If time is kept by atomic clocks that's not synchronized with the Earth's rotation then one day, Midnight could be when the Sun is high in the sky!
We can't have this! Think of the children! They'll learn that Noon is when the Sun is high in the sky only to see it pitch black!
You're right, even if accidentally. Time keeping that is meaningful for most humans is much more important than time that is meaningful for just a handful of computer operators and nuclear scientists. They need to stop being so ego-centric.
10 is an arbitrary base and works poorly for time. Earth time works very well in Base-12, which is what we have now.
If you want to think of the children, the Egyptians and Babylonians taught their children to count on the knuckles of their four non-thumb fingers. The 10-finger-number system is just an unfortunate thing that came along with arabic numerals, which are very useful.
I saw we adopt something from the UNICODE set to mean eleven and twelve. Say, they're not 1-teen and 2-teen, are they?
I wonder how many people are going to find a reason to complain about this?
I had a different take: "They're just now figuring out Skype is useful? I've been using it for years, and yet they have the temerity to tell me how to run my business?"
Don't live north of the Mason-Dixon line or in the Rockies, since you may face blizzards, snowstorms, or other wintry conditions.
Snowstorms are just a chore, and an excuse to own an all-wheel drive vehicle.
Don't live far away from major cities, since the commute will contribute to global warming which may kill our children's children.
Commuting to a major city isn't any sort of requirement for a job. Those aside, I've got your list covered. I'm also beyond the splash models of a comet hitting the ocean, though I'll probably get some seismic damage in that situation.
Some people do consider risks before deciding where to live.
We manage two prestige advertising firms, one in Canberra and another down in Melbourne and the complaints are flowing, loud, and spitting from the mouth. But what's worse is, our customers are 100% right and they ain't shit all we can do.
What do you mean 'manage'? As in IT management? Surely, the concept of getting a couple new machines, trying the new version out for a while with a couple guinea-pig users, and then, providing that was successful, doing a staged roll-out was suggested to these clients?
Is this just theoretical or are people actually running kde on real phones/tablets?
I tried the plasma-netbook interface for my wife's new laptop and it's a complete trainwreck. I fiddled for two hours (really hard to configure and buggy) before going back to plasma-desktop and setting up Daisy as a left dock with a minimal top-edge activity panel and pinned items in the system tray.
Who calls their lawyer over an ordinary job contract
Wait, you want the employer to have a fully-considered [lawyer-written] contract to control the terms of the employment with the employee, but if the employee wants to have a level playing field, he's the one who's likely to take advantage of a given situation?
That attitude just leads to employees getting screwed. If the employer wants to hire on a handshake, that's fine by me, but if he puts a complex legal document in the employee's face, he's already lawyered-up.
Full disclosure: the contract I ask subcontractors to sign is less than two pages and can be understood by anybody qualified to do the job.
Darn, I'd hoped from the title that there was live migration of running applications between phone and PC so getting back to the office was as easy as switching the current app over to the non-portable's VM. Oh, wait, this is still 2011, we don't have the displays for that mobile work yet. Nevermind folks, nothing to see here.
My daughter (8 years old) will be learning Etoys this summer, and when she's grown tired of that, Python.
The Navy did an exhaustive study of programming languages a little while back, and recommended Python as the best teaching language for high-school level computer programming.
I hope she doesn't stop there, but seeing as I haven't written any VIC-20 assembly, Apple ][ BASIC, or Turbo Pascal in nearly two decades, I don't think the languages are really what's important.
"I'm sorry ma'am, we don't call in prescriptions to that pharmacy, they sell the prescription data to pharmaceutical companies and we disagree with that policy. May I suggest Pharmacy Y, it's the next closest to your home?"
This description would better fit the terms 'Paleo-Conservative, Libertarian, or Classical Liberal' these days. 'Conservative' has come to mean corporatist, supportive of the military-industrial complex, and for big government to control people on moral issues and vices. Unfortunately, the Republican Party, on a national level, has become Conservative.
Um, in what way is "corporatist" not a philosophy of "limited scope of the federal government?"
Corporations are creations of government by definition. They don't exist without government protection.
Here's a limited government position: governments should not be in the business of creating and protecting corporations. See, that was easy, wasn't it?
Yeah, if only Congress had created a federal commission to regulate communication, instead of this mystery "FCC" organization!
Yeah, that's the problem - the Congress is not supposed to be allowed to give its powers to the Executive Branch - checks and balances and all. The country is rife with stories about regulators giving people a hard time and when they call their Congressmen there's basically nothing they can do about it. Representative government, right?
Sun/Oracle gives java away for free. Even if Google has infringed a patent, how has that resulted in any loss of money to Oracle?
As others have said, it doesn't matter, patents are monopolies backed by force - infringing the monopoly is sufficient.
But don't forget, this isn't about Java at all, it's about forcing Google into a cross-licensing deal on their database technology. Oracle's legacy databases are toast and they know it. SPARC buys them some time, but they really need Google's database patents, so they bought Sun to get Java to hit Google over the head with.
it is clear that we are nowhere near the densities required to achieve satisfactory results with light field imaging.
Density would just be one way to do it. Slice it up over time, add more sensors and split the light, use some of those 3D sensors, etc. Each of those has its own set of trade-offs, but we're just talking about time here. The VC's likely know that the sensor tech is poised to be right to eliminate those trade-offs, making now the right time to start the company and put out a 1.0 camera.
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If time is kept by atomic clocks that's not synchronized with the Earth's rotation then one day, Midnight could be when the Sun is high in the sky!
We can't have this! Think of the children! They'll learn that Noon is when the Sun is high in the sky only to see it pitch black!
You're right, even if accidentally. Time keeping that is meaningful for most humans is much more important than time that is meaningful for just a handful of computer operators and nuclear scientists. They need to stop being so ego-centric.
10 is an arbitrary base and works poorly for time. Earth time works very well in Base-12, which is what we have now.
If you want to think of the children, the Egyptians and Babylonians taught their children to count on the knuckles of their four non-thumb fingers. The 10-finger-number system is just an unfortunate thing that came along with arabic numerals, which are very useful.
I saw we adopt something from the UNICODE set to mean eleven and twelve. Say, they're not 1-teen and 2-teen, are they?
In 2012, a new definition of time that is only relative to the Earth's reference frame falls short.
In case the rest of you got your hopes us.
I wonder how many people are going to find a reason to complain about this?
I had a different take: "They're just now figuring out Skype is useful? I've been using it for years, and yet they have the temerity to tell me how to run my business?"
If it's this close you don't need much. A military satellite killer missile could make it up there, and those are ready to launch 10 minutes ago.
I wonder if they could be programmed to match orbits...
If you don't want to get flooded don't live on a fucking flood plain.
"Who cares, the government socializes the risks of my waterfront property."
Don't live north of the Mason-Dixon line or in the Rockies, since you may face blizzards, snowstorms, or other wintry conditions.
Snowstorms are just a chore, and an excuse to own an all-wheel drive vehicle.
Don't live far away from major cities, since the commute will contribute to global warming which may kill our children's children.
Commuting to a major city isn't any sort of requirement for a job. Those aside, I've got your list covered. I'm also beyond the splash models of a comet hitting the ocean, though I'll probably get some seismic damage in that situation.
Some people do consider risks before deciding where to live.
We manage two prestige advertising firms, one in Canberra and another down in Melbourne and the complaints are flowing, loud, and spitting from the mouth. But what's worse is, our customers are 100% right and they ain't shit all we can do.
What do you mean 'manage'? As in IT management? Surely, the concept of getting a couple new machines, trying the new version out for a while with a couple guinea-pig users, and then, providing that was successful, doing a staged roll-out was suggested to these clients?
Is this just theoretical or are people actually running kde on real phones/tablets?
I tried the plasma-netbook interface for my wife's new laptop and it's a complete trainwreck. I fiddled for two hours (really hard to configure and buggy) before going back to plasma-desktop and setting up Daisy as a left dock with a minimal top-edge activity panel and pinned items in the system tray.
Who calls their lawyer over an ordinary job contract
Wait, you want the employer to have a fully-considered [lawyer-written] contract to control the terms of the employment with the employee, but if the employee wants to have a level playing field, he's the one who's likely to take advantage of a given situation?
That attitude just leads to employees getting screwed. If the employer wants to hire on a handshake, that's fine by me, but if he puts a complex legal document in the employee's face, he's already lawyered-up.
Full disclosure: the contract I ask subcontractors to sign is less than two pages and can be understood by anybody qualified to do the job.
For those who can't be bothered to RTFA
Darn, I'd hoped from the title that there was live migration of running applications between phone and PC so getting back to the office was as easy as switching the current app over to the non-portable's VM. Oh, wait, this is still 2011, we don't have the displays for that mobile work yet. Nevermind folks, nothing to see here.
I'd ask the anonymous submitter to hand in their geek card, but I can't bring myself to believe they ever actually had one....
And yet some geeks get a bit of a thrill up their leg when millions of typical people rave about their new linux phones.
My daughter (8 years old) will be learning Etoys this summer, and when she's grown tired of that, Python.
The Navy did an exhaustive study of programming languages a little while back, and recommended Python as the best teaching language for high-school level computer programming.
I hope she doesn't stop there, but seeing as I haven't written any VIC-20 assembly, Apple ][ BASIC, or Turbo Pascal in nearly two decades, I don't think the languages are really what's important.
"I'm sorry ma'am, we don't call in prescriptions to that pharmacy, they sell the prescription data to pharmaceutical companies and we disagree with that policy. May I suggest Pharmacy Y, it's the next closest to your home?"
This description would better fit the terms 'Paleo-Conservative, Libertarian, or Classical Liberal' these days. 'Conservative' has come to mean corporatist, supportive of the military-industrial complex, and for big government to control people on moral issues and vices. Unfortunately, the Republican Party, on a national level, has become Conservative.
Um, in what way is "corporatist" not a philosophy of "limited scope of the federal government?"
Corporations are creations of government by definition. They don't exist without government protection.
Here's a limited government position: governments should not be in the business of creating and protecting corporations. See, that was easy, wasn't it?
they won't, because they only care about states rights when a dem is in office.
Ummm... what am I missing here?
careful with that Matrix - you break it, you buy it.
. IE didn't need an anti-trust suit to reduce its marketshare.
IE was a blood sacrifice to avoid getting broken into two companies, one for Windows, one for Office.
Yeah, if only Congress had created a federal commission to regulate communication, instead of this mystery "FCC" organization!
Yeah, that's the problem - the Congress is not supposed to be allowed to give its powers to the Executive Branch - checks and balances and all. The country is rife with stories about regulators giving people a hard time and when they call their Congressmen there's basically nothing they can do about it. Representative government, right?
Sun/Oracle gives java away for free. Even if Google has infringed a patent, how has that resulted in any loss of money to Oracle?
As others have said, it doesn't matter, patents are monopolies backed by force - infringing the monopoly is sufficient.
But don't forget, this isn't about Java at all, it's about forcing Google into a cross-licensing deal on their database technology. Oracle's legacy databases are toast and they know it. SPARC buys them some time, but they really need Google's database patents, so they bought Sun to get Java to hit Google over the head with.
I know a guy who was working on 60Mbps video over Internet2 about 5 years ago. All the tech is ready, it's simply a matter of bandwidth.
The FCC is supposed to be regulating the telcos, not the People. That's supposed to take an Act of Congress.
We already have fraud statutes - they should be used.
it is clear that we are nowhere near the densities required to achieve satisfactory results with light field imaging.
Density would just be one way to do it. Slice it up over time, add more sensors and split the light, use some of those 3D sensors, etc. Each of those has its own set of trade-offs, but we're just talking about time here. The VC's likely know that the sensor tech is poised to be right to eliminate those trade-offs, making now the right time to start the company and put out a 1.0 camera.