You DO realize this is the same state that Redmond is in, home to the master of the "technically correct but blatantly misleading and probably actually wrong" answer (microsoft), right?
I guess the "no contracts" thing would be true if you could stop service and just paythe phone installment monthly charge, because you're not paying a service contract at all, rather you're buying a phone on time payments, and part and parcel with time payments is if you stop paying the time payments, you owe for the whole purchase price. IANAL, don't try this at home, etc etc
What I'm interested in is how MIT came to be in possession of a Cornell paper. Were they strictly authorized to use the paper in such a manner? Did they actually use their proper login credientials? Did they tell Cornell in advance of the fact they wished to cross state lines with it? If the answer to any of the above is "no" can we hound them to death about it like they did to Swartz?
"We got all the data we need from drones, so fuck all the rest of you". cf the semi-autonomous streetview cars, satellite imagery (hey wait, a satellite's not a....D'OH), numerous other projects that we've not heard of yet
I've noticed a common thread in the triumvirate of Nokia, Orrible, and Microsoft: none of them has released a smartphone worth a damn since Android came out (Orrible has never released a viable smartphone at all, which is quite stupid given that they could have a nice vertically integrated phone with almost no investment that they're not already making). I guess we have the answer to "why are they doing this?"
The astronaut would die of starvation or hypoxia long before they got to the Black Hole, given that the farthest we've sent an astronaut is 250,000 miles (a bit more than one light-second), and the nearest black hole is 1600 light years away, or 5E+10 times as far.
Since you've lived in both the food world and the software patent world, can you draw any parallels between cooks and their recipes and software engineers and their code WRT IP law and tradition?
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
And I get to blame every traffic fatality on Fossil Fuels. DINGDINGDING we have a winner!
The problem is that about Froyo, when app2sd functionality was rolled into the OS, onboard memory was EXPENSIVE and SD was cheap, so there was a deliberate design decision to avoid letting non-system apps take over program memory. Even back then, this was a less than acceptable idea, as there were different ROM and RAM totals (okay, onboard storage and program memory, yeah, the're not QUITE ROM/RAM) even then, so a given app could use all RAM when running and still have a very small footprint in ROM, putting all its storage on SD. Even now, with your 16 GB nexus that has 2 GB program memory, you see that issue, albeit not so much. Once upon a time, it used to be said that you had three things that could be traded for each other, storage, memory, and processor, and that still applies today. I just think Android is making a very bad choice in what to trade. The real thing that would help this issue is if someone went through all the android appstores and took a damn optimizing compiler to everything, if you look at what should be computationally easy things, they invariably want entirely too many resources for that they really do. It really wouldn't surprise me to see a "shopping list sorter" that took up 2GB of storage, for example (even a bogosort shouldn't take THAT much resource)
Yeah Dude. You should strap a Hasselblad on your head.
Where do you think the "POV" pics from Apollo were taken? They mounted a Hasselblad to the moon suit's helmet (yeah, some were the "chest mount" that you often see in Apollo pics, but there was also a helmet mount)
The "won't GoPro (pun intended), so you MUST deal with Sony" thing misses on one point. There are more than two players in the "ruggedized camera" market. For example, Nikon, during the film era, was synononymous with dive cameras, in the "Nikonos" line, and Hasselblad has cameras so rugged that they can literally fly to the moon (Apollo's cameras were all Hasselblads). Both Nikon and Hasselblad have digital cameras, and they're rugged, but neither of them has one rugged enough to claim that it's up to their exacting standards yet. Canon also makes ruggedized cameras, and even lowly Vivitar has a digital in their "sea and ski" line. As a prosumer videographer, I wouldn't touch Sony if you paid me anyways, they invariably tend to have just slightly crappier CCD/CMOSes than the rest of the market, and they want to push you toward their crappy bundled tech (memory stick, I'm looking at you). If they made a Nikonos digital, I'd break limbs to be the first to mortgage my soul to get one
Frankly, I'd be surprised if there weren't already a dozen video cameras aimed at me, so another one doesn't bother me, in fact, I kinda welcome it, as more junky videos out there means it's that much harder to find that particular one where I was picking my nose or whatever. What bothers me is that people who ARE wearing Google Glasses are HAVING A LIGHT BEAMED DIRECTLY INTO THE EYE. This cannot be good for the person wearing it, nor can it be good for the people around them when they're doing dangerous things that involve, like, you know, NOT HITTING THEM.
Im going to list some of the most successful fighters in US history. We produced thousands, and they in turn downed thousands of North Korean, North Chinese, and North Vietnamese pilots. In addition they carried out thousands of ground attack sorties and dropped thousands of pounds of ordinance.
F-80 F-84 F-86 F-100 F-102 F-104 F-105 F-106
Each of these aircraft has one thing in common: they only have a single engine. And these were the aircraft from the days when turbines were "unreliable" and had incredibly short work cycles (maximum hours flying time) in between total overhauls. In one case, the F-105, the platform was responsible for over 75% of all ordinance dropped in Vietnam; yes, the F-105 dropped more than 3x as many bombs as all other aircraft combined in that war, and that includes the massive B-52 bombing runs.
This single engine lawn dawn thing was a baseless criticism leveled at the F-16 by its competitors, and it stuck. But it was baseless then, and its baseless now.
They also have one other thing in common, the US Navy had little use for them. Lawn darts don't work well when you're in the middle of the ocean
The (non-existent yet) engine is supposed to be a 10 HP Diesel, but "the head engineer is planning to take the latest prototype from San Francisco to New York on 10 gallons of gas, preferably pure ethanol" (FTFA). Diesel-cycle engines work better on esters rather than alcohols. Even assuming that you could keep a diesel-cycle engine happy with ethanol (which is an open question), the modifications required to make it work will basically make it useless for the standard diesel you find at truck stops. Had the engineer said that he planned to go SFO->NYC on 10 gallons of fuel, preferably biodiesel (which has more in common with cooking oil than liquor), I'd have more confidence that the engineer knew a hawk from a handsaw.
I grew up when a Trimline, so I expect a phone to take up a certain amount of space on my face when I'm talking. Given that "candy bar" phones are shrinking like nobody's business lately, phablets are where my comfort zone exists nowadays. I kinda want to have the pickup at least somewhere where my mouth is, and I'm not an alien being, so my mouth isn't behind my ear, and hinges break, so no clamshells for me. I've found that the 7" phablets are a nice fit on the face, if a bit wide for my taste.
It's not so much of a change in mass, it's a complete screwup in how they figured it, as in they found that pretty much everything they'd assumed about it to that point was wrong, including but not limited to actual distance and mass.
Slashdot Mirror
You DO realize this is the same state that Redmond is in, home to the master of the "technically correct but blatantly misleading and probably actually wrong" answer (microsoft), right?
I guess the "no contracts" thing would be true if you could stop service and just paythe phone installment monthly charge, because you're not paying a service contract at all, rather you're buying a phone on time payments, and part and parcel with time payments is if you stop paying the time payments, you owe for the whole purchase price. IANAL, don't try this at home, etc etc
Ever think you're getting modded down because you're an asshole?
What I'm interested in is how MIT came to be in possession of a Cornell paper. Were they strictly authorized to use the paper in such a manner? Did they actually use their proper login credientials? Did they tell Cornell in advance of the fact they wished to cross state lines with it? If the answer to any of the above is "no" can we hound them to death about it like they did to Swartz?
"a programming environment in which editing of code and the execution of code occur simultaneously" is commonly called an interpreter, welcome to 1975
"We got all the data we need from drones, so fuck all the rest of you". cf the semi-autonomous streetview cars, satellite imagery (hey wait, a satellite's not a....D'OH), numerous other projects that we've not heard of yet
Because it's not guaranteed (to be safe)?
I've noticed a common thread in the triumvirate of Nokia, Orrible, and Microsoft: none of them has released a smartphone worth a damn since Android came out (Orrible has never released a viable smartphone at all, which is quite stupid given that they could have a nice vertically integrated phone with almost no investment that they're not already making). I guess we have the answer to "why are they doing this?"
If Mankind won't return to the moon in your lifetime, don't think this can't be fixed relatively quickly
The astronaut would die of starvation or hypoxia long before they got to the Black Hole, given that the farthest we've sent an astronaut is 250,000 miles (a bit more than one light-second), and the nearest black hole is 1600 light years away, or 5E+10 times as far.
It's true, Recursion IS taking over the world, now even idiocy has been made to work in a recursion loop
Since you've lived in both the food world and the software patent world, can you draw any parallels between cooks and their recipes and software engineers and their code WRT IP law and tradition?
Nuclear power != Nuclear bomb.
With your logic, I have decided to blame solar power on the death of anyone who got dehydrated while out in the sun. And I am going to blame wind power on the death of anyone caused by a hurricane or tornado. Under your flawed logic, more people have died from solar and wind power than have from nuclear power.
And I get to blame every traffic fatality on Fossil Fuels. DINGDINGDING we have a winner!
The problem is that about Froyo, when app2sd functionality was rolled into the OS, onboard memory was EXPENSIVE and SD was cheap, so there was a deliberate design decision to avoid letting non-system apps take over program memory. Even back then, this was a less than acceptable idea, as there were different ROM and RAM totals (okay, onboard storage and program memory, yeah, the're not QUITE ROM/RAM) even then, so a given app could use all RAM when running and still have a very small footprint in ROM, putting all its storage on SD. Even now, with your 16 GB nexus that has 2 GB program memory, you see that issue, albeit not so much. Once upon a time, it used to be said that you had three things that could be traded for each other, storage, memory, and processor, and that still applies today. I just think Android is making a very bad choice in what to trade. The real thing that would help this issue is if someone went through all the android appstores and took a damn optimizing compiler to everything, if you look at what should be computationally easy things, they invariably want entirely too many resources for that they really do. It really wouldn't surprise me to see a "shopping list sorter" that took up 2GB of storage, for example (even a bogosort shouldn't take THAT much resource)
Yeah Dude. You should strap a Hasselblad on your head.
Where do you think the "POV" pics from Apollo were taken? They mounted a Hasselblad to the moon suit's helmet (yeah, some were the "chest mount" that you often see in Apollo pics, but there was also a helmet mount)
The "won't GoPro (pun intended), so you MUST deal with Sony" thing misses on one point. There are more than two players in the "ruggedized camera" market. For example, Nikon, during the film era, was synononymous with dive cameras, in the "Nikonos" line, and Hasselblad has cameras so rugged that they can literally fly to the moon (Apollo's cameras were all Hasselblads). Both Nikon and Hasselblad have digital cameras, and they're rugged, but neither of them has one rugged enough to claim that it's up to their exacting standards yet. Canon also makes ruggedized cameras, and even lowly Vivitar has a digital in their "sea and ski" line. As a prosumer videographer, I wouldn't touch Sony if you paid me anyways, they invariably tend to have just slightly crappier CCD/CMOSes than the rest of the market, and they want to push you toward their crappy bundled tech (memory stick, I'm looking at you). If they made a Nikonos digital, I'd break limbs to be the first to mortgage my soul to get one
So, to avoid a company with a single DMCA abuse issue, you go to a company that's name is synonymous with DMCA abuse. Sounds legit...
What bothers me is that people who ARE wearing Google Glasses are HAVING A LIGHT BEAMED DIRECTLY INTO THE EYE.
How can your eye tell the difference between a photon which came from far away, and a photon that came from near you? Answer, it can't.
Inverse square's a bitch when the distance is centimeters vice kilometers.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if there weren't already a dozen video cameras aimed at me, so another one doesn't bother me, in fact, I kinda welcome it, as more junky videos out there means it's that much harder to find that particular one where I was picking my nose or whatever. What bothers me is that people who ARE wearing Google Glasses are HAVING A LIGHT BEAMED DIRECTLY INTO THE EYE. This cannot be good for the person wearing it, nor can it be good for the people around them when they're doing dangerous things that involve, like, you know, NOT HITTING THEM.
Im going to list some of the most successful fighters in US history. We produced thousands, and they in turn downed thousands of North Korean, North Chinese, and North Vietnamese pilots. In addition they carried out thousands of ground attack sorties and dropped thousands of pounds of ordinance.
F-80
F-84
F-86
F-100
F-102
F-104
F-105
F-106
Each of these aircraft has one thing in common: they only have a single engine. And these were the aircraft from the days when turbines were "unreliable" and had incredibly short work cycles (maximum hours flying time) in between total overhauls. In one case, the F-105, the platform was responsible for over 75% of all ordinance dropped in Vietnam; yes, the F-105 dropped more than 3x as many bombs as all other aircraft combined in that war, and that includes the massive B-52 bombing runs.
This single engine lawn dawn thing was a baseless criticism leveled at the F-16 by its competitors, and it stuck. But it was baseless then, and its baseless now.
They also have one other thing in common, the US Navy had little use for them. Lawn darts don't work well when you're in the middle of the ocean
I hope they're being sold as "batteries not included"
The (non-existent yet) engine is supposed to be a 10 HP Diesel, but "the head engineer is planning to take the latest prototype from San Francisco to New York on 10 gallons of gas, preferably pure ethanol" (FTFA). Diesel-cycle engines work better on esters rather than alcohols. Even assuming that you could keep a diesel-cycle engine happy with ethanol (which is an open question), the modifications required to make it work will basically make it useless for the standard diesel you find at truck stops. Had the engineer said that he planned to go SFO->NYC on 10 gallons of fuel, preferably biodiesel (which has more in common with cooking oil than liquor), I'd have more confidence that the engineer knew a hawk from a handsaw.
I grew up when a Trimline, so I expect a phone to take up a certain amount of space on my face when I'm talking. Given that "candy bar" phones are shrinking like nobody's business lately, phablets are where my comfort zone exists nowadays. I kinda want to have the pickup at least somewhere where my mouth is, and I'm not an alien being, so my mouth isn't behind my ear, and hinges break, so no clamshells for me. I've found that the 7" phablets are a nice fit on the face, if a bit wide for my taste.
Now please start working on an ARM version for my Surface RT.
Yeah, like Orrible's (and specifically the Java section) going to lift a finger to help Microsoft after the whole J++ fiasco
It's not so much of a change in mass, it's a complete screwup in how they figured it, as in they found that pretty much everything they'd assumed about it to that point was wrong, including but not limited to actual distance and mass.