That is an interesting idea, but it's worth pointing out that any 33bit palindrome will have that property due to symmetry. So, it's still entirely possible that an artist just picked any random binary string that was the length of the scroll, and was mirrored to look good. Here are some random examples:
Where I live most highways are 75 mph, and the normal flow of traffic is higher. I figured 800 miles per day, which is 10 hours at 80 mph or 12 hours at 65mph. Then I added 25% margin to account for driving against the wind, hilly roads, diminished battery capacity over time, charging station being out of service and having to drive to the next town, etc.
It isn't unreasonably or unsafe to drive 800 miles in a day. We do it every Christmas, alternating drivers whenever we stop for a break. Furthermore, I wouldn't feel comfortable planing to drive 800 miles in a car that had an 800 mile range, so some margin is needed. I was probably being a little conservative, and the maximum distance would be lower for people who drive mostly on the east-coast. So drop that to 650 miles per day with a 15% margin and you get 750 miles required range.
Give me something that goes the same distance of a tank of gas
I've heard that several times and it doesn't make any sense to me. If I am driving around town, I only need to fill up once every week, at most. If I can charge my car at home, I really don't need it to last an entire week. A little margin is required, in case I forget to plug it in one night, or decide to run extra errands, and accounting for diminished battery capacity over the life of the vehicle. Three days of driving is fine, which for most people is 90-150 miles. The Nissan Leaf can do that now. Some people have longer commutes, so that could be increased a bit, but I don't think the average commuter needs the 300-400 miles that a normal car can get on a tank if you can fill up at home.
On the other hand, if I am going out of town, there are very few places I can go on a single tank of gas. Even if there were charging stations available everywhere, the amount of time it takes to charge is unpractical for long drives. I would want to to hold a full day's drive, at least 1000 miles, and confidence that there would be a somewhere to charge where I slept, before I considered using a pure electric for out of town trips.
I don't see much added value in increasing the range over ~200 miles, unless you are surpassing ~1000.
I had originally modded you down, thinking you were confused. However, after rereading the page and looking closely at the images, you are indeed correct. I'm sorry. Posting to remove moderation.
That is why I stocked up on crates of used Dan Brown books. Those literature majors will recoil in horror once I start pelting them with that mass market drivel.
Because cell phones are buggy pieces of shit, and I wouldn't trust them with my credit card number and PIN for anything. Especially as they become more and more tied to the web.
The practice of soaking the rich for exorbitantly-priced luxury goods/services in order to fund technological progress is one of my favorite features of capitalism. They become less rich and I get affordable cool shit several years down the road.
Because the person who posted the video on youtube (apparently an official CMU account) opted to show ads over the top of it. Youtube's HTML5 player doesn't have that feature right now (I imagine it could be done with a transparent div and javascript), so they fell back to Flash. Why CMU thinks they should be showing advertisements on what is already an advertisement for their school is beyond me.
While the H.264 licensing summary might lead you to think otherwise, the MPEG-LA has made it clear that licensing is based purely on the number of units, not the amount of money made, and is absolutely required for free software.
This announcement changes little. First, it is still uncertain whether videos served on pages will be required to pay royalties, so YouTube may very well still be required to pay royalties. More importantly, developers of H.264 encoders/decoders are still are required to pay patent licenses, regardless of whether they make money or not. This makes it impossible to have legal open source implementations of H.264 in the US anywhere that respects our patents. That is the complaint that Mozilla and Opera had against H.264 and so this minor licensing change will have no affect on the appropriateness of H.264 as an web standard.
Different applications have different needs as far as time goes, which is why we have so many different time standards (UTC, UT0, UT1, TAI, GPS, etc). Eliminating the leap second from UTC would simply make it redundant with TAI, and would leave us lacking a standard that has the desired properties that UTC was designed with. Furthermore changing UTC at this point wouldn't simplify anything as as programmers would still need to account for leap seconds that have already occurred. If you want a global time base that is simply seconds since an offset, use TAI, since that is what it was designed for and stop fucking with UTC.
So what happens to curbside recycling materials? I seriously doubt anyone is hand-sorting and dealing with contamination issues like neck rings.
That is exactly what happens in Albuquerque. Things that can't be mechanically separated are hand sorted by minimum wage workers, a large number of whom are homeless.
The problem with debtor's prison is that people can fall into debt for all sorts of reasons ranging from maliciousness to recklessness to just plain bad luck. Do you really think that someone who can't pay their bills because a hurricane destroyed their house and their place of employment should be put in prison?
What you are looking for is thieves' prison and last time I checked we already have those. However, AFAIK, the FTC doesn't have the authority to prosecute criminal cases, just levy civil fines. Instead they pass on information to the appropriate authorities (the FBI or state governments may have jurisdiction depending on the offense). In this case, either the FBI would need to extradite them to face charges here, or the Canadian government would need to press criminal charges.
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I agree that the homepage is a busy distracting mess, and didn't see a whole lot of need for the hyper-realtime-update rate. However, I thought there were several use-cases that it would be good for which current software doesn't handle very well. slim already pointed out the living conversation use-case and how it improves on email. You could also use message boards for the same use-case, however Wave made it much easier to adjust permissions for individual message threads on the fly, a task that is very coarsely grained and limited to administrators on traditional message board software.
Another use case is commonly seen on enthusiast message boards, where the majority of the board is dedicated to conversation. There is a ton of useful information there, but it it spread out and scattered though all the threads. The current solution to this is to writeup walk-throughs, tutorials, or FAQ sections for special topics and post them as sticky threads. But this also has problems there are often good suggestions provided in the commentary following the thread, and it would be best to incorporate that back into the original walkthrough. In short, these sites would be best served by something that is a combination of a conversation board and a wiki. Wave has the framework to do that very easily.
The problem is that wave is too flexible for use by wide groups. If they scaled down the scope from being a global freeform collaboration social network, to just being a flexible CMS system, to be customized and locked-down for specific sites and specific uses it could be very useful.
The enactment of [these laws] was intended to protect the public against the use of a recognizable assertion of authority with intent to deceive. The seal is in no way evidence of any 'intent to deceive', nor is it an 'assertion of authority', recognizable or otherwise
They assert the referenced laws only apply to uses of the image as a badge, identification card, or insignia, and that uses that are clearly just an image of these things, and not a imitation are legal.
Because PETE performs best at temperatures well in excess of what a rooftop solar panel would reach, the devices will work best in solar concentrators such as parabolic dishes, which can get as hot as 800 C. Dishes are used in large solar farms similar to those proposed for the Mojave Desert in Southern California and usually include a thermal conversion mechanism as part of their design, which offers another opportunity for PETE to help generate electricity as well as minimize costs by meshing with existing technology.
The fact that it is twice as efficient as a PV system is completely irrelevant, given that it will be competing with solar concentrators not PV systems.
If you didn't like the UI simplification that occurred in GNOME 2.0, you will positively hate the new Gnome Shell that is being introduced in GNOME 3.0. Just stick with XFCE.
This is one of the reasons that I dislike discussing/arguing issues in person. They will bring up some information I hadn't heard before, but I have no idea whether it is reliable or not. I try not to be set in my beliefs, but 90% of the "facts" that people spout usually had some foundation in truth originally but have become so misinterpreted by the time they heard it that it is almost complete crap. I like to look into things before I accept them, but that isn't an option in person. If you can't immediately refute any random thing they bring up and won't just accept what they say as gospel truth then you are pegged as a ignorant stubborn idiot. Furthermore, when I am pressed like that I do feel a strong desire to dig in and defend myself, when otherwise I would just take in the information and have one more thing to mull over while I continue to read about the issue.
That is what it looked like to me as well, but I found the actual paper, and he is creating his "non square-pixel" image from a larger image, not upscaling it from a smaller one. In other words, it is basically just a form of poor-man's compression where you replace each 6x6 block with one of 8 decompositions containing two coefficients each.
Slashdot Mirror
That is an interesting idea, but it's worth pointing out that any 33bit palindrome will have that property due to symmetry. So, it's still entirely possible that an artist just picked any random binary string that was the length of the scroll, and was mirrored to look good. Here are some random examples:
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
and another :
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
a third:
0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
a fourth:
0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
more text to avoid lameness filter:
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
Produced with the octave(matlab) one-liner:
s = (rand (17,1) > 0.5)'; reshape ([s s(end-1:-1:1)], 3, 11)
Where I live most highways are 75 mph, and the normal flow of traffic is higher. I figured 800 miles per day, which is 10 hours at 80 mph or 12 hours at 65mph. Then I added 25% margin to account for driving against the wind, hilly roads, diminished battery capacity over time, charging station being out of service and having to drive to the next town, etc.
It isn't unreasonably or unsafe to drive 800 miles in a day. We do it every Christmas, alternating drivers whenever we stop for a break. Furthermore, I wouldn't feel comfortable planing to drive 800 miles in a car that had an 800 mile range, so some margin is needed. I was probably being a little conservative, and the maximum distance would be lower for people who drive mostly on the east-coast. So drop that to 650 miles per day with a 15% margin and you get 750 miles required range.
Give me something that goes the same distance of a tank of gas
I've heard that several times and it doesn't make any sense to me. If I am driving around town, I only need to fill up once every week, at most. If I can charge my car at home, I really don't need it to last an entire week. A little margin is required, in case I forget to plug it in one night, or decide to run extra errands, and accounting for diminished battery capacity over the life of the vehicle. Three days of driving is fine, which for most people is 90-150 miles. The Nissan Leaf can do that now. Some people have longer commutes, so that could be increased a bit, but I don't think the average commuter needs the 300-400 miles that a normal car can get on a tank if you can fill up at home.
On the other hand, if I am going out of town, there are very few places I can go on a single tank of gas. Even if there were charging stations available everywhere, the amount of time it takes to charge is unpractical for long drives. I would want to to hold a full day's drive, at least 1000 miles, and confidence that there would be a somewhere to charge where I slept, before I considered using a pure electric for out of town trips.
I don't see much added value in increasing the range over ~200 miles, unless you are surpassing ~1000.
I had originally modded you down, thinking you were confused. However, after rereading the page and looking closely at the images, you are indeed correct. I'm sorry. Posting to remove moderation.
Top Speed has much more information that the article that slashdot linked, as well as an official video from Jaguar.
Yes, the idiots reused the tape.
You want a static code analysis tool that can perform dead code elimination. It looks like Google's Closure Complier will do that for JavaScript code.
That is why I stocked up on crates of used Dan Brown books. Those literature majors will recoil in horror once I start pelting them with that mass market drivel.
Because cell phones are buggy pieces of shit, and I wouldn't trust them with my credit card number and PIN for anything. Especially as they become more and more tied to the web.
The practice of soaking the rich for exorbitantly-priced luxury goods/services in order to fund technological progress is one of my favorite features of capitalism. They become less rich and I get affordable cool shit several years down the road.
Because the person who posted the video on youtube (apparently an official CMU account) opted to show ads over the top of it. Youtube's HTML5 player doesn't have that feature right now (I imagine it could be done with a transparent div and javascript), so they fell back to Flash. Why CMU thinks they should be showing advertisements on what is already an advertisement for their school is beyond me.
While the H.264 licensing summary might lead you to think otherwise, the MPEG-LA has made it clear that licensing is based purely on the number of units, not the amount of money made, and is absolutely required for free software.
The second sentence should have been "served on pages with ads will be"
This announcement changes little. First, it is still uncertain whether videos served on pages will be required to pay royalties, so YouTube may very well still be required to pay royalties. More importantly, developers of H.264 encoders/decoders are still are required to pay patent licenses, regardless of whether they make money or not. This makes it impossible to have legal open source implementations of H.264 in the US anywhere that respects our patents. That is the complaint that Mozilla and Opera had against H.264 and so this minor licensing change will have no affect on the appropriateness of H.264 as an web standard.
Different applications have different needs as far as time goes, which is why we have so many different time standards (UTC, UT0, UT1, TAI, GPS, etc). Eliminating the leap second from UTC would simply make it redundant with TAI, and would leave us lacking a standard that has the desired properties that UTC was designed with. Furthermore changing UTC at this point wouldn't simplify anything as as programmers would still need to account for leap seconds that have already occurred. If you want a global time base that is simply seconds since an offset, use TAI, since that is what it was designed for and stop fucking with UTC.
So what happens to curbside recycling materials? I seriously doubt anyone is hand-sorting and dealing with contamination issues like neck rings.
That is exactly what happens in Albuquerque. Things that can't be mechanically separated are hand sorted by minimum wage workers, a large number of whom are homeless.
Note to self, don't invite Don Quixote to Iceland.
The problem with debtor's prison is that people can fall into debt for all sorts of reasons ranging from maliciousness to recklessness to just plain bad luck. Do you really think that someone who can't pay their bills because a hurricane destroyed their house and their place of employment should be put in prison?
What you are looking for is thieves' prison and last time I checked we already have those. However, AFAIK, the FTC doesn't have the authority to prosecute criminal cases, just levy civil fines. Instead they pass on information to the appropriate authorities (the FBI or state governments may have jurisdiction depending on the offense). In this case, either the FBI would need to extradite them to face charges here, or the Canadian government would need to press criminal charges.
I agree that the homepage is a busy distracting mess, and didn't see a whole lot of need for the hyper-realtime-update rate. However, I thought there were several use-cases that it would be good for which current software doesn't handle very well. slim already pointed out the living conversation use-case and how it improves on email. You could also use message boards for the same use-case, however Wave made it much easier to adjust permissions for individual message threads on the fly, a task that is very coarsely grained and limited to administrators on traditional message board software.
Another use case is commonly seen on enthusiast message boards, where the majority of the board is dedicated to conversation. There is a ton of useful information there, but it it spread out and scattered though all the threads. The current solution to this is to writeup walk-throughs, tutorials, or FAQ sections for special topics and post them as sticky threads. But this also has problems there are often good suggestions provided in the commentary following the thread, and it would be best to incorporate that back into the original walkthrough. In short, these sites would be best served by something that is a combination of a conversation board and a wiki. Wave has the framework to do that very easily.
The problem is that wave is too flexible for use by wide groups. If they scaled down the scope from being a global freeform collaboration social network, to just being a flexible CMS system, to be customized and locked-down for specific sites and specific uses it could be very useful.
From TFA:
The enactment of [these laws] was intended to protect the public against the use of a recognizable assertion of authority with intent to deceive. The seal is in no way evidence of any 'intent to deceive', nor is it an 'assertion of authority', recognizable or otherwise
They assert the referenced laws only apply to uses of the image as a badge, identification card, or insignia, and that uses that are clearly just an image of these things, and not a imitation are legal.
Because PETE performs best at temperatures well in excess of what a rooftop solar panel would reach, the devices will work best in solar concentrators such as parabolic dishes, which can get as hot as 800 C. Dishes are used in large solar farms similar to those proposed for the Mojave Desert in Southern California and usually include a thermal conversion mechanism as part of their design, which offers another opportunity for PETE to help generate electricity as well as minimize costs by meshing with existing technology.
The fact that it is twice as efficient as a PV system is completely irrelevant, given that it will be competing with solar concentrators not PV systems.
If you didn't like the UI simplification that occurred in GNOME 2.0, you will positively hate the new Gnome Shell that is being introduced in GNOME 3.0. Just stick with XFCE.
This is one of the reasons that I dislike discussing/arguing issues in person. They will bring up some information I hadn't heard before, but I have no idea whether it is reliable or not. I try not to be set in my beliefs, but 90% of the "facts" that people spout usually had some foundation in truth originally but have become so misinterpreted by the time they heard it that it is almost complete crap. I like to look into things before I accept them, but that isn't an option in person. If you can't immediately refute any random thing they bring up and won't just accept what they say as gospel truth then you are pegged as a ignorant stubborn idiot. Furthermore, when I am pressed like that I do feel a strong desire to dig in and defend myself, when otherwise I would just take in the information and have one more thing to mull over while I continue to read about the issue.
That is what it looked like to me as well, but I found the actual paper, and he is creating his "non square-pixel" image from a larger image, not upscaling it from a smaller one. In other words, it is basically just a form of poor-man's compression where you replace each 6x6 block with one of 8 decompositions containing two coefficients each.
All of Nokia's N-series smartphones will run MeeGo not Symbian after the N8.