Funny, that seems like the least challenging part of providing random individuals air transport for the same cost and as sustainably as ground transport, especially since we are talking about cities where walking and cycling are typically realistic options.
If it can emit a painful ultrasonic shriek, fire off an omni-directional microwave that makes your skin feel like it's on fire, or blink a bajillion-candle strobe in your face to temporarily blind you... then it's suddenly useful.
Or accidentally bump that laser "rangefinder" up several watts... hey, we were just trying to determine distance to target!
I can not identify an argument for "net neutrality", that would not also not apply to attempts to prioritize — such as by designating traffic lanes for them — buses, bicycles, cars with electronic toll-payment transponders, and even for emergency vehicles.
In fact, I suspect strongly, that, had the Internet-service provision been in government's hands already, the same people arguing for "net neutrality" today, would've been arguing for "sensible measures" to prioritize "special" traffic.
And vice versa — had private corporations been in charge of streets and highways, their attempts at prioritization would've attracted the same criticism currently hitting the ISPs.
Some neutralities are more neutral than others...
I've always viewed the entire net neutrality debate as a (hopefully) temporary sideshow while/until we fix the larger problem of lack of competition. The only reason (e.g.) Comcast is able to pull the shenanigans that they are is because we can't go anywhere else. Otherwise, if an ISP decided to slow down Netflix and try to extort money from them, their customers would just leave.
Apart from the bad grammar here, I wonder if the lack of apps is because Apple hasn't released sales figures. If a developer doesn't know the size of the market, the developer can't calculate how many people might try an app and thus can't estimate return on investment.
If Watch apps had been a good ROI, the early adopter devs would have made more apps and word would have spread. They don't need Apple to tell them how well their apps are doing or how much they're being used.
This is why OS architectures like Qubes are important. This is why Linux systems (and everything else) should work more like that. It is also why the principle of least authority needs to make its way out of textbooks and into real life.
When something that sounds great in a textbook never makes it to real life, there's usually a pretty good reason.
You mean how you can download the.deb package from the LibreOffice website, and double click on it to install it? You're right, that's such a huge, painful operation of cryptic commands that nobody could possibly remember.:-/
What a pain... I prefer the Windows way, where every program launches a system tray icon to burn CPU cycles checking their website for updates on their own schedule, then pester me at all times of the day to upgrade and reboot because I wasn't really doing anything important anyway (and of course, having to reboot to upgrade a userspace program just makes me feel safer).
"Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband"
C'mon, I know this is Slashdot, but that's quite a misleading title. "Move to allow states to block municipal broadband", or "Move to prevent FCC from blocking states from blocking municipal broadband" maybe, but they're not trying to outlaw it on a national level.
I dunno who this "David Wirth" is, but he should definitely rearrange his name to be "Darth Wivid". (Which is kinda what my brain saw anyway when I scanned the description...)
But sure, lets have "fun" and speculate about things that simply could not be just so as to pollute the waters with pseudo science until no one can discern the difference between real science and malarkey.
If, 1000 years ago, you had described an Internet-based smartphone or a manned moon mission or quantum teleportation to someone, it would have sounded just as batshit crazy to them as the scenario you describe sounds to us. Part of the fun of trying to imagine a civilization a million years more advanced than humans is that our minds can barely even grasp the concepts, much less how they'd be carried out.
Think of how much technological progress humans have made in the past 100 years. Where will we be 1,000,000 years from now? (Well, we probably will have destroyed the planet and wiped ourselves out, but still...)
For a contrarian view... I really don't understand why everyone thinks this movie was so well-made. I loved the book and was eagerly anticipating the movie, especially after all the reviews calling it a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller.
I didn't get any of the sense of impending danger and claustrophobia that I did from the book. Sure, he ran into some problems but he solved them so quickly there wasn't that "holy crap, what will he do now?" notion that his demise was always just around the corner.
(warning: spoilers) His trip to Schiaparelli crater was probably the biggest nail-biter in the book... the dust storm, the integrity of his makeshift "bedroom", whether or not all of the rover connectors & attached equipment would keep working, the danger of going down the "ramp" into the crater, and the overall sense of utter isolation as he made the months-long trip: it was all replaced by not much more than a screen wipe with his rover magically transported next to the MAV.
When he finally reached the MAV, after eating his meal "surviving something that should have killed me", then did his little victory dance and kissed the device as he arrived... that was such a huge moment and victory for him in the book. All gone from the movie so they could spend 15 minutes on a cheesy, completely invented recap scene at the end.
Oh, and the commander going out to personally retrieve him from the MAV? WTF???
I realize they had to make changes for the movie, but I thought it was all rather boring. My wife, who generally enjoys suspenseful movies but hadn't read the book, agreed.
By having a deeper understanding of knot, we may get a better handle on aspects of group theory which has very close connections to quantum mechanics and string theories.
So by studying knots we'll better understand strings? Science!
Keep moving, or you will get fired? Who is going to hire someone who keeps switching jobs constantly? I'm sure you will be modded to +5 Insightful though.
You obviously haven't been keeping an eye on the job market. There are plenty of places who are looking for 6-12 month contracts to get some new site up and running, or to staff up for some new initiative that may last a couple years then who knows. I've never stayed at any IT job for longer than 3 years, and I have never once had a single hiring manager bring that up as a negative.
The ones you want to work for understand how the market is these days. And believe me, it's a seller's market. Companies are dying to find good IT talent. They realize that "global sourcing" is more like "you get what you pay for" and they want good help quickly. They can't promise they'll still have that need 5 years from now -- who can? -- and don't want to waste each others' time pretending that's not the case.
Even if you did stay at the same place for years, you wouldn't earn what you're worth. They'll pay the new guys a lot more than your yearly increase. So work the system to your favor, and always be the new guy.
If you want to be able to retire at some point before you die, you need to be constantly looking for other job opportunities. Move up, move down, move laterally; it doesn't matter. Just keep moving or you'll be under the chopping block.
This, this, this. I've been trying to preach this to any of my IT peers who will listen for years now. Always have a Plan B. Keep in touch with local recruiters, get your name out there, know what jobs are available, and use that info to your advantage.
Even here in the Midwest where cost of living is much lower, I can go out and get a six-figure job on about a week's notice but that's because I've already done the legwork. Don't wait until you need a job before you start looking; there are plenty of them out there. Several times a month I have recruiters emailing to say "hey I know you're at XXX right now but there's an opportunity over here if you're interested..." Or start freelancing on the side.
Be "agile" about your career... some sprints are longer than others but you don't wait until one is finished to start planning for the next!
Android Wear devices can unlock your Android phone for you, so you don't have to enter your password/pin/pattern every time. This by itself is so compelling that I'd wear a smart bracelet with just this feature if it was available.
Android (4.1+?) can do that with any Bluetooth device -- your watch, your car, your home soundbar, any device that you trust is not likely to get stolen at the same time as your phone. I'm sure there are cheap fitness tracker bracelets out there with bluetooth that would do the trick if that's what you're looking for.
The leaked profile databases were MySQL, so not an all-Microsoft shop. I seem to recall comments from the hacker in some interview that they basically had a few "passwords.txt" files lying around.
You do raise some really good points (although I'm pretty sure I can think of at least a few friends who could go along w/ it), but the trust issue could be greatly mitigated by a video recording of the illicit agreement. If your friend tries to make off with all of it, you have evidence of their complicity.
It is rather baffling that this person didn't execute his plan any better. He should have had his friend buying lottery tickets every day for months beforehand.
Java is designed to be cross platform. In this case instead of targeting an operating system, you are targeting another virtual environment. While not perfect, it works much more often out of the box than WINE does.
.NET also targets a virtual environment, called the Common Language Runtime. It's the same concept as the JVM. There is absolutely no WINE involved with running Mono apps on other platforms; they run on a native implementation of the CLR on that platform.
Microsoft themselves only implemented the CLR on one platform, but that doesn't mean it wasn't also designed to be corss-platform. It even has means of querying the platform (usually via System.Environment) rather than assuming Windows-isms.
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Ah, a redundancy pun in a RAID discussion. Very clever.
Funny, that seems like the least challenging part of providing random individuals air transport for the same cost and as sustainably as ground transport, especially since we are talking about cities where walking and cycling are typically realistic options.
Trebuchet.
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The only thing a patient would have to do, in theory, is swallow — a bit like gulping down a spider to catch a wayward fly.
Probably not the most confidence-inducing analogy, as our childhood nursery rhymes have already taught us how that one turns out...
If it can emit a painful ultrasonic shriek, fire off an omni-directional microwave that makes your skin feel like it's on fire, or blink a bajillion-candle strobe in your face to temporarily blind you... then it's suddenly useful.
Or accidentally bump that laser "rangefinder" up several watts... hey, we were just trying to determine distance to target!
I can not identify an argument for "net neutrality", that would not also not apply to attempts to prioritize — such as by designating traffic lanes for them — buses, bicycles, cars with electronic toll-payment transponders, and even for emergency vehicles.
In fact, I suspect strongly, that, had the Internet-service provision been in government's hands already, the same people arguing for "net neutrality" today, would've been arguing for "sensible measures" to prioritize "special" traffic.
And vice versa — had private corporations been in charge of streets and highways, their attempts at prioritization would've attracted the same criticism currently hitting the ISPs.
Some neutralities are more neutral than others...
I've always viewed the entire net neutrality debate as a (hopefully) temporary sideshow while/until we fix the larger problem of lack of competition. The only reason (e.g.) Comcast is able to pull the shenanigans that they are is because we can't go anywhere else. Otherwise, if an ISP decided to slow down Netflix and try to extort money from them, their customers would just leave.
Hopefully, they get rid of .DS_Store while they're at it...
Larry also got really nonlinear
Which, ironically, was one of BitKeeper's primary strengths.
Apart from the bad grammar here, I wonder if the lack of apps is because Apple hasn't released sales figures. If a developer doesn't know the size of the market, the developer can't calculate how many people might try an app and thus can't estimate return on investment.
If Watch apps had been a good ROI, the early adopter devs would have made more apps and word would have spread. They don't need Apple to tell them how well their apps are doing or how much they're being used.
This is why OS architectures like Qubes are important. This is why Linux systems (and everything else) should work more like that. It is also why the principle of least authority needs to make its way out of textbooks and into real life.
When something that sounds great in a textbook never makes it to real life, there's usually a pretty good reason.
You mean how you can download the .deb package from the LibreOffice website, and double click on it to install it? You're right, that's such a huge, painful operation of cryptic commands that nobody could possibly remember. :-/
What a pain... I prefer the Windows way, where every program launches a system tray icon to burn CPU cycles checking their website for updates on their own schedule, then pester me at all times of the day to upgrade and reboot because I wasn't really doing anything important anyway (and of course, having to reboot to upgrade a userspace program just makes me feel safer).
"Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband"
C'mon, I know this is Slashdot, but that's quite a misleading title. "Move to allow states to block municipal broadband", or "Move to prevent FCC from blocking states from blocking municipal broadband" maybe, but they're not trying to outlaw it on a national level.
I dunno who this "David Wirth" is, but he should definitely rearrange his name to be "Darth Wivid". (Which is kinda what my brain saw anyway when I scanned the description...)
But sure, lets have "fun" and speculate about things that simply could not be just so as to pollute the waters with pseudo science until no one can discern the difference between real science and malarkey.
If, 1000 years ago, you had described an Internet-based smartphone or a manned moon mission or quantum teleportation to someone, it would have sounded just as batshit crazy to them as the scenario you describe sounds to us. Part of the fun of trying to imagine a civilization a million years more advanced than humans is that our minds can barely even grasp the concepts, much less how they'd be carried out.
Think of how much technological progress humans have made in the past 100 years. Where will we be 1,000,000 years from now? (Well, we probably will have destroyed the planet and wiped ourselves out, but still...)
For a contrarian view... I really don't understand why everyone thinks this movie was so well-made. I loved the book and was eagerly anticipating the movie, especially after all the reviews calling it a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller.
I didn't get any of the sense of impending danger and claustrophobia that I did from the book. Sure, he ran into some problems but he solved them so quickly there wasn't that "holy crap, what will he do now?" notion that his demise was always just around the corner.
(warning: spoilers) His trip to Schiaparelli crater was probably the biggest nail-biter in the book... the dust storm, the integrity of his makeshift "bedroom", whether or not all of the rover connectors & attached equipment would keep working, the danger of going down the "ramp" into the crater, and the overall sense of utter isolation as he made the months-long trip: it was all replaced by not much more than a screen wipe with his rover magically transported next to the MAV.
When he finally reached the MAV, after eating his meal "surviving something that should have killed me", then did his little victory dance and kissed the device as he arrived... that was such a huge moment and victory for him in the book. All gone from the movie so they could spend 15 minutes on a cheesy, completely invented recap scene at the end.
Oh, and the commander going out to personally retrieve him from the MAV? WTF???
I realize they had to make changes for the movie, but I thought it was all rather boring. My wife, who generally enjoys suspenseful movies but hadn't read the book, agreed.
Who to contact...
That's "whom to contact", as any 9th grader would tell you :D
By having a deeper understanding of knot, we may get a better handle on aspects of group theory which has very close connections to quantum mechanics and string theories.
So by studying knots we'll better understand strings? Science!
Keep moving, or you will get fired? Who is going to hire someone who keeps switching jobs constantly? I'm sure you will be modded to +5 Insightful though.
You obviously haven't been keeping an eye on the job market. There are plenty of places who are looking for 6-12 month contracts to get some new site up and running, or to staff up for some new initiative that may last a couple years then who knows. I've never stayed at any IT job for longer than 3 years, and I have never once had a single hiring manager bring that up as a negative.
The ones you want to work for understand how the market is these days. And believe me, it's a seller's market. Companies are dying to find good IT talent. They realize that "global sourcing" is more like "you get what you pay for" and they want good help quickly. They can't promise they'll still have that need 5 years from now -- who can? -- and don't want to waste each others' time pretending that's not the case.
Even if you did stay at the same place for years, you wouldn't earn what you're worth. They'll pay the new guys a lot more than your yearly increase. So work the system to your favor, and always be the new guy.
If you want to be able to retire at some point before you die, you need to be constantly looking for other job opportunities. Move up, move down, move laterally; it doesn't matter. Just keep moving or you'll be under the chopping block.
This, this, this. I've been trying to preach this to any of my IT peers who will listen for years now. Always have a Plan B. Keep in touch with local recruiters, get your name out there, know what jobs are available, and use that info to your advantage.
Even here in the Midwest where cost of living is much lower, I can go out and get a six-figure job on about a week's notice but that's because I've already done the legwork. Don't wait until you need a job before you start looking; there are plenty of them out there. Several times a month I have recruiters emailing to say "hey I know you're at XXX right now but there's an opportunity over here if you're interested..." Or start freelancing on the side.
Be "agile" about your career... some sprints are longer than others but you don't wait until one is finished to start planning for the next!
Android Wear devices can unlock your Android phone for you, so you don't have to enter your password/pin/pattern every time. This by itself is so compelling that I'd wear a smart bracelet with just this feature if it was available.
Android (4.1+?) can do that with any Bluetooth device -- your watch, your car, your home soundbar, any device that you trust is not likely to get stolen at the same time as your phone. I'm sure there are cheap fitness tracker bracelets out there with bluetooth that would do the trick if that's what you're looking for.
That's nice but did you ever find out what is the optimal way to jerk off all those people?
Haha nice.. too bad it'll be moderated as trolling by people who didn't watch the show.
The leaked profile databases were MySQL, so not an all-Microsoft shop. I seem to recall comments from the hacker in some interview that they basically had a few "passwords.txt" files lying around.
Please stop, Ethan. You make me want to amputate my brain.
Amputations are boring; you should excise it with a "superlaser".
...plus those who you can't trust
You do raise some really good points (although I'm pretty sure I can think of at least a few friends who could go along w/ it), but the trust issue could be greatly mitigated by a video recording of the illicit agreement. If your friend tries to make off with all of it, you have evidence of their complicity.
It is rather baffling that this person didn't execute his plan any better. He should have had his friend buying lottery tickets every day for months beforehand.
I grew up in Los Angles, and the first thing I thought of when I RTFM
Wait a minute, the give you a manual on how to live in Los Angeles? That actually makes a lot of sense.
Java is designed to be cross platform. In this case instead of targeting an operating system, you are targeting another virtual environment. While not perfect, it works much more often out of the box than WINE does.
.NET also targets a virtual environment, called the Common Language Runtime. It's the same concept as the JVM. There is absolutely no WINE involved with running Mono apps on other platforms; they run on a native implementation of the CLR on that platform.
Microsoft themselves only implemented the CLR on one platform, but that doesn't mean it wasn't also designed to be corss-platform. It even has means of querying the platform (usually via System.Environment) rather than assuming Windows-isms.