I think the special part is that 2.4 GHz is a convenient frequency where there is a balance between a larger amount of energy being absorbed by water and a smaller amount of energy being absorbed by glass and plastic.
You're not trying. I'm not even a fan of microsoft, but I read slashdot, and I've seen stuff I respect: * Pushing an innovative and amazing peripheral into the consumer space with XBOX One kinect (Privacy issues and untrustability make this undesirable, but the techology is awesome, and the price is awesomer). * Rewriting their windows infrastructure so that it boots in 5 seconds, runs well on a tablet and is still compatible with, you know, Windows. * They beat apple and android to the flat design race. I don't like the look, but it came first, which is the opposite of point C. * Putting an infrastructure in place to merge the PC, tablet, and phone when the time is right. Maybe this ain't that time, but it's not because of a technological limitation. * Showing that even a huge company with a long company cultural history can revise and improve SW design processes to move from monolithic releases to rapid releases.
Now I could also release a list of things I don't like, as I could with any company, but there is some major innovation going on at Microsoft now that they have competition.
Isn't all criteria, by definition, more narrowly tailored than no criteria?
In your house, you can throw out things and hide others in a secret place, on your hard drive you can throw out things and encrypt others. Does this Gmail account allow you to throw-out and hide things? Is it really analogous?
So why did WTC 7, that third building that was not hit by a plane, collapse as though the top floor had nothing under it? I posted that question a few months ago, but got no suggestions. I'd be open to any theory that has a rational explanation.
And who shapes our perception of history, politics, and economics, power and prejudice?
I'm still waiting for the media to publicly question the cause of WTC tower 7 collapse as hard as they've questioned any heart-tugging story about someone that went missing.
Guys, why all the vitriol for this article? Slashvertisement? It doesn't matter. He went out of his way to point out two different apps and an experiment that he did, where he shared the results.
The topic, for the TL;DR people is essentially why are good apps unseen while poorer ones are popular. He cited ParkMe and BestParking as his basis of research.
It's a questions that would apply to nerds want to popularize an app, but don't understand the phenomena that encourage apps to spread regardless of feature set.
Personally, I use BestParking for my trips to New York City, but agree that it is rarely discussed, so I guess it is rarely known. Maybe it is the nature of parking. Many people who park want to park and move on. They don't think about it after the act, so don't want to think about it much earlier either. It is not a long, drawn out thing (like finding a place to live) where you often plan. Additionally, you can't easily use the app while driving, which is what you are doing when you most think of needing to use the App. So maybe this one is the nature of the activity itself. People don't think about it, so it never gets enough buzz to become a topic of conversation so the knowledge of it doesn't spread.
This aspect of the story is great as an example of science. It seems stubborn to hold onto a single interpretation of evidence during pursuit a theory, including the origin of the universe. Science is the willingness to relegate that evidence to be less significant than what some people want it to be. When you won't relegate the evidence, then you are practicing faith (in the evidence) instead of science.
At home I have four 4TB seagate USB 3.0 backup plus drives for 16 TB of backup. I have too much backup storage so that I can allow for not fully using the drives. I run Cobian backup (as an incremental directory duplicator) and just pick different directories (and disks) to back up. BTW, I bought a USB 3.0 card to give me those ports, so that's not an excuse either.
This does not solve the problem of bitrot, (looking at building a ZFS for that), but it is a simple way to have a scalable backup system for most usages.
I don't get why you can't plug in an external drive.
I'm trying to keep up, but I think this is the hierarchy of rights that I have seen in the US. It's hard to settle on the exact order. Each item could up or down one level.
1 People in my country. 2 Corporations 3 People in other countries 4 People in other countries who look like they have nothing 5 Cute animals 6 Monkeys that aren't so cute 7 non-cute things that can't harm me 8 scary things
I have an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7. When I download an app on the Nexus, I always feel an uneasiness as I look at all the access it wants to my contacts and other invasively unnecessary permissions. So each time I must make a decision to accept or reject using the app. I've rejected some that just seem overreaching, but I've become less strict over time... like I'm accepting to lose a battle. I assure myself, that my phone has all my real contacts, not my Nexus 7 and then begrudgingly accept the conditions. This is one reason I will not use an android phone and why I rarely download apps on android. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/06/1452241/ftc-drops-the-hammer-on-maker-of-location-sharing-flashlight-app# iOS, for those that don't know, will let me decline permissions to track my location or share my contacts on a per-app basis. Even if I enabled it before, I can go into the control center and disable it. I don't benefit from that aspect of the iOS app, but I'm fine with that. For all the control that Android is supposed to give the user, iOS shines here and I wish that is one thing that Android would copy.
Maybe you have a good point about religions being exclusive, but let's not confuse the texts with religions. For example, there are only a few bible variations (King James version, American Standard Version, New American Standard, etc), compared to the 42,000+ different denominations of Christianity... each of those is a different religion calling themselves more correct on their interpretation than others. Some are exclusive with their own heaven and others are not... various levels of exclusivity. Even within a denomination each person has their own set of beliefs that may be inclusive or exclusive about race, sexual preference, etc. Religions tend to congeal around people who proclaim their beliefs in a way that other people want to listen and agree.
I've read different text translations of things that are not Christian. Not all religions, but enough to be satisfied. Some parts can be considered encompassing (aka, turn the other cheek) and some parts can be interpreted as exclusionary (e.g. follow him to get into heaven, with often indirect rationale that he is the only path). It is up to the religion/people how they want to interpret these.
So the texts say good things to good people and exclusive things to exclusive people.
Addiction is an interesting word because it can describe anything from a strong habit to a chemical imbalance. I don't know what this one is. Any tendencies I've experienced in the past were tilting toward really bad habits... even if it was spending long stretches of my spare time in lieu of food or sleep.
I also read and want to believe that most habits can be broken or set in 21 days of doing a different pattern. It concerns me a little about the success of an inpatient program on something like this. So I wonder how many of these internet addictions can be solved by giving people something else to do to feel a sense of progress and accomplishment to develop better habits in their existing environment.
Otherwise, when they go back to their old environment, they can easily fall into the same old pattern due to the same mental associations with that environment.
I think this can be solved quickly. Tesla might make it simple for people to order their cars and have them delivered to locations in neighboring states near the border. It can be small businesses in Tesla-rented parking lots. NC residents can then pay sales tax to those states for purchasing it there and the appropriate level of use-tax difference to North Carolina when registering the car in NC.
You I*R formula is slightly wrong, its actually I^2 * R, double the current means 4x the power loss.
You both have good points, but I think that Shavano didn't mean power. He meant the Voltage (I*R) drops from the external chip where R comes from the losses of extra traces and pins before it gets to the CPU. The reduction in R means that a variation in I will cause less variation in V as seen by the CPU.
"The shoe can improve performance by 3.5%, meaning a 10 second 100-meter sprinter could see his time drop by 0.35 seconds, which is a huge time saving relatively speaking. Imagine if Usain Bolt put a pair of these running shows on."
soooo... technically it could be a huger time savings if I put them on?...or even huger-er if we put them on gimps.
"For example, their maps or online doc or shopping search or payment systemed were no better than what others offered,"
Seriously? Because from my perspective they did an incredibly innovative user interface that made maps suddenly interactive instead of click-and-wait by quantum movements. It felt like I could access an installed mapping application from anywhere without actually committing huge resources to install it. As soon as I saw their interface, I never went back to mapquest except when websites would publish a mapquest link as their location. They also opened up the API, allowing others to use or layer the information (and I don't know how they made money with this API).
I don't know about their shopping or payment system improvements and I have not been as impressed with what I have seen, but if I were after the quick money I would focus primarily on this.
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I think the special part is that 2.4 GHz is a convenient frequency where there is a balance between a larger amount of energy being absorbed by water and a smaller amount of energy being absorbed by glass and plastic.
Let's make this about Snowden.
After all, if he didn't raise concerns, then how could they have possibly known there were any issues.
You're not trying.
I'm not even a fan of microsoft, but I read slashdot, and I've seen stuff I respect:
* Pushing an innovative and amazing peripheral into the consumer space with XBOX One kinect (Privacy issues and untrustability make this undesirable, but the techology is awesome, and the price is awesomer).
* Rewriting their windows infrastructure so that it boots in 5 seconds, runs well on a tablet and is still compatible with, you know, Windows.
* They beat apple and android to the flat design race. I don't like the look, but it came first, which is the opposite of point C.
* Putting an infrastructure in place to merge the PC, tablet, and phone when the time is right. Maybe this ain't that time, but it's not because of a technological limitation.
* Showing that even a huge company with a long company cultural history can revise and improve SW design processes to move from monolithic releases to rapid releases.
Now I could also release a list of things I don't like, as I could with any company, but there is some major innovation going on at Microsoft now that they have competition.
Isn't all criteria, by definition, more narrowly tailored than no criteria?
In your house, you can throw out things and hide others in a secret place, on your hard drive you can throw out things and encrypt others.
Does this Gmail account allow you to throw-out and hide things? Is it really analogous?
So why did WTC 7, that third building that was not hit by a plane, collapse as though the top floor had nothing under it?
I posted that question a few months ago, but got no suggestions. I'd be open to any theory that has a rational explanation.
I see videos on youtube if I search for wtc7.
In other news, an increasing number of macaques are being caught in aircraft engines.
What's a telephone cord?
#LOLZ #oldthings
And who shapes our perception of history, politics, and economics, power and prejudice?
I'm still waiting for the media to publicly question the cause of WTC tower 7 collapse as hard as they've questioned any heart-tugging story about someone that went missing.
Guys, why all the vitriol for this article? Slashvertisement? It doesn't matter. He went out of his way to point out two different apps and an experiment that he did, where he shared the results.
The topic, for the TL;DR people is essentially why are good apps unseen while poorer ones are popular. He cited ParkMe and BestParking as his basis of research.
It's a questions that would apply to nerds want to popularize an app, but don't understand the phenomena that encourage apps to spread regardless of feature set.
Personally, I use BestParking for my trips to New York City, but agree that it is rarely discussed, so I guess it is rarely known. Maybe it is the nature of parking. Many people who park want to park and move on. They don't think about it after the act, so don't want to think about it much earlier either. It is not a long, drawn out thing (like finding a place to live) where you often plan. Additionally, you can't easily use the app while driving, which is what you are doing when you most think of needing to use the App. So maybe this one is the nature of the activity itself. People don't think about it, so it never gets enough buzz to become a topic of conversation so the knowledge of it doesn't spread.
According to a book I've read: Two of opposite gender (along with some other people from somewhere).
This aspect of the story is great as an example of science.
It seems stubborn to hold onto a single interpretation of evidence during pursuit a theory, including the origin of the universe.
Science is the willingness to relegate that evidence to be less significant than what some people want it to be.
When you won't relegate the evidence, then you are practicing faith (in the evidence) instead of science.
At home I have four 4TB seagate USB 3.0 backup plus drives for 16 TB of backup. I have too much backup storage so that I can allow for not fully using the drives.
I run Cobian backup (as an incremental directory duplicator) and just pick different directories (and disks) to back up. BTW, I bought a USB 3.0 card to give me those ports, so that's not an excuse either.
This does not solve the problem of bitrot, (looking at building a ZFS for that), but it is a simple way to have a scalable backup system for most usages.
I don't get why you can't plug in an external drive.
I knew you were going to say that.
I'm trying to keep up, but I think this is the hierarchy of rights that I have seen in the US.
It's hard to settle on the exact order. Each item could up or down one level.
1 People in my country.
2 Corporations
3 People in other countries
4 People in other countries who look like they have nothing
5 Cute animals
6 Monkeys that aren't so cute
7 non-cute things that can't harm me
8 scary things
I have an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7.
When I download an app on the Nexus, I always feel an uneasiness as I look at all the access it wants to my contacts and other invasively unnecessary permissions. So each time I must make a decision to accept or reject using the app. I've rejected some that just seem overreaching, but I've become less strict over time... like I'm accepting to lose a battle. I assure myself, that my phone has all my real contacts, not my Nexus 7 and then begrudgingly accept the conditions. This is one reason I will not use an android phone and why I rarely download apps on android.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/06/1452241/ftc-drops-the-hammer-on-maker-of-location-sharing-flashlight-app#
iOS, for those that don't know, will let me decline permissions to track my location or share my contacts on a per-app basis. Even if I enabled it before, I can go into the control center and disable it. I don't benefit from that aspect of the iOS app, but I'm fine with that. For all the control that Android is supposed to give the user, iOS shines here and I wish that is one thing that Android would copy.
Oh, I get it now. Good cop / Bad cop.
Never thought it of that way before.
This is a tautology, too.
Maybe you have a good point about religions being exclusive, but let's not confuse the texts with religions.
For example, there are only a few bible variations (King James version, American Standard Version, New American Standard, etc), compared to the 42,000+ different denominations of Christianity... each of those is a different religion calling themselves more correct on their interpretation than others. Some are exclusive with their own heaven and others are not... various levels of exclusivity. Even within a denomination each person has their own set of beliefs that may be inclusive or exclusive about race, sexual preference, etc. Religions tend to congeal around people who proclaim their beliefs in a way that other people want to listen and agree.
I've read different text translations of things that are not Christian. Not all religions, but enough to be satisfied. Some parts can be considered encompassing (aka, turn the other cheek) and some parts can be interpreted as exclusionary (e.g. follow him to get into heaven, with often indirect rationale that he is the only path). It is up to the religion/people how they want to interpret these.
So the texts say good things to good people and exclusive things to exclusive people.
Addiction is an interesting word because it can describe anything from a strong habit to a chemical imbalance.
I don't know what this one is. Any tendencies I've experienced in the past were tilting toward really bad habits... even if it was spending long stretches of my spare time in lieu of food or sleep.
I also read and want to believe that most habits can be broken or set in 21 days of doing a different pattern.
It concerns me a little about the success of an inpatient program on something like this. So I wonder how many of these internet addictions can be solved by giving people something else to do to feel a sense of progress and accomplishment to develop better habits in their existing environment.
Otherwise, when they go back to their old environment, they can easily fall into the same old pattern due to the same mental associations with that environment.
I'll bet you produced fewer lines of code per hour on that CGA Monitor than the devs using the bigger monitors today.
"cheap, ubiquitous, and easy to use" would not solve any of the issues that he describes.
When you ask for something different than you want, you are often unsatisfied.
I think this can be solved quickly.
Tesla might make it simple for people to order their cars and have them delivered to locations in neighboring states near the border. It can be small businesses in Tesla-rented parking lots. NC residents can then pay sales tax to those states for purchasing it there and the appropriate level of use-tax difference to North Carolina when registering the car in NC.
You I*R formula is slightly wrong, its actually I^2 * R, double the current means 4x the power loss.
You both have good points, but I think that Shavano didn't mean power.
He meant the Voltage (I*R) drops from the external chip where R comes from the losses of extra traces and pins before it gets to the CPU. The reduction in R means that a variation in I will cause less variation in V as seen by the CPU.
"The shoe can improve performance by 3.5%, meaning a 10 second 100-meter sprinter could see his time drop by 0.35 seconds, which is a huge time saving relatively speaking. Imagine if Usain Bolt put a pair of these running shows on."
soooo... technically it could be a huger time savings if I put them on? ...or even huger-er if we put them on gimps.
"For example, their maps or online doc or shopping search or payment systemed were no better than what others offered,"
Seriously? Because from my perspective they did an incredibly innovative user interface that made maps suddenly interactive instead of click-and-wait by quantum movements. It felt like I could access an installed mapping application from anywhere without actually committing huge resources to install it. As soon as I saw their interface, I never went back to mapquest except when websites would publish a mapquest link as their location. They also opened up the API, allowing others to use or layer the information (and I don't know how they made money with this API).
I don't know about their shopping or payment system improvements and I have not been as impressed with what I have seen, but if I were after the quick money I would focus primarily on this.