Humans will evolve on Mars into some other specie. I agree in principle that we have to get off this rock if civilization is to survive, but to expect that humans will continue being humans on another planet somewhere is simply naive.
The constitution is there to limit government. There is nothing wrong with limiting government more than the bare minimum limits defined by the constitution. In fact, I would say there is a good case today for rewriting the constitution using far more strict, unambiguous modern language with far more limitations than it currently has.
If you want to go to the conference, but haven't been asked to by your employer, you pay
If your employer asks you to go to the conference, they have made the determination that your presence there is critical to the company's mission, so they should pay.
What you are suggesting is only possible after a second, much larger federal grant is secured.
"Omg, we've identified this potentially huge problem that we're going to spread FUD about. We need the taxpayer to give us MOAR MONEEZ to study it further, or WES ALLSA GONNA DIESA!"
The story is Apple. Something to do with Apple. Something to do with how this decision by Apple is simply amazing and could not have been arrived at by any other company under any circumstance.
Yes, apparently it is too much to ask that people be correct these days.
The summary clearly states that 512GB of memory is 1000 times more than 512MB of memory, which is patently false. If you're making comparisons, you don't make absolute statements like this. You use qualifying words like "about 1000 times" or "approximately 1000 times" to let the reader know you do not mean to be precise.
Why the hell are we talking about the Fahrenheit scale. And, while we're at it, memory of all kinds is always expressed in GiB, so a 512GB card is 1024 times as large as a 512MB card, not 1000 times.
It looks like a standard -25 to 85C extended commercial rating.
Well, it didn't help that the guy who filed that petition didn't bother to read the HIPAA laws, nor understand that HIPAA laws do not apply to ham radio operators. He was seeking a solution to a made-up problem.
So, you believe it is okay for the government to confiscate your property, without being able to articulate a _reasonable_ suspicion of criminal activity, without charging you with a crime, and without convicting you of a crime?
Since neither the submitter nor the editors couldn't be bothered to provide a link to the app in the play store (let's face it, that would be too useful), here it is:
"Colleagues who decry Barr's fate worry that the incident could make other scientists think twice about coming to work for NSF"
No, her fate will make other scientists think twice about getting involved with terrorist organizations and then lying about it on their background check applications.
Our area just picked up a few Proterra electric buses for use in the Catbus system, which serves Clemson University and the surrounding areas. There were some huge federal grants involved, and they have been riddled with problems, but have finally started running and carrying passengers. We're mostly a rural area and the bus system is free for all to use - paid for by Clemson University student fees and some taxpayer money from surrounding municipalities (Cities of Clemson, Seneca, Pendleton, and Central, afaik).
The buses are neat. They use overhead inductive chargers that are located at various places around town. I haven't ridden one yet (I prefer to get around by bicycle), but I hear they're pretty nice.
I am sure the impact on air quality is almost unmeasurable in our vast expanse of rural countryside, but in cities the impact could be huge.
In fact, consensus is a very valuable part of the cooperative scientific process.
The bad reputation belongs to those who attempt to use consensus as a substitute for proof. People like the IPCC, EPA, NOAA, NASA, and governments all over the world who are trying to use this climate change bogeyman as an excuse to foist oppressive political and economic regimes on free (and not free) people.
Not just content control, but complete and total usage control. Using this technology, ISPs could prevent you opening a connection to anyone they didn't want you to connect to, because all of your outgoing connections would have to be "approved" by their router.
This is all about ending the free and open Internet as we know it today and completely privatizing control over it.
It's called a GBU-24 with an MK-84 payload. We had every capability of destroying the equipment, and come to think of it we could destroy it any time we wanted to provided we can find it.
Our problem is not the lack of technology. The problem is the lack of a CiC with a set of testicles.
How about the FCC does this: If you are an ISP and have taken billions of federal dollars to build out infrastructure, you actually have to do it and offer service to people?
Okay, let's set aside for just one brief moment that a goodly part of the science portrayed on the show is just plain wrong, and discuss instead what I think is a much more interesting topic: Trying to take a show that is centered around brilliant people and making it not only acceptable, but very funny to stupid people.
Don't you agree that it is an exercise in futility to make an attempt at incorporating low-brow, "everyman" humor into this show? Let's face it, nobody who is as smart as Sheldon or Leonard are would find any of the humor in the show consistent, let alone funny.
I recall one episode (forgive me for not remembering the title) where Leonard suggests that Sheldon drink plenty of fluids - maybe it was the one when Sheldon got sick right before the trip to Switzerland or something - but in any case his retort was something like "well what else would I drink? Maybe gasses or ionized plasma?"
Someone as smart as Sheldon, especially a theoretical physicist, knows that gasses and ionized plasmas ARE fluids - the obvious mistake here being to imply that the term "fluid" is interchangeable with the term "liquid," when it is not.
I've found the show to be chock full of these kinds of glaring inconsistencies and falsehoods. It leads me to believe that the show's writers either don't really listen to you, or go over the material and change it after you've edited it, or something else. Can you enlighten us?
I've never had an issue running Linux (the kernel) on any motherboard I have every tried.
Please try to understand that 99% of angry posts on the Internet about how "this shit doesn't work" are really saying "I can't make it work because I don't know how and I'm mad."
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Humans will evolve on Mars into some other specie. I agree in principle that we have to get off this rock if civilization is to survive, but to expect that humans will continue being humans on another planet somewhere is simply naive.
The constitution is there to limit government. There is nothing wrong with limiting government more than the bare minimum limits defined by the constitution. In fact, I would say there is a good case today for rewriting the constitution using far more strict, unambiguous modern language with far more limitations than it currently has.
Whomever wants you to go to the conference pays.
If you want to go to the conference, but haven't been asked to by your employer, you pay
If your employer asks you to go to the conference, they have made the determination that your presence there is critical to the company's mission, so they should pay.
What you are suggesting is only possible after a second, much larger federal grant is secured.
"Omg, we've identified this potentially huge problem that we're going to spread FUD about. We need the taxpayer to give us MOAR MONEEZ to study it further, or WES ALLSA GONNA DIESA!"
The story is Apple. Something to do with Apple. Something to do with how this decision by Apple is simply amazing and could not have been arrived at by any other company under any circumstance.
Yes, apparently it is too much to ask that people be correct these days.
The summary clearly states that 512GB of memory is 1000 times more than 512MB of memory, which is patently false. If you're making comparisons, you don't make absolute statements like this. You use qualifying words like "about 1000 times" or "approximately 1000 times" to let the reader know you do not mean to be precise.
The OP is correct. Memory is always expressed in GiB. There is no such thing as Base-10 memory.
Why the hell are we talking about the Fahrenheit scale. And, while we're at it, memory of all kinds is always expressed in GiB, so a 512GB card is 1024 times as large as a 512MB card, not 1000 times.
It looks like a standard -25 to 85C extended commercial rating.
Well, it didn't help that the guy who filed that petition didn't bother to read the HIPAA laws, nor understand that HIPAA laws do not apply to ham radio operators. He was seeking a solution to a made-up problem.
Android is not free. Googls pays Microsoft a small fortune in patent licensing to be able to sell Android.
Lighten up, Francis. This is Slashdot. Nobody expects good journalism or even semi-accurate plagiarism here.
Crystal light has been around for a very long time.
So, you believe it is okay for the government to confiscate your property, without being able to articulate a _reasonable_ suspicion of criminal activity, without charging you with a crime, and without convicting you of a crime?
I checked Netcraft, and they did NOT confirm it...
Since neither the submitter nor the editors couldn't be bothered to provide a link to the app in the play store (let's face it, that would be too useful), here it is:
https://play.google.com/store/...
"Colleagues who decry Barr's fate worry that the incident could make other scientists think twice about coming to work for NSF"
No, her fate will make other scientists think twice about getting involved with terrorist organizations and then lying about it on their background check applications.
Our area just picked up a few Proterra electric buses for use in the Catbus system, which serves Clemson University and the surrounding areas. There were some huge federal grants involved, and they have been riddled with problems, but have finally started running and carrying passengers. We're mostly a rural area and the bus system is free for all to use - paid for by Clemson University student fees and some taxpayer money from surrounding municipalities (Cities of Clemson, Seneca, Pendleton, and Central, afaik).
The buses are neat. They use overhead inductive chargers that are located at various places around town. I haven't ridden one yet (I prefer to get around by bicycle), but I hear they're pretty nice.
I am sure the impact on air quality is almost unmeasurable in our vast expanse of rural countryside, but in cities the impact could be huge.
In fact, consensus is a very valuable part of the cooperative scientific process.
The bad reputation belongs to those who attempt to use consensus as a substitute for proof. People like the IPCC, EPA, NOAA, NASA, and governments all over the world who are trying to use this climate change bogeyman as an excuse to foist oppressive political and economic regimes on free (and not free) people.
Not just content control, but complete and total usage control. Using this technology, ISPs could prevent you opening a connection to anyone they didn't want you to connect to, because all of your outgoing connections would have to be "approved" by their router.
This is all about ending the free and open Internet as we know it today and completely privatizing control over it.
I'd say that the column position requirements in FORTRAN 77 take the cake.
In a nutshell, this is applying DRM to all of your connection attempts. You will only be able to make connections that are "authorized" by TPTB.
No more free and open networking.
It's called a GBU-24 with an MK-84 payload. We had every capability of destroying the equipment, and come to think of it we could destroy it any time we wanted to provided we can find it.
Our problem is not the lack of technology. The problem is the lack of a CiC with a set of testicles.
How about the FCC does this: If you are an ISP and have taken billions of federal dollars to build out infrastructure, you actually have to do it and offer service to people?
Okay, let's set aside for just one brief moment that a goodly part of the science portrayed on the show is just plain wrong, and discuss instead what I think is a much more interesting topic: Trying to take a show that is centered around brilliant people and making it not only acceptable, but very funny to stupid people.
Don't you agree that it is an exercise in futility to make an attempt at incorporating low-brow, "everyman" humor into this show? Let's face it, nobody who is as smart as Sheldon or Leonard are would find any of the humor in the show consistent, let alone funny.
I recall one episode (forgive me for not remembering the title) where Leonard suggests that Sheldon drink plenty of fluids - maybe it was the one when Sheldon got sick right before the trip to Switzerland or something - but in any case his retort was something like "well what else would I drink? Maybe gasses or ionized plasma?"
Someone as smart as Sheldon, especially a theoretical physicist, knows that gasses and ionized plasmas ARE fluids - the obvious mistake here being to imply that the term "fluid" is interchangeable with the term "liquid," when it is not.
I've found the show to be chock full of these kinds of glaring inconsistencies and falsehoods. It leads me to believe that the show's writers either don't really listen to you, or go over the material and change it after you've edited it, or something else. Can you enlighten us?
I've never had an issue running Linux (the kernel) on any motherboard I have every tried.
Please try to understand that 99% of angry posts on the Internet about how "this shit doesn't work" are really saying "I can't make it work because I don't know how and I'm mad."