I guess "continuing to lose rights and freedoms" might not be a second order change (i.e. the rate of change remains unchanged).
Even more so. the direction of change remains unchanged. President Lawnchair has yet to do a single thing as POTUS that his predecessor would not have done as well.
Not. One. Thing.
Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.
There's one. There are a lot of others. Yes, he's a moderate Republican, but moderate Republicans aren't welcome in the modern Republican party.
You're missing the real point of discussion classes. If you're doing it *right* you should be preparing material ahead of time. Your opinion shouldn't be uninformed- you need to do the prep work to grasp enough of the subject to at least be able to understand what you know, what you don't and what other folks do/don't understand.
The class I teach has students doing a lot of presentation. Could I do a better job than they could? Of course. But that's not the point- it's that they have to learn it well enough to present it. That's hard, but you learn things far, far better if you have to teach someone else about it.
Yes, I knew large parts of it weren't compatible. I give it a pass on this because the 921 does things better than a Strat- the neck joint is a thing of beauty that should be copied by all bolt-neck guitars, the locking nut is height adjustable, the tremelo doesn't require you to cut the ball ends off the strings, etc. The parts I had trouble with were the lock washers- it wasn't clear these weren't standard Floyd Rose parts, and I had to find someone at Yamaha who actually knew something about an obscure 20-year-old model. (I knew it needed some love when I got it- it was cheap. Plays beautifully now)
But none of that affects my point- *Strats* are self compatible. Changing out a pickguard is hardly rocket science- it's a few screws and 30 seconds of soldering. Everything else swaps in with a screwdriver.
"The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."
Why? Here's why: "The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."
That's 1 example, probably the single thing that would attract more players than anything else, and there are plenty of good ideas in your guitar plans to go along with that. I like the idea of swapping out necks, too.
And that's different from a Stratocaster in what way? I can already easily swap out the pickups- they're attached to the pickguard, and I can buy any number of pickguards preloaded with various pickups/electronics for a Strat. I can pull off the neck anytime I want and swap in a new one- it's only four screws, and there are a dozen companies out there that make Strat compatible necks. I can assemble a Strat entirely from random parts- they are almost totally interchangeable.
(My biggest frustration with my Yamaha 921 when I got it off of Craigslist was that it looks like a Strat, but the parts are all subtlety different, so it took forever to figure out what I could use.)
Bandwidth is unaffected- you can stuff just as many physical objects in the box as you did before. (In fact, it's going up constantly-think about what a 1' cube box of microSD cards could hold over the years) Just keep sending boxes out at the same rate and you get the same bandwidth
Latency is your issue here- you've gone from a 86,400,000 ms ping to 172,800,000 ms ping.
The error rate is too high- data copying using that medium and the best available (naturally derived) technology makes an error roughly every 100,000 bases. There are existing correction routines, but far too much data is damaged on copy, even given the highly redundant coding tables.
Then again, it could be worse: you could use the single strand formulation. Error rates are far higher. This turns out to be a surprisingly effective strategy for organisms using it, although less so for the rest of us.
Really? We have good empirical evidence that cap and trade works. Check out sulfur dioxide pollution, acid rain and the existing cap and trade schemes in the US and EU. Both have been highly successful, have met their targets *years* ahead of the goals and have cost a tiny fraction of what the naysayers claimed the costs would be. Why is carbon any different?
Yes, we need to get China and India in on these as well. But guess what- climate change affects them too. Get a decent global solution and they'd probably be pretty happy. After all, it's way easier to take X Gton of crap out of the air when you are starting from a base of nothing, so companies in the US would probably happily buy credits off of the poorer countries. Less carbon in the air, poor countries get a boost financially, rich world countries get years to experiment with solutions before implementing them in higher cost areas. You can even go the Australia route and simply give back the money to the people affected by higher energy prices.
You're sure, huh? You know, we only have evidence of life happening one time and in one place. If there is indeed no life on Europa and it does indeed have the conditions thought necessary for life to form, we might have to ponder the possibility that life is incredibly rare. I suspect that life is, in fact, incredibly rare.
In other words, it's dead, Jim.
Can I disagree here? We have a sample size of 1 right now- no other planet has been investigated well enough to give a yes/no answer.
We know that life on the Earth formed *very* early in the planet's history- we have records back ~3.5 GYA, and it's quite possibly a lot older than that since the limiting factor is finding rocks that haven't been changed so much they would destroy any records. Given that water on Earth only dates to 4.3 GYA, we're probably talking a few hundred million years for life, starting from scratch. To me that implies it's nowhere near as hard as a complex cell- eukaryotes took something like 1.5 billion years to form after the start of life. (~2 GYA) Once you get past that barrier, you have another ~1.4 billion years until you start to see recognizable stuff in the Cambrian- after that evolution takes off and you go from trilobites to everything on earth today in ~600 Myears
My guess is that once we start getting real samples from outside the Earth, either via physical probes or spectroscopy of distant planets we're going to find lots of life.
was on a guitar forum when someone posted the question about bands with mediocre guitarists. One responder (not me) commented something along the lines of "John Flansburgh of TMBG qualifies... and I'd still rather listen to them than anything by Yngwie Malmsteen." I wish there were more folks like them around- quirky, bizarre, nerdy and fun: waaay too many musicians take themselves too seriously.
My kids love the "Here Comes Science" album- we end up listening to it in the car constantly. I even use a song or too off of it in my classes.
And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.
There are iPhones that are free on contract at this point. They have a ladder in hundred dollar increments now from $0 up to $399.
And they all come with a hugely expensive contract that pays for the phone.
Where can I get an iPhone on a no-contract plan? You know, like the Samsung Prevail my wife uses for her $35/month unlimited everything no-contract plan?
I've discussed this with our campus library: they deliberately keep no records at all of book lending. I wanted them to look up my records for a specific book I'd borrowed in the past and couldn't remember the title of, and they couldn't help me get it that way. (We found it via other searches) Cornell's library has posted a set of disclosure notices which seem pretty much in touch with our library and others that I've asked about since
It might not be a bad idea for Amazon to work out a similar plan: simply destroy the record once the book is returned. They might have to burn some ad records as well though, since I'm sure they're offering the book for sale, and it would be easy to track that if they got subpoenaed. My guess is that is where Amazon would balk.
You never played Gauntlet back in the arcade days, did you?
Yeah, it was a great game. Yeah, the guy who wrote it probably loved videogames. But damn, did he like quarters just as much, because there's never been a wallet vacuum like that game.
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And to add insult to injury, the update failed. "The iPad XXX could not be restored. An internal error occured."
Thanks Apple. It just works- until it doesn't, and then you're fucked because there's no obvious way to fix anything since it's all locked away in the shiny box.
So I want to update my iPad2. iTunes says no: I have to get the new version of iTunes (as well as a security patch) Fine: run software update, get all the various updates including iTunes 10.5, install.
Go back to iTunes and try to update the iPad2. No: it says I have to have the latest version of iTunes. Check the version and indeed I'm running an old version. No idea why it downloaded 65MB of iTunes before, but fine, hit software update again. "Your software is up to date". Um, no, it's clearly not. Sigh.
Digging a bit, it appears that I now have two versions of iTunes on my system, but the iPad is really attached to the 10.2 version and will launch that one instead of 10.5. Fine, kill 10.2, launch 10.5, hit the update button
"There are purchased items on the iPad that have not been transferred..." Ok, sync the iPad to the new version of iTunes, hit update again. "There are purchased items..." Screw it, update anyway. Cross your fingers now
I know, I know, I'm sure the Apple folks will come out of the woodwork to point out all the stupid things I've done here, but I have to laugh at "It just works".
Power would be better, but for control you'd be in a world of hurt. I doubt there's enough air up there to make the fins anything more than extra weight, and he doesn't have a steerable nozzle on this rocket. I didn't see any kind of gyro stability on it either.
Assuming they give the prize to the persons primary accomplishment. Often times you find the committee doing things like giving the prize to Einstein for his work on the photoelectric effect rather than for his work on relativity. He won it for relativity, but they awarded it to a less controversial body of work.
But just to be clear -- Einstein deserved it for the photoelectric effect, had that been his only accomplishment at the time of the award.
Einstein actually deserved at least five
Special relativity
General relativity
Photoelectric effect
Heat capacity of crystals
Brownian motion
The issue was that SR/GR are really hard to test, and the Nobel committee wasn't going to allow a prize for something that hadn't been tested. Not giving a prize to Einstein was getting embarrassing, so they found something that deserved the prize and that could be tested on a lab bench in ten minutes.
Actually, I already have it and no, I don't regret it in the slightest. E-ink's come a long way- the updates are not sluggish, and I spend about 1% of the time with the device actually using a menu. If I want a touch device I have an iPad. I don't want another iPad- I want something to read books, and the lighter weight of the $79 model is worth the tradeoff.
Why? I just bought one and the lack of a keyboard is a feature as far as I'm concerned. It saves weight and space.
If I want to annotate I can use the Kindle app on my iPad. If I want to browser the web I'll use a PC or my iPad. If I want to read a book I'll use the Kindle.
Back in the days when the first gen Kindle had just come out, my boss and I met with an Amazon rep to discuss doing an e-textbook trial with them at the school where I work. We ended up not doing it mostly due to cost, but the rep mentioned off the record that even at $400 each they lost money on the first gen Kindle.
It's four years later. I just today got one of the new $79 4th generation e-ink models. My bet is that they are losing money on this device big time- there's no way in hell it cost $79 to make.
Amazon doesn't care. They're selling the razors at a loss. But I just bought two books for my new toy. They won't be the last
"Interestingly, there is one other theoretical option to ultimately get rid of Hlux: we know how the bot's update process works. We could use this knowledge and issue our own update that removes the infections and terminates itself. However, this would be illegal in most countries and will thus remain theory."
How nice that this will only remain theoretical. Why, it would be awful if they experimented with this method of killing botnets. But I'm sure they're completely honest when they say they'd never do that, ever.
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I guess "continuing to lose rights and freedoms" might not be a second order change (i.e. the rate of change remains unchanged).
Even more so. the direction of change remains unchanged. President Lawnchair has yet to do a single thing as POTUS that his predecessor would not have done as well. Not. One. Thing.
Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.
There's one. There are a lot of others. Yes, he's a moderate Republican, but moderate Republicans aren't welcome in the modern Republican party.
Funny how we're close to the Minority Report interface, but we still have yet to get self tying shoes.
What's wrong with Velcro?
The class I teach has students doing a lot of presentation. Could I do a better job than they could? Of course. But that's not the point- it's that they have to learn it well enough to present it. That's hard, but you learn things far, far better if you have to teach someone else about it.
But none of that affects my point- *Strats* are self compatible. Changing out a pickguard is hardly rocket science- it's a few screws and 30 seconds of soldering. Everything else swaps in with a screwdriver.
"The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."
Why? Here's why: "The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."
That's 1 example, probably the single thing that would attract more players than anything else, and there are plenty of good ideas in your guitar plans to go along with that. I like the idea of swapping out necks, too.
And that's different from a Stratocaster in what way? I can already easily swap out the pickups- they're attached to the pickguard, and I can buy any number of pickguards preloaded with various pickups/electronics for a Strat. I can pull off the neck anytime I want and swap in a new one- it's only four screws, and there are a dozen companies out there that make Strat compatible necks. I can assemble a Strat entirely from random parts- they are almost totally interchangeable.
(My biggest frustration with my Yamaha 921 when I got it off of Craigslist was that it looks like a Strat, but the parts are all subtlety different, so it took forever to figure out what I could use.)
Unless, of course, you do decide to be radical and junk the idea of wood altogether, as many folks have done
Latency is your issue here- you've gone from a 86,400,000 ms ping to 172,800,000 ms ping.
Then again, it could be worse: you could use the single strand formulation. Error rates are far higher. This turns out to be a surprisingly effective strategy for organisms using it, although less so for the rest of us.
Yes, we need to get China and India in on these as well. But guess what- climate change affects them too. Get a decent global solution and they'd probably be pretty happy. After all, it's way easier to take X Gton of crap out of the air when you are starting from a base of nothing, so companies in the US would probably happily buy credits off of the poorer countries. Less carbon in the air, poor countries get a boost financially, rich world countries get years to experiment with solutions before implementing them in higher cost areas. You can even go the Australia route and simply give back the money to the people affected by higher energy prices.
You're sure, huh? You know, we only have evidence of life happening one time and in one place. If there is indeed no life on Europa and it does indeed have the conditions thought necessary for life to form, we might have to ponder the possibility that life is incredibly rare. I suspect that life is, in fact, incredibly rare.
In other words, it's dead, Jim.
Can I disagree here? We have a sample size of 1 right now- no other planet has been investigated well enough to give a yes/no answer.
We know that life on the Earth formed *very* early in the planet's history- we have records back ~3.5 GYA, and it's quite possibly a lot older than that since the limiting factor is finding rocks that haven't been changed so much they would destroy any records. Given that water on Earth only dates to 4.3 GYA, we're probably talking a few hundred million years for life, starting from scratch. To me that implies it's nowhere near as hard as a complex cell- eukaryotes took something like 1.5 billion years to form after the start of life. (~2 GYA) Once you get past that barrier, you have another ~1.4 billion years until you start to see recognizable stuff in the Cambrian- after that evolution takes off and you go from trilobites to everything on earth today in ~600 Myears
My guess is that once we start getting real samples from outside the Earth, either via physical probes or spectroscopy of distant planets we're going to find lots of life.
It's just all going to be algae.
My kids love the "Here Comes Science" album- we end up listening to it in the car constantly. I even use a song or too off of it in my classes.
Probably. You mind going first?
And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.
There are iPhones that are free on contract at this point. They have a ladder in hundred dollar increments now from $0 up to $399.
And they all come with a hugely expensive contract that pays for the phone.
Where can I get an iPhone on a no-contract plan? You know, like the Samsung Prevail my wife uses for her $35/month unlimited everything no-contract plan?
It might not be a bad idea for Amazon to work out a similar plan: simply destroy the record once the book is returned. They might have to burn some ad records as well though, since I'm sure they're offering the book for sale, and it would be easy to track that if they got subpoenaed. My guess is that is where Amazon would balk.
Yeah, it was a great game. Yeah, the guy who wrote it probably loved videogames. But damn, did he like quarters just as much, because there's never been a wallet vacuum like that game.
Thanks Apple. It just works- until it doesn't, and then you're fucked because there's no obvious way to fix anything since it's all locked away in the shiny box.
Go back to iTunes and try to update the iPad2. No: it says I have to have the latest version of iTunes. Check the version and indeed I'm running an old version. No idea why it downloaded 65MB of iTunes before, but fine, hit software update again. "Your software is up to date". Um, no, it's clearly not. Sigh.
Digging a bit, it appears that I now have two versions of iTunes on my system, but the iPad is really attached to the 10.2 version and will launch that one instead of 10.5. Fine, kill 10.2, launch 10.5, hit the update button
"There are purchased items on the iPad that have not been transferred..." Ok, sync the iPad to the new version of iTunes, hit update again. "There are purchased items..." Screw it, update anyway. Cross your fingers now
I know, I know, I'm sure the Apple folks will come out of the woodwork to point out all the stupid things I've done here, but I have to laugh at "It just works".
Power would be better, but for control you'd be in a world of hurt. I doubt there's enough air up there to make the fins anything more than extra weight, and he doesn't have a steerable nozzle on this rocket. I didn't see any kind of gyro stability on it either.
Assuming they give the prize to the persons primary accomplishment. Often times you find the committee doing things like giving the prize to Einstein for his work on the photoelectric effect rather than for his work on relativity. He won it for relativity, but they awarded it to a less controversial body of work.
But just to be clear -- Einstein deserved it for the photoelectric effect, had that been his only accomplishment at the time of the award.
Einstein actually deserved at least five
The issue was that SR/GR are really hard to test, and the Nobel committee wasn't going to allow a prize for something that hadn't been tested. Not giving a prize to Einstein was getting embarrassing, so they found something that deserved the prize and that could be tested on a lab bench in ten minutes.
Going up and down fairly gracefully, continue to refresh and it will come up.
Am I wrong for finding this vaguely arousing?
Actually, I already have it and no, I don't regret it in the slightest. E-ink's come a long way- the updates are not sluggish, and I spend about 1% of the time with the device actually using a menu. If I want a touch device I have an iPad. I don't want another iPad- I want something to read books, and the lighter weight of the $79 model is worth the tradeoff.
If I want to annotate I can use the Kindle app on my iPad. If I want to browser the web I'll use a PC or my iPad. If I want to read a book I'll use the Kindle.
The $79 version is considerably lighter (2/3rds the weight) and thinner than either of the other two models. It's really quite nice
It's four years later. I just today got one of the new $79 4th generation e-ink models. My bet is that they are losing money on this device big time- there's no way in hell it cost $79 to make.
Amazon doesn't care. They're selling the razors at a loss. But I just bought two books for my new toy. They won't be the last
Ka-CHING!
How nice that this will only remain theoretical. Why, it would be awful if they experimented with this method of killing botnets. But I'm sure they're completely honest when they say they'd never do that, ever.