And you have the information to back up this "often" claim, besides the one example you claim?
I know a guy who worked for a number of years for Reuters as a communications tech in war zones all over the world, and he never "worked both sides" whatever that means to you but whose life was endangered on a number of occasions. He was paid for it and he accepted the possible consequences. However, he, along with I would suspect are the majority of Reuters employees, did not work for for Hezbollah, and didn't, as you appear to suggest, deserve a couple of 30mm shells for doing his job.
Since this is the Internet, though, people who disagree with you of course deserve death, I suppose.
How many times have you been in Earth orbit...? Atlantis wins.
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>Scroogle has access to the exact same information Google would have had you used Google
Wrong. The reason people that don't just walk around cluelessly believing everything people tell them are concerned about Google is that it continuously is trying to be the Panopticon. It's not just your search history, that's a tiny part of what they do now. It's Google Analytics, it's watching what you're watching on YouTube, their (pathetic) attempt to muscle into social networking with Buzz, the emails they have full access to via Gmail, etc. It's not because they want to "improve your search experience". They want a full profile on you so they can sell you as a package to advertisers.
Even setting aside concerns about oppressive governments getting their hands on this data, do you really want advertisers to have this data in detail? For example, Amazon already uses differential pricing. If a retailer knows you are super keen on a particular genre, they may provide you with *higher* pricing than other people because they are reasonably sure you'll pay. I don't want to hand over negotiating leverage to a party that already has way more information than I do.
Richard Branson should be thrown directly into the goddamned volcano for being an annoying git. It's doubtful that even 2000 deg F magma could damage his ego, however.
It didn't look like a shockwave to me from the start, as the name implies, it would be visible as a very sharp, immediate disturbance, not a bunch of ripples. Actually, would have been really cool if it *had* gone supersonic in that cloud layer.
I test WinMo phones with our client software extensively, on multiple platforms, and it is by far the most unstable. Basically, it's BB > iPhone > Symbian > WinMo 6 in terms of platform stability. If Redmond can deliver the same improvement in this that they did with Win 7 desktop, they have a chance. Possibly. Unlike in desktop, where they had an effective monopoly, the handset marketplace is very competitive. If they screw this up, they'll be baked for good.
So it's basically a 5% savings, which is hardly worth a/. article. Also, given Google's model, people neglect the fact that the 5% difference is still worthwhile to T-Mo to keep subscribers off AT&T. Although since Google cleverly made the phone only capable of 3G on T-Mo, it's effectively locked to them (in the US).
I'm really baffled at all of the noise about the Nexus, it's got a couple of nice features, but nothing you would call revolutionary, it's priced the same, and has the same kinds of usage restrictions. It's not surprising that its sales have been much lower than iPhone or Droid in the same immediate post-launch period. The real question is what Google actually thought it was trying to achieve here, apart from practicing selling and supporting a mobile phone.
> The reason why Google offers public DNS servers and why they came up with this is because they want to make the internet faster for everyone.
BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA...Yes, Google only wants rainbows and ponies for ALL the good children!
My good AC, I actually think you aren't a Google astroturf, but how naive can this be? Google is a public corporation whose fiduciary duty is to make money for their shareholders, not make the intertubes flow more smoothly, unless that causes Google to make more money.
Google's beef with China was that China ripped off Google source code. Before this, they had no problems at all turning over email of human rights activists and censoring results in China. Their newfound interest in Chinese information freedom is the result of their rage at being made to look stupid and weak by the Chinese government.
I'd filter the guy, but looks like he posted half the stories today. Seriously,/. kind of has jumped the shark a while ago, they are seriously in need of some competition. The laziness level is getting astronomical.
That's why they are really mad. If it was just a few human rights activists that got hacked, jacked, and sent to prison for 10 years in China, Brin and the boys wouldn't have batted an eye.
LOL,this AC has posted about 10 times in this thread.
Opera is an excellent browser overall, and they are way ahead of Mozilla specifically on small footprint devices like consoles and handsets. This was a good strategic move and while I haven't used Fennec, I suspect that Opera will rise as the smartphone market continues to develop. On Nokia devices, Opera is my default browser.
That said, their fanbois are massive fail. One reason Opera has issues with mindshare is that it seems that most of its users' approach to promoting their platform is:
"Your browser does x? Pah, Opera did that back in 1978 on punch card, you're a LOSER for not using the Pioneer Of All Things Browser". My feeling then is, 'Gee, if I start using Opera, I might also turn into a massive message board tool...back to Firefox!'
Also, if legacy counted for anything, Firefox is the heir of Netscape, which antedates Opera and thus Opera is just a johnny-come-lately to this whole WWW thing. Killer apps? NoScript + AdBlock Plus. Deliver that functionality with the same ease of use in a browser that doesn't come from the New Evil Empire, and I'll consider switching. So far, Opera is still no go there, those two apps on FF are still superior.
>Human babies are one of the only mammals that can't walk soon after birth
Eh? No. Cf. Genus Canis, Genus Felis. Many carnivore species give birth to helpless young. Herbivore species need mobile young to save them from the carnivores.
Stupid or not, one can think of it as a Freudian slip, or maybe his 'Tiger moment'. Google clearly has inflated its corporate ego to Galactic size. They assume (with some justification at the moment) that they can do as they please because they are too big, smart, and rich to have to worry about repercussions. So now they even baldly state where they are coming from, because they think it doesn't matter.
The only reason anyone is talking about this is because of Arrington's relentless zeal for self-promotion. I never thought this thing was going to happen, and in regard to keeping Arrington's name in circulation, it was a smashing success. The only thing missing from this soap opera is that Google/Microsoft/Apple diabolically combined with SMERSH to stop the CrunchPud before it could lead to world peace.
So, they're avoiding the problem of confining the plasma, which clearly is impossible with a 1G K plasma without it being inside a supergiant star. However, Todd Rider's excellent, albeit depressing, papers on this topic seem open and shut on the prospects of generating net power out of a non-equilibrium reactor. Particularly with the p-B reaction, you lose all the net power to brehmstrahllung.
Lerner has done good PR, and I suspect he means well, but he's wasting his time. There isn't a magic reactor, dense or otherwise focused that will evade the physics.
The Castle Bravo test shot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) was one of the largest thermonuclear detonations ever, with an estimated yield of 15-22 MT. The blast crater from Bravo was 2000m in diameter and 75m deep. Assuming it was square because I'm too lazy for math today, that's about 300,000 cubic meters. Assuming that this was blasted in solid granite (http://www.allmeasures.com/Formulae/static/materials/32/density.htm) you get about 780k metric tons.
However, most of this material wasn't vaporized, it was pulverized by the shock wave and propelled as a solid into the mushroom cloud. The actual quantity of material melted I wouldn't hazard to estimate, but it was a small proportion of the overall material excavated.
Much as in the "it's raining rocks!" planet, this precipitation would be much closer in form to dust, not "pebbles". One of the reason that water on earth comes in larger forms is that the water molecule has a charge, and will aggregate electrostatically. I don't think that would be true of this silicate cloud.
Firewire remains a firm part of the Mac environment. Apple has recently started to de-emphasize it, in part because things like USB 3.0 are coming, and are "good enough", not to mention much cheaper. The original iPod had Firewire, for example, but quickly went to USB once USB 2.0 widely deployed.
So I also wrote Firewire drivers once upon a time, and know a little bit about it. The uncorrected data stream you are talking about is the isochronous transfer mode of Firewire, that isn't used for storage devices, because as you observe, that would be unusable for a storage device. You don't have to use that for a camera, either, by the way, it was intended for applications like live camera feeds that can accept lossy output.
Finally, real-world throughput, at least with disks? FW400 > USB2, almost always on the Mac. Could be drivers, could be chipsets, but despite the theoretically lower raw bit speed, Firewire is always faster for bulk transfer. And FW800 beats USB2 like Tyson on Glass Jaw Joe.
So I would just as soon have a single common interface to simplify everyone's life, and I for one welcome our new USB3 overlord if it gives me decent throughput.
Yeah, the multiple answers idea occurred to me later. I'm actually not talking about deliberate garbage answers, just people getting it wrong, and if it is badly scanned, etc. you will get multiple answers for the unknown text, and possibly not 100:1, but maybe 2 answers that 100:90 or something of that order - you still don't know which is more correct. Or maybe because of the nature of the image, the vast majority of people may actually converge on a wrong answer.
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And you have the information to back up this "often" claim, besides the one example you claim?
I know a guy who worked for a number of years for Reuters as a communications tech in war zones all over the world, and he never "worked both sides" whatever that means to you but whose life was endangered on a number of occasions. He was paid for it and he accepted the possible consequences. However, he, along with I would suspect are the majority of Reuters employees, did not work for for Hezbollah, and didn't, as you appear to suggest, deserve a couple of 30mm shells for doing his job.
Since this is the Internet, though, people who disagree with you of course deserve death, I suppose.
How many times have you been in Earth orbit...? Atlantis wins.
>Scroogle has access to the exact same information Google would have had you used Google
Wrong. The reason people that don't just walk around cluelessly believing everything people tell them are concerned about Google is that it continuously is trying to be the Panopticon. It's not just your search history, that's a tiny part of what they do now. It's Google Analytics, it's watching what you're watching on YouTube, their (pathetic) attempt to muscle into social networking with Buzz, the emails they have full access to via Gmail, etc. It's not because they want to "improve your search experience". They want a full profile on you so they can sell you as a package to advertisers.
Even setting aside concerns about oppressive governments getting their hands on this data, do you really want advertisers to have this data in detail? For example, Amazon already uses differential pricing. If a retailer knows you are super keen on a particular genre, they may provide you with *higher* pricing than other people because they are reasonably sure you'll pay. I don't want to hand over negotiating leverage to a party that already has way more information than I do.
Done.
http://www.googlesharing.net/
Richard Branson should be thrown directly into the goddamned volcano for being an annoying git. It's doubtful that even 2000 deg F magma could damage his ego, however.
Unfortunately, we're down to movies and high-speed pizza delivery at this point.
Another video of the launch with clean audio. Rocket isn't supersonic until roughly 2 minutes after launch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFWq7gcj2E&feature=fvw
It didn't look like a shockwave to me from the start, as the name implies, it would be visible as a very sharp, immediate disturbance, not a bunch of ripples. Actually, would have been really cool if it *had* gone supersonic in that cloud layer.
I test WinMo phones with our client software extensively, on multiple platforms, and it is by far the most unstable. Basically, it's BB > iPhone > Symbian > WinMo 6 in terms of platform stability. If Redmond can deliver the same improvement in this that they did with Win 7 desktop, they have a chance. Possibly. Unlike in desktop, where they had an effective monopoly, the handset marketplace is very competitive. If they screw this up, they'll be baked for good.
...this is a recipe for universal worldwide hilarity.
So it's basically a 5% savings, which is hardly worth a /. article. Also, given Google's model, people neglect the fact that the 5% difference is still worthwhile to T-Mo to keep subscribers off AT&T. Although since Google cleverly made the phone only capable of 3G on T-Mo, it's effectively locked to them (in the US).
I'm really baffled at all of the noise about the Nexus, it's got a couple of nice features, but nothing you would call revolutionary, it's priced the same, and has the same kinds of usage restrictions. It's not surprising that its sales have been much lower than iPhone or Droid in the same immediate post-launch period. The real question is what Google actually thought it was trying to achieve here, apart from practicing selling and supporting a mobile phone.
> The reason why Google offers public DNS servers and why they came up with this is because they want to make the internet faster for everyone.
BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA...Yes, Google only wants rainbows and ponies for ALL the good children!
My good AC, I actually think you aren't a Google astroturf, but how naive can this be? Google is a public corporation whose fiduciary duty is to make money for their shareholders, not make the intertubes flow more smoothly, unless that causes Google to make more money.
Google's beef with China was that China ripped off Google source code. Before this, they had no problems at all turning over email of human rights activists and censoring results in China. Their newfound interest in Chinese information freedom is the result of their rage at being made to look stupid and weak by the Chinese government.
I'd filter the guy, but looks like he posted half the stories today. Seriously, /. kind of has jumped the shark a while ago, they are seriously in need of some competition. The laziness level is getting astronomical.
That's why they are really mad. If it was just a few human rights activists that got hacked, jacked, and sent to prison for 10 years in China, Brin and the boys wouldn't have batted an eye.
LOL,this AC has posted about 10 times in this thread.
Opera is an excellent browser overall, and they are way ahead of Mozilla specifically on small footprint devices like consoles and handsets. This was a good strategic move and while I haven't used Fennec, I suspect that Opera will rise as the smartphone market continues to develop. On Nokia devices, Opera is my default browser.
That said, their fanbois are massive fail. One reason Opera has issues with mindshare is that it seems that most of its users' approach to promoting their platform is:
"Your browser does x? Pah, Opera did that back in 1978 on punch card, you're a LOSER for not using the Pioneer Of All Things Browser". My feeling then is, 'Gee, if I start using Opera, I might also turn into a massive message board tool...back to Firefox!'
Also, if legacy counted for anything, Firefox is the heir of Netscape, which antedates Opera and thus Opera is just a johnny-come-lately to this whole WWW thing.
Killer apps? NoScript + AdBlock Plus. Deliver that functionality with the same ease of use in a browser that doesn't come from the New Evil Empire, and I'll consider switching. So far, Opera is still no go there, those two apps on FF are still superior.
>Human babies are one of the only mammals that can't walk soon after birth
Eh? No. Cf. Genus Canis, Genus Felis. Many carnivore species give birth to helpless young. Herbivore species need mobile young to save them from the carnivores.
Stupid or not, one can think of it as a Freudian slip, or maybe his 'Tiger moment'. Google clearly has inflated its corporate ego to Galactic size. They assume (with some justification at the moment) that they can do as they please because they are too big, smart, and rich to have to worry about repercussions. So now they even baldly state where they are coming from, because they think it doesn't matter.
The only reason anyone is talking about this is because of Arrington's relentless zeal for self-promotion. I never thought this thing was going to happen, and in regard to keeping Arrington's name in circulation, it was a smashing success. The only thing missing from this soap opera is that Google/Microsoft/Apple diabolically combined with SMERSH to stop the CrunchPud before it could lead to world peace.
Special upgrade pricing - 25% off with trade-in of your old rat.
So, they're avoiding the problem of confining the plasma, which clearly is impossible with a 1G K plasma without it being inside a supergiant star. However, Todd Rider's excellent, albeit depressing, papers on this topic seem open and shut on the prospects of generating net power out of a non-equilibrium reactor. Particularly with the p-B reaction, you lose all the net power to brehmstrahllung.
Lerner has done good PR, and I suspect he means well, but he's wasting his time. There isn't a magic reactor, dense or otherwise focused that will evade the physics.
Links to the Rider's papers on this topic at following link.
http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?bn=fusor_future&key=1181660470
Listen to the Tech Sgt. - BERYLLIUM sphere. You'll never achieve useful warp with just a nickel sphere.
If only the football team could manage this kind of production....
Yeah, I was even lazier than I thought :/ You're right, its more like 300 megatons using my approximation.
Some hyperbole here.
The Castle Bravo test shot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) was one of the largest thermonuclear detonations ever, with an estimated yield of 15-22 MT. The blast crater from Bravo was 2000m in diameter and 75m deep. Assuming it was square because I'm too lazy for math today, that's about 300,000 cubic meters. Assuming that this was blasted in solid granite (http://www.allmeasures.com/Formulae/static/materials/32/density.htm) you get about 780k metric tons.
However, most of this material wasn't vaporized, it was pulverized by the shock wave and propelled as a solid into the mushroom cloud. The actual quantity of material melted I wouldn't hazard to estimate, but it was a small proportion of the overall material excavated.
Much as in the "it's raining rocks!" planet, this precipitation would be much closer in form to dust, not "pebbles". One of the reason that water on earth comes in larger forms is that the water molecule has a charge, and will aggregate electrostatically. I don't think that would be true of this silicate cloud.
Sigh. PC guys.
Firewire remains a firm part of the Mac environment. Apple has recently started to de-emphasize it, in part because things like USB 3.0 are coming, and are "good enough", not to mention much cheaper. The original iPod had Firewire, for example, but quickly went to USB once USB 2.0 widely deployed.
So I also wrote Firewire drivers once upon a time, and know a little bit about it. The uncorrected data stream you are talking about is the isochronous transfer mode of Firewire, that isn't used for storage devices, because as you observe, that would be unusable for a storage device. You don't have to use that for a camera, either, by the way, it was intended for applications like live camera feeds that can accept lossy output.
Finally, real-world throughput, at least with disks? FW400 > USB2, almost always on the Mac. Could be drivers, could be chipsets, but despite the theoretically lower raw bit speed, Firewire is always faster for bulk transfer. And FW800 beats USB2 like Tyson on Glass Jaw Joe.
So I would just as soon have a single common interface to simplify everyone's life, and I for one welcome our new USB3 overlord if it gives me decent throughput.
Yeah, the multiple answers idea occurred to me later. I'm actually not talking about deliberate garbage answers, just people getting it wrong, and if it is badly scanned, etc. you will get multiple answers for the unknown text, and possibly not 100:1, but maybe 2 answers that 100:90 or something of that order - you still don't know which is more correct. Or maybe because of the nature of the image, the vast majority of people may actually converge on a wrong answer.