The braille on the drive through bank ATMs is because it would be more expensive to create two types of buttons (braille and without) and know ahead of time where the ATM would be installed.
. ..Note that, by several estimates, that intermediate range contains the average IQ (or peak of the curve if you will ) for people the US has in prison for violent crimes. People with IQs between 70 and 90 have higher crime rates than people with IQs below or above this range, but it depends on whether you look at mean or median values whether the peak is in the gap range or just above it. So not only don't we know what to call the gap, we aren't sure whether that might be important for understanding violent crime or not.
So the smart violent criminals get away with it more?
Not only BT is missing. There's no calendar-app, and still no SyncML. Why? Even the Siemens S55 I bought in 2003 had a really pleasing set of Bluetooth-profiles, had SyncML, a calendar and J2ME... In my book, these are default, but required features. (ok, J2ME not so, since there's an alternative)
Google calendar was available on the G1 by default.
>One caveat I'd add is that as online poker gets more and more popular, there are more and more crazies playing, people who watch the highlights of WSOP and WPT events and see somebody like Kido Pham who seems to play any two cards any time (which he doesn't quite do, but he is a very aggressive player) and think that that's how you play poker, for real. These donks can't be making any money, but their willingness to play any two cards all-in is enough to make it a lot harder for a skilled player to make some money, because there are a lot of them and taken in total, they will catch a very lucky turn or river often enough to make your life hard.
In poker you make money from other people's mistakes. It is a zero (or actually negative with rake) sum game.
If they are playing a very crazy style it can increase the variance of a skilled player's returns but if they are not using a decent strategy a skilled player will undoubtedly profit from them.
I dropped my palm IIIxe in the toilet in my dorm. I thought it was gone for sure, because when I pulled it out the display was all black. I pulled out the batteries, washed my hands about 5 times, and then washed it off. I took it apart, let it dry on a radiator for 3 days, put it back together, and it didn't work. I left it in a drawer, and about a week later reinstalled the batteries and it worked fine.
I have a feeling that after this is released the most popular software to be produced by hobbyist coders will be an "erotic massager" app. This whole thing is a ploy for people to do this, then wear out their controllers, and have to pony up dough for new ones.
The funniest line in the film is when Hackman says something like "Damn. I sent him on a holiday mission." I think it was supposed to be serious though, but it seemed so cliched it was comical. Overall the acting seemed pretty weak. The action scenes made up for the acting though.
Some interesting java applet demos were entered in this contest: http://www.cfxweb.net/javapage.php?page=contest.sh tml .
In the days of huge software programs it always amazes me to see what can be done in such small packages (each 4k jar file includes the source code too).
I bought a different Linksys KVM switch than the one on Tom's Hardware. I think its called the PS2KVMSK or something. It is much cheaper at about $50 dollars, including all the necessary cables. Ive found it to be a great value and is extremely convenient because it has keyboard-activated switching. The switch is signaled by two quick CTRL key presses. One thing to note though is that if you are playing games that use CTRL frequently, there seems to be a lag between the CTRL keypress and the action in the game. Other than that it performed flawlessly and was definitely worth the money.
I was about 4 blocks away when the World Trade Center collapsed. I saw people falling from the (North or South, can't remember) building, and saw it collapse. The day started out as any normal school day. It ended with my entire school being evacuated to use as a hospital. I have only been able to watch about 5 minutes of the news a day since it happened. I think I am still in shock, and can't stand to see what is going on. It makes me feel so insignificant and fragile to be reminded of the tragedy. I dread the days when Ill be able to return to school and will have to face the new reality every time I look out the window or go to or from school.
I guess this is me still in shock and denial
Sorry if this is offtopic or whatever
I still don't know what I'm doing since I saw this
My school is about 4 blocks away from the WTC.
Here is a consciousness stream I wrote after I got home if anyone is interested:
Ryder ran into my photography classroom. He shouted " a missile hit the world trade center" I didn't think it was true
he said turn on the tv
we did
we saw the hole in the building and the reporter explained that a plane had crashed into it
we were in disbelief
there was a gaping hole in the building
we continued the lesson, with the tv on showing its pictures of the destruction
I had a free period after photography and wandered the halls
i saw the hole in the building with my own eyes
I then heard that another plane had hit the building
and that the pentagon had also been hit
It seemed like i was in a movie
acting
while on the first floor, I was looking outside, and i noticed a butterfly
it was calm, fluttering about, while all this was going on
i had never seen a bug in stuyvesant, let alone a beautiful monarch like this one
I wandered some more, in a daze, and i happened into a classroom that was watching the events
I looked out its window and could see small figures falling from the hole in the building
they were people
p
l
u
m
m
e
t
i
n
g
then the electricity in our school started to give out
I felt the building rumble
and the trade center collapsed upon itself
the cloud of dust rushed towards stuyvesant
it was like a nuclear bomb
many girls were crying
i felt bad for them
but i didn't really feel like this was happening
the teachers told us we had to go to homeroom
i didn't feel like going up to the 9th floor at a time like that
eventually i did though, i called my mom and she was hysterical
i told her i was ok
and i would be even if i didn't call again
after homeroom we evacuated and walked up west street
we didn't really know where we were going
but we had to leave
When I was a child, I often thought of what would occur if a huge number of people jumped simultaneously, but I never really thought it would happen. Apparently, though, if you have a PhD in Physics and a little notebook of all your kiddy schemes, then you can have them carried out as "research". Can't wait to see what will be in the news next. Im guessing something where we see what will happen if everyone in the world flushes their toilets simultaneously. Will this cause the polar caps melt, or the oceans to drain? Find out on yahoo! (or slashdot)
Anyone seen pianos catapulted?
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Fling-A-Keg
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I rememeber seeing this done about 5 years ago, only pianos were launched. I think it was on the discovery channel.
This was written in 1853 by Charles Tomlinson, and is only an excerpt of the the treatise, but it shows that people recognized that 'security' trough obscurity was not really security at all, way before the digital age.
A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fallacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to be the first to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too earnestly urged, that an acquintance with real facts will, in the end, be better for all parties.
Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk; a vain fear -- milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practiced it or not; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.
...The unscrupulous have the command of much of this kind of knowledge without our aid; and there is moral and commercial justice in placing on their guard those who might possibly suffer therefrom. We employ these stray expressions concerning adulteration, debasement, roguery, and so forth, simply as a mode of illustrating a principle -- the advantage of publicity. In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will posess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimulates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good.
Slashdot Mirror
Not one comment about it being called LIE-dar?
The braille on the drive through bank ATMs is because it would be more expensive to create two types of buttons (braille and without) and know ahead of time where the ATM would be installed.
This was discussed in Freakonomics IIRC.
. . .Note that, by several estimates, that intermediate range contains the average IQ (or peak of the curve if you will ) for people the US has in prison for violent crimes. People with IQs between 70 and 90 have higher crime rates than people with IQs below or above this range, but it depends on whether you look at mean or median values whether the peak is in the gap range or just above it. So not only don't we know what to call the gap, we aren't sure whether that might be important for understanding violent crime or not.
So the smart violent criminals get away with it more?
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
This would be great for internet poker!
So it seems from other comments it might be in the range of a few gigs, I won't be holding my breath searching for it!
Does anyone have a link to the full version somewhere?
I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find it . . .
Did anyone else who read the headline think how is that possible?
Not only BT is missing. There's no calendar-app, and still no SyncML. Why? Even the Siemens S55 I bought in 2003 had a really pleasing set of Bluetooth-profiles, had SyncML, a calendar and J2ME... In my book, these are default, but required features. (ok, J2ME not so, since there's an alternative)
Google calendar was available on the G1 by default.
Ouch for all those who are de facto family computer technical support.
It's called Metal Gear Solid 4
>One caveat I'd add is that as online poker gets more and more popular, there are more and more crazies playing, people who watch the highlights of WSOP and WPT events and see somebody like Kido Pham who seems to play any two cards any time (which he doesn't quite do, but he is a very aggressive player) and think that that's how you play poker, for real. These donks can't be making any money, but their willingness to play any two cards all-in is enough to make it a lot harder for a skilled player to make some money, because there are a lot of them and taken in total, they will catch a very lucky turn or river often enough to make your life hard.
In poker you make money from other people's mistakes. It is a zero (or actually negative with rake) sum game.
If they are playing a very crazy style it can increase the variance of a skilled player's returns but if they are not using a decent strategy a skilled player will undoubtedly profit from them.
You know if Prince's side wins the judge is going to be like:
"Game, Blouses."
I dropped my palm IIIxe in the toilet in my dorm. I thought it was gone for sure, because when I pulled it out the display was all black. I pulled out the batteries, washed my hands about 5 times, and then washed it off. I took it apart, let it dry on a radiator for 3 days, put it back together, and it didn't work. I left it in a drawer, and about a week later reinstalled the batteries and it worked fine.
I think its a typo because the next graphics chip nvidia is releasing soon is the GeForce 4.
I have a feeling that after this is released the most popular software to be produced by hobbyist coders will be an "erotic massager" app. This whole thing is a ploy for people to do this, then wear out their controllers, and have to pony up dough for new ones.
The funniest line in the film is when Hackman says something like "Damn. I sent him on a holiday mission." I think it was supposed to be serious though, but it seemed so cliched it was comical. Overall the acting seemed pretty weak. The action scenes made up for the acting though.
Some interesting java applet demos were entered in this contest: http://www.cfxweb.net/javapage.php?page=contest.sh tml .
In the days of huge software programs it always amazes me to see what can be done in such small packages (each 4k jar file includes the source code too).
I bought a different Linksys KVM switch than the one on Tom's Hardware. I think its called the PS2KVMSK or something. It is much cheaper at about $50 dollars, including all the necessary cables. Ive found it to be a great value and is extremely convenient because it has keyboard-activated switching. The switch is signaled by two quick CTRL key presses. One thing to note though is that if you are playing games that use CTRL frequently, there seems to be a lag between the CTRL keypress and the action in the game. Other than that it performed flawlessly and was definitely worth the money.
Is parents who never took the time to teach their kids about sex, including pornography.
I was about 4 blocks away when the World Trade Center collapsed. I saw people falling from the (North or South, can't remember) building, and saw it collapse. The day started out as any normal school day. It ended with my entire school being evacuated to use as a hospital. I have only been able to watch about 5 minutes of the news a day since it happened. I think I am still in shock, and can't stand to see what is going on. It makes me feel so insignificant and fragile to be reminded of the tragedy. I dread the days when Ill be able to return to school and will have to face the new reality every time I look out the window or go to or from school.
I guess this is me still in shock and denial
Sorry if this is offtopic or whatever
I still don't know what I'm doing since I saw this
My school is about 4 blocks away from the WTC.
Here is a consciousness stream I wrote after I got home if anyone is interested:
Ryder ran into my photography classroom. He shouted " a missile hit the world trade center" I didn't think it was true
he said turn on the tv
we did
we saw the hole in the building and the reporter explained that a plane had crashed into it
we were in disbelief
there was a gaping hole in the building
we continued the lesson, with the tv on showing its pictures of the destruction
I had a free period after photography and wandered the halls
i saw the hole in the building with my own eyes
I then heard that another plane had hit the building
and that the pentagon had also been hit
It seemed like i was in a movie
acting
while on the first floor, I was looking outside, and i noticed a butterfly
it was calm, fluttering about, while all this was going on
i had never seen a bug in stuyvesant, let alone a beautiful monarch like this one
I wandered some more, in a daze, and i happened into a classroom that was watching the events
I looked out its window and could see small figures falling from the hole in the building
they were people
p
l
u
m
m
e
t
i
n
g
then the electricity in our school started to give out
I felt the building rumble
and the trade center collapsed upon itself
the cloud of dust rushed towards stuyvesant
it was like a nuclear bomb
many girls were crying
i felt bad for them
but i didn't really feel like this was happening
the teachers told us we had to go to homeroom
i didn't feel like going up to the 9th floor at a time like that
eventually i did though, i called my mom and she was hysterical
i told her i was ok
and i would be even if i didn't call again
after homeroom we evacuated and walked up west street
we didn't really know where we were going
but we had to leave
we saw f-15s flying overhead
When I was a child, I often thought of what would occur if a huge number of people jumped simultaneously, but I never really thought it would happen. Apparently, though, if you have a PhD in Physics and a little notebook of all your kiddy schemes, then you can have them carried out as "research". Can't wait to see what will be in the news next. Im guessing something where we see what will happen if everyone in the world flushes their toilets simultaneously. Will this cause the polar caps melt, or the oceans to drain? Find out on yahoo! (or slashdot)
I rememeber seeing this done about 5 years ago, only pianos were launched. I think it was on the discovery channel.
This was written in 1853 by Charles Tomlinson, and is only an excerpt of the the treatise, but it shows that people recognized that 'security' trough obscurity was not really security at all, way before the digital age.
...The unscrupulous have the command of much of this kind of knowledge without our aid; and there is moral and commercial justice in placing on their guard those who might possibly suffer therefrom. We employ these stray expressions concerning adulteration, debasement, roguery, and so forth, simply as a mode of illustrating a principle -- the advantage of publicity. In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will posess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimulates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good.
A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fallacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to be the first to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too earnestly urged, that an acquintance with real facts will, in the end, be better for all parties.
Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk; a vain fear -- milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practiced it or not; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.