The Iranian leadership is 'intelligent and rational?'
Making value judgments isn't all that productive, but empirically they've maneuvered in a way to avoid being liberated from their oil by the axis of evil decider.
I listened for an hour or so while I got other work done and didn't find any room for disagreement with him. Well, 99.5% is pretty good.
Dr. Paul's presentation of Obama's position as a weak form of martial law is airtight in its logic. If the United States is operating under the Rule of Law, then Obama/Holder's position cannot hold. If Obama's position does hold, then the territory of the United States is under battlefield rules, or martial law conditions.
That it's "soft martial law" isn't comforting to anybody who's read history or studied the Constitution and laws.
Agreed, I put one in a netbook a couple years back and it make a wonderful difference. Just this year has an SSD of the same size become cheaper than that netbook and it's still 4x as expensive as the hybrid drive.
That said, my current laptop has a generic HD and I have an mSATA SSD in it, with a partition for cache I've got assigned to Flashcache (and might be getting converted to ZFS when I figure out dkms) and that works really well too.
The big advantage I see on the Seagate solution is their use of SLC, which I always use in servers for write caches but on my laptop hasn't been a viable option.
A robot with a human-like face is a lie so I wouldn't trust it.
Right. C3PO strikes the right balance - humanoid enough to function alongside humans, built for humans to naturally interface with it (looking into its eyes, etc.) but nobody would ever mistake Threepio for a human, nor would that be a good idea.
Why ever would a robot need to look like a little boy? Outside the weird A.I. plots or creepier.
My boy has a Tribot toy and he loves it. Every kid would love to have a Wall-E friend. Nobody wants a VICKI wandering around the house.
Apple switched because IBM's low end became focused on the gaming systems like XBox
It's even been speculated that Microsoft chose PowerPC among several viable options because it knew it would become IBM's most important volume customers and hurt Apple in the process.
Is it possible to directly target the Intel microcode instructions, bypassing the x86 instruction set? Has gcc or llvm ever attempted a backend for these?
You said Linux wasn't an option because she doesn't want to learn Linux. That's a confusion of concerns - the two aren't mutually exclusive.
1) setup linux. CentOS 6 probably because it will last forever. 1a) optionally setup VNC sharing of the root X. 2) setup VirtualBox. 3) virtualize her existing XP install and run it on VirtualBox. 4) snapshot it 5) Set it to auto-login, auto-start, auto-run the VM. Go with 'quiet' in grub if you want to.
Now, set her loose. If she gets hosed, ssh into the box (vpn, reverse tunnel, etc.) and revert to the snapshot. When you visit, or remotely if you've setup X forwarding or VNC, install the security updates and take a new snapshot.
This will provide her with a higher level of service than you're currently able to provide her (rapid restore to a good state) and it will make your life easier as well.
Thinking about it some more, there is a professional space where it could come in handy - wedding videographers and the like. Anywhere where the light will be bad and there's nothing you can do about that, and there's not much need for post-production or delivery to any kind of device that runs > 1080p.
For those uses, the light sensitivity should be worth all the other trade-offs.
Agreed, but the sibling post says that the math can't work out. It sounds like a better consumer-grade camera sensor, not a professional one if it's not 4K (for a 2014-2015 product that would be essential).
This seems very strange - they just made larger CMOS sensors, as far as I can tell. So, yeah, more photons per sensor.
but one car stubbornly refused to top off at a Delaware Supercharger....After about an hour of troubleshooting, Tesla pushed a firmware update to the vehicle, found and diagnosed another bug and got the car back on the road."
a 'free' country is now blocking a site in a 'closed' country. How did that happen?
âoeIt doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrongâ. - Richard Feynman
The nuclear industry says "don't worry, we can run a 40 year old plant safely" and the regulators say "okay, we believe you"
And the startup that wants to build integral fast reactors and buy up the existing nuclear waste to use as fuel gets denied permits because the entrenched interests would suffer.
We'll get them eventually - I'm just not sure if we'll be buying them from China or India.
I get the impression that a group of hackers is working on a collection of Java vulnerabilities with the goal of releasing a new 0-day for the Java plugin a day after every Oracle update.
I can think of a half-dozen ways Oracle could respond to such a tactic and each is a bit more chuckle-inducing than the last.
I'm gonna need to see some more Obamatowers before those Obamaphones will do much good (in a universal service fashion). Not that he could do anything about the permitting processes at the FCC...
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But imagine the difficulties of implementing a concept like "summer hours" and "winter hours" for a big multinational corporation like Home Depot.
Oh, wait.
Just to be safe, ban anything that offends anybody. Unless the ban or banners are offensive - then it doesn't count.
needs more 'verily'.
Frankly, we're kind of warred out right now.
You realize US troops just started operations in Niger and Mali, right?
War is the health of the State.
how ironic that NK has adopted the Bush Doctrine.
And doubly-ironic that there was just a 13 hour speech in the Senate last night about the USG's abuse of the imminence test against its own people.
The Iranian leadership is 'intelligent and rational?'
Making value judgments isn't all that productive, but empirically they've maneuvered in a way to avoid being liberated from their oil by the axis of evil decider.
I listened for an hour or so while I got other work done and didn't find any room for disagreement with him. Well, 99.5% is pretty good.
Dr. Paul's presentation of Obama's position as a weak form of martial law is airtight in its logic. If the United States is operating under the Rule of Law, then Obama/Holder's position cannot hold. If Obama's position does hold, then the territory of the United States is under battlefield rules, or martial law conditions.
That it's "soft martial law" isn't comforting to anybody who's read history or studied the Constitution and laws.
Agreed, I put one in a netbook a couple years back and it make a wonderful difference. Just this year has an SSD of the same size become cheaper than that netbook and it's still 4x as expensive as the hybrid drive.
That said, my current laptop has a generic HD and I have an mSATA SSD in it, with a partition for cache I've got assigned to Flashcache (and might be getting converted to ZFS when I figure out dkms) and that works really well too.
The big advantage I see on the Seagate solution is their use of SLC, which I always use in servers for write caches but on my laptop hasn't been a viable option.
That depends on what you're reading. It makes a huge difference if it's not one large file read sequentially.
Oh, I see you've compiled a large project at some point.
Thank you. I didn't know about the AM29000 - very helpful.
I think you also just answered the title of this story. :)
I think that's a feature - the robot design itself is completely neutral, allowing people to judge it by its actions.
Run away from the fast menacing Threepio!
A robot with a human-like face is a lie so I wouldn't trust it.
Right. C3PO strikes the right balance - humanoid enough to function alongside humans, built for humans to naturally interface with it (looking into its eyes, etc.) but nobody would ever mistake Threepio for a human, nor would that be a good idea.
Why ever would a robot need to look like a little boy? Outside the weird A.I. plots or creepier.
My boy has a Tribot toy and he loves it. Every kid would love to have a Wall-E friend. Nobody wants a VICKI wandering around the house.
Apple switched because IBM's low end became focused on the gaming systems like XBox
It's even been speculated that Microsoft chose PowerPC among several viable options because it knew it would become IBM's most important volume customers and hurt Apple in the process.
Is it possible to directly target the Intel microcode instructions, bypassing the x86 instruction set? Has gcc or llvm ever attempted a backend for these?
You said Linux wasn't an option because she doesn't want to learn Linux. That's a confusion of concerns - the two aren't mutually exclusive.
1) setup linux. CentOS 6 probably because it will last forever.
1a) optionally setup VNC sharing of the root X.
2) setup VirtualBox.
3) virtualize her existing XP install and run it on VirtualBox.
4) snapshot it
5) Set it to auto-login, auto-start, auto-run the VM. Go with 'quiet' in grub if you want to.
Now, set her loose. If she gets hosed, ssh into the box (vpn, reverse tunnel, etc.) and revert to the snapshot. When you visit, or remotely if you've setup X forwarding or VNC, install the security updates and take a new snapshot.
This will provide her with a higher level of service than you're currently able to provide her (rapid restore to a good state) and it will make your life easier as well.
Thinking about it some more, there is a professional space where it could come in handy - wedding videographers and the like. Anywhere where the light will be bad and there's nothing you can do about that, and there's not much need for post-production or delivery to any kind of device that runs > 1080p.
For those uses, the light sensitivity should be worth all the other trade-offs.
Agreed, but the sibling post says that the math can't work out. It sounds like a better consumer-grade camera sensor, not a professional one if it's not 4K (for a 2014-2015 product that would be essential).
This seems very strange - they just made larger CMOS sensors, as far as I can tell. So, yeah, more photons per sensor.
but one car stubbornly refused to top off at a Delaware Supercharger....After about an hour of troubleshooting, Tesla pushed a firmware update to the vehicle, found and diagnosed another bug and got the car back on the road."
Thank you early adopters ... for not being me.
a 'free' country is now blocking a site in a 'closed' country. How did that happen?
âoeIt doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrongâ. - Richard Feynman
Slashdot: the only site on the Internet where you get solid information in the comments, but only a fool would venture into the news post.
That's pretty much true of all news sites - it's just that Slashdot is full of realists.
and the psychological trauma of cooped up inside a holding cell for hundreds of days isn't something easy to deal with
So we send Bradley Manning. Dude's already proven his mettle there.
The nuclear industry says "don't worry, we can run a 40 year old plant safely" and the regulators say "okay, we believe you"
And the startup that wants to build integral fast reactors and buy up the existing nuclear waste to use as fuel gets denied permits because the entrenched interests would suffer.
We'll get them eventually - I'm just not sure if we'll be buying them from China or India.
I get the impression that a group of hackers is working on a collection of Java vulnerabilities with the goal of releasing a new 0-day for the Java plugin a day after every Oracle update.
I can think of a half-dozen ways Oracle could respond to such a tactic and each is a bit more chuckle-inducing than the last.
so somebody can get their "Obamaphone".
I'm gonna need to see some more Obamatowers before those Obamaphones will do much good (in a universal service fashion). Not that he could do anything about the permitting processes at the FCC...
I've heard that Debian is re-organizing its release cycle to meet some of the objections that have kept people on Ubuntu.
I've seen most of my Ubuntu friends switching to Fedora or Mint, not Debian, though.