Or, maybe, you know, fix their security holes. It's Apple. By definition anything they make is perfect in any conceivable way. <slaps forehead> Ah, right! I forgot...thanks for reminding me!;)
Apple just needs to turn the tables and tell people to shun IE and use Firefox/Opera/what have you, is all. Or, maybe, you know, fix their security holes.
A 128GB SSD costs $460, or $3.58 per gigabyte, compared to $60 for a 160GB hard drive...
Is it that fucking hard to include the cost per gigabyte of the current hard drives ($0.375/GB for the example given)? Why quote one $/GB figure if you can't be bothered to include the other?
Reminds me of a guy doing PhD is Chemistry about effects of certain chiral isomer of nicotine on cancer. His first response when I asked what he worked on was "You won't get it". I am a PhD student in computational geometry and I frequently have to explain my work to relatives who have no idea about geometry. When I pestered the guy that whether or not he can explain his work to a layman reflects his understanding about his work, he agreed to try. "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't really understand it." -- Richard Feynman*
* Maybe, it seems this quote sometimes gets attributed to Einstein as well.
Heck I have a Math Minor and the symbols require me to look them up... Yikes, that must have been a math minor program with light requirements, because all I see are summation and integral symbols, a few log's and ln's (apologies to the apostrophe Nazis), a trace and a "for all." I looks like a lot of the domain-specific stuff either has a link to a relevant article or is explained in the article itself.
Of course, for the general public, I agree that including any math at all causes eyes to glaze over and back buttons to be clicked or channels to be changed.:)
Interpreting languages has been tried before, and they are never working for large projects that shall live for a long time and has to be maintained by a lot of different programmers. Honestly, if you like Java, then good for you. You'll do just fine as a developer with it, and you can probably work until you retire without having to know anything about those other "horrid" languages.
However, your comments come across as uninformed. Anybody can write unreadable code that's hard to understand, maintain, or debug in any language. Companies and organizations, big and small, use interpreted languages in large projects (sometimes for implementing the majority of those projects) and they work just fine.
If your expert works for the manufacturer you have something of a guarantee that the expertise will always be at the other end of the phone line. Yes, the expertise will be there, along with all the money you'll be shoveling to the manufacturer to keep him there.:)
Just kidding...in all seriousness, I expect most of the time it's cheaper and less hassle to make support payments than it is to find/keep in-house experts.
All of them. Blood, urine and hair tests. Alcohol, Viagra, nicotene, marijuana, *caine, caffeine, oxycontin, all of them. At such frequency that there's less than a 1% chance they can smoke a joint, do a line, or pop a pill and turn up clean on any given test. Maybe do like they do to the armed forces, and just randomly select a small subset to test every week, and make sure somebody actually sees that all collected bodily fluids *actually* come out of their body. (Note: not volunteering for that one)
It can't be more expensive or inconvenient than turning realtors into data collectors for the feds, can it?
Oh, but who am I kidding: they're a special, privileged class, better and more trustworthy than me, and they don't need oversight of any kind. It's ridiculous that we'd even want to apply "little people" standards to them.
Well the adsorption of hydrogen by palladium seems to be a good candidate, but I'm not a chemist or physicist, so I really don't know enough to say. It would be unfortunate if we missed out on some useful (or just interesting) chemical phenomena because experiments of this type keep getting stigmatized by the "cold fusion" label. (Please note that I'm not saying the stigmatization of anything labeled "cold fusion" is unfairly deserved).
But then again, *somebody* is paying these folks to do this research, right? Maybe they'll just do a good job of documenting their results, run the experiment for a long time to see if it stops well before running out of hydrogen, try some variations, and come up with a good repeatable experimental setup, and we can definitively find out what's going on (assuming we don't already know).
Or, maybe they'll just focus on the "ZOMG I hope it's cold fusion" angle and we won't learn a damn thing.
If it's *really* something new, the facts will eventually work their way past any institutional biases.
If it's really a fusion reaction producing helium then just do this and I'll stop being an arrogant skeptical bastard: put said device in a calorimeter with one exit pipe to allow reaction products to escape, and a quantity of D2O sufficient to operate the device continuously for 1 year.
Run the device for 1 year, or as long as possible without adding new D2O or any other components, and show that the net amount of energy released is far in excess of that possible for any chemical reactions, and that the amount of He produced is far in excess of that that could have been present in the original components.
Do that and you'll have your Nobel. Until then, nobody is going to pay you much mind.
But something like this has absolutely no reason to develop.
Just because you can't see the advantage in some feature doesn't mean that there isn't one. In addition, it was my understanding that it's possible for new features to appear and get "carried along" so long as they're not too detrimental to the organism's survival and procreation. They may or may not turn out to be useful later on.
IIRC, they donated the results of their analysis, not the actual tool itself. If somebody *did* actually donate a free license to use their software to those projects, I missed it and would love a link to the details.:)
For all we know, this elaborate game of deception and control is foreplay for this couple. <tone="snarky, eye-rolling asshole">Yeah, because every time I've seen couples in which one person spies on the other, it was clearly loving foreplay. I'm sure that's by far the top motivation for spyware sales and PI hires.</tone> Give me a break.
If you're worried about the whole "till death do us part" thing, consider that the abuser broke the vows first by failing to love and honor. What an excellent point. That I haven't seen it stated so clearly until now probably says something unfortunate about the amount of slack given to abusers.
Oh, there's a solution: the friend needs to uninstall their spouse.
Honestly, if you're at the point in a relationship where you're spying on each other, it's time to just throw in the towel and find a partner you can trust.
I admire your optimism, USAF, but $11 million dollars is simply not going to make that happen -if it can even be done. Indeed. If it could be done for $11 million, then the people whose money motivated the creation of existing botnets would already have bought such a tool from the black hats of the world.
In addition to protecting you from possibly diseased people, by detecting body temperatures, the Guardian Angel's 'monitoring component can take note of the number of conversations occurring in a room (and more specifically, a breakdown of the types of people in the room accompanied by a warning for dangerous persons, based on sex offender registration, FBI most wanted, etc.).' The versatile Guardian Angel, Microsoft notes, can also recommend restaurants, advise you on the appropriateness of your jokes, detect that your heartbeat has stopped, display targeted ads on billboards, and block spam.
ROFL....they want me to believe they have a working device that does all these diverse tasks, some of which are amazingly difficult? I suppose I'm also supposed to believe it's going to run on a Windows platform on some kind of portable computer. <voice="Bill Cosby">Riiiiiight</voice>.
Sorry, but as much as I'd like to think some pair of uber-geniuses managed to build one product (that runs on a portable Windows platorm, no less) that does all this, it just screams, "Vaporware inspired by Marketing!" to me. I thought you had to have some semblance of a working device before they'd give you a patent? Or is that something I remember from reading how it's supposed to work?
Good point.:) So instead of shaving and checking email, they'll be "landing" in interesting places because they said the local equivalent of "Hey, y'all, watch this!" before they took off.
Of course, they probably do that now with any number of things, so the flying car would just be a newer, more expensive route to a Darwin Award.:P
We take off, he sets the gps up then leans back in the seat and says "wake me up if I fall asleep". Slightly disconcerting for your first time in the air. Ye gods, that's scary. I'm afraid that kind of behavior will be disconcerting to me no matter how many times I've been in the air. Yeah, the GPS and autopilot will fly you there. It will also fly you into the tower, mountain, or temporary hazard (tethered balloons, etc.) that lies along the straight line between here and there. It won't save you from having done something stupid, like missing something in one of your checklists because you were too damn tired (left the choke in the wrong position, etc.)
It seems to me that deciding to fly when you're that tired--even if you have a non-pilot to wake you up--is a superb way to find yourself without a pilot certificate (and/or a life) if something unexpected happens.
Somehow I doubt the various aviation authorities (FAA and its equivalents outside the US) are going to start blindly issuing pilot certificates to people just because they have a driver's license and a flying car.
For places with no aviation authorities, yeah, they'll probably see their share of car-planes landing/falling in interesting places because some moron was trying to shave, drink his coffee, and check his email while flying to work. But those places will be few and far between.
Oh I know there's no shortage of fanatical Paul supporters, whose existence assures that Paul and other Libertarian candidates will never be elected to any office of significance.
I was trying to be funny. Apparently I misjudged my ability to make funny posts. Sorry.
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I wish I had mod points...I think this is the first time I ever wanted to mod those 5 words up.
Is it that fucking hard to include the cost per gigabyte of the current hard drives ($0.375/GB for the example given)? Why quote one $/GB figure if you can't be bothered to include the other?
* Maybe, it seems this quote sometimes gets attributed to Einstein as well.
Of course, for the general public, I agree that including any math at all causes eyes to glaze over and back buttons to be clicked or channels to be changed.
However, your comments come across as uninformed. Anybody can write unreadable code that's hard to understand, maintain, or debug in any language. Companies and organizations, big and small, use interpreted languages in large projects (sometimes for implementing the majority of those projects) and they work just fine.
Since it's got "Administration" in its name, I'm guessing it's actually part of the government.
Just kidding...in all seriousness, I expect most of the time it's cheaper and less hassle to make support payments than it is to find/keep in-house experts.
All of them. Blood, urine and hair tests. Alcohol, Viagra, nicotene, marijuana, *caine, caffeine, oxycontin, all of them. At such frequency that there's less than a 1% chance they can smoke a joint, do a line, or pop a pill and turn up clean on any given test. Maybe do like they do to the armed forces, and just randomly select a small subset to test every week, and make sure somebody actually sees that all collected bodily fluids *actually* come out of their body. (Note: not volunteering for that one)
It can't be more expensive or inconvenient than turning realtors into data collectors for the feds, can it?
Oh, but who am I kidding: they're a special, privileged class, better and more trustworthy than me, and they don't need oversight of any kind. It's ridiculous that we'd even want to apply "little people" standards to them.
I'm sorry, but "geeks," "supple," "well-modulated emotions," "Facebook," "blogs," and "Twitter" should never appear in the same sentence.
Well the adsorption of hydrogen by palladium seems to be a good candidate, but I'm not a chemist or physicist, so I really don't know enough to say. It would be unfortunate if we missed out on some useful (or just interesting) chemical phenomena because experiments of this type keep getting stigmatized by the "cold fusion" label. (Please note that I'm not saying the stigmatization of anything labeled "cold fusion" is unfairly deserved).
But then again, *somebody* is paying these folks to do this research, right? Maybe they'll just do a good job of documenting their results, run the experiment for a long time to see if it stops well before running out of hydrogen, try some variations, and come up with a good repeatable experimental setup, and we can definitively find out what's going on (assuming we don't already know).
Or, maybe they'll just focus on the "ZOMG I hope it's cold fusion" angle and we won't learn a damn thing.
If it's *really* something new, the facts will eventually work their way past any institutional biases.
If it's really a fusion reaction producing helium then just do this and I'll stop being an arrogant skeptical bastard: put said device in a calorimeter with one exit pipe to allow reaction products to escape, and a quantity of D2O sufficient to operate the device continuously for 1 year.
Run the device for 1 year, or as long as possible without adding new D2O or any other components, and show that the net amount of energy released is far in excess of that possible for any chemical reactions, and that the amount of He produced is far in excess of that that could have been present in the original components.
Do that and you'll have your Nobel. Until then, nobody is going to pay you much mind.
Just because you can't see the advantage in some feature doesn't mean that there isn't one. In addition, it was my understanding that it's possible for new features to appear and get "carried along" so long as they're not too detrimental to the organism's survival and procreation. They may or may not turn out to be useful later on.
IIRC, they donated the results of their analysis, not the actual tool itself. If somebody *did* actually donate a free license to use their software to those projects, I missed it and would love a link to the details. :)
Oh, there's a solution: the friend needs to uninstall their spouse.
Honestly, if you're at the point in a relationship where you're spying on each other, it's time to just throw in the towel and find a partner you can trust.
Sorry, TFS turned me off before I even got there.
ROFL....they want me to believe they have a working device that does all these diverse tasks, some of which are amazingly difficult? I suppose I'm also supposed to believe it's going to run on a Windows platform on some kind of portable computer. <voice="Bill Cosby">Riiiiiight</voice>.
Sorry, but as much as I'd like to think some pair of uber-geniuses managed to build one product (that runs on a portable Windows platorm, no less) that does all this, it just screams, "Vaporware inspired by Marketing!" to me. I thought you had to have some semblance of a working device before they'd give you a patent? Or is that something I remember from reading how it's supposed to work?
Good point. :) So instead of shaving and checking email, they'll be "landing" in interesting places because they said the local equivalent of "Hey, y'all, watch this!" before they took off.
:P
Of course, they probably do that now with any number of things, so the flying car would just be a newer, more expensive route to a Darwin Award.
It seems to me that deciding to fly when you're that tired--even if you have a non-pilot to wake you up--is a superb way to find yourself without a pilot certificate (and/or a life) if something unexpected happens.
Somehow I doubt the various aviation authorities (FAA and its equivalents outside the US) are going to start blindly issuing pilot certificates to people just because they have a driver's license and a flying car.
For places with no aviation authorities, yeah, they'll probably see their share of car-planes landing/falling in interesting places because some moron was trying to shave, drink his coffee, and check his email while flying to work. But those places will be few and far between.
Oh I know there's no shortage of fanatical Paul supporters, whose existence assures that Paul and other Libertarian candidates will never be elected to any office of significance.
I was trying to be funny. Apparently I misjudged my ability to make funny posts. Sorry.