Why is paraphrasing the first sentence of the article (while attempting to contradict something that GP didn't actually say) modded informative?
Here's how it works: most articles have 3-4 actual interesting facts in them. They get extracted and modded up so we don't have to read the article. That saves about 50,000 nerd-hours per day.
To be fair, this incident sounds like it involved a prototype, ruggedized, off-road version of a Segway, not the production versions meant for use on sidewalks and roads.
Assuming there was a datalogger on the thing, and it survived, I wonder if we'll find out in a few months' that some commonly-decried programming error threw the balance off and tossed the guy off the cliff.
Or if we will hear that there was a GPS on-board and there was a disgruntled employee.
As usual, the price of incandescent light bulbs does not include the negative externalities their use implies
Only because of weak property rights.
I go through lots of contact lenses in the summer when the mid-west coal smoke blows up here like a fog. I can't recover my costs against the producers as the courts don't recognize my rights against pollution of my airspace.
The best way is to get that flash off the camera... but if you cant, as would be the case with an iphone... it is best to bounce it by redirecting the flash onto a wall to the left, right if you can, or ceiling. Generally up and to the rigth and left work well, as it forces light to bounce off the wall, which in effect makes the wall a large light source.
Simple - you bump two iPhones in "flash buddy mode" - from that point use the accelerometers to determine their relative positions, and have the first signal the second one via bluetooth to flash. The first one can tell the user, "no, point it down a bit" to get the direction correct as the current geometry of each phone are dynamically updated in the controlling unit's 3d scene model (I presume the autofocus has already determined the distance to the subjects).
On the contrary; it copes very well with lossy network connections
I suspect this is going for Funny, but just in case: the basic problem is that TCP congestion control sees a lossy network as busy and backs off on transmission speed.
It's an open research topic, and currently handled in L2 on mobile networks since TCP can't cope.
I hope you win. My daughter's school (government run) is mandating these kind of background checks if you want to come in and teach. I do at other schools, but not hers, which is sad.
You can read the long and not very interesting interview but if you can believe anything Zuckerberg says, they're building a framework for mobile devices that lets apps hook into the FB social network. They don't have the time to build their own OS, so it'll probably be on Android.
They wish everything supported HTML5 so they could stop writing platform-specific apps, but recognize the realities of the market.
It was a couple days ago, but that seems to be all I got out of it.
Yeah, it's just if you're at a desk (or a tray table) you don't have to have lugged a keyboard with you - I used one with my Treo 650 for a little while - it was a bigger slow keyboard to Treo's small slow keyboard. It looks like ThinkGeek isn't carrying them anymore; if somebody really needs one drop me a line, I'll part with mine for the first hundred bucks.
I try not to pay close attention to regionaliz(s?)ations in English - technology is breaking down our barriers. spelt should win this one as it's much easier to pronounce.
I refuse to click on any "shortened" link, because I want to know PRECISELY where I'm going to end up.
Do you view the HTML source or DOM tree before clicking a link? Because where it looks like you're going is easy enough to fake if you control the HTML.
Or.. "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Click on Shortened URL's".
So if they have to wait a day or two to find out what happens that hurts them how, exactly?
Say you had a sister who had a baby and you didn't find out about the baby for a couple years. You might feel you've missed out. And that would be completely subjective.
Anybody know what the current state is of virtualization hardware support across the AMD line? I could certainly go look it up for these individual processors, but I'm curious to know, "all X's of the Y line have it".
I've been really happy with a couple recent builds I did with their 12-core parts, even at $750 each. Can these 6-core units handle dual-processor configs (clearly I'm just coming over to AMD from a long stint with Intel)?
I have learned to include "I think" or "in my opinion" on Slashdot, regardless of what the topic is.
As my English professor would have said, "of course you do; of course it is."
There's a point where you can paint a physics hypothesis or legal theory as fact when it's just conjecture, but if the subject is contextually open to interpretation, good debaters will understand this (there being no barrier to entry on Slashdot, of course).
The problem is getting it prosecuted and making the charges stick.
Yeah. Prosecutors make their careers out of this kind of behavior, so good luck getting a wolf to turn on the pack. One could argue that the incentives are entirely in conflict with the ideals of Justice.
In some States citizens may bring misdemeanor-level criminal charges.
There are a lot of things about rotor aircraft that until recently have been way too complex to model.
How recently? Are we due for a big advance in rotorcraft in the near future due to new understanding, or is this a "we finally know why aspirin works" kind of discovery?
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I am not holding my breath, though.
Kids who trade whole BluRay rips online today will be wearing BluBlockers by then - there maybe hope yet.
LibreOffice? Seriously? What a horrid name. We're not French and the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil.
Hey, that's an opportunity - English lacks a proper word. Also, it's my new license plate.
And seeing how I'll park that car in my garage, the odds aren't too bad.
Why is paraphrasing the first sentence of the article (while attempting to contradict something that GP didn't actually say) modded informative?
Here's how it works: most articles have 3-4 actual interesting facts in them. They get extracted and modded up so we don't have to read the article. That saves about 50,000 nerd-hours per day.
To be fair, this incident sounds like it involved a prototype, ruggedized, off-road version of a Segway, not the production versions meant for use on sidewalks and roads.
Assuming there was a datalogger on the thing, and it survived, I wonder if we'll find out in a few months' that some commonly-decried programming error threw the balance off and tossed the guy off the cliff.
Or if we will hear that there was a GPS on-board and there was a disgruntled employee.
As usual, the price of incandescent light bulbs does not include the negative externalities their use implies
Only because of weak property rights.
I go through lots of contact lenses in the summer when the mid-west coal smoke blows up here like a fog. I can't recover my costs against the producers as the courts don't recognize my rights against pollution of my airspace.
The best way is to get that flash off the camera... but if you cant, as would be the case with an iphone... it is best to bounce it by redirecting the flash onto a wall to the left, right if you can, or ceiling. Generally up and to the rigth and left work well, as it forces light to bounce off the wall, which in effect makes the wall a large light source.
Simple - you bump two iPhones in "flash buddy mode" - from that point use the accelerometers to determine their relative positions, and have the first signal the second one via bluetooth to flash. The first one can tell the user, "no, point it down a bit" to get the direction correct as the current geometry of each phone are dynamically updated in the controlling unit's 3d scene model (I presume the autofocus has already determined the distance to the subjects).
On the contrary; it copes very well with lossy network connections
I suspect this is going for Funny, but just in case: the basic problem is that TCP congestion control sees a lossy network as busy and backs off on transmission speed.
It's an open research topic, and currently handled in L2 on mobile networks since TCP can't cope.
well-put.
I hope you win. My daughter's school (government run) is mandating these kind of background checks if you want to come in and teach. I do at other schools, but not hers, which is sad.
So? TCP/IP is 36 years old.
And can't even cope with lossy network connections (i.e. mobile).
You can read the long and not very interesting interview but if you can believe anything Zuckerberg says, they're building a framework for mobile devices that lets apps hook into the FB social network. They don't have the time to build their own OS, so it'll probably be on Android.
They wish everything supported HTML5 so they could stop writing platform-specific apps, but recognize the realities of the market.
It was a couple days ago, but that seems to be all I got out of it.
When I stated that I would prefer not to join, I was told it was a requirement.
Whose requirement?
Yeah, it's just if you're at a desk (or a tray table) you don't have to have lugged a keyboard with you - I used one with my Treo 650 for a little while - it was a bigger slow keyboard to Treo's small slow keyboard. It looks like ThinkGeek isn't carrying them anymore; if somebody really needs one drop me a line, I'll part with mine for the first hundred bucks.
Spelt is a valid and common spelling.
I try not to pay close attention to regionaliz(s?)ations in English - technology is breaking down our barriers. spelt should win this one as it's much easier to pronounce.
Well-played!
Seems OK here:
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(10)00938-4
so... I read the summary and they don't seem to say why this extra zinc is there in disease patients.
I refuse to click on any "shortened" link, because I want to know PRECISELY where I'm going to end up.
Do you view the HTML source or DOM tree before clicking a link? Because where it looks like you're going is easy enough to fake if you control the HTML.
Or.. "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Click on Shortened URL's".
So if they have to wait a day or two to find out what happens that hurts them how, exactly?
Say you had a sister who had a baby and you didn't find out about the baby for a couple years. You might feel you've missed out. And that would be completely subjective.
All the chips they continue to make support hardware virtualization except the Sempron's, and a few of those also support AMD-V.
That's exactly the kind of wisdom I was hoping to hear. Thanks!
I so enjoy helicopter flight, and after watching that video now have far more appreciation for the engineering involved!
Thanks for the detailed reply, I learned quite a bit.
Anybody know what the current state is of virtualization hardware support across the AMD line? I could certainly go look it up for these individual processors, but I'm curious to know, "all X's of the Y line have it".
I've been really happy with a couple recent builds I did with their 12-core parts, even at $750 each. Can these 6-core units handle dual-processor configs (clearly I'm just coming over to AMD from a long stint with Intel)?
I have learned to include "I think" or "in my opinion" on Slashdot, regardless of what the topic is.
As my English professor would have said, "of course you do; of course it is."
There's a point where you can paint a physics hypothesis or legal theory as fact when it's just conjecture, but if the subject is contextually open to interpretation, good debaters will understand this (there being no barrier to entry on Slashdot, of course).
The problem is getting it prosecuted and making the charges stick.
Yeah. Prosecutors make their careers out of this kind of behavior, so good luck getting a wolf to turn on the pack. One could argue that the incentives are entirely in conflict with the ideals of Justice.
In some States citizens may bring misdemeanor-level criminal charges.
There are a lot of things about rotor aircraft that until recently have been way too complex to model.
How recently? Are we due for a big advance in rotorcraft in the near future due to new understanding, or is this a "we finally know why aspirin works" kind of discovery?
That's true - so long as you don't spend any time near the reactor compartment or any nuclear weapons that may be onboard.
Alpha and beta are easy enough to shield - so they're leaking gamma?