But, for both my wife and I to get smartphones would add at least $100/month to our already large cable/internet/phone/cell bill -- I know someone who says his smart phone costs him around $200/month. Until data plans become more reasonable, I'll hold off for now.
Yes, the data plans are expensive, but if you can live with depending on wi-fi for your internet needs, you can use a pre-paid plan (or any non-smart-phone plan) for your N900. I use TMobile prepaid. I don't talk or text more than the $100+tax/year.
All the information comes from links from the WSJ article. I think I got lucky with NoScript and setting various temporary permissions to get a table I could copy and eventually convince Slashdot that it wasn't lame.
Here is a list of the apps and the information they send about you. Explanation of the columns and numbers are on the bottom of this message. The extra annoying text is to get around the GDF lameness filter.
A B C D E F IPhone App the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.03 Seconds Pro the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 Age My Face the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 2 0 2 2 0 Angry Birds the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 2 2 0 Angry Birds Lite the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 2 2 0 Aurora Feint II: Lite the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 Barcode Scanner (BahnTech) the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 0 0 2 Bejeweled 2 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Best Alarm Clock Free the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Bible App (LifeChurch.tv) the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bump the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 CBS News the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.03 Seconds the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Dictionary.com the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 0 1 0 Doodle Jump the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 1 1 0 ESPN ScoreCenter the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 1 0 1 0 0 Facebook the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 0 0 Flashlight (John Haney Software) the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 1 2 0 Fluent News Reader the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 1 2 0 1 Foursquare the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Fox News the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 2 0 0 Google Maps the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 2 2 2 0 Grindr the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 1 2 0 Groupon the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 Hipstamatic the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 iJewels the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 0 0 iLoveBeer: Zythology the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 1 2 0 Medscape the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 1 2 2 0 MyFitnessPal the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 1 1 0 Netflix the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 NYTimes the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Ninjump the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 2 2 2 0 Pandora the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Paper Toss the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 0 0 PerfectPhoto the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Pimple Popper Lite the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Pumpkin Maker the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 1 0 RedLaser the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 Ringtone Maker the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 0 2 0 Ringtone Maker Pro the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Shazam the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 2 2 0 Talking Tom Cat the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 1 2 2 2 1 TextPlus 4 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 The Moron Test the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 2 0 The Moron Test: Section 1 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 Tips & Tricks: IPhone Secrets Lite the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 2 0 0 2 0 0 TweetDeck the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 1 0 WSJ Mobile Reader the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 2 2 0 The Weather Channel the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 0 0 0 0 0 1 WhatsApp Messenger the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 2 2 0 Yelp the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 1 0 0 0 0 0
In spite of your Insightful mod ups you must have meant this as a "funny" post because if you think that the Fortune 100 would hire students known to cheat in college then you are fooling yourself.
Yes, these companies prefer to hire students who cheat and don't get caught.
You set a threshold or some formula based on polls.
In addition, you allow candidates to choose private or public funding, but you don't allow private funding to overwhelm public funding (the problem with our current public funding of Presidential campaigns). To avoid some freedom-of-speech issues, you would increase public funding if the privately funded candidate "overspends".
I find it rather curious they are stepping up to protect us from Mr. Zuckerburg and evil Google.
They are the least of my worries. After all, I am not forced to deal with them.
But you are compelled (or nearly so) to deal with banks, insurance companies, and employers, all of which seem happy to use your private information against you.
Short-term thinking. There used to be very prestigious research done by corporations, but Bell, IBM, Xerox, and many others have basically dismantled their research labs.
Big research. Research money has been steadily moving to larger research projects and a smaller set of universities.
Discourage creativity. Don't reverse engineer, don't play with chemicals at home, filter the internet, maintain surveillance, don't share, encourage vague patents, keep copyright forever.
Your problem is that anonymity is an important way to (partially) implement privacy, so you will always get some confusion. "Someone is browsing Slashdot" and "ThosLives is browsing a web page" both preserve privacy to some extent by anonymization.
A brick is overdoing it. On most houses, like mine, there is a phone outlet on the outside of the house. It lets technicians test the outside phone lines without anyone having to be home. So if I don't secure my outside plug, do I get fined?
Programming is a HUGE field. There is plenty of work that doesn't require significant math.
Go with what interests you and let the details work themselves out.
I agree, except about the "significant math" part.
You should do what you enjoy (if it pays enough:). The next best alternative is to do what you are good at. If you already have difficulty with calculus, then maybe more of the same is not the way to go. To be sure, if you take the second course and *understand* it, it will be a great help to you, but if it's just a grind to be forgotten the day after the final, it won't do you much good.
As for "significant math", all programming is applied math. Good programmers know how to analyze problems into logical steps using a variety of pieces of math. A discrete math course will introduce you to where most of those pieces come from.
I know of no such restriction that protection of speech is limited to only speech regarding the government. In fact, I'm quite sure that speech protection covers discussing all historical events. Some of the few restrictions are libel, slander, and obscenity.
Another very significant restriction (maybe chilling effect is a better way of putting it) is that if your employer can fire you for any reason, you can be fired for what you say or do off the job.
We need to people to use the correct sized object for the item they're storing.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
That quote aside, I agree with you, but also would claim that a long is correct-sized for more integers than int. Yes, it uses more space, but that is a reasonable tradeoff for safety.
Is there a single intro to programming book that uses long in favor of int? Just like double has replaced float for almost all numerical calculations, we need long to replace int.
Making nukes is just technology and most every country becomes more technologically advanced every year. In the end, sanctions are just a delaying tactic. Hopefully, we have or are developing some coherent bipartisan policy for when everyone has a couple nukes around. Maybe that's way too optimistic in our polarized politics.
The first time I thought each successive book was more and more of a drag. The second time I read them one after the other, and that turned out pretty good. You just need to think of each book as a very long chapter. Of course, it wouldn't this series justice to close it off now in one chapter, I mean one book.
I know I slow down when people tailgate me very badly (within a meter), and speed up again when they change lanes. It's a guilty pleasure.
I do this do, but not the speeding up part (well, I speed back up to the speed I was going at before I was tailgated). And no, I am not in the f****** left lane when these idiots are on my rear bumper.
There is a lot of confusion about "rational" decisions in this discussion. Rational, at least in the mathematical sense, means to perform the actions that maximize (expected) value. Our values are driven by our instincts and our culture. The key issue then is what values will be inbuilt to our robotic overlords. With corporations making money-making machines and governments making killing machines and other making human-helping machines, there will be lots of potential for conflicts between the machines themselves, not just humans vs. machines.
Slashdot Mirror
My memory is that the RedHat boxes seemed just as likely to create problems as any Fedora update.
But, for both my wife and I to get smartphones would add at least $100/month to our already large cable/internet/phone/cell bill -- I know someone who says his smart phone costs him around $200/month. Until data plans become more reasonable, I'll hold off for now.
Yes, the data plans are expensive, but if you can live with depending on wi-fi for your internet needs, you can use a pre-paid plan (or any non-smart-phone plan) for your N900. I use TMobile prepaid. I don't talk or text more than the $100+tax/year.
All the information comes from links from the WSJ article. I think I got lucky with NoScript and setting various temporary permissions to get a table I could copy and eventually convince Slashdot that it wasn't lame.
In spite of your Insightful mod ups you must have meant this as a "funny" post because if you think that the Fortune 100 would hire students known to cheat in college then you are fooling yourself.
Yes, these companies prefer to hire students who cheat and don't get caught.
You set a threshold or some formula based on polls. In addition, you allow candidates to choose private or public funding, but you don't allow private funding to overwhelm public funding (the problem with our current public funding of Presidential campaigns). To avoid some freedom-of-speech issues, you would increase public funding if the privately funded candidate "overspends".
I find it rather curious they are stepping up to protect us from Mr. Zuckerburg and evil Google. They are the least of my worries. After all, I am not forced to deal with them.
But you are compelled (or nearly so) to deal with banks, insurance companies, and employers, all of which seem happy to use your private information against you.
I would include
Short-term thinking. There used to be very prestigious research done by corporations, but Bell, IBM, Xerox, and many others have basically dismantled their research labs.
Big research. Research money has been steadily moving to larger research projects and a smaller set of universities.
Discourage creativity. Don't reverse engineer, don't play with chemicals at home, filter the internet, maintain surveillance, don't share, encourage vague patents, keep copyright forever.
Your problem is that anonymity is an important way to (partially) implement privacy, so you will always get some confusion. "Someone is browsing Slashdot" and "ThosLives is browsing a web page" both preserve privacy to some extent by anonymization.
A brick is overdoing it. On most houses, like mine, there is a phone outlet on the outside of the house. It lets technicians test the outside phone lines without anyone having to be home. So if I don't secure my outside plug, do I get fined?
Isn't increasing entropy an empirical law that hasn't been translated/supported by an understanding of how "lower-level" physics works?
After its conviction in Italy, Google should lay off killing things for a while.
Now that thanks to SCOTUS foreign corps and nationals can just openly buy any politician they want I expect the slide to be even quicker.
If it were that easy to buy public opinion, we'd all be drinking New Coke.
But a lot of people do seem to be drinking Bud Light.
Programming is a HUGE field. There is plenty of work that doesn't require significant math. Go with what interests you and let the details work themselves out.
I agree, except about the "significant math" part.
:). The next best alternative is to do what you are good at. If you already have difficulty with calculus, then maybe more of the same is not the way to go. To be sure, if you take the second course and *understand* it, it will be a great help to you, but if it's just a grind to be forgotten the day after the final, it won't do you much good.
You should do what you enjoy (if it pays enough
As for "significant math", all programming is applied math. Good programmers know how to analyze problems into logical steps using a variety of pieces of math. A discrete math course will introduce you to where most of those pieces come from.
Cache coherency should be handled by the programmer, not by the hardware.
I hope you meant compiler, not the programmer.
I know of no such restriction that protection of speech is limited to only speech regarding the government. In fact, I'm quite sure that speech protection covers discussing all historical events. Some of the few restrictions are libel, slander, and obscenity.
Another very significant restriction (maybe chilling effect is a better way of putting it) is that if your employer can fire you for any reason, you can be fired for what you say or do off the job.
We need to people to use the correct sized object for the item they're storing.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
That quote aside, I agree with you, but also would claim that a long is correct-sized for more integers than int. Yes, it uses more space, but that is a reasonable tradeoff for safety.
Is there a single intro to programming book that uses long in favor of int? Just like double has replaced float for almost all numerical calculations, we need long to replace int.
Making nukes is just technology and most every country becomes more technologically advanced every year. In the end, sanctions are just a delaying tactic. Hopefully, we have or are developing some coherent bipartisan policy for when everyone has a couple nukes around. Maybe that's way too optimistic in our polarized politics.
Now you need to switch your answers every week or so.
The first time I thought each successive book was more and more of a drag. The second time I read them one after the other, and that turned out pretty good. You just need to think of each book as a very long chapter. Of course, it wouldn't this series justice to close it off now in one chapter, I mean one book.
Why are we _supposed_ to care about other species?
Maybe because we _know_ we can't live without them?
I know I slow down when people tailgate me very badly (within a meter), and speed up again when they change lanes. It's a guilty pleasure.
I do this do, but not the speeding up part (well, I speed back up to the speed I was going at before I was tailgated). And no, I am not in the f****** left lane when these idiots are on my rear bumper.
There is a lot of confusion about "rational" decisions in this discussion. Rational, at least in the mathematical sense, means to perform the actions that maximize (expected) value. Our values are driven by our instincts and our culture. The key issue then is what values will be inbuilt to our robotic overlords. With corporations making money-making machines and governments making killing machines and other making human-helping machines, there will be lots of potential for conflicts between the machines themselves, not just humans vs. machines.
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era