Somebody please enlighten me: Why not just up the price because dollars are worth less?
I'm always amazed to see products sell in the us for the same amount in dollars as they sell for in euros in Europe.
How does that make sense?
Military taking the lead on computing as usual. Why is the military so much more progressive (with practical results) than any other institution of government
Just a wild guess: budget?
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" - Hawking(?)
Although I agree that it is nice if you don't have to be smart to use a program (so you can also use it if you've been drinking), I am glad that there are some precious software houses that take advantage of my intelligence by changing the interface to be better.
I disagree with your implication that the url is the important thing to remember about a website. Remembering tags, words, context is much more natural and the mozilla guys have done a great job to save me some work of translating the concepts in my head to an actual url.
I was already using my address bar in FF2 in this manner (which routes you through google) and this saves me time and gives me more control. Great stuff.
Drinking habits?
It's a bit charged that title don't you think? The study just proved that they would be capable of predicting your location if they wanted to. How about 'Cell phone tracking could predict users location.'
But I guess if you need to set the stage for righteous anger about privacy you need something stronger than that.
The researchers come to a different conclusion: "In fact, graphics cards are highly suitable for tomography computations."
I'm sure it's not that simple, but apparently they thought (as the parent noted) that these graphical operations should work very well on graphics cards.
As for saving the animals in the first place, got a few trillion dollers to pay off the poverty line hugging people that are being paid pennies to actually go out and cut down habitats to make rich people richer? Cos I haven't. It's being worked on by myc4. Why don't you chip in?
That is assuming that there is no reason not to give them access other than the fact that they will slow the database down. Maybe the data itself is valuable to the business case here as well?
If you don't want to give them the data you should just tell them why: it is your livelihood. Otherwise, a copy would be a good idea...
The point made was not to not let them have the data. The point is to get past _with_ your laptop.
Imho they have no business with the data, but US law doesn't agree with me.
Luckily there is a big piece of the world where this law doesn't apply and the other good thing about it is, that you don't have to buy dollars to get by there.
I'm pretty closely involved in the Spring framework and even we have only a handful of active committers. Even a framework as popular as this will attract mostly people posting on forums, creating issues in the issue tracker while not even trying to commit back.
It is very hard to find the time to dedicate oneself to a framework. And it is even harder to distinguish between good intentions and true gold.
Good luck (count me out, just good intentions here).
The article says: "...program your house or appliances to make that move." So this tech will help you turn of your stuff during peak hours, now isn't that exactly what you're suggesting?
Less vertical space = less lines of code in the screen = more scrolling = less productivity I do like my screen nice and big, but the claim above is false.
When I develop at 18pt font size I have a lot less code on the screen. This triggers me to write more concise classes, sit a little back from the screen.
As a result both me and my code feel more healthy. Try it sometime, your team mates and the maintenance programmers that have to deal with that code later will love you for it.
My hatred is not blind, it is clearly founded on the basis of not having a decent jdk on leopard for months. I must say I love the way "everything" just works as long as you keep a definition of "everything" as everything designed by Apple in California.
So yes, Jobs rubbed me the wrong way. Not by being a business man and not by wearing turtle necks. He just stopped supporting Java and that really pissed me off, strangely. He can be as hip as he wants for all I care, as long as he makes a product that is usable for me.
More and more I tend to dismiss everything that is not open and only pay for work instead of imaginary property. As long as google keeps basing its success on openness there is good hope for them to stay successful. Apple has clearly missed my boat on this one, but apparently they don't care.
Exactly right. Both ways the arguments are fallacious. To convict someone of a crime as serious as murder you need a little more than what they have. It is a shame that the defense feels they need to explain the weird behavior. Innocent until proven guilty right?
As a side note, the doer knowledge looks very suspicious to me. As an investigator I would be very uncomfortable if this guy walked without a solid explanation (other than "he's just weird, trust me he didn't do it")
Being a parent myself I would be very happy to have kids smart enough to keep a computer sort of secured against me. The fact that the sister decided to want security on her own makes her old enough by my standards. As a parent I wouldn't be too concerned anyway, I can physically check what my child is doing and if I strongly disagree I still have control over the power supply.
Since the computer is used I guess that fancy tech like a fingerprint swipe is out of the question. Maybe you can get voice recognition working? That is pretty hard to crack if you don't let yourself be recorded (same as a password actually;)). You could also find a way to store the password in a way that your sister is able to decipher. (write it down in the wrong order or something). This is not as secure, but it should work fine as security by obscurity against the average unsuspecting parent.
Well I'd love to have one for my 2 year old. I'm desperately trying to teach him to click on the youtube movies of steam trains at 7am, but he's just too stupid to figure out how a mouse works. I have to get out of bed every 10 minutes.
Of course just making a very long compilation of train movies would work... maybe I could even loop it, but I'm sure this device would be equally equal to the task.
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Somebody please enlighten me: Why not just up the price because dollars are worth less? I'm always amazed to see products sell in the us for the same amount in dollars as they sell for in euros in Europe. How does that make sense?
5) Average annual compensation (wages + benefits) for US manufacturing jobs is a. $36,000 b. $46,0000 c. $56,0000 d. $66,000
How much is that in euro's?
Don't worry, you're on slashdot.
Military taking the lead on computing as usual. Why is the military so much more progressive (with practical results) than any other institution of government
Just a wild guess: budget?
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" - Hawking(?)
Although I agree that it is nice if you don't have to be smart to use a program (so you can also use it if you've been drinking), I am glad that there are some precious software houses that take advantage of my intelligence by changing the interface to be better.
I disagree with your implication that the url is the important thing to remember about a website. Remembering tags, words, context is much more natural and the mozilla guys have done a great job to save me some work of translating the concepts in my head to an actual url. I was already using my address bar in FF2 in this manner (which routes you through google) and this saves me time and gives me more control. Great stuff.
But I guess if you need to set the stage for righteous anger about privacy you need something stronger than that.
The researchers come to a different conclusion: "In fact, graphics cards are highly suitable for tomography computations."
I'm sure it's not that simple, but apparently they thought (as the parent noted) that these graphical operations should work very well on graphics cards.
And they have the data to back it up.
No, super computers are designed to be fast (at all tasks). That's why you can outsmart them if you have a very specific task at hand.
... that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
That is assuming that there is no reason not to give them access other than the fact that they will slow the database down. Maybe the data itself is valuable to the business case here as well?
If you don't want to give them the data you should just tell them why: it is your livelihood. Otherwise, a copy would be a good idea...
The point made was not to not let them have the data. The point is to get past _with_ your laptop.
Imho they have no business with the data, but US law doesn't agree with me.
Luckily there is a big piece of the world where this law doesn't apply and the other good thing about it is, that you don't have to buy dollars to get by there.
wonderful post, to hell with my karma; I just have to put some kudos here.
I'm pretty closely involved in the Spring framework and even we have only a handful of active committers. Even a framework as popular as this will attract mostly people posting on forums, creating issues in the issue tracker while not even trying to commit back.
It is very hard to find the time to dedicate oneself to a framework. And it is even harder to distinguish between good intentions and true gold.
Good luck (count me out, just good intentions here).
In summary: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/bandwagn.html
The article says: "...program your house or appliances to make that move." So this tech will help you turn of your stuff during peak hours, now isn't that exactly what you're suggesting?
When I develop at 18pt font size I have a lot less code on the screen. This triggers me to write more concise classes, sit a little back from the screen.
As a result both me and my code feel more healthy. Try it sometime, your team mates and the maintenance programmers that have to deal with that code later will love you for it.
Don't forget backup tapes. There will be more than enough for posterity, don't worry.
My hatred is not blind, it is clearly founded on the basis of not having a decent jdk on leopard for months. I must say I love the way "everything" just works as long as you keep a definition of "everything" as everything designed by Apple in California. So yes, Jobs rubbed me the wrong way. Not by being a business man and not by wearing turtle necks. He just stopped supporting Java and that really pissed me off, strangely. He can be as hip as he wants for all I care, as long as he makes a product that is usable for me. More and more I tend to dismiss everything that is not open and only pay for work instead of imaginary property. As long as google keeps basing its success on openness there is good hope for them to stay successful. Apple has clearly missed my boat on this one, but apparently they don't care.
Exactly right. Both ways the arguments are fallacious. To convict someone of a crime as serious as murder you need a little more than what they have. It is a shame that the defense feels they need to explain the weird behavior. Innocent until proven guilty right?
As a side note, the doer knowledge looks very suspicious to me. As an investigator I would be very uncomfortable if this guy walked without a solid explanation (other than "he's just weird, trust me he didn't do it")
to drop a perfectly fine TV!
Being a parent myself I would be very happy to have kids smart enough to keep a computer sort of secured against me. The fact that the sister decided to want security on her own makes her old enough by my standards. As a parent I wouldn't be too concerned anyway, I can physically check what my child is doing and if I strongly disagree I still have control over the power supply. Since the computer is used I guess that fancy tech like a fingerprint swipe is out of the question. Maybe you can get voice recognition working? That is pretty hard to crack if you don't let yourself be recorded (same as a password actually ;)). You could also find a way to store the password in a way that your sister is able to decipher. (write it down in the wrong order or something). This is not as secure, but it should work fine as security by obscurity against the average unsuspecting parent.
Last time I checked 99% of the CNN viewers are not reading /. or that guys blog and less than 1% of the US population consisted of hot chicks.
Look out the window, you'll see fat people who watch TV. The babes on the tv are not real.
Well I'd love to have one for my 2 year old. I'm desperately trying to teach him to click on the youtube movies of steam trains at 7am, but he's just too stupid to figure out how a mouse works. I have to get out of bed every 10 minutes. Of course just making a very long compilation of train movies would work... maybe I could even loop it, but I'm sure this device would be equally equal to the task.