Regardless of the design of the connector, having the reset button directly above the port is a bad design. It's simply too easy to hit it with your thumb just plugging in or removing a cable. I suppose holding it down for several seconds resets to factory, which is what happens when using cables with the boot. Still, regardless of that more severe problem, it was a bad design in the first place.
Netflix is always dropping content to rotate in content they didn't already have (note I didn't say "new" content). They've always operated this way. The other option is to charge more and have a larger selection. I think I'm with most people in saying I would rather them rotate in new content than have a totally static library of movies after they hit the limit of what they can afford to license.
I switched from cable back to DSL when my local cable company added a 300 GB cap. My upload speed is slower, but I would rather have no caps than a bit more speed and worry that the kids are watching Netflix a few hours too many a month.
What this dating refutes beyond a doubt are the now discredited theories about Muhammed being a mythical figure, and the Quran invented in the late 7th century. For example, the Hagarene theory by Crone and Cook and the Nevo-Koren Crossroads to Islam theory are untenable now. This manuscript is earlier than all these theories claim.
That is totally incorrect. The dating cannot refute that at all. I have had a long interest in the Voynich Manuscript, and it is the same kind of thing with the dating there (the vellum has been dated as contemporary to when the manuscript *appears* to be from, but not the ink). The parchment could have been reused, or could have been unused for many decades. The text on the manuscript may have been written a century after the animal was killed to create the parchment.
Jesus is God, but is evil, and deliberately refrains from actions that would save sentient beings he presumably loves and who are capable of suffering from an easily preventable eternity of suffering.
In order to be sentient beings that are truly free, one must be given a choice. That choice was in the form of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Placing Adam and Eve in a walled garden that they could never leave, nor ever ascend or descend out of, is nothing more than a pet hamster in a cage. They could not have enjoyed Free Will had that been the case. Mankind is unique in the bible compared to other entities, such as angels and demons, as mankind has the ability to procreate. Angels, on the other hand, are each individual creations that cannot reproduce. According to the bible, angels wonder after humanity, because humanity has the ability to procreate and reproduce. (as a side note, it is not biblically correct that people who die "get their wings" and turn into angels) Anyway, back to the choice (aka tree). Mankind was given a choice, as a whole. When Adam and Eve sinned, their sin affected their offspring as well - aka all of humanity - because they had the power to procreate. Nothing mankind was capable of could ever atone for that sin, because mankind was then flawed and imperfect. The best that could be done was to take the purest, best fruits (both animal and plant) and offer them up as a sacrifice to atone for the sin committed by the forefathers. When Jesus came he was both man and God. He lived a sinless life as a human, and was sacrificed by humanity without justification. He offered himself as that perfect sacrifice, and as he was sinless, he was able to atone for Adam and Eve's sin, and provide a route for humanity to once again become pure in God's eyes. The only thing that any person has to do to receive this atonement is to simply believe that Jesus Christ was both man and son of God, and died for their sins.
It looks like they unearthed around 1,200 cartridges. Does that mean there isn't any truth to the legend that hundreds of thousands were buried, or is that all they bothered to locate and excavate? After all, if they dug up 100,000+ cartridges, they would flood their own market and they wouldn't sell for as much on ebay, etc.
Yesterday on a radio I heard a DJ saying that there was a study showing that diet drinks didn't help people loose weight. So the propaganda is already flowing.
I was just thinking to myself how awesome it would be to have a 1 petabyte micro SD card, but then realized, "What could I possibly use that much storage for?" Yes, I know, the supposed "640k is enough for anyone" fallacy. Well, there really is a limit to what a normal human being needs to store. Why aren't MP3 files today 100 times larger than they were 15 years ago? Because the normal human's audio perception cannot tell the difference between a 5 MB MP3 and a 500 MB MP3. So the space required to store 1,000 songs is pretty much the same as 10 years ago, for most people.
In the last few years, we've reached the limits of human perception when it comes to image resolution. The display on my phone and my ultrabook are both so high resolution that I cannot see individual pixels without a magnifying glass. How high of a resolution does a photograph need to be to print it out 8x10 with pixels so small that they cannot be seen? We've already surpassed that resolution a long time ago.
Why don't computer monitors and image formats use 64 bit colors instead of 32 bit color that we've had for 15 years? Because the normal human cannot distinguish shades of color beyond 32 bit RGB.
When everything is in 4k video, why would we need higher resolution (unless people are regularly projecting things on screens as wide as their house)?
The amount of storage we need has already plateaued when it comes to certain kinds of media, and it will soon plateau in the others (video, etc) as well. At that point it's just a matter of quantity. What good would it do me to be able to store 1 million songs, or 1 million pictures on my phone? I certainly cannot produce that many myself, and I cannot even consume them either.
For normal consumers, there will be a limit to the amount of storage we need and thus will pay for. When that occurs, research will slow down as the profit to be gained from selling petabyte of storage vs an exabyte will no longer justify the research. We are quickly reaching the point where speed and longevity are more important than capacity, so I expect, within 5 years, the emphasis will switch from mainly quantity to quality.
Can you summarize the point? I read all you pasted and am still confused what the point is.
Slashdot: News for redditors by redditors. I've only stumbled across reddit a couple times, and so I also have no idea what the significance of any of that is, or why I should care.
I switched him to Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning Calendar Addon and the problem has been solved. It is now 2 years later and haven't heard a peep about his email.
Email didn't happen to be your only method of communication with him was it?
Nokia was already on the way out. They failed to adapt to the new phone market as defined by the iPhone. Perhaps if they had immediately switched to the Android OS and stuck to hardware only they could have kept pace and stayed relevant. Most people (myself included) have never even seen a Nokia phone without a physical keyboard. That shows the era in which they peaked and stagnated. Microsoft would have had to have saved Nokia, as opposed to just letting the Nokia status quo alone and Nokia magically being successful.
Some of the bugs I've beat my head against the wall over the most are compiler bugs. It's easy to have the mindset that the compiler is infallible, and so programmers don't usually debug in a way that tests whether fundamentals like operators are really working right. This was particularly bad developing for Windows CE back around 2000 when you had to build for 3 different processors (Arm, MIPS and SH3). I ran into a number of optimizer bugs usually related to binary operators. The usual solution was precompiler directives to disable the optimizer around a specific block of code.
That is not a DC air conditioner. Note that it comes with a 2kw inverter. It's just a regular 220V AC air conditioner. Also, that whole package is sketchy. The stated BTUs don't match throughout the page (title and description says one thing, specs say another). It comes with 4 solar panels, but there are absolutely no specs on them - not even the wattage. Anyway, that package is solar panels, batteries, huge inverter and a regular air conditioner. The efficiency would have to be very low.
One Facebook to rule them all. At least Google gave it a try. I guess the end Facebook's dominance will have to be a long, slow process of attrition like with MySpace. It has a critical mass of users that cannot be overcome with money or other Web presence, as proven by Google. It may also take the young generation growing through it - most people under 20 do not have much interest in Facebook at all. They have accounts of course, but very few are very active.
It's good that Google's autonomous cars haven't caused any accidents, however the bigger question is if there was a human driver in those situations, would any of them have been avoidable? I try to keep an eye on vehicles coming to a stop behind me when I'm stopped, which is something the Google cars may not be programmed to do (or even have rear-facing sensors to detect that at all). I'm sure these vehicles are safer than a good many drivers on the road, but they can only react and respond in ways they were specifically designed for.
The detailed image showing Pluto's mountains is, according to one of the NASA scientists, one the youngest looking bodies in the solar system. The surface features appear to be less than 100 million years old. Very strange. Are there even any viable theories on what is providing the energy to resurface such an old, far-out, isolated body? A major impact of some kind is the only thing I can think of. Pluto is too small for the heat to be internally generated, and there is no massive nearby body to cause tidal forces and the like.
There are African cultures (or were) where the males and females lived in separate huts. The males considered the female's genitalia unclean, because of menstruation and all that. The men would have the young boys (we're talking boys of all ages) perform fellatio on them, with the explanation that drinking the men's semen would make the boys grow up to be strong men as well.
Citing primitive cultures (Native American or otherwise) as some kind of model for our society is pointless.
Slavery is expressly addressed in the Constitution in the 13th Amendment. The definition of marriage is not. It is not a federal issue as the federal government does not issue marriage licenses - the states do.
I don't have a problem with the judges appointed to the Supreme Court doing whatever they want because they have the power and have the final say ("It's good to be me!"), but to attempt to tie it in legally to the Constitution when that does not apply is going a little overboard. You're making arbitrary decisions and rewriting the text of law (ie the Obamacare ruling), so let's just at least not try and justify it Constitutionally (beyond the Constitution giving the Supreme Court the authority to make the decisions they are presented in the first place). A simple "We have the authority to make this decision and the majority have done so" would suffice.
The huge problem is orbital mechanics. The delta-V difference between satellites is enormous. Polar orbit, geosynchronous orbit, low-earth orbit, etc, etc. The difference in velocity between them is more than any satellite or service vehicle could realistically overcome (assuming you want to visit more than one satellite every couple decades). Satellites in geostationary orbit might be doable, because they all have to orbit relative to the earth's rotation, so traversing from one to another might be reasonable. However they are so far up there that it would still require covering a lot of distance to get from one to another.
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What happened to it? It's at http://books.google.com/
Regardless of the design of the connector, having the reset button directly above the port is a bad design. It's simply too easy to hit it with your thumb just plugging in or removing a cable. I suppose holding it down for several seconds resets to factory, which is what happens when using cables with the boot. Still, regardless of that more severe problem, it was a bad design in the first place.
Netflix is always dropping content to rotate in content they didn't already have (note I didn't say "new" content). They've always operated this way. The other option is to charge more and have a larger selection. I think I'm with most people in saying I would rather them rotate in new content than have a totally static library of movies after they hit the limit of what they can afford to license.
I switched from cable back to DSL when my local cable company added a 300 GB cap. My upload speed is slower, but I would rather have no caps than a bit more speed and worry that the kids are watching Netflix a few hours too many a month.
What this dating refutes beyond a doubt are the now discredited theories about Muhammed being a mythical figure, and the Quran invented in the late 7th century. For example, the Hagarene theory by Crone and Cook and the Nevo-Koren Crossroads to Islam theory are untenable now. This manuscript is earlier than all these theories claim.
That is totally incorrect. The dating cannot refute that at all. I have had a long interest in the Voynich Manuscript, and it is the same kind of thing with the dating there (the vellum has been dated as contemporary to when the manuscript *appears* to be from, but not the ink). The parchment could have been reused, or could have been unused for many decades. The text on the manuscript may have been written a century after the animal was killed to create the parchment.
Jesus is God, but is evil, and deliberately refrains from actions that would save sentient beings he presumably loves and who are capable of suffering from an easily preventable eternity of suffering.
In order to be sentient beings that are truly free, one must be given a choice. That choice was in the form of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Placing Adam and Eve in a walled garden that they could never leave, nor ever ascend or descend out of, is nothing more than a pet hamster in a cage. They could not have enjoyed Free Will had that been the case. Mankind is unique in the bible compared to other entities, such as angels and demons, as mankind has the ability to procreate. Angels, on the other hand, are each individual creations that cannot reproduce. According to the bible, angels wonder after humanity, because humanity has the ability to procreate and reproduce. (as a side note, it is not biblically correct that people who die "get their wings" and turn into angels) Anyway, back to the choice (aka tree). Mankind was given a choice, as a whole. When Adam and Eve sinned, their sin affected their offspring as well - aka all of humanity - because they had the power to procreate. Nothing mankind was capable of could ever atone for that sin, because mankind was then flawed and imperfect. The best that could be done was to take the purest, best fruits (both animal and plant) and offer them up as a sacrifice to atone for the sin committed by the forefathers. When Jesus came he was both man and God. He lived a sinless life as a human, and was sacrificed by humanity without justification. He offered himself as that perfect sacrifice, and as he was sinless, he was able to atone for Adam and Eve's sin, and provide a route for humanity to once again become pure in God's eyes. The only thing that any person has to do to receive this atonement is to simply believe that Jesus Christ was both man and son of God, and died for their sins.
World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
Yes, but how far away is the green light? If it's only a few feet away then the fact that the camera can see it really isn't such a big deal.
It looks like they unearthed around 1,200 cartridges. Does that mean there isn't any truth to the legend that hundreds of thousands were buried, or is that all they bothered to locate and excavate? After all, if they dug up 100,000+ cartridges, they would flood their own market and they wouldn't sell for as much on ebay, etc.
Yesterday on a radio I heard a DJ saying that there was a study showing that diet drinks didn't help people loose weight. So the propaganda is already flowing.
I was just thinking to myself how awesome it would be to have a 1 petabyte micro SD card, but then realized, "What could I possibly use that much storage for?" Yes, I know, the supposed "640k is enough for anyone" fallacy. Well, there really is a limit to what a normal human being needs to store. Why aren't MP3 files today 100 times larger than they were 15 years ago? Because the normal human's audio perception cannot tell the difference between a 5 MB MP3 and a 500 MB MP3. So the space required to store 1,000 songs is pretty much the same as 10 years ago, for most people.
In the last few years, we've reached the limits of human perception when it comes to image resolution. The display on my phone and my ultrabook are both so high resolution that I cannot see individual pixels without a magnifying glass. How high of a resolution does a photograph need to be to print it out 8x10 with pixels so small that they cannot be seen? We've already surpassed that resolution a long time ago.
Why don't computer monitors and image formats use 64 bit colors instead of 32 bit color that we've had for 15 years? Because the normal human cannot distinguish shades of color beyond 32 bit RGB.
When everything is in 4k video, why would we need higher resolution (unless people are regularly projecting things on screens as wide as their house)?
The amount of storage we need has already plateaued when it comes to certain kinds of media, and it will soon plateau in the others (video, etc) as well. At that point it's just a matter of quantity. What good would it do me to be able to store 1 million songs, or 1 million pictures on my phone? I certainly cannot produce that many myself, and I cannot even consume them either.
For normal consumers, there will be a limit to the amount of storage we need and thus will pay for. When that occurs, research will slow down as the profit to be gained from selling petabyte of storage vs an exabyte will no longer justify the research. We are quickly reaching the point where speed and longevity are more important than capacity, so I expect, within 5 years, the emphasis will switch from mainly quantity to quality.
Can you summarize the point? I read all you pasted and am still confused what the point is.
Slashdot: News for redditors by redditors. I've only stumbled across reddit a couple times, and so I also have no idea what the significance of any of that is, or why I should care.
I switched him to Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning Calendar Addon and the problem has been solved. It is now 2 years later and haven't heard a peep about his email.
Email didn't happen to be your only method of communication with him was it?
Nokia was already on the way out. They failed to adapt to the new phone market as defined by the iPhone. Perhaps if they had immediately switched to the Android OS and stuck to hardware only they could have kept pace and stayed relevant. Most people (myself included) have never even seen a Nokia phone without a physical keyboard. That shows the era in which they peaked and stagnated. Microsoft would have had to have saved Nokia, as opposed to just letting the Nokia status quo alone and Nokia magically being successful.
Some of the bugs I've beat my head against the wall over the most are compiler bugs. It's easy to have the mindset that the compiler is infallible, and so programmers don't usually debug in a way that tests whether fundamentals like operators are really working right. This was particularly bad developing for Windows CE back around 2000 when you had to build for 3 different processors (Arm, MIPS and SH3). I ran into a number of optimizer bugs usually related to binary operators. The usual solution was precompiler directives to disable the optimizer around a specific block of code.
That is not a DC air conditioner. Note that it comes with a 2kw inverter. It's just a regular 220V AC air conditioner. Also, that whole package is sketchy. The stated BTUs don't match throughout the page (title and description says one thing, specs say another). It comes with 4 solar panels, but there are absolutely no specs on them - not even the wattage. Anyway, that package is solar panels, batteries, huge inverter and a regular air conditioner. The efficiency would have to be very low.
One Facebook to rule them all. At least Google gave it a try. I guess the end Facebook's dominance will have to be a long, slow process of attrition like with MySpace. It has a critical mass of users that cannot be overcome with money or other Web presence, as proven by Google. It may also take the young generation growing through it - most people under 20 do not have much interest in Facebook at all. They have accounts of course, but very few are very active.
It's good that Google's autonomous cars haven't caused any accidents, however the bigger question is if there was a human driver in those situations, would any of them have been avoidable? I try to keep an eye on vehicles coming to a stop behind me when I'm stopped, which is something the Google cars may not be programmed to do (or even have rear-facing sensors to detect that at all). I'm sure these vehicles are safer than a good many drivers on the road, but they can only react and respond in ways they were specifically designed for.
The detailed image showing Pluto's mountains is, according to one of the NASA scientists, one the youngest looking bodies in the solar system. The surface features appear to be less than 100 million years old. Very strange. Are there even any viable theories on what is providing the energy to resurface such an old, far-out, isolated body? A major impact of some kind is the only thing I can think of. Pluto is too small for the heat to be internally generated, and there is no massive nearby body to cause tidal forces and the like.
Law in 21st century America: appeal until you find a court with a judge willing to (re)interpret law in your favor. Happening almost every day lately.
If Safari is the new internet explorer then that's not bad. If Safari is the old internet explorer then that's really bad.
There are African cultures (or were) where the males and females lived in separate huts. The males considered the female's genitalia unclean, because of menstruation and all that. The men would have the young boys (we're talking boys of all ages) perform fellatio on them, with the explanation that drinking the men's semen would make the boys grow up to be strong men as well.
Citing primitive cultures (Native American or otherwise) as some kind of model for our society is pointless.
Slavery is expressly addressed in the Constitution in the 13th Amendment. The definition of marriage is not. It is not a federal issue as the federal government does not issue marriage licenses - the states do.
I don't have a problem with the judges appointed to the Supreme Court doing whatever they want because they have the power and have the final say ("It's good to be me!"), but to attempt to tie it in legally to the Constitution when that does not apply is going a little overboard. You're making arbitrary decisions and rewriting the text of law (ie the Obamacare ruling), so let's just at least not try and justify it Constitutionally (beyond the Constitution giving the Supreme Court the authority to make the decisions they are presented in the first place). A simple "We have the authority to make this decision and the majority have done so" would suffice.
The huge problem is orbital mechanics. The delta-V difference between satellites is enormous. Polar orbit, geosynchronous orbit, low-earth orbit, etc, etc. The difference in velocity between them is more than any satellite or service vehicle could realistically overcome (assuming you want to visit more than one satellite every couple decades). Satellites in geostationary orbit might be doable, because they all have to orbit relative to the earth's rotation, so traversing from one to another might be reasonable. However they are so far up there that it would still require covering a lot of distance to get from one to another.
Maybe from this other recently discovered process?
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/...