Coincidentally, female suicide bombers are actually pretty common in Chechnya, where the bombers are reported either to have originated or had ethnic ties to. There is even a word for it: shahidka.
There seems to be this common misconception that a network can be broken into without causing any damage. Tell that to the IT department that has to re-flash and re-image every damn machine on the network to make sure no backdoors were left behind.
What makes American schools the best in the world (especially at the graduate level) is that they admit the best students in the world. Stop admitting the students, and the schools will no longer be the best. It's that simple. Furthermore, top professors/researchers choose their universities on the basis of where they have access to the best students, which makes this proposition a vicious cycle. So, American schools would lose their edge in less than a generation.
Better yet: why not organize a good, old-fashioned act of civil disobedience? I'm thinking along the lines of several thousand people meeting up outside the Lincoln Memorial and simultaneously unlocking their phones.
Donohue and Levitt botched the study: a programming bug meant they failed to control for things they thought they were controlling for. Furthermore, they accidentally predicted the total number of arrests instead of the arrest rate, as they should have.
The CDC (i.e., the US government) lists the US homicide rate as 55/million, which would make it 6th on that list. Furthermore, that list seems to exclude just about all countries in North/South America and Africa, many of which have the highest murder rates in the world. And why is the murder rate for Turkey listed as twice that of the highest country in the wikipedia list? This doesn't even come close to passing the smell test.
Old fogies like me remember that back when Blender was commercially developed, they had an odd business model consisting of giving the software away for free (as in beer) and selling the documentation (see the old review here, for example). Documentation is now one of the weakest points of Blender, IMHO.
Judging by the charts here it looks like there were about 200,000 homicides with guns in the last 20 years (not counting suicides). So... a little more concerning than lightning strikes.
If interference could really be a problem (unlikely), then politely asking passengers to put their gadgets away is a laughably dumb solution, because it doesn't account for people forgetting to do so accidentally or willfully (say, terrorists). The only sane solution is to design the planes to be robust to interference, which I'm pretty sure they do already anyway.
Again if you placed your companies data at a DC in lower Manhattan you should be fired.
I don't know anything about Datagram, but there are legitimate reasons to have a DC in lower Manhattan... For instance, for latency-limited high-frequency trading operations. I don't know if this is the particular case with Datagram's clients, but the fact that DCs exist in a ludicrously high-rent area means that they probably exist there for a good reason.
Forgive me if Im skeptical of an AC claiming that a company who has been creating consoles for 30+ years managed to make RAM slower than disk access. That would be basically impossible to pull off even if you were specifically trying to do so; theres about 3 orders of magnitude difference between the speed of the two.
Mod parent up and grandparent down. It is mind-numbingly ludicrous to believe main memory access on the Wii U is slower than disk accesses. If that were true, there wouldn't be any point in having a CPU faster than about 100 Hz (which = 1 / x, where x = random access disk latency ~ 10 ms).
Exactly. The "bananas" you see in supermarkets are a genetic monstrosity; basically all clones of the same individual, thanks to human meddling over the last 7000 years. It doesn't get more GM than that. So, where do you draw the line?
This is confusing, as the Model M is based on a buckling spring, not a mechanical switch as the keyboards in the article have. Also, it's worth mentioning that there are vastly different Model M's--IIRC, the earlier ones have a softer feel, and the later ones require much more pressure. I have a Unicomp Model M, and it appears to be closer to the latter, which I dislike.
It's ridiculous that kids are growing up with chronic back pain as a result of having to schlep around gigantic backpacks full of books. My high school actually banned carrying backpacks between classes, mostly because of overcrowding, which meant that they had to allow extra time between classes to access lockers (and ironically probably also exacerbated traffic in the halls). All this led to decreased instructional time in any given day, more disruption of class due to kids not having enough time to use the restroom between classes, probably more violence in the overcrowded halls, etc. So, for purely logistical reasons, tablets are a huge win.
The beeb has an article that addresses the apple thing--he often ate an apple before bedtime, so the fact that a half-eaten apple was found on his night stand wasn't unusual at all, and the apple was never tested for cyanide.
The idea of a $100 master's degree is subversive, especially considering that a master's is the basic qualification to hold a professorship at a modern university
This is incorrect. A master's degree will, at best, qualify you to lecture basic classes at your local community college. Teaching at a university requires a PhD, almost without exception.
How many mobile OSes really need to exist? What is the competitive advantage of Windows Phone over Android? What compelling reasons are there for consumers and phone manufacturers leave their existing ecosystems for Windows Phone? Not having any specific problems is not the same as having a legitimate reason to exist.
What's the point of this post? I think it's pretty obvious SJ didn't walk into his parents' garage in 1977 with a chisel and a bucket of sand and walk out with an iPad. What he brought to the table was vision--something Xerox, IBM, HP, and the rest of the big players completely lacked, even to this day. When is the last time you saw a Xerox-branded PC? IBM sold their PC business to Lenovo, and HP decided to bet the farm on selling ink instead of making innovations. I could go on and on. Like it or not, Apple is one of the very few companies that decided to bet the farm on changing the way people use computers, and they succeeded, largely thanks to SJ.
I'm not claiming the man was a saint or even a nicer guy than Bill Gates--I just think it's sick the amount of venom directed towards one man that routinely gets Mod5'ed on/. for no particular reason. If you want to bash him for DRM, go ahead--he deserves it. But to write him out of the history books because you personally dislike him is just wrong.
Only in today's twisted world can creating Chinese-made, throw-away consumer goods sold for premium prices be considered "giving back to the world". It fits well with this whole mythology we're building up around the wealthy these days, how it's just such a burden being rich and all that...
I assume you must be RMS, posting to the web via an esoteric combination of shell scripts in order to avoid contamination. If, however, you're writing this from a personal computer, smartphone, tablet, or anything with a GUI, then you must be a huge hypocrite, since you owe it to Steve Jobs for bringing those tools to the masses.
This. I was once the victim of a violent crime--a mugging where physical force was used. I walked away bloody, but living. The police were nice enough to write up a report, but I never heard from them after that. I doubt they really ever investigated it, and I don't blame them. In a city with hundreds of murders annually, why bother? The police clearly have better things to do, and criminals know this. It's completely irrational to murder someone in order to rob them, unless the victim is armed and pulls their weapon--in which case, it's completely rational to kill them. My anecdotal experience from reading the paper is that the mugging victims most likely to be killed are off-duty cops who decide to pull a gun. I mean, if you were the mugger, why wouldn't you shoot in that case?
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Coincidentally, female suicide bombers are actually pretty common in Chechnya, where the bombers are reported either to have originated or had ethnic ties to. There is even a word for it: shahidka.
There seems to be this common misconception that a network can be broken into without causing any damage. Tell that to the IT department that has to re-flash and re-image every damn machine on the network to make sure no backdoors were left behind.
What makes American schools the best in the world (especially at the graduate level) is that they admit the best students in the world. Stop admitting the students, and the schools will no longer be the best. It's that simple. Furthermore, top professors/researchers choose their universities on the basis of where they have access to the best students, which makes this proposition a vicious cycle. So, American schools would lose their edge in less than a generation.
Better yet: why not organize a good, old-fashioned act of civil disobedience? I'm thinking along the lines of several thousand people meeting up outside the Lincoln Memorial and simultaneously unlocking their phones.
If you decide to start weight training, get this book, learn how to squat correctly, and do it.
Donohue and Levitt botched the study: a programming bug meant they failed to control for things they thought they were controlling for. Furthermore, they accidentally predicted the total number of arrests instead of the arrest rate, as they should have.
The CDC (i.e., the US government) lists the US homicide rate as 55/million, which would make it 6th on that list. Furthermore, that list seems to exclude just about all countries in North/South America and Africa, many of which have the highest murder rates in the world. And why is the murder rate for Turkey listed as twice that of the highest country in the wikipedia list? This doesn't even come close to passing the smell test.
Old fogies like me remember that back when Blender was commercially developed, they had an odd business model consisting of giving the software away for free (as in beer) and selling the documentation (see the old review here, for example). Documentation is now one of the weakest points of Blender, IMHO.
Judging by the charts here it looks like there were about 200,000 homicides with guns in the last 20 years (not counting suicides). So... a little more concerning than lightning strikes.
If interference could really be a problem (unlikely), then politely asking passengers to put their gadgets away is a laughably dumb solution, because it doesn't account for people forgetting to do so accidentally or willfully (say, terrorists). The only sane solution is to design the planes to be robust to interference, which I'm pretty sure they do already anyway.
I don't know anything about Datagram, but there are legitimate reasons to have a DC in lower Manhattan... For instance, for latency-limited high-frequency trading operations. I don't know if this is the particular case with Datagram's clients, but the fact that DCs exist in a ludicrously high-rent area means that they probably exist there for a good reason.
Mod parent up and grandparent down. It is mind-numbingly ludicrous to believe main memory access on the Wii U is slower than disk accesses. If that were true, there wouldn't be any point in having a CPU faster than about 100 Hz (which = 1 / x, where x = random access disk latency ~ 10 ms).
Argh, a million times yes! Stupidity of stupidities!
Exactly. The "bananas" you see in supermarkets are a genetic monstrosity; basically all clones of the same individual, thanks to human meddling over the last 7000 years. It doesn't get more GM than that. So, where do you draw the line?
This is confusing, as the Model M is based on a buckling spring, not a mechanical switch as the keyboards in the article have. Also, it's worth mentioning that there are vastly different Model M's--IIRC, the earlier ones have a softer feel, and the later ones require much more pressure. I have a Unicomp Model M, and it appears to be closer to the latter, which I dislike.
It's ridiculous that kids are growing up with chronic back pain as a result of having to schlep around gigantic backpacks full of books. My high school actually banned carrying backpacks between classes, mostly because of overcrowding, which meant that they had to allow extra time between classes to access lockers (and ironically probably also exacerbated traffic in the halls). All this led to decreased instructional time in any given day, more disruption of class due to kids not having enough time to use the restroom between classes, probably more violence in the overcrowded halls, etc. So, for purely logistical reasons, tablets are a huge win.
The beeb has an article that addresses the apple thing--he often ate an apple before bedtime, so the fact that a half-eaten apple was found on his night stand wasn't unusual at all, and the apple was never tested for cyanide.
If Neanderthals and humans could mate and have fertile offspring, then why aren't they considered the same species?
This is incorrect. A master's degree will, at best, qualify you to lecture basic classes at your local community college. Teaching at a university requires a PhD, almost without exception.
Yes, but is it an automatic automatic teller machine machine?
How many mobile OSes really need to exist? What is the competitive advantage of Windows Phone over Android? What compelling reasons are there for consumers and phone manufacturers leave their existing ecosystems for Windows Phone? Not having any specific problems is not the same as having a legitimate reason to exist.
What's the point of this post? I think it's pretty obvious SJ didn't walk into his parents' garage in 1977 with a chisel and a bucket of sand and walk out with an iPad. What he brought to the table was vision--something Xerox, IBM, HP, and the rest of the big players completely lacked, even to this day. When is the last time you saw a Xerox-branded PC? IBM sold their PC business to Lenovo, and HP decided to bet the farm on selling ink instead of making innovations. I could go on and on. Like it or not, Apple is one of the very few companies that decided to bet the farm on changing the way people use computers, and they succeeded, largely thanks to SJ.
I'm not claiming the man was a saint or even a nicer guy than Bill Gates--I just think it's sick the amount of venom directed towards one man that routinely gets Mod5'ed on /. for no particular reason. If you want to bash him for DRM, go ahead--he deserves it. But to write him out of the history books because you personally dislike him is just wrong.
I assume you must be RMS, posting to the web via an esoteric combination of shell scripts in order to avoid contamination. If, however, you're writing this from a personal computer, smartphone, tablet, or anything with a GUI, then you must be a huge hypocrite, since you owe it to Steve Jobs for bringing those tools to the masses.
This. I was once the victim of a violent crime--a mugging where physical force was used. I walked away bloody, but living. The police were nice enough to write up a report, but I never heard from them after that. I doubt they really ever investigated it, and I don't blame them. In a city with hundreds of murders annually, why bother? The police clearly have better things to do, and criminals know this. It's completely irrational to murder someone in order to rob them, unless the victim is armed and pulls their weapon--in which case, it's completely rational to kill them. My anecdotal experience from reading the paper is that the mugging victims most likely to be killed are off-duty cops who decide to pull a gun. I mean, if you were the mugger, why wouldn't you shoot in that case?
Although physicians occasionally do harm, their net effect on society, overwhelmingly, is to save lives. Guns, not so much.