Did Randall confuse vertical and horizontal resolution? The vertical resolution of a HD TV (1080p) is "over twice the horizontal resolution of [a] cell phone", or 480p on original iPhone in landscape mode. It also "almosts beats [an] lcd monitor" from 2004 at 1280p horizontally (SXGA).
Of course, the comparable number on a HDTV is 1920p, not 1080p. This means that HD has 13.5x more pixels than the iPhone, and 60% more pixels than an SXGA monitor from 2004.
I can access it just fine, but like all the Free IPv6 Porn sites, it is indeed a sham. It just features the heading "The IPv6 is for porn" and that internet-is-for-porn video.
What's with all the comments saying that this is a silly/stupid/worthless invention? Panasonic has automated a dull task previously reserved exclusively for unskilled human labourers! This is/., when did we start longing for the manual human elements of mindless, repetitive work?
I, for one, wish Panasonic all the best in automating everyday tasks. I don't think I've seen a new machine to help with day-to-day life since the post office got an electronic stamp dispenser ten years ago. This is supposed to be the future!
When this thing has been field tested and gone down in price, you can probably find them at your local hairdresser's. Am I the only who'd like a two hour head massage for a handful of quarters?
Women who received a placebo but believed they had received testosterone offered fair money splits only 10 percent of the time, probably because they harbored a negative stereotype of testosterone's effects. Women who were given testosterone but thought it was a placebo, on the other hand, offered fair-share splits 60 percent of the time--significantly more often than those who correctly guessed they got testosterone (30 percent) or a placebo (50 percent).
The difference is 10%. Neither TFA or this FA mention sample size (boo!), but unless it was tragically low, this should be significant.
People do call fructose "fruit sugar", but the FDA does not allow HFCS to be called "fructose", since (as you point out) it isn't. Nor can it be labeled "sugar", which it is, due to the chemical processes involved (much like how you have to specify that fat is hydrogenated, even though it's still just fat).
HFCS use in foods has been declining, yet obesity continues to rise...
Citation needed, and here it is: HFCS use in food has declined about about 20% per capita, since the high point in 2002 (source, table 50). In fact, the use of caloric sweeteners has fallen by 15%, while obesity has increased by 15% in the same time period (source).
Of course, HFCS consumption still correlates positively with obesity on the individual level – just not directly. More HFCS generally implies more junk food.
If you think fructose is bad, stop eating fruit, [because] it's the sugar you'll find therein.
Oh, if only logic worked... The obsession with HFCS vs. fructose vs. cane sugar vs. honey is the same old fantasy of being able to eat all the crap you want as long as it's the right kind of crap.
Obesity as a biological problem was solved ages ago: consume less energy and/or expend more. Science will eventually solve the psychological problem that you can't eat that donut even though you really want to, but until then, wishing really hard won't make it come true. And trying does not help.
From TFS: The second team put a flexible material over a conductive rubber compound which had transistors implanted in it. The device can sense touch when the rubber is compressed, changing the electrical resistance
My first thought was that this was resistive based touch technology -- that's sooo last year! And surely skin must be one of the best applications for multi-touch.
spend so much damned money on a building when [teachers] are underpaid, undersupplied ([...]) and set in front of huge classes
This is of course a big problem, but we shouldn't underestimate the effects of nice and well-kept surroundings on student behaviour and learning. Nothing can save a school without good teachers and sufficient funding, but they will have to fight an uphill battle if they teach in an environment of cramped spaces, crowding, poor lighting, insufficient ventilation, lacking vegetation and graffiti (environmental stressors).
There could even be significant secondary benefits like politicians and parents taking more of an interest in education if the school appears to be something to be proud of. Success begets success.
It will be really interesting to see what happens to a public school with all the environmental features of a private school. Consider it research.
If one cat turns into 420000 over 5 years, then if a single cat was abandoned or escaped 15 years ago in the USA, there should now be 13.8 quadrillion offspring accumulated, or 13.8 Peta-cats if you will. Let's say that "just" one Peta-cat is still alive. That's 3.2 Mega-cats per capita, or a bit over 100 cats per square meter of american territory.
I had a national ISP (NextGenTel), though in a small country, where paying for a 4Mbps line meant that the browser's reported speed was 500kb/s. Not only was the throughput consistent, it meant that all protocol overhead was included in the estimate. I even started paying for a 1Mbps line that was upgraded at no cost to 4Mbps as competition sharpened.
My only feasible theory is that the installation guy had a crush on me. You'll always get shafted, one way or the other.
Itanium is still going strong in high end servers. It is a tiny market, but Itanium sells well
While I didn't find figures for "going strong" and "sells well", parent is apparently along the right lines. I had no idea that Itanium now sells enough to be profitable!
With P2P and brain network implants, we can start merging the real and social networking world. In 30 years, you won't have to rely on Facebook-equivalents or slow keyboard input, you might be able to communicate with people by standing next to them and talking!
Are you defending against someone with a magnetic force microsocope?
Yes, see Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy. Even with a magnetic force microscope, one pass is plenty. You can correctly identify a bit overwritten once with a probability of 0.56, up from 0.50 when randomly guessing. That's a 1% chance of correctly identifying any given byte.
I think people are just lazy and don't want to work at understanding the world around them
There's a big difference between working at understanding the world around you, and learning to do professional level work in fields outside your own.
It's obvious to us that Microsoft wouldn't call you if you had a virus, and definitely wouldn't ask you to download software from third party sites. That upgrading the program in question usually fixes the problem. That cron has to be running from cronjobs to be performed. That a script has to be +r and not just +x. That 'inc eax' is slower than 'add eax,1' on a modern Intel CPU.
It's obvious to other people that you should use mold inhibiting paint in bathrooms. That a fuel pump that fits a car might work, but doesn't necessarily have the right fuel pressure. That drugs in screw-top containers should not be used intravenously. That large cacti can be covered with a blanket for safer transportation. I'd rather pay these people so that I can get by with my relatively basic understanding of paint, automotive repairs, medicine and transportation.
Commerce is the realization that no one can do everything well.
And, of course, there are benefits beyond the stated cost savings. We get to see the effects on human lung tissue rather than on approximations like mouse lungs, and it can reduce the number of animals needed for testing.
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Did Randall confuse vertical and horizontal resolution? The vertical resolution of a HD TV (1080p) is "over twice the horizontal resolution of [a] cell phone", or 480p on original iPhone in landscape mode. It also "almosts beats [an] lcd monitor" from 2004 at 1280p horizontally (SXGA).
Of course, the comparable number on a HDTV is 1920p, not 1080p. This means that HD has 13.5x more pixels than the iPhone, and 60% more pixels than an SXGA monitor from 2004.
I can access it just fine, but like all the Free IPv6 Porn sites, it is indeed a sham. It just features the heading "The IPv6 is for porn" and that internet-is-for-porn video.
what they're thinking about is [...] "nice rack", not "nice code". Can you see why that might be seen as more than a bit demeaning?
To be fair, her rack had like 30 blade servers.
What's with all the comments saying that this is a silly/stupid/worthless invention? Panasonic has automated a dull task previously reserved exclusively for unskilled human labourers! This is /., when did we start longing for the manual human elements of mindless, repetitive work?
I, for one, wish Panasonic all the best in automating everyday tasks. I don't think I've seen a new machine to help with day-to-day life since the post office got an electronic stamp dispenser ten years ago. This is supposed to be the future!
When this thing has been field tested and gone down in price, you can probably find them at your local hairdresser's. Am I the only who'd like a two hour head massage for a handful of quarters?
Who would want to carry around a cryostat with [their] laptop?
Just slap an Apple logo on it, and people will never leave home without it.
I've seen 120GB external hard drives for over $100 [at Walmart]
Sounds about right. Or was this after 2004?
Is attempting to exploit children (and their parents) economically not also deserving of the label "pedophilia"?
No. Don't lump aggressive marketing and sexual abuse together.
But interestingly, testosterone seems to have the opposite effect on women.
Women who received a placebo but believed they had received testosterone offered fair money splits only 10 percent of the time, probably because they harbored a negative stereotype of testosterone's effects. Women who were given testosterone but thought it was a placebo, on the other hand, offered fair-share splits 60 percent of the time--significantly more often than those who correctly guessed they got testosterone (30 percent) or a placebo (50 percent).
The difference is 10%. Neither TFA or this FA mention sample size (boo!), but unless it was tragically low, this should be significant.
People do call fructose "fruit sugar", but the FDA does not allow HFCS to be called "fructose", since (as you point out) it isn't. Nor can it be labeled "sugar", which it is, due to the chemical processes involved (much like how you have to specify that fat is hydrogenated, even though it's still just fat).
Citation needed, and here it is: HFCS use in food has declined about about 20% per capita, since the high point in 2002 (source, table 50). In fact, the use of caloric sweeteners has fallen by 15%, while obesity has increased by 15% in the same time period (source).
Of course, HFCS consumption still correlates positively with obesity on the individual level – just not directly. More HFCS generally implies more junk food.
Oh, if only logic worked... The obsession with HFCS vs. fructose vs. cane sugar vs. honey is the same old fantasy of being able to eat all the crap you want as long as it's the right kind of crap.
Obesity as a biological problem was solved ages ago: consume less energy and/or expend more. Science will eventually solve the psychological problem that you can't eat that donut even though you really want to, but until then, wishing really hard won't make it come true. And trying does not help.
From TFS: The second team put a flexible material over a conductive rubber compound which had transistors implanted in it. The device can sense touch when the rubber is compressed, changing the electrical resistance
My first thought was that this was resistive based touch technology -- that's sooo last year! And surely skin must be one of the best applications for multi-touch.
Well, considering that it's an advert for poison...
spend so much damned money on a building when [teachers] are underpaid, undersupplied ([...]) and set in front of huge classes
This is of course a big problem, but we shouldn't underestimate the effects of nice and well-kept surroundings on student behaviour and learning. Nothing can save a school without good teachers and sufficient funding, but they will have to fight an uphill battle if they teach in an environment of cramped spaces, crowding, poor lighting, insufficient ventilation, lacking vegetation and graffiti (environmental stressors).
There could even be significant secondary benefits like politicians and parents taking more of an interest in education if the school appears to be something to be proud of. Success begets success.
It will be really interesting to see what happens to a public school with all the environmental features of a private school. Consider it research.
We'll need a lot of captions!
If one cat turns into 420000 over 5 years, then if a single cat was abandoned or escaped 15 years ago in the USA, there should now be 13.8 quadrillion offspring accumulated, or 13.8 Peta-cats if you will. Let's say that "just" one Peta-cat is still alive. That's 3.2 Mega-cats per capita, or a bit over 100 cats per square meter of american territory.
I had a national ISP (NextGenTel), though in a small country, where paying for a 4Mbps line meant that the browser's reported speed was 500kb/s. Not only was the throughput consistent, it meant that all protocol overhead was included in the estimate. I even started paying for a 1Mbps line that was upgraded at no cost to 4Mbps as competition sharpened.
My only feasible theory is that the installation guy had a crush on me. You'll always get shafted, one way or the other.
A simple test: switch off WiFi for the first week of term without telling anyone.
Isn't the wlan there for kids to use? Surely they'd notice if they can't get online.
Itanium is still going strong in high end servers. It is a tiny market, but Itanium sells well
While I didn't find figures for "going strong" and "sells well", parent is apparently along the right lines. I had no idea that Itanium now sells enough to be profitable!
to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet
Well, it's much easier to upgrade a design plan than an existing infrastructure.
With P2P and brain network implants, we can start merging the real and social networking world. In 30 years, you won't have to rely on Facebook-equivalents or slow keyboard input, you might be able to communicate with people by standing next to them and talking!
I'm sure they melt like butter when you mention how it comes factory loaded with xterm and all the software updates are via apt.
Here is an updated version of the graph, with the N900 included.
Are you defending against someone with a magnetic force microsocope?
Yes, see Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy. Even with a magnetic force microscope, one pass is plenty. You can correctly identify a bit overwritten once with a probability of 0.56, up from 0.50 when randomly guessing. That's a 1% chance of correctly identifying any given byte.
maintenance-nightmare, energy wasting, moving sidewalks
And people already trip and sue on stationary sidewalks. You'd need a courtroom at the end of each one.
I think people are just lazy and don't want to work at understanding the world around them
There's a big difference between working at understanding the world around you, and learning to do professional level work in fields outside your own.
It's obvious to us that Microsoft wouldn't call you if you had a virus, and definitely wouldn't ask you to download software from third party sites. That upgrading the program in question usually fixes the problem. That cron has to be running from cronjobs to be performed. That a script has to be +r and not just +x. That 'inc eax' is slower than 'add eax,1' on a modern Intel CPU.
It's obvious to other people that you should use mold inhibiting paint in bathrooms. That a fuel pump that fits a car might work, but doesn't necessarily have the right fuel pressure. That drugs in screw-top containers should not be used intravenously. That large cacti can be covered with a blanket for safer transportation. I'd rather pay these people so that I can get by with my relatively basic understanding of paint, automotive repairs, medicine and transportation.
Commerce is the realization that no one can do everything well.
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0
Why stop there? If you want to complicate a beautiful identity to accommodate your favourite constants, how about e^(pi*i) + 42 = 2+3+5+7+11+13
And, of course, there are benefits beyond the stated cost savings. We get to see the effects on human lung tissue rather than on approximations like mouse lungs, and it can reduce the number of animals needed for testing.
I'd like to smack the idiot who designed this intersection.
(Also happens to be my favourite xkcd ever, finally I get to use it)