From the summary: Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
Not really. The way Caller ID was originally implemented, the Caller ID information is transmitted along with the call as a set of ultrasonic tones, therefore any caller and set their caller-id number to whatever they want. This is useful if you are calling from an office that gets routed through a local switchboard.
Some kind of standard is being worked on, but it is a hard problem to implement with the current telepohny network was it exists today
What many people miss are Apple's intangible costs like their commitment to renewable energy, sustainable materials and recycling and insistence on fair working conditions (however successful that may be). these things will drive up the costs of Apple's products but you can't find them on bill of materials for their phones and products.
If you want the highest performance, most eco-friendly tech product, then Apple is the best manufacturer.
we already ruled out the sun as a driver of climate change, so the only conclusions are that the people of Saturn have been producing too much greenhouses gases, and thus destroying their planet. ipso facto, there are Martians on Saturn.
What Google demonstrated is that MS is watching what you search for in other search engines via the bing toolbar or IE toolbar addon thing.
Google's Honeypots were designed so that a very specific search returned a very specific result that is totally unrelated to the search. The only way that MS could return the same results as Google is if MS is watching what a user searches for in Google, and watching what they click on, and then using that relationship as a ranking factor for their own search engine.
This behavior is copying. MS should not be watching what their users are searching for in other search engines to determine their own search results. What's the difference between that and MS having a fallback Google search if Bing returns 0 results?
Put it another way:
Under the guise of delivering the "best user experience" you decide to inline pictures from a major image-hosting website because your own servers wouldn't be able to handle the load. The images always load fast and the users never notice, but is that right? The image-host could always poison your images, but Google cannot poison it's search results.
I agree with this. You don't get to be a nurse without some kind of training, and presumably the training includes something about tubes and how connecting the wrong tubes could be deadly. If the nurse knows that they could kill someone by connecting the wrong tubes, then it would be negligent manslaughter for them not to double check.
We should not replace due-diligence with color codes and connector gimmicks.
MS Word used an intentionally obscured binary format that actually included random data from the hard disk (sometimes including "deleted" files that were recoverable using third party tools).
Actually, it was a feature of MS WORD's "Quick Save" function. Instead of writing the entire file to disk, it just wrote the delta and appended it to the file to speed up the file saving process.
Uhh what? you just proved yourself wrong. Quote: "You first determine the most money you can make by selling an item, then you decide if the profit margin is thick enough for you. If you determine that people wont pay enough to make up the cost of the item you don't sell it. If you find out they will pay what it costs and then some you will almost certainly sell it."
Meaning You sell based on the amount of Profit you can make off of it...
Quote: "Theft cuts into profits but it absolutely does not raise the price for the consumer."
Theft decreases the amount of profit you make, and therefore puts you into the area where it's not worth it to sell it. so now you have two options: Stop selling the item due to theft, or, raise prices to counteract the losses incurred by theft.
A small eletronic gaget designed to fit in your clothes. Don't you think the gaget should have been designed to survive the washing machine? my old LG4500 phone has survived numerous washes. Just dried it out under a lamp, and back to perfect working condition. My new razr 3m phone has this obnoxious watermark in the battery compartment that turns red at the hint of mositure, thereby voiding any kind of warranty.
I can't tell if the quote is being serious or not. It says "It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files" Why would you need such a colossal program to do something so basic? It also says Lisp is the only computer language that is beautiful, I think that is subjective.
and for the last quote, Emacs outshining all other text editors... I guess if that's what you want to go for. Personally If i want a program that just edits text, I want one as small as possible and as fast as possible (with all the features I want obviously). the whole quote just dons't strike me as being all that great about emacs.
but what if you want to cut hotdogs with a tablesaw? I'm so tired of the government trying to take away my freedoms!!! (specifically the freedom to cut hotdogs with tablesaws in this case)
poor children in developing countries need food/water/shelter/clothing, not hand cranked computers. what are they going to do with these things? play "mavis beacon teaches typing" and "oregon trail"? how about 100 dollars per kid goes to books,paper,pencils, teachers.
this whole 100 dollar laptop thing is kind of like "let them have cake."
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From the summary: Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
Bamboo Chopsticks. They can replace forks, and if you're especially skilled, spoons.
Not really. The way Caller ID was originally implemented, the Caller ID information is transmitted along with the call as a set of ultrasonic tones, therefore any caller and set their caller-id number to whatever they want. This is useful if you are calling from an office that gets routed through a local switchboard.
Some kind of standard is being worked on, but it is a hard problem to implement with the current telepohny network was it exists today
see https://datatracker.ietf.org/w...
What many people miss are Apple's intangible costs like their commitment to renewable energy, sustainable materials and recycling and insistence on fair working conditions (however successful that may be). these things will drive up the costs of Apple's products but you can't find them on bill of materials for their phones and products.
If you want the highest performance, most eco-friendly tech product, then Apple is the best manufacturer.
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we already ruled out the sun as a driver of climate change, so the only conclusions are that the people of Saturn have been producing too much greenhouses gases, and thus destroying their planet. ipso facto, there are Martians on Saturn.
I don't even know what my passwords are, I copy and paste them out of keypass.
So i guess it would work really well for me!
What Google demonstrated is that MS is watching what you search for in other search engines via the bing toolbar or IE toolbar addon thing.
Google's Honeypots were designed so that a very specific search returned a very specific result that is totally unrelated to the search. The only way that MS could return the same results as Google is if MS is watching what a user searches for in Google, and watching what they click on, and then using that relationship as a ranking factor for their own search engine.
This behavior is copying. MS should not be watching what their users are searching for in other search engines to determine their own search results. What's the difference between that and MS having a fallback Google search if Bing returns 0 results?
Put it another way:
Under the guise of delivering the "best user experience" you decide to inline pictures from a major image-hosting website because your own servers wouldn't be able to handle the load. The images always load fast and the users never notice, but is that right? The image-host could always poison your images, but Google cannot poison it's search results.
reversed words demo:
http://tinypic.com/r/1z1fuwo/7
who else read the headline and thought the game development community was imposing punitive penalties on art students?
I agree with this. You don't get to be a nurse without some kind of training, and presumably the training includes something about tubes and how connecting the wrong tubes could be deadly. If the nurse knows that they could kill someone by connecting the wrong tubes, then it would be negligent manslaughter for them not to double check.
We should not replace due-diligence with color codes and connector gimmicks.
This thing's only been out for a month!! at least give them some time to do their own testing, which they did!
Unless you're Denzel Washington: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/
what? Walmart operates on a 3.4-3.6% net profit margin
are you saying walmart is not doing well?
http://www.hoovers.com/wal-mart/--ID__11600,period__A--/free-co-fin-income.xhtml
MS Word used an intentionally obscured binary format that actually included random data from the hard disk (sometimes including "deleted" files that were recoverable using third party tools).
Actually, it was a feature of MS WORD's "Quick Save" function. Instead of writing the entire file to disk, it just wrote the delta and appended it to the file to speed up the file saving process.
Read the link for and interesting article.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
Rail guns do not work that way! Good Night!
Uhh what? you just proved yourself wrong.
Quote:
"You first determine the most money you can make by selling an item, then you decide if the profit margin is thick enough for you. If you determine that people wont pay enough to make up the cost of the item you don't sell it. If you find out they will pay what it costs and then some you will almost certainly sell it."
Meaning You sell based on the amount of Profit you can make off of it...
Quote:
"Theft cuts into profits but it absolutely does not raise the price for the consumer."
Theft decreases the amount of profit you make, and therefore puts you into the area where it's not worth it to sell it. so now you have two options: Stop selling the item due to theft, or, raise prices to counteract the losses incurred by theft.
Your post is completely self-contradictory.
It's a good thing we don't set national policies based on the interperations of all the arm-chair supreme court justices on slashdot.
A small eletronic gaget designed to fit in your clothes. Don't you think the gaget should have been designed to survive the washing machine? my old LG4500 phone has survived numerous washes. Just dried it out under a lamp, and back to perfect working condition. My new razr 3m phone has this obnoxious watermark in the battery compartment that turns red at the hint of mositure, thereby voiding any kind of warranty.
I can't tell if the quote is being serious or not. It says "It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files" Why would you need such a colossal program to do something so basic? It also says Lisp is the only computer language that is beautiful, I think that is subjective.
and for the last quote, Emacs outshining all other text editors... I guess if that's what you want to go for. Personally If i want a program that just edits text, I want one as small as possible and as fast as possible (with all the features I want obviously). the whole quote just dons't strike me as being all that great about emacs.
but what if you want to cut hotdogs with a tablesaw? I'm so tired of the government trying to take away my freedoms!!! (specifically the freedom to cut hotdogs with tablesaws in this case)
Im really tired of these people who think they know better than everyone else how everyone should be using their time.
In the time it took you to post that worthless suggestion, shouldn't you have been working on a cure for cancer instead?!
err, thats not the job of the law makers, its the job of the supreme court to decide if a law is unconstitutional.
you can't have lawmakers trying to make laws and interpert the constituion at the same time.
Would you give your your hands?
poor children in developing countries need food/water/shelter/clothing, not hand cranked computers. what are they going to do with these things? play "mavis beacon teaches typing" and "oregon trail"? how about 100 dollars per kid goes to books,paper,pencils, teachers.
this whole 100 dollar laptop thing is kind of like "let them have cake."