That advantage is going away and Amazon knows it. There have been several Slashdot articles on the topic. States want a cut of that business. To compensate, I understand that Amazon will be adding warehouses around every metropolitan area in the country so that they can implement same day shipping. They will have to start charging sales tax but they will be able to compete with the instant gratification advantage that B&M stores have.
... whose phone gets on this list by accident. Suddenly a good customer becomes a dirty criminal. I'm sure there will be no way to rectify the mistake.
Forget for a moment that people like to fly at night. There is not nearly enough energy density in sunlight for it to be useful for airlifting hundreds of people or tons of cargo. It's plain physics. The amount of energy needed to stay airborne is X, the amount of energy in sunlight over the area of a plane is Y. X is far larger than Y.
I was not a grad student in astrophysics, I was Electrical/Computer Systems Engineering, but I can attest that those hours DO have a detrimental effect on the mental health of the grad students. It happened to me. My work schedule was basically around the clock seven days a week. I was under a lot of pressure from school/work (same thing for me in those days) and from general lack of money. I was in a bad mood most of the time and my relationships soured. I began to feel isolated. I wasn't sleeping. My health started to suffer in a few areas, culminating in a hospital stay when I got mono and tried to work through it. Finally I had a run-in with the police that almost escalated to an arrest. I did still have to go to court for excessive traffic tickets. I had a mental breakdown. The next week my adviser came in and told me to write up my thesis and get out of there. It was a dark time.
Anyway, that letter coming from the school is very, very disappointing. I feel sorry for the students in that program that must now bear that extra pressure.
I don't understand how code versioning has to be coupled with deployment? You have no test environment, as you said... so just make releases and deploy them manually. Since you are going straight to production, you had better be there in person to roll it back if you screwed up. Right? So, SVN should be all you need...
The concept of distributing 24-bit studio recording data directly to consumers in order to get some kind of increase in sound quality has been thoroughly debunked. See this Slashdot article: Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless
I assume you are using AC on those lines, otherwise there would be no waves to "detect". Lines with enough power to cause a fatality can be detected by normal human beings. You could use the rug to build up some static electricity on your person, then place your arm hairs near the wires. You'd have to be very careful, but I think you could do it.
I must strongly disagree with this. Not only is this a closed platform, but (arguably) the biggest target application for the Pi is the consumption of digital media, which isn't particularly productive. Also they sell the hardware through RS which is a unfriendly, greedy company.
So from a low resolution picture on the Internet, you can tell that the technology in that demonstration aircraft is stolen from the West? Looking similar is meaningless.
Does it have the F-22's energy absorbing coatings? Probably not. Does it have the F-22's radar systems? Probably not. Does it have the F-22's vectored thrust? Hell no. Can it supercruise? I wouldn't bet on it.
Also, RIAA for technology piracy? You have got to be kidding me. With this kind of technology, governments deal in different terms, like "espionage" and "open warfare."
I didn't say broken or circumvented, I said "fail". "fail" as in they failed to protect humans as they were intended. Here is the most obvious example, and the one that most/.'ers are probably familiar with:
Humans have both the capability and the tendency to harm other human beings. Even good intentioned humans tend to make big mistakes that either directly or indirectly cause other humans to come to harm. By rule number one, robots may not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The other rules can be overridden by rule one. Therefore, the only way to fully protect humans is to remove their ability to interact at all with other humans. Lock them up. This is basically a removal of nearly all rights and freedoms -- and obviously is counter to the actual intention of the three laws.
Also, just FYI, Asimov created those laws to break them down. He wrote a whole collection of stories that examine how the "3 laws of robotics" can fail.
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That advantage is going away and Amazon knows it. There have been several Slashdot articles on the topic. States want a cut of that business. To compensate, I understand that Amazon will be adding warehouses around every metropolitan area in the country so that they can implement same day shipping. They will have to start charging sales tax but they will be able to compete with the instant gratification advantage that B&M stores have.
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... whose phone gets on this list by accident. Suddenly a good customer becomes a dirty criminal. I'm sure there will be no way to rectify the mistake.
Forget for a moment that people like to fly at night. There is not nearly enough energy density in sunlight for it to be useful for airlifting hundreds of people or tons of cargo. It's plain physics. The amount of energy needed to stay airborne is X, the amount of energy in sunlight over the area of a plane is Y. X is far larger than Y.
This is a deal breaker. Who in 2012/2013 would buy a cutting edge smartphone without LTE?
Suddenly I care about the Chromebook!
... can we get the words "stable", "linux", and "kernel" into a single summary? I like this game.
He explained that in the summary.
I once unpacked a laptop and had to wait more than 8 hours for all the patches to install. Not cool.
/me checks list. ... DAMMIT!
Great, you go have a good time. Doesn't change the fact that it is dangerous and shouldn't be a requisite.
I was not a grad student in astrophysics, I was Electrical/Computer Systems Engineering, but I can attest that those hours DO have a detrimental effect on the mental health of the grad students. It happened to me. My work schedule was basically around the clock seven days a week. I was under a lot of pressure from school/work (same thing for me in those days) and from general lack of money. I was in a bad mood most of the time and my relationships soured. I began to feel isolated. I wasn't sleeping. My health started to suffer in a few areas, culminating in a hospital stay when I got mono and tried to work through it. Finally I had a run-in with the police that almost escalated to an arrest. I did still have to go to court for excessive traffic tickets. I had a mental breakdown. The next week my adviser came in and told me to write up my thesis and get out of there. It was a dark time.
Anyway, that letter coming from the school is very, very disappointing. I feel sorry for the students in that program that must now bear that extra pressure.
Is it April Fools in October?
Only after he puts on his cloak and wizard hat.
Slackware->NetBSD->(NetBSD+Debian)
How much time do I have to spend messing around on the Internet at work to be able to buy a decent microbrew at lunch?
I don't understand how code versioning has to be coupled with deployment? You have no test environment, as you said... so just make releases and deploy them manually. Since you are going straight to production, you had better be there in person to roll it back if you screwed up. Right? So, SVN should be all you need...
The concept of distributing 24-bit studio recording data directly to consumers in order to get some kind of increase in sound quality has been thoroughly debunked. See this Slashdot article: Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless
That article is well worth the read.
I assume you are using AC on those lines, otherwise there would be no waves to "detect". Lines with enough power to cause a fatality can be detected by normal human beings. You could use the rug to build up some static electricity on your person, then place your arm hairs near the wires. You'd have to be very careful, but I think you could do it.
I must strongly disagree with this. Not only is this a closed platform, but (arguably) the biggest target application for the Pi is the consumption of digital media, which isn't particularly productive.
Also they sell the hardware through RS which is a unfriendly, greedy company.
EFF. That is all. Okay, Public Knowledge is good too.
As in the retail sales? That doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling for Slashdot...
So from a low resolution picture on the Internet, you can tell that the technology in that demonstration aircraft is stolen from the West? Looking similar is meaningless.
Does it have the F-22's energy absorbing coatings? Probably not.
Does it have the F-22's radar systems? Probably not.
Does it have the F-22's vectored thrust? Hell no.
Can it supercruise? I wouldn't bet on it.
Also, RIAA for technology piracy? You have got to be kidding me. With this kind of technology, governments deal in different terms, like "espionage" and "open warfare."
I didn't say broken or circumvented, I said "fail". "fail" as in they failed to protect humans as they were intended. /.'ers are probably familiar with:
Here is the most obvious example, and the one that most
Humans have both the capability and the tendency to harm other human beings. Even good intentioned humans tend to make big mistakes that either directly or indirectly cause other humans to come to harm. By rule number one, robots may not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The other rules can be overridden by rule one. Therefore, the only way to fully protect humans is to remove their ability to interact at all with other humans. Lock them up. This is basically a removal of nearly all rights and freedoms -- and obviously is counter to the actual intention of the three laws.
Heh. When did Asimov's rules become law?
Also, just FYI, Asimov created those laws to break them down. He wrote a whole collection of stories that examine how the "3 laws of robotics" can fail.
Wouldn't a dual Xeon server be able to easily out-muscle that "supercomputer"?