I made the switch to Chrome and have been using StrokeIt to get mouse gestures in it (avoiding the plugins that report your browsing). The side-benefit is that I get mouse-gestures for all apps on an app-by-app configurable basis and any gesture that I could possible want or conceive of.
Still miss some features from the old Opera, but 12 was just getting too long in the tooth and even it had gone backwards in some ways from 10.
Most likely you'll need a new phone. It's a new frequency so there's different requirements on the hardware and old phones don't have hardware that supports it.
I'm on T-Mobile, and was shopping for a replacement phone early this year (dropped the old one). I'm in a situation similar to yours, but for me it's the building I work in must be half Faraday-cage or something. So Band 12 (TMobile's 700mhz stuff) support was one of the must-haves on my list. Unfortunately back in February-ish very few phones supported it (like 3) the Nexus 6 being one of them (what I got).
I suspect that there's more options now, and would hope that it's showing up in non-flagship devices as well. Look for band 12 support, and realize that some phones have different versions and it's only present on some of them...
It does work though. I'm sitting in my office right now getting a half-strength signal where I used to get none, my phone lasts throughout the day... and every time I check at work it's connected to Band 12.
No, plenty of people believe in a supreme being without seeing evidence anywhere, much less everywhere.
You're describing gnostic theists and ignoring the whole set of agnostic theists. In my experience most of the religious people I've met that I consider "good" representatives of their faith fall into this latter camp while the gnostic theists are usually the fundamentalist nutjobs.
Personally the foundation of my faith is my agnosticism. Makes for quite the fun conversation with the fundies here in the south...;)
That said, I agree with you that gnostic theists are delusional and see evidence where there is none:P
Naw, what would instead happen is that you'd get something like the debt-ceiling. You'd get a "Bill to re-pass every pre-existing bill" and it'd be waved through until you got obstructionists in office and they let all laws expire for a week or two with partisan bickering/amendments.
Might reread the OP; you're in violent agreement with him that the McDonald's case did have merit.
"Of course most of those lawsuits were thrown out at the early stages, or if not turned out to have merit (like the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" incident)." can be rephrased as "Lawsuits not thrown out at the early stages turned out to have merit (like the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" incident), however most were, of course, thrown out"
What does it mean if the survey shows that for a group of 10 stars you have a 95% probability of at least 8 having at least one planet? What does it mean if the survey shows this for 95% of the surveyed area except for a continuous section where there is only 1 planet per 100 stars?
What new knowledge would come from trying to understand what caused this? Perhaps we discover something new about fundamental physics?
The point is that we don't know what we don't know. This may be what discovers something previously completely unsuspected and with earth-shattering possibilities... or... we could just learn that there's a lot of planets out there and nothing more. But without doing it, there's no chance of discovering the former. Observing what's around us is how we learn more and start to question things we otherwise never would have known even existed to question.
It's not just general stuff about being able to understand general algorithms and such, it's far more than that. Assuming your school does a good job you'll be learning about how to architect and design... and a lot of that transcends domain boundaries.
The *same* exact skills that I use for architecting software I've used when our systems group didn't do their job and the software team had to take over and produce the needed artifacts (customer required). How you go about defining interfaces between hardware components isn't really any different than what you do to do so between software components.
In fact, I'm now working at developing a business process for a whole new line of business. There's hundreds of government documents regulating it. So... it's take all the same skills that are used in successful software development and apply to this instead. Setup an architecture framework for the process that meets your needs. In this case it's ensure that the regulations are traceable to the process we generate and that the process is created in such a way that certain structural requirements are met. Then it's decomposition to individual subsystems (individual processes) and flowing requirements down and then designing them. It's the same skills behind it all.
Yes, there's domain specific stuff that may not be apropo to what you're *currently* wanting to do. But there is (or should be!) a lot of domain-independent skills that are applicable to a whole wide range of design domains including web design. Learning this set of skills makes it very easy to transition jobs in the future if needs or wants change.
Set beneficiaries on your financial accounts (401k's, etc). I can envision all sorts of problems arising if the accounts are logged into and assets transfered out after your death.
For your laptop password, and the like, why not just keep a thumbdrive in a safe deposit box?
With Opera I can right-click on a page say "edit site preferences" go to the scripting tab, and set a javascript folder. It will then load the javascript in that folder followed by the scripting on the page. However, in the javascript in the specified folder that you load, you can use opera-specific extensions to modify/overwrite the subsequently loaded javascript from the site. I'm probably doing a horrible job of explaining as I don't really do web-development stuff. So...
It's a bargin priced performance video card not a bargin priced video card. Interestingly enough, "bargin performance" is the phrase used in the summary.
You're not going to get solid performance at a respectable resolution in modern video games for below $150-200 or so. If you spend below that you're either having to drastically cut resolution or you're cutting way back on the settings. The $200ish range of cards will let you run with most all of the pretty stuff turned on at approximately 1080p resolution with a solid framerate that's not being killed by stuttering or slowdowns. (i.e., acceptable mins)
The mid-range and high-end cards allow you to run at yet higher resolutions and/or with lots of AA. And yes, there are people that play modern FPSers at 2560x1600 with AA. I'm not one of them. I tend to go the budget performance card route and game at 1600x1200 with low or no AA but with high settings and a good frame rate. I'll likely need to upgrade come this fall though, and this card is definately on my radar.
Most modern CPUs and the compilers for them are simply not designed for multiple threads/processes to interact with the same data. As an excersize, try writing a lockless single-producer single-consumer queue in C or C++. If you could make the same assumption in this two-thread example that you can make in a single-thread problem, namely that the perceived order of operations is the order that they're coded, then it'd be a snap.
But you see, once you start playing with more than one thread of execution, you gain visibility into both CPU reordering and compiler reordering. You also gain visibility into optimizations made (such as maintaining values in a register and not moving to cache or invented predictive stores and the like). If you research enough you'll find that while the volatile keyword will solve some of the problems, it doesn't solve them all, and it introduces others (it works well for what it's designed for, which is interfacing with hardware, if it's being used for intra-thread comms it's being misused). You wind up needing to use architecture-specific memory barriers/fences to instruct the CPU about reordering and when to flush store buffers to cache and so on. You wind up needing to use compiler-specific constructs to prevent it from reordering or maintaining things in registers that you're not wanting. (volatile is often used for the later, and note while volatile variables won't be reordered around each other, the standard says nothing about reordering non-volatile around the volatile. Also, it bypasses the cache, which in x86-land introduces CPU-reordering that otherwise isn't there (as I think volatile winds up being implemented using CLFLUSH?) as well as unnecessary performance hits (which perfomance is evidently important if you're trying to avoid locks...)
Atomicity is a whole different level of fun as well. I was lucky, at the boundary I was dealing with inherently atomic operations (well, so-long as I have my alignment correct, (not guaranteed by new)), but if you're not... it's yet more architecture-specific code.
If you're referring to the Reverse Engineering section, I'd suggest you read it a bit closer. The applicability of that section to the situation described is pretty far fetched.
In classes which are primarily discussion based (i.e., a nice high level philosophy course) I agree, a laptop has no place.
However, for me, having a laptop to distract myself with is creating "an environment conducive to learning." I didn't use it in a way that was disruptive to others (browse slashdot, play solitare, etc), but it's ability to keep me entertained had me attending a lot of lectures that I otherwise would have skipped. My distractionary use of the laptop was inversely related to the quality of the instructor.
Personally I'd lose all respect for an instructor that banned laptops. Students alternatively occupying themselves with their laptop is in most cases a sign that you're doing a poor job as an instructor. Attempting to remove the indicator that you suck rather than fix the problem... well... hardly seems ethical to me.
I refused to buy or play the first one because of their DRM. Essentially it turned your purchase into a lease... of unknown duration.
I'd be interested in this one, however, despite the lengthy review, I didn't see any mention of DRM. Given that this is slashdot, I'm kind of surprised and dissapointed. Why bother hosting reviews here if they're not going to focus on the geeky side of things?
As of last thursday when I was looking at thier plans in preperation for the droid launch, the 5GB limit was definately there. Looking today it seems to have been removed. Now I'm just seeing some conditions that if you use more than 5 gigs a month they can use that as grounds for cancelling your contract (or at least that's all I found with 2-3 minutes of digging)
Give Okami a try. It was originally a PS2 game... but it was almost designed for the wii-mote while on the PS2, so the port made tons of sense, and it works out wonderfully. (You cast magic by drawing on the screen. Yes, even on the PS2 version)
Thanks. It'll probably be a few weeks before I can give it a go as I have my spare machine at a friends place. I'll create everything on this machine, and then attempt to on a seperate machine with no internet access (simulating the loss of steam) get an installation to work. I'm thinking that somewhere in the process that steam servers will be needed (likely during the installation of steam if nothing else), but we'll see. I'll hunt around for the directions and such.
Slashdot Mirror
I made the switch to Chrome and have been using StrokeIt to get mouse gestures in it (avoiding the plugins that report your browsing). The side-benefit is that I get mouse-gestures for all apps on an app-by-app configurable basis and any gesture that I could possible want or conceive of.
Still miss some features from the old Opera, but 12 was just getting too long in the tooth and even it had gone backwards in some ways from 10.
If it's BYOP why would you buy the phone from the carrier?
And... some additional info on band 12, managed to remember the site I'd found most useful.
http://www.spectrumgateway.com...
They also have some information in the terms of coverage map, but it's not very detailed.
Most likely you'll need a new phone. It's a new frequency so there's different requirements on the hardware and old phones don't have hardware that supports it.
I'm on T-Mobile, and was shopping for a replacement phone early this year (dropped the old one). I'm in a situation similar to yours, but for me it's the building I work in must be half Faraday-cage or something. So Band 12 (TMobile's 700mhz stuff) support was one of the must-haves on my list. Unfortunately back in February-ish very few phones supported it (like 3) the Nexus 6 being one of them (what I got).
I suspect that there's more options now, and would hope that it's showing up in non-flagship devices as well. Look for band 12 support, and realize that some phones have different versions and it's only present on some of them...
It does work though. I'm sitting in my office right now getting a half-strength signal where I used to get none, my phone lasts throughout the day... and every time I check at work it's connected to Band 12.
No, plenty of people believe in a supreme being without seeing evidence anywhere, much less everywhere.
You're describing gnostic theists and ignoring the whole set of agnostic theists. In my experience most of the religious people I've met that I consider "good" representatives of their faith fall into this latter camp while the gnostic theists are usually the fundamentalist nutjobs.
Personally the foundation of my faith is my agnosticism. Makes for quite the fun conversation with the fundies here in the south... ;)
That said, I agree with you that gnostic theists are delusional and see evidence where there is none :P
Naw, what would instead happen is that you'd get something like the debt-ceiling. You'd get a "Bill to re-pass every pre-existing bill" and it'd be waved through until you got obstructionists in office and they let all laws expire for a week or two with partisan bickering/amendments.
Can't see this helping.
Might reread the OP; you're in violent agreement with him that the McDonald's case did have merit.
"Of course most of those lawsuits were thrown out at the early stages, or if not turned out to have merit (like the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" incident)."
can be rephrased as
"Lawsuits not thrown out at the early stages turned out to have merit (like the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" incident), however most were, of course, thrown out"
We don't know. That's one reason to do it.
What does it mean if the survey shows that for a group of 10 stars you have a 95% probability of at least 8 having at least one planet?
What does it mean if the survey shows this for 95% of the surveyed area except for a continuous section where there is only 1 planet per 100 stars?
What new knowledge would come from trying to understand what caused this? Perhaps we discover something new about fundamental physics?
The point is that we don't know what we don't know. This may be what discovers something previously completely unsuspected and with earth-shattering possibilities... or... we could just learn that there's a lot of planets out there and nothing more. But without doing it, there's no chance of discovering the former. Observing what's around us is how we learn more and start to question things we otherwise never would have known even existed to question.
It's not just general stuff about being able to understand general algorithms and such, it's far more than that. Assuming your school does a good job you'll be learning about how to architect and design... and a lot of that transcends domain boundaries.
The *same* exact skills that I use for architecting software I've used when our systems group didn't do their job and the software team had to take over and produce the needed artifacts (customer required). How you go about defining interfaces between hardware components isn't really any different than what you do to do so between software components.
In fact, I'm now working at developing a business process for a whole new line of business. There's hundreds of government documents regulating it. So... it's take all the same skills that are used in successful software development and apply to this instead. Setup an architecture framework for the process that meets your needs. In this case it's ensure that the regulations are traceable to the process we generate and that the process is created in such a way that certain structural requirements are met. Then it's decomposition to individual subsystems (individual processes) and flowing requirements down and then designing them. It's the same skills behind it all.
Yes, there's domain specific stuff that may not be apropo to what you're *currently* wanting to do. But there is (or should be!) a lot of domain-independent skills that are applicable to a whole wide range of design domains including web design. Learning this set of skills makes it very easy to transition jobs in the future if needs or wants change.
Set beneficiaries on your financial accounts (401k's, etc). I can envision all sorts of problems arising if the accounts are logged into and assets transfered out after your death.
For your laptop password, and the like, why not just keep a thumbdrive in a safe deposit box?
With Opera I can right-click on a page say "edit site preferences" go to the scripting tab, and set a javascript folder. It will then load the javascript in that folder followed by the scripting on the page. However, in the javascript in the specified folder that you load, you can use opera-specific extensions to modify/overwrite the subsequently loaded javascript from the site. I'm probably doing a horrible job of explaining as I don't really do web-development stuff. So...
http://www.opera.com/docs/userjs/
Opera does this. I've made use of it in the past to fix buggy javascript on a site.
I'd suspect Firefox does something similar.
er, lack of sleep is speaking. Meant to say my Droid X has all that. Not sure where the heck Nexus 1 came from.
My Nexus 1 has all that, so I'd imagine that it'd be on a tablet as well.
It's a bargin priced performance video card not a bargin priced video card. Interestingly enough, "bargin performance" is the phrase used in the summary.
You're not going to get solid performance at a respectable resolution in modern video games for below $150-200 or so. If you spend below that you're either having to drastically cut resolution or you're cutting way back on the settings. The $200ish range of cards will let you run with most all of the pretty stuff turned on at approximately 1080p resolution with a solid framerate that's not being killed by stuttering or slowdowns. (i.e., acceptable mins)
The mid-range and high-end cards allow you to run at yet higher resolutions and/or with lots of AA. And yes, there are people that play modern FPSers at 2560x1600 with AA. I'm not one of them. I tend to go the budget performance card route and game at 1600x1200 with low or no AA but with high settings and a good frame rate. I'll likely need to upgrade come this fall though, and this card is definately on my radar.
Most modern CPUs and the compilers for them are simply not designed for multiple threads/processes to interact with the same data. As an excersize, try writing a lockless single-producer single-consumer queue in C or C++. If you could make the same assumption in this two-thread example that you can make in a single-thread problem, namely that the perceived order of operations is the order that they're coded, then it'd be a snap.
But you see, once you start playing with more than one thread of execution, you gain visibility into both CPU reordering and compiler reordering. You also gain visibility into optimizations made (such as maintaining values in a register and not moving to cache or invented predictive stores and the like). If you research enough you'll find that while the volatile keyword will solve some of the problems, it doesn't solve them all, and it introduces others (it works well for what it's designed for, which is interfacing with hardware, if it's being used for intra-thread comms it's being misused). You wind up needing to use architecture-specific memory barriers/fences to instruct the CPU about reordering and when to flush store buffers to cache and so on. You wind up needing to use compiler-specific constructs to prevent it from reordering or maintaining things in registers that you're not wanting. (volatile is often used for the later, and note while volatile variables won't be reordered around each other, the standard says nothing about reordering non-volatile around the volatile. Also, it bypasses the cache, which in x86-land introduces CPU-reordering that otherwise isn't there (as I think volatile winds up being implemented using CLFLUSH?) as well as unnecessary performance hits (which perfomance is evidently important if you're trying to avoid locks...)
Atomicity is a whole different level of fun as well. I was lucky, at the boundary I was dealing with inherently atomic operations (well, so-long as I have my alignment correct, (not guaranteed by new)), but if you're not... it's yet more architecture-specific code.
If you're referring to the Reverse Engineering section, I'd suggest you read it a bit closer. The applicability of that section to the situation described is pretty far fetched.
Doesn't matter if it's a breach of the EULA, as if you're in the US it's illegal under the DMCA.
In classes which are primarily discussion based (i.e., a nice high level philosophy course) I agree, a laptop has no place.
However, for me, having a laptop to distract myself with is creating "an environment conducive to learning." I didn't use it in a way that was disruptive to others (browse slashdot, play solitare, etc), but it's ability to keep me entertained had me attending a lot of lectures that I otherwise would have skipped. My distractionary use of the laptop was inversely related to the quality of the instructor.
Personally I'd lose all respect for an instructor that banned laptops. Students alternatively occupying themselves with their laptop is in most cases a sign that you're doing a poor job as an instructor. Attempting to remove the indicator that you suck rather than fix the problem... well... hardly seems ethical to me.
I refused to buy or play the first one because of their DRM. Essentially it turned your purchase into a lease... of unknown duration.
I'd be interested in this one, however, despite the lengthy review, I didn't see any mention of DRM. Given that this is slashdot, I'm kind of surprised and dissapointed. Why bother hosting reviews here if they're not going to focus on the geeky side of things?
As of last thursday when I was looking at thier plans in preperation for the droid launch, the 5GB limit was definately there. Looking today it seems to have been removed. Now I'm just seeing some conditions that if you use more than 5 gigs a month they can use that as grounds for cancelling your contract (or at least that's all I found with 2-3 minutes of digging)
Give Okami a try. It was originally a PS2 game... but it was almost designed for the wii-mote while on the PS2, so the port made tons of sense, and it works out wonderfully. (You cast magic by drawing on the screen. Yes, even on the PS2 version)
Thanks. It'll probably be a few weeks before I can give it a go as I have my spare machine at a friends place. I'll create everything on this machine, and then attempt to on a seperate machine with no internet access (simulating the loss of steam) get an installation to work. I'm thinking that somewhere in the process that steam servers will be needed (likely during the installation of steam if nothing else), but we'll see. I'll hunt around for the directions and such.
Read the actual statute. Also, note that the copyright office has not, as of today, made such an exception.
I'll have to test that someday. I have my doubts that it'll work... but who knows, I could well be wrong. I'd kind of like to be :)