China of today. A new war, where no immiment threat exists, will prove fatal to the Communist Party, since they are the only ones who'll get the blame for the economic crises that's sure to follow. Unlike in the US, where the two party system allows for buck-passing, China can't survive a military undertaking as large as the second Iraq War.
About the closest analogy that I can come up with is that they smashed billions of cars into each other and listened to the result.
If there's any truth to your car analogy, the only way we can be sure of the truth of particle theory is to assemble an artificial atom from scratch (i.e. by somehow combining different sub-atomic particles or energies). I don't know if that's even possible.
Of course, paleontologists will tell us we don't need the whole skeleton to to see how an extinct species looks like. But to do that we should have at the very least a complete skeleton of a similar enough species that will show us where to hang a particular bone fragment.
If you could change the mass of an object, then ever so slightly you'd also change its gravity, at least according to Einstein, who said something about mass distorting spacetime.
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Or how about keeping the counter-revolutionaries in their dorms? Mainland Chinese rich enough to have a basement are less likely to protest in public than those lliving in cramped quarters with ten other poorly fed workers. Most of the public disturbance in China appear to be triggered by poor working conditions or, less often, government abuse of ordinary citizens.
Right. The athletes are the tools for the gamblers to bet on, the commercial sponsors to sell their stuff, and sometimes governments to score political points (e.g. US vs. USSR).
Okay, it's kind of like the difference between vi and emacs. Wayland is kind of like vi and emacs is like the X system. To a vi user, emacs appears to be doing too much. Which is what X is to the typical desktop user. In fact, the ability not to run a Wayland app remotely directly seems like a security feature, one less (admittedly small) path for an attacker to gain control of your system.
Anarchist = left-wing Libertarian
LIbertarian = right-wing Anrachist
Journalism sucks. But let me qualify. Science journalism and journalism in general suck when they're written to beat the deadline in attempt to be "fresh" or "hot off the press" (conference). You can picture the reporter emailing his or her story to the editorial department and the editor, finding the report, a bit dull decides to sex it up just a little, adding "factoids" lifted from Google or Wikipedia (the two not being mutually exclusive) or making snappy generalizations that can reduce to two or three words WTF the whole event is about.
Let's be honest, which would you rather read: "God particle may explain creation" or "CERN scientists discover new subatomic particle"?
A common trick in newspaper headlines is to give off the impression of certainty where there is none. When you read something like "500 feared dead" the day after a disaster, you can be sure that the "500" is an approximation that most likely came from some random bloke or bureaucart.
Wait a few more weeks or months, and the science reporting will get more sober.
Wayland doesn't break X, if by "break" you mean stop something from working. You can run Wayland concurrently with X. All those X-incompatible will simply run under X.
They should clone the jockeys also. So we can find out who among them trained the hardest. While at it, while not clone all athletes, so we can have the Clone Games.
Or it could be our key to understanding another space-faring species.
Interesting. But can Linux detect the presence of the firmware, which presumably has to send some sort of message down the USB bus? My closest experience to this is with a combo USB 3G modem and flash drive.
To handle such devices under Linux, there's a program called USB modeswitch. From the package description:
Mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the "ZeroCD" feature.
On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".
Remember how Japan used to be called Japan Inc? China Incorporated sounds more apt given the tigher integration between government and business, including the military.
Is this confirmed statistics?
It might still be the case (pun unintended) that a microwave was used as the heat source. However, I've always been told that microwave ovens burn things from the inside (where there are more trapped water molecules to excite) out (presumably drier since the skin can be wiped prior to microwaving).
My own experience when using a microwave to toast bread is that the center gets burnt. Which isn't exactly the inside of the bread, but I haven't microwaved anything thicker than pizza to find out if I can, say burn the filling of a turkey before the skin gets done.
Spoken from a First World perspective. In the Third World people still get their secondhand cellphones fixed. Okay, that isn't Apple's market but with the company's position as the market follow-the-leader things can only get worse. Maybe Apple is doing the rest of the world by suing alleged copycats.
TFA says "Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause". So unless you have another source, we really don't know how big a fraction of the cost was footed by Facebook. Facebook could, after all, be merely the pretty face, the celebrity endorser, among investors with a more significant stake in the project.
There are precedents for a newcomer overwhelming the dominant player, or at least gaining significant marketshare, in a given software category. Android has surpassed iOS as the dominant smartphone OS in terms of total deployment. First released in 2004, Nginx gained significant marketshare against Apache, first released in 1995, and even IIS.
That's right about the cost per page of a pretty decent personal printer. I know, only a fool would bother printing 97M pages for a court case. But maybe that's just Google's out-of-season April Fool's Joke for Oracle.
This is one instance where the distinction between "open source" (you get the source code) and "free" (to do what you want with it) makes sense.
Wouldn't this thing require a whole slew of regulatory approvals since you'd be fishing for different types of signals? Or would this involve mere processing of data already available to, say, the smartphone armed with this technology?
Besides the fact that Microsoft would be more than willing to offer deep discounts for what would effectively be a high-profile advertising project. Imagine the bragging rights it would buy MS in the enterprise if Windows was widely deployed in the front lines of such an important scientific project. (I have no doubt that Windows runs on some CERN computers.)
China is inept at waging war for several reasons. Unlike the US, it's a more or less atheistic one-party country. There's less reason for them to die for God and a country which they don't have even the illusion of having a say in. With the possible of Tibet, China hasn't really fought a war that they won, in contrast to the US, which managed to destroy Saddam Hussein and beat the Taliban into retreat. (Some may argue that they lost the peace.) Again, the one-party nature of China is its weakest point in any protracted war. In the US, a disastrous military adventure by, say, one party will simply swing public opinion over to the other side, rather than against the entire state apparatus. So, no, China won't be a threat to those who don't share a border or a sea lane with it.
So how different is this from a retinal display system? (Too lazy to read the patent application itself, which I suspect will be filled with vague descriptions and drawings that give the barest hint as to what it's all about.)
Like I said, China tends to be a threat mainly to its immediate neighbors ("well beyond its borders" and "across continents"). If the Chinese were Martian invadiers, they won't be conquering the Earth any time soon. They'd first be raiding the two rocks (Phobos and Deimos) above their heads. And no, I didn't say they were the friendliest and most peace-loving neighbors around. I say, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, if China sends a naval armada to annex Taiwan by force, then let everybody start re-arming.
Note also that the China that invaded Vietnam, their last major war, is several million iPhones different from the China of today. A new war, where no immiment threat exists, will prove fatal to the Communist Party, since they are the only ones who'll get the blame for the economic crises that's sure to follow. Unlike in the US, where the two party system allows for buck-passing, China can't survive a military undertaking as large as the second Iraq War.
If there's any truth to your car analogy, the only way we can be sure of the truth of particle theory is to assemble an artificial atom from scratch (i.e. by somehow combining different sub-atomic particles or energies). I don't know if that's even possible.
Of course, paleontologists will tell us we don't need the whole skeleton to to see how an extinct species looks like. But to do that we should have at the very least a complete skeleton of a similar enough species that will show us where to hang a particular bone fragment.
If you could change the mass of an object, then ever so slightly you'd also change its gravity, at least according to Einstein, who said something about mass distorting spacetime.