Given an expanding universe -- since nothing can travel faster than light (and c is finite) and the universe has a finite age there is a limit to how far you can "see" in any direction from any given vantage point
I've had my head in the sand for too long, so I've never really thought about this, so correct me (or ignore me) if I'm really off base...
We're at Point A.
Something else is at Point B, which is 5bn light years from Point A.
Observable energy at Point B only came into being 4.999bn years ago.
Result is that we, at Point A, can not yet "see" Point B because it's observable emissions have not been in existence long enough to have traveled at the speed of light to our location.
So gravity affects things faster then light right? Because wouldn't that be the only way to observe gravitational affects on other observable objects which are closer to Point B then we are? (i.e. objects that have observable emissions that are older then then distance from us, so an object that is say 4.75bn light years from Point A and 0.25bn light years from Point B).
Oy I have a headache... it's a good thing I dig holes for a living that's all I can say:^)
Until Ford can make a car that will travel a guaranteed 65MPH between my destinations I'd rather have my commute time be time I can spend semi-productively, or at least reading/.
I've got the D410, no media bay... my own fault:-P
I didn't realize the D610 (and I assume D810?) could take a media bay battery... tho it must be different from the primary battery because of the shapes--the C-series used the same battery for either side.
I will say that the D410 w/ the extended life battery does last a long time w/ the display brightness low... I can easily get 4-5 hours while using my Sprint EVDO PC Card or the built-in WiFi... which is typically enough to get me between locations where I can plug in (I ride the train to work, so max time on batt is somewhere in the range of 1hr, if I don't plug in at night, might be 2hrs tops between plug-ins--I'm on the train now and it says I've got 4:44hrs left and it's reasonably accurate I've found)
More Battery! --AND-- the ability to insert a 2nd battery to keep things moving while changing the 1st battery!
That was a GREAT feature of my old C-series Dell notebooks... if you carried 3 batteries with you could pop a battery into the media bay while you swapped out the primary for a fresh one...
My D-series lack's that feature, I haven't checked the E-series, but I bet they don't have this feature either;^(
Which is to say Joe Bob with his Master Electrician badge is more fit to wire your house than a guy with a PhD in electrical engineering who has 20 years experience in the field. Not only is he more fit, but you can't even hire the other guy because he can't get licensed without jumping through the union hoops.
I believe you are saying above that a EE w/ a PhD should be able to be an electrician.
If so, I disagree with your analogy, but not necessarily what you say in your post overall.
As a EE who worked odd jobs for an electrician I can say that theory and practice are very different things. I would not hire a PhD EE with 20 years experience unless those 20 years were spent wiring houses (or whatever I wanted the electrician for). They are not equal. No more equal then a veterinarian is equal to a human cardiac surgeon--yeah they both work on living beings overall, but if my dog is sick (with no injury) I want the vet with years of experience to help it, not the human cardiac surgeon.
But I do agree that "unionizing" will do nothing but harm in the long run for IT workers. It will increase costs and complexity, which is not a good thing long term.
Unfortunately it's an argument I can't win (like most:))
I have no issue with typical public photography, or photographers, I've been one myself many times... I have no issue w/ CCTV, webcams, etc... I'm probably the least shy about online photos too as I have plenty of my own photos up on Picassa for anyone with an internet connection in the world to see, and I'm not an anon poster trying to hide here...
I guess my original point is either invalid to people other then me, possibly wasn't expressed correctly, is just lost in my ramblings or some combination of the above...
I'm against generalized laws that (un)intentionally protect sexual predators, child molesters and pornographers from using "public" images in a sexual context where the subject of that photo was either unaware the picture was taken or did not want the picture taken.
And really, when your argument relies on "but think of the [children|women]!" your argument is nothing but pandering to emotion.
Emotion is easy to dismiss when it is not your own.
We are people (most of us anyway), and people are steeped in emotion for their entire lives.
If there were someone standing 20' away from a playground taking "up skirt" pictures of my daughter while she was going down a slide I would be full of many emotions, though one specifically would probably dominate. Under the law I would have no "right" to stop this person from taking this picture or others like it, I would have no right to force the destruction of this picture--the best I could do would be to prevent future pictures by blocking the shots or by leaving.
Though I'm curious at exactly what punishment I would receive by a jury if I assaulted a person who was doing this, would they dismiss the charge against me because they believed that it was justified?
As a parent, or as a female, how would you feel if from 50+ feet away someone was standing with a telephoto lens taking shots of you, or your children?
Wouldn't that be very strange to you? Wouldn't you be nervous about their intentions--both in general and more specifically with what they plan to do with the pictures?
It may be LEGAL, but that doesn't make it RIGHT. If you want to take a picture of a PERSON (as opposed to a large group of people in general, or objects) in public you ought to have the decency and courtesy to ASK THEM if possible
I think this has more to do with perverts and scumbags then terrorists.
Way too many creeps out there are taking shots of girls in public places... so a person with a telephoto lens standing on an upper floor taking shots downward is going to suspect of being a perv, same with someone walking around the mall taking shots with a camera...
Frankly I don't give a flying f*ck about his or anyone elses "right" to take pictures in a public place (such as museum or mall) vs. the right of women to walk around and not have shots of their cleavage show up on some fetish site.
Absolutely... TFA is filled with lots of big claims, and not one example.
I've only read 2 comments so far, but my guess is that soon this place is going to be flooded with posts about how this or that particular phone has a real signal meter, or doesn't...
In the end signal strength displays don't actually matter IMHO... If you've got to make a call, you're going to at least attempt to make a call.
The battery life "lies" are a little more close to home... I know I've avoided a call or two when I had "2 bars" of battery (1/2) thinking I'd rather keep the charge in case of emergency...
Al Gore is on their board of directors... therefore everything they make is automatically considered to be eco-friendly...
Just like Al Gore's giant house w/ huge power consumption bills... b-b-b-but I was spending that power on computing climate models to prove what horrible polluters American's are!
The death of the lead actor has lead to massive amounts of free publicity, even beyond the disgusting amounts already being pushed down our throats by Verizon, Comcast, Dominos, etc...
However, I will say that in SOME ways the free PR from the dead actor may actually end up being LESS PR then they might have had from him making the talk show rounds... they also lose out on future revenue from signing him to other movies...
So when the studio's say that they mourn his death, they are being serious, because he was serious revenue and that is over now.
"If the movie's a stiff, and word gets out too early that it's a stiff, it's devastating to the business model," Garland said."
Let's be fair... those words did not come from the studio, they came from the CEO of a biz that "monitors" file sharing networks--my guess is that no studio would publicly agree with that particular sentiment.
As Morty Seinfeld once said, "You know what sells clothes? Cheap fabric and dark lighting."
You know that sell movies? Dead leading actors and professional film critics on your pay roll.
To stay on topic... by definition if you are convicted and put in prison (whether you are innocent or not) you are now a criminal.
Being considered a criminal by society is based on the judgment of other members of society--by extension there are many people out there who are not yet branded as being criminals but who have committed crimes.
Wiggum put it best when he said "I'd rather let a thousand guilty men go free, then chase after them".
Agreed that Foxconn and other similar Co's do produce physical hardware for many OEMs, it should be noted that they do not always write the BIOS', etc...
For example, big names like HP, Dell, etc... their boards may be physically produced by Foxconn, but they write their own BIOS' and do support Linux.
I've had no issues supporting Linux on the lowest-of-low Dell Dimension models, so they must be doing something right.
You can't seriously believe that an innocent person (wrongly) sent to prison should _not_ be vilified for killing his wife and young child, and shooting an innocent bystander, after he escapes... can you?
Health care is booming at the same time that pretty much everyone (except Dr's, nurses and drug pushers) agree that it's insanely overpriced -- this equation doesn't add up, it's only a matter of time before things start to normalize, particularly as more people enter the field grabbing at the lower hanging fruit (i.e. doctors are OK, but the drug pushers (aka pharma reps) and medical assistants should be worried.
I'd also love to know the source of your reports that say there is a short supply which will last three decades--hint, if it's those commercials you see at 1PM on a weekday they may be a bit biased--I'm skeptical of anyone who tries to predict something as variable as the availability of trained people over as long a period as multiple decades.
Anecdote: In 1998-ish I worked w/ a fella who was a truck driver, he got into IT because he'd heard about the high pay rates, promises of fewer callouses on his hands, the explosive field growth (with no end in sight) and the current and expected continued lack of qualified applicants... 10 years later is that still true?
I say stick with something that you like (that makes money!) and be the best you can be. Don't chase the latest job fad, it takes too much energy...
I have a Sprint EVDO card and a Linksys router that accepts the card.
The router has a WAN port, and will accept a connection from my other ISP (cable)... if the cable fails it will use the Sprint connection. It's a cheap solution, I paid $150 for the router on ebay, $100 for the card and $60/mo for Sprint plus $45 for cable... for $250 up front and $105/mo I have a very resilient connection at home .
My setup is simple fail-over, but I would imagine that using a hacked up DD-WRT or similar router that accepts PC Card or USB cellular WAN connections you'd be able to setup some rough traffic routing etc if you needed (beware the typical 5GB monthly cap on the cell connections)
I think the cellular cards are perfect because they provide DSL-like speeds and are not susceptible to very local disturbance (like a pole in your neighborhood getting hit by a truck, or falling branch in a storm) -- so you can literally be disconnected physically from the world for as long as your local power holds out and the towers stay up (this is sometimes hit-or-miss, especially in an extended city/regional power outage... where I used to live across town the closest tower apparently had no backup, so a power failure meant nearly complete loss of cell signal, but at my new location this hasn't been an issue in the handful of power outages I've had)
Does that mean that, in California, we'd actually own the music files, and would not be able to be prosecuted for shifting those files, breaking the encryption, etc?
Also, since we would own them we should also be able to sell them used on the free market...
Cassini: [message relayed from monolith] "All these worlds are yours except Enceladus. Attempt no landings there...."
Curiosity and temptation supposedly ruined Eden when Adam and Eve decided to bite the apple...
So I have to wonder how long it took before some humans went over there to figure out what was so great... or some future-lawyers decided that orbiting w/ high powered telescopes and scanners was OK because they weren't landing... or maybe if they built ships that could hover a few feet from the ground it would be ok, because technically they aren't landing...
To stay on topic... my guess is that the "glitch" is just to give them time to analyze unexpected results... depending on the outcome we'll see a new pass supposedly happen next year.
It's sad, but I can't stop myself from replying to this obvious nerd bait...... the quote is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, not "The Undiscovered Country"
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...when I started work on my Halo playing robot... well who's laughing now???
Given an expanding universe -- since nothing can travel faster than light (and c is finite) and the universe has a finite age there is a limit to how far you can "see" in any direction from any given vantage point
I've had my head in the sand for too long, so I've never really thought about this, so correct me (or ignore me) if I'm really off base...
We're at Point A.
Something else is at Point B, which is 5bn light years from Point A.
Observable energy at Point B only came into being 4.999bn years ago.
Result is that we, at Point A, can not yet "see" Point B because it's observable emissions have not been in existence long enough to have traveled at the speed of light to our location.
So gravity affects things faster then light right? Because wouldn't that be the only way to observe gravitational affects on other observable objects which are closer to Point B then we are? (i.e. objects that have observable emissions that are older then then distance from us, so an object that is say 4.75bn light years from Point A and 0.25bn light years from Point B).
Oy I have a headache... it's a good thing I dig holes for a living that's all I can say :^)
Until Ford can make a car that will travel a guaranteed 65MPH between my destinations I'd rather have my commute time be time I can spend semi-productively, or at least reading /.
+1 :)
I've got the D410, no media bay... my own fault :-P
I didn't realize the D610 (and I assume D810?) could take a media bay battery... tho it must be different from the primary battery because of the shapes--the C-series used the same battery for either side.
I will say that the D410 w/ the extended life battery does last a long time w/ the display brightness low... I can easily get 4-5 hours while using my Sprint EVDO PC Card or the built-in WiFi... which is typically enough to get me between locations where I can plug in (I ride the train to work, so max time on batt is somewhere in the range of 1hr, if I don't plug in at night, might be 2hrs tops between plug-ins--I'm on the train now and it says I've got 4:44hrs left and it's reasonably accurate I've found)
More Battery! --AND-- the ability to insert a 2nd battery to keep things moving while changing the 1st battery!
That was a GREAT feature of my old C-series Dell notebooks... if you carried 3 batteries with you could pop a battery into the media bay while you swapped out the primary for a fresh one...
My D-series lack's that feature, I haven't checked the E-series, but I bet they don't have this feature either ;^(
Which is to say Joe Bob with his Master Electrician badge is more fit to wire your house than a guy with a PhD in electrical engineering who has 20 years experience in the field. Not only is he more fit, but you can't even hire the other guy because he can't get licensed without jumping through the union hoops.
I believe you are saying above that a EE w/ a PhD should be able to be an electrician.
If so, I disagree with your analogy, but not necessarily what you say in your post overall.
As a EE who worked odd jobs for an electrician I can say that theory and practice are very different things. I would not hire a PhD EE with 20 years experience unless those 20 years were spent wiring houses (or whatever I wanted the electrician for). They are not equal. No more equal then a veterinarian is equal to a human cardiac surgeon--yeah they both work on living beings overall, but if my dog is sick (with no injury) I want the vet with years of experience to help it, not the human cardiac surgeon.
But I do agree that "unionizing" will do nothing but harm in the long run for IT workers. It will increase costs and complexity, which is not a good thing long term.
Unfortunately it's an argument I can't win (like most :))
I have no issue with typical public photography, or photographers, I've been one myself many times... I have no issue w/ CCTV, webcams, etc... I'm probably the least shy about online photos too as I have plenty of my own photos up on Picassa for anyone with an internet connection in the world to see, and I'm not an anon poster trying to hide here...
I guess my original point is either invalid to people other then me, possibly wasn't expressed correctly, is just lost in my ramblings or some combination of the above...
I'm against generalized laws that (un)intentionally protect sexual predators, child molesters and pornographers from using "public" images in a sexual context where the subject of that photo was either unaware the picture was taken or did not want the picture taken.
And really, when your argument relies on "but think of the [children|women]!" your argument is nothing but pandering to emotion.
Emotion is easy to dismiss when it is not your own.
We are people (most of us anyway), and people are steeped in emotion for their entire lives.
If there were someone standing 20' away from a playground taking "up skirt" pictures of my daughter while she was going down a slide I would be full of many emotions, though one specifically would probably dominate. Under the law I would have no "right" to stop this person from taking this picture or others like it, I would have no right to force the destruction of this picture--the best I could do would be to prevent future pictures by blocking the shots or by leaving.
Though I'm curious at exactly what punishment I would receive by a jury if I assaulted a person who was doing this, would they dismiss the charge against me because they believed that it was justified?
The law is fine, BUT...
As a parent, or as a female, how would you feel if from 50+ feet away someone was standing with a telephoto lens taking shots of you, or your children?
Wouldn't that be very strange to you? Wouldn't you be nervous about their intentions--both in general and more specifically with what they plan to do with the pictures?
It may be LEGAL, but that doesn't make it RIGHT. If you want to take a picture of a PERSON (as opposed to a large group of people in general, or objects) in public you ought to have the decency and courtesy to ASK THEM if possible
I think this has more to do with perverts and scumbags then terrorists.
Way too many creeps out there are taking shots of girls in public places... so a person with a telephoto lens standing on an upper floor taking shots downward is going to suspect of being a perv, same with someone walking around the mall taking shots with a camera...
Frankly I don't give a flying f*ck about his or anyone elses "right" to take pictures in a public place (such as museum or mall) vs. the right of women to walk around and not have shots of their cleavage show up on some fetish site.
Absolutely... TFA is filled with lots of big claims, and not one example.
I've only read 2 comments so far, but my guess is that soon this place is going to be flooded with posts about how this or that particular phone has a real signal meter, or doesn't...
In the end signal strength displays don't actually matter IMHO... If you've got to make a call, you're going to at least attempt to make a call.
The battery life "lies" are a little more close to home... I know I've avoided a call or two when I had "2 bars" of battery (1/2) thinking I'd rather keep the charge in case of emergency...
What makes this "eco-friendly"?
Al Gore is on their board of directors... therefore everything they make is automatically considered to be eco-friendly...
Just like Al Gore's giant house w/ huge power consumption bills... b-b-b-but I was spending that power on computing climate models to prove what horrible polluters American's are!
The death of the lead actor has lead to massive amounts of free publicity, even beyond the disgusting amounts already being pushed down our throats by Verizon, Comcast, Dominos, etc...
However, I will say that in SOME ways the free PR from the dead actor may actually end up being LESS PR then they might have had from him making the talk show rounds... they also lose out on future revenue from signing him to other movies...
So when the studio's say that they mourn his death, they are being serious, because he was serious revenue and that is over now.
"If the movie's a stiff, and word gets out too early that it's a stiff, it's devastating to the business model," Garland said."
Let's be fair... those words did not come from the studio, they came from the CEO of a biz that "monitors" file sharing networks--my guess is that no studio would publicly agree with that particular sentiment.
As Morty Seinfeld once said, "You know what sells clothes? Cheap fabric and dark lighting."
You know that sell movies? Dead leading actors and professional film critics on your pay roll.
Oops, didn't see that, guess I'm guilty :^)
To stay on topic... by definition if you are convicted and put in prison (whether you are innocent or not) you are now a criminal.
Being considered a criminal by society is based on the judgment of other members of society--by extension there are many people out there who are not yet branded as being criminals but who have committed crimes.
Wiggum put it best when he said "I'd rather let a thousand guilty men go free, then chase after them".
Agreed that Foxconn and other similar Co's do produce physical hardware for many OEMs, it should be noted that they do not always write the BIOS', etc...
For example, big names like HP, Dell, etc... their boards may be physically produced by Foxconn, but they write their own BIOS' and do support Linux.
I've had no issues supporting Linux on the lowest-of-low Dell Dimension models, so they must be doing something right.
You can't seriously believe that an innocent person (wrongly) sent to prison should _not_ be vilified for killing his wife and young child, and shooting an innocent bystander, after he escapes... can you?
Your outbox may also be affected.
Health care is booming at the same time that pretty much everyone (except Dr's, nurses and drug pushers) agree that it's insanely overpriced -- this equation doesn't add up, it's only a matter of time before things start to normalize, particularly as more people enter the field grabbing at the lower hanging fruit (i.e. doctors are OK, but the drug pushers (aka pharma reps) and medical assistants should be worried.
I'd also love to know the source of your reports that say there is a short supply which will last three decades--hint, if it's those commercials you see at 1PM on a weekday they may be a bit biased--I'm skeptical of anyone who tries to predict something as variable as the availability of trained people over as long a period as multiple decades.
Anecdote: In 1998-ish I worked w/ a fella who was a truck driver, he got into IT because he'd heard about the high pay rates, promises of fewer callouses on his hands, the explosive field growth (with no end in sight) and the current and expected continued lack of qualified applicants... 10 years later is that still true?
I say stick with something that you like (that makes money!) and be the best you can be. Don't chase the latest job fad, it takes too much energy...
I have a Sprint EVDO card and a Linksys router that accepts the card.
The router has a WAN port, and will accept a connection from my other ISP (cable) ... if the cable fails it will use the Sprint connection. It's a cheap solution, I paid $150 for the router on ebay, $100 for the card and $60/mo for Sprint plus $45 for cable... for $250 up front and $105/mo I have a very resilient connection at home .
My setup is simple fail-over, but I would imagine that using a hacked up DD-WRT or similar router that accepts PC Card or USB cellular WAN connections you'd be able to setup some rough traffic routing etc if you needed (beware the typical 5GB monthly cap on the cell connections)
I think the cellular cards are perfect because they provide DSL-like speeds and are not susceptible to very local disturbance (like a pole in your neighborhood getting hit by a truck, or falling branch in a storm) -- so you can literally be disconnected physically from the world for as long as your local power holds out and the towers stay up (this is sometimes hit-or-miss, especially in an extended city/regional power outage ... where I used to live across town the closest tower apparently had no backup, so a power failure meant nearly complete loss of cell signal, but at my new location this hasn't been an issue in the handful of power outages I've had)
Does that mean that, in California, we'd actually own the music files, and would not be able to be prosecuted for shifting those files, breaking the encryption, etc?
Also, since we would own them we should also be able to sell them used on the free market...
Cassini: [message relayed from monolith] "All these worlds are yours except Enceladus. Attempt no landings there...."
Curiosity and temptation supposedly ruined Eden when Adam and Eve decided to bite the apple...
So I have to wonder how long it took before some humans went over there to figure out what was so great... or some future-lawyers decided that orbiting w/ high powered telescopes and scanners was OK because they weren't landing... or maybe if they built ships that could hover a few feet from the ground it would be ok, because technically they aren't landing...
To stay on topic... my guess is that the "glitch" is just to give them time to analyze unexpected results... depending on the outcome we'll see a new pass supposedly happen next year.
It's sad, but I can't stop myself from replying to this obvious nerd bait...... the quote is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, not "The Undiscovered Country"
Don't they still make boat trips between Europe and the USA?