Valuable space? Hard drive storage is down to the 5 cents/GB range.
Sorry for being ambiguous, it's not the hard drive space I meant. It's the bandwidth I'm concerned about - the space it takes to download. It'll just add more strain to their servers, and it'll take more time for us to download...
Why did they smash messenger into mercury? Was it because they had no choice as there was not enough fuel to deorbit? If so why not save some before it ran out and blast it away from mercury. Or was there a scientific reason? Like the next probe could analyze the impact crater and compare it to ancient ones to see what the difference will be.
Or did they do it simply because it was cool?
I'm guessing because they would have needed to use extra fuel for that, and that would have been less time to study the planet. Given the time and costs of getting there, I can't blame them for wanting to squeeze out that extra bit of time. Plus, it will be pretty neat if humans ever do make it back there - it'll be a landmark to those of the future, what we in the past could accomplish.
Some may grumble about this, but speaking as one who's developed an entire suite of tools for 3D printing, I see this as a very positive step towards streamlining the 3D printing process. I wouldn't call it bloat, as it seems to be an available tool rather than a resource-hungry feature loaded as start-up time.
Keep in mind though, this is a version of Windows they plan to offer for download. You still have to transfer it across the internet, and when you multiply it by however many people are going to update... It's a lot of bandwidth for a feature most people are never going to use.
While an interesting idea, I don't think this is a very good idea. Most people aren't even going to touch it, and it still requires a printer of some sort and a supply of plastic - all it will do is take up valuable space, and if this is a version of Windows you are supposed to download...
Making it a free, separate download though, that wouldn't be so bad. Microsoft actually has some really underrated software they offer for free - I think my favorite is Microsoft Mathematics. Definitely worth checking out if you're ever looking for a math suite.
Wait, are you really implying that woman will work on whatever they want to, that they don't have the willpower to work on what's needed? That is so masochistic I don't even know where to start. Woman don't want to work on engineering, so be it: as long as the ones that do want to have as equal an opportunity as a man who would want to do it, I don't see the issue here.
Honestly, right now, native applications are by far the superior choice. Web apps sound like a great idea, but they're hindered by being incredibly slow (and phones are already not very powerful to begin with), they have far fewer features, and they often look hideous and out of context compared to the other applications on the system. Furthermore, web applications have no legacy - I can always guarantee that app version so-and-so will work on Android version such-and-such, but the same can't be said for a web application.
Besides, different browsers do have different Javascript standards, and for anyone who has ever tried to get the same webpage to display well across a variety of phones knows what pain and frustration are. It might honestly be easier to develop two different programs, one in Objective-C and the other in Java, because then at least it's clear where one system starts and the other ends. With Javascript and the like, the lines all blur together...
The main concern is for those people other than him. I admire Mr. Wheeler for the ability to separate his job from himself, but not everyone has that kind of willpower. I think that after working with the industries for so long, the majority would have been in favor of the merger - I thought that this man would be among them when he first was nominated, and while I am very happy that he proved me wrong, I'm pretty sure the majority of those in his position with his history would not.
Poor undeveloped country has insufficient building standards for regular predictable natural disaster. People die.
Its not going to affect me, there is nothing I can do to help, and its hardly surprising, so why care? Not news for anyone, let alone nerds.
Empathy is a basic human emotion that refers to the capability to feel for other people. If you don't ever give a crap about anyone else, why should anyone else ever give a crap about you?
And by the way, I'd consider a earthquake capable of unleashing 7.8 Megatons of energy and leveling entire cities to be worthy of my morning news.
And given that vaccines aren't exactly 100% safe, we could argue that requiring them, and if they die, that the government is responsible for killing someone who had a right to life.
Maybe a compromise is in order.
1. Require schools to post the statistics in a visible area as you enter the school. Such as,
"X1 percent of student, faculty and staff are vaccinated against Y1.
X2 percent of student, faculty and staff are vaccinated against Y2.
etc..."
Updated annually. Require this by law at all public k-12 schools and daycares in which 15+ children attend regularly.
2. Require students to stay home when outbreaks happen.
3. Require parents and children to sit down with a doctor before being exempt from immunizations. For each individual one that one wants exempt from. Education is the key.
Well, someone who has a medical issue with vaccines is obviously exempt from them. Your suggestion is not a bad idea, but I think that requiring minimum vaccination levels to get herd immunity is important - the whole point of vaccines is to be proactive, and waiting until an outbreak occurs kind of defeats the purpose. However, making it lawfully required for those statistics to be published sounds very reasonable to me, as it would allow us to know of weakpoints for outbreaks before they occur.
Really, it's just trying to save as many lives as possible. Given how effective vaccines are, and how much suffering they can save, I'm not against a fairly aggressive use for them - so much unnecessary pain and death can be prevented.
If they run an app, they can... run an app? The only way to stop something like this would be to prevent any programs from running. Security would be limiting what that malicious code can do - to prevent it from running at all, you'd also have to prevent the machine from running ANY code, at all. And wouldn't that code execute inside OS X's sandbox? I'm not to update on Apple security, so I apologize, but doesn't it sandbox applications?
Personally, I'm wondering something. I know that files are locked off through permissions by default, but is the actual hard drive space itself (the physical blocks) as well? If not, couldn't you physically overwrite parts of it, and so add on your own code to be executed at boot time? If that's not possible, I apologize for the stupid suggestion. Just wondering...
There will always be a market for PCs - there is no way a tablet is going to replace everything a computer can do. In particular, programming on them is clunky, they are very poorly optimized for a keyboard / mouse combination, they overheat if doing anything remotely difficult, and are very unreliable. We were told that mobile devices were going to completely replace desktops way back in 2008 - here we are, almost a decade later, and we're still in the same position as back then.
Will sales be reduced? Almost certainly. Will the market ever disappear? Almost certainly...
I swear Netflix's House of Cards foreshadows everything we are seeing in American politics. Its almost like watching a documentary.
The eerie part is that the third season came out after only a month or two after this incident occurred, but they filmed it in advance. I would be quite surprised if they didn't talk to some people in the government, because there is a lot of correlation between what happens in the show and what occurs in reality...
How do you plan to make it secure? What would stop anyone from just reading the information off it? Can you even CHANGE the information on it? If yes, how do you prevent people from hacking it? How do you ensure it's not going to get lodged somewhere and become impossible to remove? Who will get to dictate the standards for how these things communicate? How do you revoke these things - that is, what happens if your internal information becomes public? Why are you measuring things that change with exercise or what food you eat, and are therefore never predictable? How do make sure that two people don't share the same sugar levels? How could you possibly imply that fingerprinting is "antique"? Fingerprints haven't changed at all in our human history. He's implying it's a product that is replaced every year.
The only thing that is "antiquated" here is this executive's buzzwords, which they clearly haven't put very much thought into.
There's a lot of people here saying what is essentially, "f*ck you" to the advertisements. But I think a lot of them don't consider what it's like for the creator in this situation. A lot of them don't charge for their content and rely upon the ads, without which they could never keep going. This is especially the case for the smaller guys who run their own channels, and they could never afford to do their hobby otherwise. You have the right to control what's on your screen, yes, but they also have the right to ask you to disable it - you are reading what they spent hours putting together. It would be like if you let a coworker look at your editor configuration, they write down some of the cool tricks you used, and then they refused to let you see theirs.
Look, all I'm saying is that if you have Adblock Plus (and who doesn't? I use it myself on occasion), please consider disabling it most of the time and saving it only for the really egregious websites. A lot of people rely on that ad money, and by not letting them receive it, you are essentially breaking your end of an implicit agreement - a lot like when your neighbor borrows your lawn mower and then refuses to replace the gas he used.
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Using a language that hasn't even reached a stable release in an environment where the tiniest mistake kills hundreds of people?
Valuable space? Hard drive storage is down to the 5 cents/GB range.
Sorry for being ambiguous, it's not the hard drive space I meant. It's the bandwidth I'm concerned about - the space it takes to download. It'll just add more strain to their servers, and it'll take more time for us to download...
Why did they smash messenger into mercury? Was it because they had no choice as there was not enough fuel to deorbit? If so why not save some before it ran out and blast it away from mercury. Or was there a scientific reason? Like the next probe could analyze the impact crater and compare it to ancient ones to see what the difference will be.
Or did they do it simply because it was cool?
I'm guessing because they would have needed to use extra fuel for that, and that would have been less time to study the planet. Given the time and costs of getting there, I can't blame them for wanting to squeeze out that extra bit of time. Plus, it will be pretty neat if humans ever do make it back there - it'll be a landmark to those of the future, what we in the past could accomplish.
greenhouse effect
AC's right, as rare as that happens. If you compare the average temperatures of Venus with those of Mercury, Venus is indeed the hotter planet.
Some may grumble about this, but speaking as one who's developed an entire suite of tools for 3D printing, I see this as a very positive step towards streamlining the 3D printing process. I wouldn't call it bloat, as it seems to be an available tool rather than a resource-hungry feature loaded as start-up time.
Keep in mind though, this is a version of Windows they plan to offer for download. You still have to transfer it across the internet, and when you multiply it by however many people are going to update... It's a lot of bandwidth for a feature most people are never going to use.
While an interesting idea, I don't think this is a very good idea. Most people aren't even going to touch it, and it still requires a printer of some sort and a supply of plastic - all it will do is take up valuable space, and if this is a version of Windows you are supposed to download...
Making it a free, separate download though, that wouldn't be so bad. Microsoft actually has some really underrated software they offer for free - I think my favorite is Microsoft Mathematics. Definitely worth checking out if you're ever looking for a math suite.
God damnit, broken auto complete. Didn't see it in preview. My point still stands, but damn... The new version is definitely funnier.
Wait, are you really implying that woman will work on whatever they want to, that they don't have the willpower to work on what's needed? That is so masochistic I don't even know where to start. Woman don't want to work on engineering, so be it: as long as the ones that do want to have as equal an opportunity as a man who would want to do it, I don't see the issue here.
Honestly, right now, native applications are by far the superior choice. Web apps sound like a great idea, but they're hindered by being incredibly slow (and phones are already not very powerful to begin with), they have far fewer features, and they often look hideous and out of context compared to the other applications on the system. Furthermore, web applications have no legacy - I can always guarantee that app version so-and-so will work on Android version such-and-such, but the same can't be said for a web application.
Besides, different browsers do have different Javascript standards, and for anyone who has ever tried to get the same webpage to display well across a variety of phones knows what pain and frustration are. It might honestly be easier to develop two different programs, one in Objective-C and the other in Java, because then at least it's clear where one system starts and the other ends. With Javascript and the like, the lines all blur together...
I'm putting this guy's speech on the level of this. Compare and enjoy.
That's too bad. Why is this on slashdot?
Does every story have to be a political trollfest? Can't we have some actual tech related news, for once?
Sounds kinky.
The main concern is for those people other than him. I admire Mr. Wheeler for the ability to separate his job from himself, but not everyone has that kind of willpower. I think that after working with the industries for so long, the majority would have been in favor of the merger - I thought that this man would be among them when he first was nominated, and while I am very happy that he proved me wrong, I'm pretty sure the majority of those in his position with his history would not.
Poor undeveloped country has insufficient building standards for regular predictable natural disaster. People die.
Its not going to affect me, there is nothing I can do to help, and its hardly surprising, so why care? Not news for anyone, let alone nerds.
Empathy is a basic human emotion that refers to the capability to feel for other people. If you don't ever give a crap about anyone else, why should anyone else ever give a crap about you?
And by the way, I'd consider a earthquake capable of unleashing 7.8 Megatons of energy and leveling entire cities to be worthy of my morning news.
Pohkara is beautiful with about 400K people living in the area. My thoughts go out to all the people impacted.
Only spent a few weeks in Nepal around Holi time and found the people there to be wonderful, generous, and fun!
I was there upgrading the wifi network infrastructure at a Buddhist Monastery. The monks need their youtube. ;) Worked on my karma at the same time.
Getting help to that part of the country will be difficult.
Wow, now that's an interesting experience to share! Going to an actual Buddhist Monastery... they let you partake and everything?
People and other living beings have a habit of craving the very things that ruin them.
And given that vaccines aren't exactly 100% safe, we could argue that requiring them, and if they die, that the government is responsible for killing someone who had a right to life.
Maybe a compromise is in order. 1. Require schools to post the statistics in a visible area as you enter the school. Such as, "X1 percent of student, faculty and staff are vaccinated against Y1. X2 percent of student, faculty and staff are vaccinated against Y2. etc..." Updated annually. Require this by law at all public k-12 schools and daycares in which 15+ children attend regularly.
2. Require students to stay home when outbreaks happen.
3. Require parents and children to sit down with a doctor before being exempt from immunizations. For each individual one that one wants exempt from. Education is the key.
Well, someone who has a medical issue with vaccines is obviously exempt from them. Your suggestion is not a bad idea, but I think that requiring minimum vaccination levels to get herd immunity is important - the whole point of vaccines is to be proactive, and waiting until an outbreak occurs kind of defeats the purpose. However, making it lawfully required for those statistics to be published sounds very reasonable to me, as it would allow us to know of weakpoints for outbreaks before they occur.
Really, it's just trying to save as many lives as possible. Given how effective vaccines are, and how much suffering they can save, I'm not against a fairly aggressive use for them - so much unnecessary pain and death can be prevented.
If they run an app, they can... run an app? The only way to stop something like this would be to prevent any programs from running. Security would be limiting what that malicious code can do - to prevent it from running at all, you'd also have to prevent the machine from running ANY code, at all. And wouldn't that code execute inside OS X's sandbox? I'm not to update on Apple security, so I apologize, but doesn't it sandbox applications?
Personally, I'm wondering something. I know that files are locked off through permissions by default, but is the actual hard drive space itself (the physical blocks) as well? If not, couldn't you physically overwrite parts of it, and so add on your own code to be executed at boot time? If that's not possible, I apologize for the stupid suggestion. Just wondering...
There will always be a market for PCs - there is no way a tablet is going to replace everything a computer can do. In particular, programming on them is clunky, they are very poorly optimized for a keyboard / mouse combination, they overheat if doing anything remotely difficult, and are very unreliable. We were told that mobile devices were going to completely replace desktops way back in 2008 - here we are, almost a decade later, and we're still in the same position as back then.
Will sales be reduced? Almost certainly. Will the market ever disappear? Almost certainly...
I swear Netflix's House of Cards foreshadows everything we are seeing in American politics. Its almost like watching a documentary.
The eerie part is that the third season came out after only a month or two after this incident occurred, but they filmed it in advance. I would be quite surprised if they didn't talk to some people in the government, because there is a lot of correlation between what happens in the show and what occurs in reality...
My right to refuse supersedes your right to live. Welcome to living in a Republic.
Everyone is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Notice, how life comes first.
How do you plan to make it secure? What would stop anyone from just reading the information off it? Can you even CHANGE the information on it? If yes, how do you prevent people from hacking it? How do you ensure it's not going to get lodged somewhere and become impossible to remove? Who will get to dictate the standards for how these things communicate? How do you revoke these things - that is, what happens if your internal information becomes public? Why are you measuring things that change with exercise or what food you eat, and are therefore never predictable? How do make sure that two people don't share the same sugar levels? How could you possibly imply that fingerprinting is "antique"? Fingerprints haven't changed at all in our human history. He's implying it's a product that is replaced every year.
The only thing that is "antiquated" here is this executive's buzzwords, which they clearly haven't put very much thought into.
There's a lot of people here saying what is essentially, "f*ck you" to the advertisements. But I think a lot of them don't consider what it's like for the creator in this situation. A lot of them don't charge for their content and rely upon the ads, without which they could never keep going. This is especially the case for the smaller guys who run their own channels, and they could never afford to do their hobby otherwise. You have the right to control what's on your screen, yes, but they also have the right to ask you to disable it - you are reading what they spent hours putting together. It would be like if you let a coworker look at your editor configuration, they write down some of the cool tricks you used, and then they refused to let you see theirs.
Look, all I'm saying is that if you have Adblock Plus (and who doesn't? I use it myself on occasion), please consider disabling it most of the time and saving it only for the really egregious websites. A lot of people rely on that ad money, and by not letting them receive it, you are essentially breaking your end of an implicit agreement - a lot like when your neighbor borrows your lawn mower and then refuses to replace the gas he used.
Is it wrong if, for a moment there, I was expecting a discussion based on a custom programming language or something?
I need to take a vacation.
And 99.9% of people don't care.
There are a lot of things 99.9% of people don't care about. If that's your justification...
Me personally, I'd love my end-to-end connectivity back.