That is an awesome show. In grad school a friend of mine from India had a copy (yes it was a burned copy, why do you ask?), loved it from the first episode. I've been meaning to pick it up, along with the earlier Yes, Minister (which I haven't seen yet). Prime Minister (can't speak to the earlier show) is one of those timeless shows that always seems to be relevant; I'm always surprised more people haven't heard of it. Right up there with Fawlty Towers as some of the best television to come out of the UK.
Depends on the airport. Many airports have separate terminals for general aviation/private aircraft/non-scheduled service, so you don't need to go through the same security procedures. Apparently at Kansai they do not (which isn't really a surprise if you take a look at the place).
It is a very space-limited airport, they don't really appear to have a place for a general aviation terminal - it is clearly designed to offer a place for round-the-clock commercial aircraft operations. of course, this could also be something specific to Japan, but I don't see any evidence of that.
The point is that even on a private plane, even on YOUR private plane, you are subjected to the same rules. I don't think most people would intuitively know that.
Depends on the airport. It sounds like the only reason this was an issue was that he was going through the main terminal to get to his plane. It doesn't matter that he was going to his own plane, he was going through a controlled area where no weapons are allowed. I can take all the guns I want on my own private plane (well, assuming I had one), but that doesn't mean I get to carry them through the airport terminal.
Could be a pain, I guess... I'd say he should have just put them in his checked luggage, but if he is flying on his own private plane does he have a deal in place for someone to handle checked luggage? I would guess not. He was probably pissed off because he hadn't thought of that, and there was no immediately available way to transport the items through the secure area to his aircraft.
Interesting, my AT&T DSL has been pretty stable in price but (up until about two years ago) the speed was steadily increasing. I get about 4-5 mbps ( 768k up) for $35 a month (up until about 2 years ago it was 2-3 mbps for the same price). I'm looking at trying out their U-Verse internet service, where I could get up to 12 mbps (1.5 up) for $45 or 18 mbps (1.5 up) for $55 a month.
Not quite sure about it yet, it sounds like there is a significant amount of hardware they need to install on-premises and I don't really have a good place for them to put it. Also just became available a month or two ago, so kind of waiting to make sure they've ironed out the kinks...
I was waiting to see if anyone would bring up Caustic. I was curious how their hardware compares to Intel's, but there doesn't really seem to be enough information available to compare them. IIRC, Caustic was showing off real-time rendering with their Caustic One at resolutions around 640x480, but the demo I'm thinking of is a little old and they may have refined it since then. They do mention a Caustic Two on their website in passing, but I can't find any information on it. Any insight into how Intel's hardware approach compares w/ Caustic's?
Anandtech discusses this briefly in their article. Basically, it look like the CE4100 SoC includes a dedicated decoder in addition to the Atom and SGX535 cores, which is what allows it to decode two 1080P H.264 streams.
I realize that Google Doodles are a long-standing tradition; I also realize that once upon a time they only came out to commemorate important events, holidays, etc., and were generally few and far between. Lately it seems that more often than not when I visit the Google home page there is a doodle on there. I don't really mind, but it does distract from the purpose of the site and can even cause some problems (at work we are forced to use IE [finally up to 7.0, at least]) and some of their doodles (and even simple things like the fading toolbar) sometimes cause issues - mostly in the way of slowdowns.
I like the doodles, but Google is getting very close to the point of oversaturation with them. They are fun and interesting when used sparingly; when every other day there is another doodle it becomes trite and annoying.
As it happens, we were focused on interns from graduate programs in Silly Valley, and focused on second-tier schools (Google and MS and the like were so aggressive with the top tier schools it simply wasn't worth our effort there). The percentage of citizens in those graduate programs is pretty small to begin with, but still I was surprised.
Not to flame, but why is it that you were focused on second-tier graduate schools in silicon valley, yet when you were unable to fill the position from this (limited) pool, the next step was to go to an H1B? From that account it sounds like the company did exactly what everyone thinks they are doing - looked at an arbitrary extremely narrow set of potential applicants, and when that didn't pan out (surprise surprise) went straight to finding an international worker. Wouldn't it have made more sense to possibly expand your search criteria to maybe include people from outside a relatively small portion of Northern California rather than jump straight to spending the money on an H1B?
I'm also trying to figure out what second-tier programs there are in Silicon Valley (or the immediate area) that have the potential to turn out PhDs, but I'm not really coming up with much...
is still about all I use iTunes for; well, that and transferring them to my iPod. Can't remember the last time I actually used it to listen to music, and I think I've only "set foot" in the store a few times (and only when I had a coupon for a free download).
I don't really care how big and ugly iTunes gets given how rarely I use it, my only objection is that Apple feels the need to install three different startup processes in Windows along with it - 'cause, you know, it would be absolutely awful if I had to tell Windows what program to use when I connect my iPod to the computer...
Presumably they'd have some capacitors over the power supply for the memristor to stabilize the power a bit. And I'm sure they don't use raw AC - there's probably a low-voltage DC inverter in there.
This is HP we're talking about; of course you won't be using raw AC power. These will obviously only work when used in conjunction with genuine HP power supplies; HP can't guarantee that electrical current from other sources won't damage your memristor, so a special chip in the memristor package will ensure that only genuine HP electrical current is used.
Now quit mixing your technical discussion up with my (poor) jokes.
That's a strange choice of phrase considering you're knocking the one area of the country where under 25% of people own cars, compared to 92% nationwide.
You and your misleading statistics. Car ownership is only that low because the other 67% own helicopters.
google semi-silently released their gmail call feature last week. *free* IP calling from your desktop to the US / canada. browser-based, simple, and just works.
Free for 2010 anyway, according to the notice I got when I was checking my email. The fact that they specifically said "Free for 2010" strongly suggests that come 2011, it won't be.
If you want to update programs in your power plant, do it with physical media or take in a laptop and sync it that way.
What if the laptop was compromised? It then infects a critical system and you lose CPU cycles while it thrashes around trying to get out and time to cleanup the damage. Worst case is targeted espionage where there is a virus waiting to jump the air gap.
Did you miss the premise? We're looking at ways to get data/updates to critical infrastructure without connecting them to the internet. Yes, if you use a physical device like a laptop or a memory card, it could be compromised - but you can check this out before connecting it to critical infrastructure, and the same problem exists if you are getting updates off the network.
Regarding espionage - not having critical infrastructure connected to the internet would seemingly make it more difficult for an outside agency to retrieve data, so again, this seems to be an advantage for the don't-attach-critical-infrastructure-to-the-internet idea.
No way I'd pay $1 to watch a TV episode once. Don't know about others, but assuming a $1 price point to own a song is more or less legitimate, can't see paying that much for a single viewing of a TV show. I value the vast majority of TV shows less than a single good song, so even $1 to own a TV show episode is pushing it (this may be why the only TV shows I own copies of are Firefly, Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers).
I was looking forward to this, basically hoping for an iPhone without the cell phone feature. Sadly, lacking GPS and with the dismal 960x720 still photo resolution (seriously? what were they thinking?) no way I'm going near it. Could have been great, but looks like they cheaped out in all the wrong ways for me.
I liked that quote so much, I had to look it up. According to Snopes, Jed Babbin said that.
Made even more hilarious since they're both American.
Ssh, if you bring up the fact that the U.S. couldn't have won the revolutionary war without the help of the French half the population's heads will explode, and the rest of us will have to spend all Labor Day weekend cleaning up the mess!
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Obviously you've never played Wii Boxing.
That is an awesome show. In grad school a friend of mine from India had a copy (yes it was a burned copy, why do you ask?), loved it from the first episode. I've been meaning to pick it up, along with the earlier Yes, Minister (which I haven't seen yet). Prime Minister (can't speak to the earlier show) is one of those timeless shows that always seems to be relevant; I'm always surprised more people haven't heard of it. Right up there with Fawlty Towers as some of the best television to come out of the UK.
Depends on the airport. Many airports have separate terminals for general aviation/private aircraft/non-scheduled service, so you don't need to go through the same security procedures. Apparently at Kansai they do not (which isn't really a surprise if you take a look at the place).
It is a very space-limited airport, they don't really appear to have a place for a general aviation terminal - it is clearly designed to offer a place for round-the-clock commercial aircraft operations. of course, this could also be something specific to Japan, but I don't see any evidence of that.
The point is that even on a private plane, even on YOUR private plane, you are subjected to the same rules. I don't think most people would intuitively know that.
Depends on the airport. It sounds like the only reason this was an issue was that he was going through the main terminal to get to his plane. It doesn't matter that he was going to his own plane, he was going through a controlled area where no weapons are allowed.
I can take all the guns I want on my own private plane (well, assuming I had one), but that doesn't mean I get to carry them through the airport terminal.
Could be a pain, I guess... I'd say he should have just put them in his checked luggage, but if he is flying on his own private plane does he have a deal in place for someone to handle checked luggage? I would guess not. He was probably pissed off because he hadn't thought of that, and there was no immediately available way to transport the items through the secure area to his aircraft.
Interesting, my AT&T DSL has been pretty stable in price but (up until about two years ago) the speed was steadily increasing. I get about 4-5 mbps ( 768k up) for $35 a month (up until about 2 years ago it was 2-3 mbps for the same price).
I'm looking at trying out their U-Verse internet service, where I could get up to 12 mbps (1.5 up) for $45 or 18 mbps (1.5 up) for $55 a month.
Not quite sure about it yet, it sounds like there is a significant amount of hardware they need to install on-premises and I don't really have a good place for them to put it. Also just became available a month or two ago, so kind of waiting to make sure they've ironed out the kinks...
Anyone using this service that likes it (or not)?
I was waiting to see if anyone would bring up Caustic. I was curious how their hardware compares to Intel's, but there doesn't really seem to be enough information available to compare them. IIRC, Caustic was showing off real-time rendering with their Caustic One at resolutions around 640x480, but the demo I'm thinking of is a little old and they may have refined it since then. They do mention a Caustic Two on their website in passing, but I can't find any information on it. Any insight into how Intel's hardware approach compares w/ Caustic's?
Uh, she just did.
Making news is different than making up news.
Until you get caught.
Anandtech discusses this briefly in their article. Basically, it look like the CE4100 SoC includes a dedicated decoder in addition to the Atom and SGX535 cores, which is what allows it to decode two 1080P H.264 streams.
It worked so well that moving the particles caused the news about them to be duped http://tech.slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=Tractor+Beams They call it the Dupification Effect.
Apparently the Slashdot editors are caught in a tractor beam.
They're at full power; they're going to have to shut down.
The worst thing about this is that Rev. Terry Jones has sullied the good name of Terry Jones, the ex-Python member.
No kidding. And so soon after Slashdot started doing its best to sully the name of Eric Idle.
I realize that Google Doodles are a long-standing tradition; I also realize that once upon a time they only came out to commemorate important events, holidays, etc., and were generally few and far between. Lately it seems that more often than not when I visit the Google home page there is a doodle on there. I don't really mind, but it does distract from the purpose of the site and can even cause some problems (at work we are forced to use IE [finally up to 7.0, at least]) and some of their doodles (and even simple things like the fading toolbar) sometimes cause issues - mostly in the way of slowdowns.
I like the doodles, but Google is getting very close to the point of oversaturation with them. They are fun and interesting when used sparingly; when every other day there is another doodle it becomes trite and annoying.
As it happens, we were focused on interns from graduate programs in Silly Valley, and focused on second-tier schools (Google and MS and the like were so aggressive with the top tier schools it simply wasn't worth our effort there). The percentage of citizens in those graduate programs is pretty small to begin with, but still I was surprised.
Not to flame, but why is it that you were focused on second-tier graduate schools in silicon valley, yet when you were unable to fill the position from this (limited) pool, the next step was to go to an H1B? From that account it sounds like the company did exactly what everyone thinks they are doing - looked at an arbitrary extremely narrow set of potential applicants, and when that didn't pan out (surprise surprise) went straight to finding an international worker. Wouldn't it have made more sense to possibly expand your search criteria to maybe include people from outside a relatively small portion of Northern California rather than jump straight to spending the money on an H1B?
I'm also trying to figure out what second-tier programs there are in Silicon Valley (or the immediate area) that have the potential to turn out PhDs, but I'm not really coming up with much...
"Hey, looks like I've been hacked. HAL, kick the hacker out of my FB account!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
See, that's why I didn't name my son David. I'm pretty sure it will make him immune to attack from rogue AIs.
You see, no self-respecting AI would ever say something like, "I'm sorry, Wesley, I'm afraid I can't let you do that." The name is the important part.
Bots on IRC are indistinguishable from your average teenage girl on IRC.
Just sayin
Very true. Probably because all of the "teenage girls" on IRC are bots.
Of course, that may have been what you were implying, in which case forgive me for stating the obvious...
is still about all I use iTunes for; well, that and transferring them to my iPod. Can't remember the last time I actually used it to listen to music, and I think I've only "set foot" in the store a few times (and only when I had a coupon for a free download).
I don't really care how big and ugly iTunes gets given how rarely I use it, my only objection is that Apple feels the need to install three different startup processes in Windows along with it - 'cause, you know, it would be absolutely awful if I had to tell Windows what program to use when I connect my iPod to the computer...
Presumably they'd have some capacitors over the power supply for the memristor to stabilize the power a bit. And I'm sure they don't use raw AC - there's probably a low-voltage DC inverter in there.
This is HP we're talking about; of course you won't be using raw AC power. These will obviously only work when used in conjunction with genuine HP power supplies; HP can't guarantee that electrical current from other sources won't damage your memristor, so a special chip in the memristor package will ensure that only genuine HP electrical current is used.
Now quit mixing your technical discussion up with my (poor) jokes.
Ouch.
Still, cheaper than taking the wife to see it in the theater and buying some popcorn and drinks; sounds like a deal!
douche-bag Manhattanite driving a Range Rover
That's a strange choice of phrase considering you're knocking the one area of the country where under 25% of people own cars, compared to 92% nationwide.
You and your misleading statistics. Car ownership is only that low because the other 67% own helicopters.
google semi-silently released their gmail call feature last week. *free* IP calling from your desktop to the US / canada. browser-based, simple, and just works.
Free for 2010 anyway, according to the notice I got when I was checking my email. The fact that they specifically said "Free for 2010" strongly suggests that come 2011, it won't be.
If you want to update programs in your power plant, do it with physical media or take in a laptop and sync it that way.
What if the laptop was compromised? It then infects a critical system and you lose CPU cycles while it thrashes around trying to get out and time to cleanup the damage. Worst case is targeted espionage where there is a virus waiting to jump the air gap.
Did you miss the premise? We're looking at ways to get data/updates to critical infrastructure without connecting them to the internet. Yes, if you use a physical device like a laptop or a memory card, it could be compromised - but you can check this out before connecting it to critical infrastructure, and the same problem exists if you are getting updates off the network.
Regarding espionage - not having critical infrastructure connected to the internet would seemingly make it more difficult for an outside agency to retrieve data, so again, this seems to be an advantage for the don't-attach-critical-infrastructure-to-the-internet idea.
No way I'd pay $1 to watch a TV episode once. Don't know about others, but assuming a $1 price point to own a song is more or less legitimate, can't see paying that much for a single viewing of a TV show. I value the vast majority of TV shows less than a single good song, so even $1 to own a TV show episode is pushing it (this may be why the only TV shows I own copies of are Firefly, Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers).
Bing --> Microsoft;
Ping --> Apple;
Ding --> ??;
Sing --> The rest of us?
Doesn't Southwest use Ding! or something for their special-offer system?
Complete specs here.
I was looking forward to this, basically hoping for an iPhone without the cell phone feature. Sadly, lacking GPS and with the dismal 960x720 still photo resolution (seriously? what were they thinking?) no way I'm going near it. Could have been great, but looks like they cheaped out in all the wrong ways for me.
I liked that quote so much, I had to look it up. According to Snopes, Jed Babbin said that.
Made even more hilarious since they're both American.
Ssh, if you bring up the fact that the U.S. couldn't have won the revolutionary war without the help of the French half the population's heads will explode, and the rest of us will have to spend all Labor Day weekend cleaning up the mess!
Be not!
-or-
It turns out Kublai really was a god!
(Sorry, the -iad ending to the title puts me in mind of rather more recent fiction than the [I assume] intended allusion)