Most telescopes on Mauna Kea are relatively quiet, both in terms of the mount moving and the dome rotating. Sometimes you'll hear a creak, or a clunk as a contact switch gets tripped or a chain moves to open or close something. One exception is Japan's Subaru Telescope, which when the dome drives are turned on plays a recurring audible alert in the area of the dome - Bwoop! Bwoop! "Warning! Dome drives are on! Dome could move at any moment!" (and then repeating it in Japanese).
Yes, where am I ever going to get my recommended daily allowance of spam, misdirected links, javascript links that don't translate to actual downloads, spam, regularly recurring outages JUST when I need to download something, and spam? Did I mention the SPAM, yet?
Fuck Sourceforge.
Oh, and spam.
As a jobs recruiting site, I'm sure the new owners are quite capable of enhancing Sourceforge to provide all the spam you expect and more.
I'd rather have a job I like that pays $70K (which is, practically speaking, about what I actually need to pay the bills, pay off debt and support my family) than a job I like that pays $45K and two part-time jobs I like that each pay $10K - which is what I have now.
There is absolutely something to be said for liking a job, but there's also something to be said for at least getting raises in line with inflation...
AllThingsD posted an Ina Fried article a couple weeks ago about Apple's 2010 presentation to Samsung on patents. You know, the "by the way, you're infringing a crapload of our stuff, and we'd really like you to license it or pay royalties" dog-and-pony show.
Given that Apple has made it clear they offered Samsung a license/royalty deal, and Samsung has made it clear they would have preferred a license/royalty deal, it appears the whole mess only went to trial because they simply couldn't agree on pricing.
Interestingly, AllThingsD included (via Scribd) the entire 90-slide "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only" presentation Apple made to Samsung - I guess it must have been submitted as evidence or something. Basically the whole presentation is "We have patent X, which is infringed by Android in Y way, as used in Samsung product Z."
The list of patents in that presentation is a lot longer than the list of patents the jury in this case had to decide infringement claims on. Some of them are also being cited in a case against HTC, but it looks like several may not be topics of any lawsuits so far.
And while a decent number of the patents are ones issued since the creation of iOS and the iPhone, there are quite a lot that date back to the 1990s.
I'm not sure how many of them have already been rendered moot by various aspects of Android being re-implemented, but the presentation is an interesting read.
A cousin of mine with a degree in quality engineering works for Northrop Grumman and had to go visit Ball a bunch in the last year to ensure that the mirror segments were to spec. So if the mirror doesn't work, I'm blaming her.
NASA will send a pair of rovers, the "Damn, that's hot" and the "Ouch, it burns" to explore the photosphere. Expected mission lengths after arrival are expected to be measured in the femtoseconds.
This is what getting Linux (or X, at the very least) working on any laptop used to be like, 15 years ago.
I bought a NEC Versa 2000C (486DX-75, 9.5" 640x480x16bpp, etc.) which worked well enough that I don't recall having to screw around too much with the settings - though of course I maxed the RAM and got a bigger HD and spent a lot of time messing around with different window managers to decide which one was good given the limited screen size.
A year or two later, I got my ex a Versa 4080H (P-120 with F00F bug if I recall, 10ish" 800x600) which in theory could run 800x600x16bpp, but after tons of messing with xconf (I think there may have been one other person who had one and was trying to run Linux on it) she pretty much wound up stuck at 8bpp forever. And although headphone audio worked, I don't know whether I ever got the built-in speakers to work.
So, somebody comes out with a laptop that makes use of hardware that no one's ever seen the likes of before and Linux isn't instantly somehow magically ready to run on it? This is my complete lack of surprise. (And I'm sure people are already slaving away on support for every feature of the Retina MBP.)
After about 10-15 years as a techie, I wound up doing technical jobs in a science field. After a few years, I did a graduate certificate in that science, to open more doors job-wise. Once I get some debt paid off, I hope to take several more classes for a MSc... but I don't want a Ph.D.
Okay, it's metric, sure, but so is km/hour. The weather center where I work reads out windspeed in m/sec, but the wind usually isn't blowing at 3,800 mph, and I've never seen m/sec used for vehicle speeds before. All it does is give you a number about half as big as mph, or 1/3.6 of km/h - is this complain for some reason?
Which recent outbreaks are you referring to? Under the formal definition of an epidemic, even 20 cases is significant when considering the localization of the event.
Oh, sorry - I was thinking of the Ugandan experience with big outbreaks specifically - the 2000 one in the north of the country that infected more people than any other Ebola outbreak before or since (knock on wood), and the 2007 one in Bundibugyo.
If they've only got 20 people affected so far, it sounds fairly small compared to the last couple outbreaks. Hope they can establish good controls to keep it from spreading.
I arrived in Romania just in time for the "coup" but only for a couple weeks, and now that I've flown back out, I can non-anonymously second what the AC said. (Although to be fair, Ponta is hardly the first Romanian politician to plagiarize, from what I hear.)
As an aside, I was able to walk unhindered right into a session of the National Executive Council of the Social Democratic Party while Ponta was speaking, and take a photo of him to prove I was there, so if he wants to stay in power, he'd better hope no disillusioned Romanian with any social engineering skills is packing more than a camera.
Many consumers thinking of upgrading will no doubt be holding out until October when Windows 8 is launched, before upgrading their PCs
I don't know that I fall into the "many consumers" category, but I've certainly already made the decision, based on what I've seen of Windows 8, to "hold out" on upgrading. But I don't mean this in the sense of upgrading in October when Windows 8 is launched - rather, from what I've seen of Windows 8, I know I do not want it, now, in October, or ever, and will "hold out" to see whether Windows 9 or whatever it's called is more palatable.
Other acronyms are going to quickly get dragged into this, mainly the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which is much more about this sort of stuff, and possibly the World Trade Organization (WTO) if, for example, Korea were to complain that the US ITC is being overly kind to Apple and should be letting Korean products in.
yearly appraisals, according to HR and internal procedures don't ensure you're going to get any bonuses or raises or whatever. Shortly put, it's up to the manager how would he split the extra budget, if any. Most times there's no budget for that because our organization doesn't bring direct revenue and thus we're at the bottom of the pond.
Absolutely. I have the "advantage" of pretty good job security due to working for a largely government-funded, university-affiliated research organization (and being in the department that actually runs the gear used for the research). That said, I'm sure our departmental budget is stagnant. Heck, the overall organizational budget gets smaller most years, because efficiency improves.
So, for now, I work two part-time jobs in addition to my full-time one, because that one by itself wouldn't quite pay all the bills. But I don't want to do that forever.
My primary workplace uses the 1-5 scale, but doing a perfect job of everything you're asked to do gets you a "3 - meets expectations." So the only way to get higher than a 3 is to think of things to do, and do a perfect job of them, before it even occurs to anyone to ask you. I averaged a 4-of-5 across several categories on last year's annual performance evaluation, which got me a year-end bonus equal to about 2 weeks' pay (which we tend to get most years) and a raise of... nothing.
Well... the origins of QNX don't go back quite as far as those of BSD, but do go back further than those of Mach, NextSTEP and XNU. I'm not quite sure that "new" is the word you're looking for, but I suppose it does seem both new and brilliant compared to legacy BBOS!
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Most telescopes on Mauna Kea are relatively quiet, both in terms of the mount moving and the dome rotating. Sometimes you'll hear a creak, or a clunk as a contact switch gets tripped or a chain moves to open or close something. One exception is Japan's Subaru Telescope, which when the dome drives are turned on plays a recurring audible alert in the area of the dome - Bwoop! Bwoop! "Warning! Dome drives are on! Dome could move at any moment!" (and then repeating it in Japanese).
Yes, where am I ever going to get my recommended daily allowance of spam, misdirected links, javascript links that don't translate to actual downloads, spam, regularly recurring outages JUST when I need to download something, and spam? Did I mention the SPAM, yet?
Fuck Sourceforge.
Oh, and spam.
As a jobs recruiting site, I'm sure the new owners are quite capable of enhancing Sourceforge to provide all the spam you expect and more.
Not sure about the links and outages, though.
I'd rather have a job I like that pays $70K (which is, practically speaking, about what I actually need to pay the bills, pay off debt and support my family) than a job I like that pays $45K and two part-time jobs I like that each pay $10K - which is what I have now.
There is absolutely something to be said for liking a job, but there's also something to be said for at least getting raises in line with inflation...
AllThingsD posted an Ina Fried article a couple weeks ago about Apple's 2010 presentation to Samsung on patents. You know, the "by the way, you're infringing a crapload of our stuff, and we'd really like you to license it or pay royalties" dog-and-pony show.
Given that Apple has made it clear they offered Samsung a license/royalty deal, and Samsung has made it clear they would have preferred a license/royalty deal, it appears the whole mess only went to trial because they simply couldn't agree on pricing.
Interestingly, AllThingsD included (via Scribd) the entire 90-slide "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only" presentation Apple made to Samsung - I guess it must have been submitted as evidence or something. Basically the whole presentation is "We have patent X, which is infringed by Android in Y way, as used in Samsung product Z."
The list of patents in that presentation is a lot longer than the list of patents the jury in this case had to decide infringement claims on. Some of them are also being cited in a case against HTC, but it looks like several may not be topics of any lawsuits so far.
And while a decent number of the patents are ones issued since the creation of iOS and the iPhone, there are quite a lot that date back to the 1990s.
I'm not sure how many of them have already been rendered moot by various aspects of Android being re-implemented, but the presentation is an interesting read.
That's more believable than the UK media.
A cousin of mine with a degree in quality engineering works for Northrop Grumman and had to go visit Ball a bunch in the last year to ensure that the mirror segments were to spec. So if the mirror doesn't work, I'm blaming her.
I think we've seen this movie before.
The NSF only funds a small sliver of US astronomy as a whole, last I checked, and rarely funds any project or facility entirely.
NASA will send a pair of rovers, the "Damn, that's hot" and the "Ouch, it burns" to explore the photosphere. Expected mission lengths after arrival are expected to be measured in the femtoseconds.
To see if it can be done.
This is what getting Linux (or X, at the very least) working on any laptop used to be like, 15 years ago.
I bought a NEC Versa 2000C (486DX-75, 9.5" 640x480x16bpp, etc.) which worked well enough that I don't recall having to screw around too much with the settings - though of course I maxed the RAM and got a bigger HD and spent a lot of time messing around with different window managers to decide which one was good given the limited screen size.
A year or two later, I got my ex a Versa 4080H (P-120 with F00F bug if I recall, 10ish" 800x600) which in theory could run 800x600x16bpp, but after tons of messing with xconf (I think there may have been one other person who had one and was trying to run Linux on it) she pretty much wound up stuck at 8bpp forever. And although headphone audio worked, I don't know whether I ever got the built-in speakers to work.
So, somebody comes out with a laptop that makes use of hardware that no one's ever seen the likes of before and Linux isn't instantly somehow magically ready to run on it? This is my complete lack of surprise. (And I'm sure people are already slaving away on support for every feature of the Retina MBP.)
After about 10-15 years as a techie, I wound up doing technical jobs in a science field. After a few years, I did a graduate certificate in that science, to open more doors job-wise. Once I get some debt paid off, I hope to take several more classes for a MSc... but I don't want a Ph.D.
...to build a bunch of astronomical observatories, for astronomers who clearly never watched any horror films.
Ancient burial grounds FTW.
Okay, it's metric, sure, but so is km/hour. The weather center where I work reads out windspeed in m/sec, but the wind usually isn't blowing at 3,800 mph, and I've never seen m/sec used for vehicle speeds before. All it does is give you a number about half as big as mph, or 1/3.6 of km/h - is this complain for some reason?
Which recent outbreaks are you referring to? Under the formal definition of an epidemic, even 20 cases is significant when considering the localization of the event.
Oh, sorry - I was thinking of the Ugandan experience with big outbreaks specifically - the 2000 one in the north of the country that infected more people than any other Ebola outbreak before or since (knock on wood), and the 2007 one in Bundibugyo.
If they've only got 20 people affected so far, it sounds fairly small compared to the last couple outbreaks. Hope they can establish good controls to keep it from spreading.
But they're fully hardware-accelerate big colored blocks! Exciting! :)
being able to grab some juice from any friend may end the disaster that is forgetting your laptop power brick when on the road.
Eh, pretty much anywhere I work, there are people with MagSafe adaptors. So I could just get a MacBook and this would be my reality already.
I arrived in Romania just in time for the "coup" but only for a couple weeks, and now that I've flown back out, I can non-anonymously second what the AC said. (Although to be fair, Ponta is hardly the first Romanian politician to plagiarize, from what I hear.)
As an aside, I was able to walk unhindered right into a session of the National Executive Council of the Social Democratic Party while Ponta was speaking, and take a photo of him to prove I was there, so if he wants to stay in power, he'd better hope no disillusioned Romanian with any social engineering skills is packing more than a camera.
Many consumers thinking of upgrading will no doubt be holding out until October when Windows 8 is launched, before upgrading their PCs
I don't know that I fall into the "many consumers" category, but I've certainly already made the decision, based on what I've seen of Windows 8, to "hold out" on upgrading. But I don't mean this in the sense of upgrading in October when Windows 8 is launched - rather, from what I've seen of Windows 8, I know I do not want it, now, in October, or ever, and will "hold out" to see whether Windows 9 or whatever it's called is more palatable.
Other acronyms are going to quickly get dragged into this, mainly the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which is much more about this sort of stuff, and possibly the World Trade Organization (WTO) if, for example, Korea were to complain that the US ITC is being overly kind to Apple and should be letting Korean products in.
...they make each "hut" look like a Tardis.
Then, we can talk.
yearly appraisals, according to HR and internal procedures don't ensure you're going to get any bonuses or raises or whatever. Shortly put, it's up to the manager how would he split the extra budget, if any. Most times there's no budget for that because our organization doesn't bring direct revenue and thus we're at the bottom of the pond.
Absolutely. I have the "advantage" of pretty good job security due to working for a largely government-funded, university-affiliated research organization (and being in the department that actually runs the gear used for the research). That said, I'm sure our departmental budget is stagnant. Heck, the overall organizational budget gets smaller most years, because efficiency improves.
So, for now, I work two part-time jobs in addition to my full-time one, because that one by itself wouldn't quite pay all the bills. But I don't want to do that forever.
My primary workplace uses the 1-5 scale, but doing a perfect job of everything you're asked to do gets you a "3 - meets expectations." So the only way to get higher than a 3 is to think of things to do, and do a perfect job of them, before it even occurs to anyone to ask you. I averaged a 4-of-5 across several categories on last year's annual performance evaluation, which got me a year-end bonus equal to about 2 weeks' pay (which we tend to get most years) and a raise of... nothing.
In the end, Apple will continue to make billions and the Chinese government will get a cut.
And Proview will probably still go bankrupt, since this is only 15% of the amount they were asking for.
Unless they have rights to a whole lot of other product names, or something. :)
They have a brilliant new OS
Well... the origins of QNX don't go back quite as far as those of BSD, but do go back further than those of Mach, NextSTEP and XNU. I'm not quite sure that "new" is the word you're looking for, but I suppose it does seem both new and brilliant compared to legacy BBOS!