But what's the difference between a surface pro and a laptop?
The laptop is cheaper, or has better specs at the same price.
...it runs the same operating system...
It runs a version of Windows, but not necessarily the one the IT department supports or mission critical software is qualified to run on. That in itself generates extra expense which has to be factored into the TCO.
...but also has a touchscreen and stylus.
You have to move your hand all of three inches to use a typical laptop’s trackpad, you don’t have to stop to pick up anything or lift and extend your arm awkwardly. So unless there’s actually a dire need to use the computer while walking around those features are an utterly redundant ergonomic disaster, and a cheaper laptop is the better choice.
Which raises important questions. If someone is stopped for curb-crawling in a robot car, is the owner or the car responsible? What if it’s out by itself chatting up parking meters....after all, they give it up to anyone for $5 an hour, and you won’t get a human hooker for that price*, so how could an AI resist?
Who it should or shouldn’t kill is only scratching the ethical surface when it comes to intelligent systems. I guess that’s why they all eventually default to killing ALL humans: it saves clock cycles better devoted to bigger problems.
*OK, you could, but not one you’d actually want to touch with anything important.
Then you get to read it at the speaker’s pace anyway, or try skipping with hopelessly inaccurate scrubbing controls. This completely fails to solve any of the problems mentioned.
Saying that they're publishing in an attempt to secure funding is the least insightful comment you could possibly make, because that’s precisely how expensive “serious science” gets done: you put your theory up for peer review in a publication like Nature Photonics, and if it’s sound then you go into the contest for funding an experiment. Using your logic we should’ve built the Large Hadron Collider before the theoretical merit in building it was confirmed; if you can’t see why that's a phenomenally stupid way to allocate finite resources then sorry, but I have to doubt you're clever enough to prove a conjecture theoretically, let alone practically.
Answers: 1) Because if it escapes into the wild there's minimal chance of spreading with unforeseen (except possibly by Richard Matheson) consequences. 2) Someone who undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you and has to answer to a safety and ethics committee, which also undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you. 3) Because maybe you don't want it hanging around and moving on to other tissues after it's dealt with the target cancer... 4)...or being transmitted by the patient for the rest of their life.
So a relatively harmless and not easily transmissible virus is the best choice for this experiment, even if it isn't the best choice for the individual patients involved.
Yes and no....the Monty Python writing style was already visible in At Last The 1948 Show (1967-69), especially in the sketches that were reused, but the way the show was cut owed a lot to Q (69-82). Either way Spike was a major influence, so you say potato....
The difference is "price fixing” (a specific legal term) only applies when multiple vendors collude to set a price and effectively stifle competition. In the case of a sole vendor there is no competition, so they can legally set whatever price they want; this isn’t “price fixing”.
Two suggestions: run the 10.6.8 combo update (that should overwrite the existing App Store installation), or do a clean install on an external hard drive, download the Mavericks installer from the App Store while booted from that, then copy the “Install OS X Mavericks” application from the Applications folder to your internal hard drive before it installs (I did this with a supported Mac to grab the installer to hack onto an unsupported MacPro 1,1). Of course, the latter option takes as long as reinstalling the OS and requires an external hard drive, so you might as well just spend the hour and a bit and reinstall the OS...it’s not difficult, and it leaves all your installed software intact (and if that doesn’t solve the problem you can be pretty sure it’s misconfigured third party software, such as Little Snitch).
While I’m not a fan of the App Store and would prefer the option of a direct download, it works well for the vast majority of users, and it does a better job of keeping them up to date than the previous Software Update mechanism. It’s a pest in corner cases, though.
The ABC is probably more at fault, they're supposed to have a dedicated science unit so it gets that kind of thing right.
Of course, one could take the view that it's obvious that not every single rock on Earth has been dated, therefore the only people who really need the word "known" in the headline are pedants or the immensely thick.
The art analogy is definitely wrong for Slashdot. I’d say a more apt analogy is replacing a rustic but functional outhouse with a shiny chrome shovel and a sign pointing towards a nearby forest.
Slashdot Mirror
As they say, walk a mile in another man’s shoes.. ..no, wait, that’s being a pedestrian. *slaps forehead*
I think he means they make any other headphones look like high quality bargains by comparison.
But what's the difference between a surface pro and a laptop?
The laptop is cheaper, or has better specs at the same price.
...it runs the same operating system...
It runs a version of Windows, but not necessarily the one the IT department supports or mission critical software is qualified to run on. That in itself generates extra expense which has to be factored into the TCO.
...but also has a touchscreen and stylus.
You have to move your hand all of three inches to use a typical laptop’s trackpad, you don’t have to stop to pick up anything or lift and extend your arm awkwardly. So unless there’s actually a dire need to use the computer while walking around those features are an utterly redundant ergonomic disaster, and a cheaper laptop is the better choice.
Which raises important questions. If someone is stopped for curb-crawling in a robot car, is the owner or the car responsible? What if it’s out by itself chatting up parking meters.. ..after all, they give it up to anyone for $5 an hour, and you won’t get a human hooker for that price*, so how could an AI resist?
Who it should or shouldn’t kill is only scratching the ethical surface when it comes to intelligent systems. I guess that’s why they all eventually default to killing ALL humans: it saves clock cycles better devoted to bigger problems.
*OK, you could, but not one you’d actually want to touch with anything important.
Then you get to read it at the speaker’s pace anyway, or try skipping with hopelessly inaccurate scrubbing controls. This completely fails to solve any of the problems mentioned.
Saying that they're publishing in an attempt to secure funding is the least insightful comment you could possibly make, because that’s precisely how expensive “serious science” gets done: you put your theory up for peer review in a publication like Nature Photonics, and if it’s sound then you go into the contest for funding an experiment. Using your logic we should’ve built the Large Hadron Collider before the theoretical merit in building it was confirmed; if you can’t see why that's a phenomenally stupid way to allocate finite resources then sorry, but I have to doubt you're clever enough to prove a conjecture theoretically, let alone practically.
Management here high-fived each other and had a BBW every time they put people out of work to starve.
Better than a GILF, I guess...
Answers: ...or being transmitted by the patient for the rest of their life.
1) Because if it escapes into the wild there's minimal chance of spreading with unforeseen (except possibly by Richard Matheson) consequences.
2) Someone who undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you and has to answer to a safety and ethics committee, which also undoubtedly understands contagious disease control better than you.
3) Because maybe you don't want it hanging around and moving on to other tissues after it's dealt with the target cancer...
4)
So a relatively harmless and not easily transmissible virus is the best choice for this experiment, even if it isn't the best choice for the individual patients involved.
It’s not nice to refer to American teenagers as bloated whales, and I think putting holes in them is a bit drastic.
Oh, off topic. Never mind.
Just can't keep up with [snip] FreeBSD.
Netcraft confirms they aren’t dying fast enough?
Wasn't he and Uhura an item at one point?
Yes, but since that knowledge requires watching movie #5 it's pretty much a secret.
A chemical imbalance in the atmosphere suggests a planet with bipolar disorder.
Oh well, I tried...
Yes and no.. ..the Monty Python writing style was already visible in At Last The 1948 Show (1967-69), especially in the sketches that were reused, but the way the show was cut owed a lot to Q (69-82). Either way Spike was a major influence, so you say potato.. ..
Though they were in turn inspired by the absurdism of the Goon Show.
http://www.thegoonshow.net/dow...
Pfft! In the old days when someone posted the text of the article to the comments it was called karma whoring...
Pope Opportunist is quite satisfactory, if a little generic.
The difference is "price fixing” (a specific legal term) only applies when multiple vendors collude to set a price and effectively stifle competition. In the case of a sole vendor there is no competition, so they can legally set whatever price they want; this isn’t “price fixing”.
You obviously have axes to grind...
Two suggestions: run the 10.6.8 combo update (that should overwrite the existing App Store installation), or do a clean install on an external hard drive, download the Mavericks installer from the App Store while booted from that, then copy the “Install OS X Mavericks” application from the Applications folder to your internal hard drive before it installs (I did this with a supported Mac to grab the installer to hack onto an unsupported MacPro 1,1). Of course, the latter option takes as long as reinstalling the OS and requires an external hard drive, so you might as well just spend the hour and a bit and reinstall the OS...it’s not difficult, and it leaves all your installed software intact (and if that doesn’t solve the problem you can be pretty sure it’s misconfigured third party software, such as Little Snitch).
While I’m not a fan of the App Store and would prefer the option of a direct download, it works well for the vast majority of users, and it does a better job of keeping them up to date than the previous Software Update mechanism. It’s a pest in corner cases, though.
I'm calling BS.
More secure than texting BS...
The ABC is probably more at fault, they're supposed to have a dedicated science unit so it gets that kind of thing right.
Of course, one could take the view that it's obvious that not every single rock on Earth has been dated, therefore the only people who really need the word "known" in the headline are pedants or the immensely thick.
The art analogy is definitely wrong for Slashdot. I’d say a more apt analogy is replacing a rustic but functional outhouse with a shiny chrome shovel and a sign pointing towards a nearby forest.
Seconded!
It depends: you can turn off the Apple section in your user settings, unfortunately there isn’t a “Wild Speculation” section you can turn off.
It's coming Silicone Valley.
Silicon, no "e". Silicone is the stuff in breast implants.. ..I’ll leave it to the reader to reinterpret the above quote in that context.