Anyone could easily write an equation that equates the living hell out of the three bodies, putting them in some absurd relation to each other. Does it say anything about reality? Nah.
Doesn't it come down to "do your equations match reality?"
I'm pretty sure they're not just going to come up with an equation and say "see, done" -- they're going to make sure it matches up with what we observe.
You know, empirically either validate or refute the equations.
One theory is that the ancient brewers put loaves of bread into the wort, inadvertently pitching yeast in the process.
I would venture to say it wasn't "inadvertent".
They may have not understood the microscopic level, but by this time humans would have been brewing beer for likely thousands of years already. They knew what would happen and what they expected.
We tend to forget there was likely many many thousands of years of pre-history during which brewing, baking, building, tool making would have been very well developed.
By this time, they had fairly sophisticated stone-buildings, agriculture, societies and concepts of astronomy -- beer and bread making is comparatively ancient to those things, and likely go back to when humans first started making settlements and farming.
NoScript, AdBlockPlus, Ghostery, ScriptSafe, and everything else you can find to keep the crap at bay is the only safe way to use the internet these days.
Between advertising companies who feel entitled to your data, and all of the crap on the internet... leaving that stuff on by default is just asking for problems.
The story is about Yahoo, so that is who I mentioned. I don't trust Google either (or any other advertiser for that matter).
Just because an advertiser accepts money to serve ads, doesn't mean I have any trust in the people actually serving the ads, and I sure as hell don't let them run scripts. Not ever.
The Washington Post cites this incident as a reminder that Java has become an Internet security menace.
As far as I've been concerned, Java and Javascript have both always been security menaces.
Letting web-sites and advertisers execute code has been a recipe for problems for a long time, which is why many of us here likely already block it.
This is just another example of why we can't trust the companies doing the advertising, because they're part of the problem -- if Yahoo is serving malware, Yahoo can't be trusted.
Or, security/privacy problems waiting to as the vending machines are integrated with a ridiculous amount of things (and with zero consideration for security).
Think social media campaigns and other things which want you to "check-in" with your phone at the soda machine.
And I'm sure the ones I'm seeing with credit-card readers are all super secure too.
Depending on how your organization has set things up, I installed the Juniper Pulse client on my Android.
The 2X RDP client used to work and then stopped, but I suspect that's more on the VPN side than the RDP side.
For us, since we're already using the Juniper VPN stuff, the Android access was pretty darned easy. Awfully handy for keeping tabs on emails while on vacation.
You know, if you've found something great, a bit of specific information would help share that. Brand? Supplier? Buler?
The vast majority of the ones I have are just the standard Blueline hard-cover black lab books you can buy at any Staples or even Wal-Mart.
Occasionally I'm stuck and can't find one of those, and end up using the store brand, there's not a whole lot of difference. You can stick those little Post-It tabs onto pages you need to find quickly.
Just a hard-cover, notebook with ruled pages and a 3/4" or so margin at the top and a ruled margin on the left. Not the ones with the perforated pages to be torn out or the coiled binding, the ones with the fully bound pages which are meant to stay put and a pressboard/cardboard cover. Most of them seem to be around 192 pages or so, and are about 9 1/4"x7 1/4" (23.5cmx18.4cm).
Draw a line from the previous day, write today's date, and get on with it. Always keep a few extra ones on hand for when you reach the end of the one you're working on.
Slap a label on the spine, put 'em up on your shelf. It really is about as low tech as you can get, but it's been how I've kept notes for a very long time.
I've heard them called engineering notebooks, lab books, scientific notebooks. They're pretty common and easy to find, and several different companies make more or less the exact same thing.
I good middle ground is when the page is full take a picture and put it on evernote which will do OCR (so long as you don't write too bad) and then you have an index of all your notes somewhere.
I've found that over the years I've know people who have tried variations on that.
Eventually it becomes something they deem too cumbersome, or the technology just doesn't work, or any number of things.
Me, I just keep using old-school lab books. Unless I lose them in a fire, I can usually track down something quickly enough to not bother with anything fancier. It also allows me to have my notes be fairly unstructured, include diagrams, and lots of other things I don't always find a good analog for in digital things.
Then again, I'm too damned old and cranky to be too much of a slave to technology when I can avoid it. Eventually, with a lot of technology I find it simply more work than going with pen and paper.
I know this goes contrary to what a lot of people here will think, because it ignores the technology aspects we're all so obsessed with.
Me, I still use the same black lab-books for persistent note-taking I've been using for 20 years.
I've got a stack of them, numbered and with dated pages. Every time I've looked at an alternative, I've found it cumbersome and less useful, and sooner or later you discover whatever technology du jour you're using has gone away, and you're left finding yet another alternative.
By all means, apply technology as you see fit. But for some things, many of us have found that old fashioned pen and paper is still superior. Everything else is a temporary solution which will eventually fail on you or go away completely.
Then that is how their creators must have wanted it
Or that's what the cartel which controls it's distribution now wants.
Copyright has long ceased to be about what the creator of a work wants, and is far too often about what the corporations who control them want.
Just because a corporation sits on something and doesn't publish, doesn't mean that the copyright owner has any say any longer -- because sometimes distribution rights also factor in.
I asked her - "So you have a phone, acting like a computer, that you want to install software on so it will act like a phone?"
Hey, if your data plan on your phone is cheaper than your minutes on your phone, why not?
If people didn't want Skype on their phones, they wouldn't be making it.
And, really, modern day phones are every bit full fledged computers -- they just also happen to be phones. I'm betting her current S4 outperforms/outclasses the 386's she started with in pretty much every regard from CPU speed to storage.
Hell, I strongly suspect that most cell phones nowadays would have been classed as 'supercomputers' not even 25 years ago. The line between phone and computer has blurred so much, and since you can install software which pretty much does everything, I fail to see why a cell phone isn't a computer these days. It sure meets any definition I saw in school.
They're all Turing complete, and with general purpose instruction sets.
I agree with you, but I've also known someone who is 100+ pounds overweight who outright refuses to date women who are also a little on the heavy side. It's hard not to think "have you really looked at yourself in a mirror?"
Some people just have completely unrealistic expectations about who they might potentially be able to date.
Me, I figure find someone you can get along with and have things in common with, and the rest is just details.
No kidding. I've known a few people who aren't exactly the best catches who refuse to date anybody who looks anything less than a supermodel.
If you're 80 pounds overweight, or a raging nerd, or whatever, and you refuse to date someone who isn't perfect... you're going to be single and lonely for a long time.
I've known way too many people with their own defects (and who among us doesn't have them, especially here) who looked at potential partners and turned up their nose for stupid reasons -- a little overweight, wears glasses, curly hair.
Not saying you need to date the ugliest person you can find, but having a realistic expectation of what you might actually get goes a long way.
Don't be the Comic Book Guy saying "Oh, I've wasted my life" and passing up opportunities. If you're a 5, don't shoot for a 10.
Wait a second!!! Are you guys telling me that a company should continue to support software on devices not sold for over 2 years? Why is it reasonable for a user to expect this?
When bought new at launch, and rendered obsolete in 2 years, I absolutely expect that of them.
See, if it had been two years after they stopped selling the iPad 1, I might buy that argument. But it was really only two years after product launch. Which means all of those people who made the product successful at launch more or less got told "oh well, too damned bad, buy another one".
I still have and use some Apple products, but the iPad is now something I will forever treat with disdain and distrust that they won't just abandon the users who bought them. I'm not willing to extend the trust to Apple that even if I bought the latest version right now, they wouldn't do the same thing in two years.
My 10 year old iPod still works just fine. After the update to iOS 5.x on my iPad, not so much -- in fact, it's a markedly worse product than what I got initially.
Except for support for iTunes and Digital Copies of movies, my Nexus 7 pretty much does everything my iPad did, and cost about 1/3 of the iPad. So if I'm going to have to treat technology as more or less disposable, I will do it with cheaper alternatives.
Do you whine about buying an older version of everything?
I bought it brand new, shortly after it was released. It wasn't an older version of the product, it WAS the product.
I feel I'm entitled to be somewhat pissed off at them for having dropped support for it after two years, because I'm not aware of any other consumer product I'd purchase at launch at expect it to be obsolete and unsupported two years later. In fact, I wouldn't buy such a thing.
If that's how Apple is going to treat their customers, they may find some of us don't come back.
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Doesn't it come down to "do your equations match reality?"
I'm pretty sure they're not just going to come up with an equation and say "see, done" -- they're going to make sure it matches up with what we observe.
You know, empirically either validate or refute the equations.
I would venture to say it wasn't "inadvertent".
They may have not understood the microscopic level, but by this time humans would have been brewing beer for likely thousands of years already. They knew what would happen and what they expected.
We tend to forget there was likely many many thousands of years of pre-history during which brewing, baking, building, tool making would have been very well developed.
By this time, they had fairly sophisticated stone-buildings, agriculture, societies and concepts of astronomy -- beer and bread making is comparatively ancient to those things, and likely go back to when humans first started making settlements and farming.
You know, I don't find there to be many sites I actually want to use that don't get by mostly without allowing scripts and the tracking shit.
ScriptSafe + DoNotTrackMe + Ghostery + AdBlockPlus are what I have in Chrome.
ScriptSafe does about the same as NoScript.
Yup, didn't trust that either.
NoScript, AdBlockPlus, Ghostery, ScriptSafe, and everything else you can find to keep the crap at bay is the only safe way to use the internet these days.
Between advertising companies who feel entitled to your data, and all of the crap on the internet ... leaving that stuff on by default is just asking for problems.
In the abstract, as a standalone app, sure.
But on the web? No bloody way. Certainly not by default -- because it's always been a vector from annoying crap and malware.
No, you're a fucking idiot.
The story is about Yahoo, so that is who I mentioned. I don't trust Google either (or any other advertiser for that matter).
Just because an advertiser accepts money to serve ads, doesn't mean I have any trust in the people actually serving the ads, and I sure as hell don't let them run scripts. Not ever.
As far as I've been concerned, Java and Javascript have both always been security menaces.
Letting web-sites and advertisers execute code has been a recipe for problems for a long time, which is why many of us here likely already block it.
This is just another example of why we can't trust the companies doing the advertising, because they're part of the problem -- if Yahoo is serving malware, Yahoo can't be trusted.
And that's scary, but completely unsurprising.
Marketing people continue to be assholes, film at 11.
And probably with the tracking/big data companies to make sure they've got extensive personal information on everybody who ever uses a Coke machine.
It will probably upload pictures of you to a central database, I'm sure.
Or, security/privacy problems waiting to as the vending machines are integrated with a ridiculous amount of things (and with zero consideration for security).
Think social media campaigns and other things which want you to "check-in" with your phone at the soda machine.
And I'm sure the ones I'm seeing with credit-card readers are all super secure too.
Really? I find most organizations have done a good job of setting up VPN access to their systems that don't break any rules.
It's a largely solved problem.
Depending on how your organization has set things up, I installed the Juniper Pulse client on my Android.
The 2X RDP client used to work and then stopped, but I suspect that's more on the VPN side than the RDP side.
For us, since we're already using the Juniper VPN stuff, the Android access was pretty darned easy. Awfully handy for keeping tabs on emails while on vacation.
The vast majority of the ones I have are just the standard Blueline hard-cover black lab books you can buy at any Staples or even Wal-Mart.
Occasionally I'm stuck and can't find one of those, and end up using the store brand, there's not a whole lot of difference. You can stick those little Post-It tabs onto pages you need to find quickly.
Just a hard-cover, notebook with ruled pages and a 3/4" or so margin at the top and a ruled margin on the left. Not the ones with the perforated pages to be torn out or the coiled binding, the ones with the fully bound pages which are meant to stay put and a pressboard/cardboard cover. Most of them seem to be around 192 pages or so, and are about 9 1/4"x7 1/4" (23.5cmx18.4cm).
Draw a line from the previous day, write today's date, and get on with it. Always keep a few extra ones on hand for when you reach the end of the one you're working on.
Slap a label on the spine, put 'em up on your shelf. It really is about as low tech as you can get, but it's been how I've kept notes for a very long time.
I've heard them called engineering notebooks, lab books, scientific notebooks. They're pretty common and easy to find, and several different companies make more or less the exact same thing.
I've found that over the years I've know people who have tried variations on that.
Eventually it becomes something they deem too cumbersome, or the technology just doesn't work, or any number of things.
Me, I just keep using old-school lab books. Unless I lose them in a fire, I can usually track down something quickly enough to not bother with anything fancier. It also allows me to have my notes be fairly unstructured, include diagrams, and lots of other things I don't always find a good analog for in digital things.
Then again, I'm too damned old and cranky to be too much of a slave to technology when I can avoid it. Eventually, with a lot of technology I find it simply more work than going with pen and paper.
I know this goes contrary to what a lot of people here will think, because it ignores the technology aspects we're all so obsessed with.
Me, I still use the same black lab-books for persistent note-taking I've been using for 20 years.
I've got a stack of them, numbered and with dated pages. Every time I've looked at an alternative, I've found it cumbersome and less useful, and sooner or later you discover whatever technology du jour you're using has gone away, and you're left finding yet another alternative.
By all means, apply technology as you see fit. But for some things, many of us have found that old fashioned pen and paper is still superior. Everything else is a temporary solution which will eventually fail on you or go away completely.
Or that's what the cartel which controls it's distribution now wants.
Copyright has long ceased to be about what the creator of a work wants, and is far too often about what the corporations who control them want.
Just because a corporation sits on something and doesn't publish, doesn't mean that the copyright owner has any say any longer -- because sometimes distribution rights also factor in.
Hey, if your data plan on your phone is cheaper than your minutes on your phone, why not?
If people didn't want Skype on their phones, they wouldn't be making it.
And, really, modern day phones are every bit full fledged computers -- they just also happen to be phones. I'm betting her current S4 outperforms/outclasses the 386's she started with in pretty much every regard from CPU speed to storage.
Hell, I strongly suspect that most cell phones nowadays would have been classed as 'supercomputers' not even 25 years ago. The line between phone and computer has blurred so much, and since you can install software which pretty much does everything, I fail to see why a cell phone isn't a computer these days. It sure meets any definition I saw in school.
They're all Turing complete, and with general purpose instruction sets.
I agree with you, but I've also known someone who is 100+ pounds overweight who outright refuses to date women who are also a little on the heavy side. It's hard not to think "have you really looked at yourself in a mirror?"
Some people just have completely unrealistic expectations about who they might potentially be able to date.
Me, I figure find someone you can get along with and have things in common with, and the rest is just details.
No kidding. I've known a few people who aren't exactly the best catches who refuse to date anybody who looks anything less than a supermodel.
If you're 80 pounds overweight, or a raging nerd, or whatever, and you refuse to date someone who isn't perfect ... you're going to be single and lonely for a long time.
I've known way too many people with their own defects (and who among us doesn't have them, especially here) who looked at potential partners and turned up their nose for stupid reasons -- a little overweight, wears glasses, curly hair.
Not saying you need to date the ugliest person you can find, but having a realistic expectation of what you might actually get goes a long way.
Don't be the Comic Book Guy saying "Oh, I've wasted my life" and passing up opportunities. If you're a 5, don't shoot for a 10.
Oh, great, now someone will feel the need to do it in a unicycle.
When bought new at launch, and rendered obsolete in 2 years, I absolutely expect that of them.
See, if it had been two years after they stopped selling the iPad 1, I might buy that argument. But it was really only two years after product launch. Which means all of those people who made the product successful at launch more or less got told "oh well, too damned bad, buy another one".
I still have and use some Apple products, but the iPad is now something I will forever treat with disdain and distrust that they won't just abandon the users who bought them. I'm not willing to extend the trust to Apple that even if I bought the latest version right now, they wouldn't do the same thing in two years.
My 10 year old iPod still works just fine. After the update to iOS 5.x on my iPad, not so much -- in fact, it's a markedly worse product than what I got initially.
Except for support for iTunes and Digital Copies of movies, my Nexus 7 pretty much does everything my iPad did, and cost about 1/3 of the iPad. So if I'm going to have to treat technology as more or less disposable, I will do it with cheaper alternatives.
I bought it brand new, shortly after it was released. It wasn't an older version of the product, it WAS the product.
I feel I'm entitled to be somewhat pissed off at them for having dropped support for it after two years, because I'm not aware of any other consumer product I'd purchase at launch at expect it to be obsolete and unsupported two years later. In fact, I wouldn't buy such a thing.
If that's how Apple is going to treat their customers, they may find some of us don't come back.
For the stockholder and investors, that's exactly what they'd applaud.
Certainly no user is going to like them for it though.
Then, quite frankly, I would like the option of putting my iPad back to a previous version before the iOS 5x which was the last update they gave me.
Except, I can't, because resetting the tablet to factory defaults doesn't change the version of iOS on it.
They may well, but they won't be selling any to me.