The fake scroll wheels (like all rocker switches) are a disaster. Why connect your "next track" button (right) to your "volume up" button (up) without a gap between? Horrible. Good players have physical buttons with some space between them so you can click one button without mashing the others, and tell by feel which button you are pressing without looking at the player.
Bah,.EPUB rather use a format designed to conform to my device than force a device to conform to the format.
HTML had the same intent, but that aspect of it basically failed, and it was eventually patched up with more tags and parameters to give content authors more control over presentation. Even so, everybody resorted to special versions of content for handheld devices (from Plucker for Palm Pilots to Apps rather than standard web pages for the iPhone). Heck, even slashdot doesn't work at less than 1024 pixels wide (e.g. on a 1024x768 screen with TreeTabs firefox extension). And the Java vision of running an app on anything from a handheld to a mainframe didn't help it too much either.
Automatic layout simply isn't desirable beyond a fairly narrow range of display sizes.
I've dried out a water-damaged book that was personally valuable to me, and it came out halfway decent. Perfect, no, but still quite readable.
Electronics survive humidity and moderate water much better than books. A paper book is ruined the first time it's in a backpack that gets rained on. Even touching it with wet fingers will permanently damage it. Electronics, on the other hand, almost always survive this level of wetness without damage. And an SD card will usually survive going through the wash.
If you really think paper is more durable, try carrying a steno notebook everywhere you take your cellphone for the next few months, taking it in and out of your pocket just as often, etc. The steno won't last a month.
we have real intelligence controlling robots. The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.
The use of human brain cells doesn't imply "real" intelligence. Computationally, this thing is vastly weaker than "traditional" (silicon) computers from 30 years ago, much less whatever is on Predators (or your iPhone) today. There isn't any pixie dust in neurons.
Totally speculating here, but I'm guessing the condemnation of suicide stems from a (probably misguided) attempt to discourage people from killing themselves. At least, telling people that killing themselves is a ticket straight to heaven is not something that nice churches do.
BTW, I say "probably" misguided because I had a grandfather who said he was long depressed but didn't kill himself because of his belief that it would only make his life (or afterlife) worse than it already was. One could argue that his belief was only prolonging his misery and he'd have been better off dead, but by the end of his life, he seemed glad to have stuck it out. If nothing else, even if his net happiness was negative, he was of service to those around him.
That is interesting, because it seems like that's exactly what traction control systems do, and specifically under highly dynamic handling conditions to boot.
The private sector could easily do something this stupid.
The private sector is already doing something much more stupid - namely, failing to use this glass for the 99% of car windows for which it makes sense. By comparison, requiring it in the 1% of cases (Jeep windows!) where it's not necessary is a little unfortunate but insignificant.
Sure you can! If people just stopped having character flaws, the world would be great, and nobody would have to gripe about anything any more. Expensive loans? We wouldn't even need money anymore, since we could trust people to consume less than they produce without keeping track.
Also there would be no crime and hardly any obesity. Can you come up with a solution that does all that? So, my part in improving the world is all done until people take the advice I've already given, and stop having character flaws.
Think about it-- an 18 year old student spending $200,000 to study basket-weaving for 8 years gets the same rates as a 25 year old getting a nursing certification at a community college, even though their risk/reward profile is completely different.
Really? Is there data available on the default rates broken down by degree? It would be interesting.
The parent provided its own nonstandard definition of "mutation" under which the question makes sense, in fact it's the point of the Nature article - which in the abstract is called "genomic vs adaptive evolution." Some mutations matter to the fitness of the organism, and some don't, and some can change the mutation rate itself, so it would be wrong to assume uniform rates of either genomic or adaptive evolution. This has implications for phylogenetics, where it would be a lot easer to infer the relatedness of different species and the time frames involved if the rate of mutation were constant. But it isn't, so, too bad. I think this was already pretty well accepted from the fossil record, but I guess directly observing it under controlled conditions is a nice confirmation.
You don't say where "home" is, but xenophobia, nationalism, and religious zealotry in the US are quite amateur when compared to other countries.
The problem is we are backsliding in all those areas, not getting better. Assume he came here 10 years ago - his complaints probably aren't compared to some imaginary version of the US, but rather to how it was when he got here. The more time passes, the more it becomes clear that we really shot ourselves in the foot in a major way with our unhinged militaristic response to 911.
But we have been told that by imposing tariffs and monetary controls, a country is only shooting itself in the foot. If true, China would only be stronger if they played by "our" rules.
Most governments are acceptable to most of the people who live there, or they tend to fall fairly quickly. For the US to look at somebody like Alexander Solzhenitsyn and assume most Soviets share his feelings is just propaganda; my guess is most Soviets regarded Solzhenitsyn the way most Americans regard Noam Chomsky - that is A) not at all, or B) think he's an un-patriotic crackpot. Even Stalin still has a big following in Russia to this day!
Pleasing the majority almost comes naturally; it's the size of the disaffected minority that matters.
What's new is pushing the add-ons as the "next gen", as a fig leaf for the lack of new consoles / longer product cycle. The "new thing" is less new stuff.
A more obvious explanation is that google is a major impetus behind the net neutrality push coming from the Obama administration. I guess it's possible this is all a convoluted plot for Sergey Brin to promote abortion on demand or something, but I think it's more likely google just doesn't want to get extorted by Comcast.
It'll never be finished anyway. They'll repeatedly extend the deadlines and the budget unsuccessfully before the project's stinking remains will be swept quietly under the rug.
Do you feel at all hypocritical posting that on the existing Internet, which came from earlier DARPA projects of the same nature?
Government doesn't provide for citizens. It forces some citizens to provide for others.
Mainly what government does is force people to provide for themselves. Otherwise many won't bother to buy health insurance or save for old age or unemployment. Then the inevitable happens and they become a burden on everybody else. Granted, social security and medicare are somewhat redistributive, but for the most part, they amount to you providing for your own future needs.
Day traders are a tiny part of the whole trading ecosystem. They just happen to be the sharks, while most people are the tuna.
Wow, do you have numbers to support this? My general impression of day traders is they are suckers that end up paying a lot of commissions and rarely beat the market with enough consistency to do well over a significant timespan. Let me put it another way, Warren Buffet is not a day trader. It's amazing how quickly a bull market makes people think they are smart.
I switched from VI to emacs about 10 years ago primarily because of emacs' ability to manage multiple windows (by which I mean buffers in this post, not separate X windows), and I still think it offers most all the benefits of 10/GUI! You can have columns of buffers (windows), but also rows (addressing your concern), but they're not just arbitrarily strewn around. You have a high-bandwidth, but precise input channel that doesn't block the screen, called a keyboard. You can easily access a labeled list of open windows. No, I don't expect a resurgence of emacs to wipe out the gui, but people who are designing windowing systems should at least be familiar with how emacs worked. (Maybe emacs borrowed it from lisp machines? I don't know). Granted, keyboards aren't exactly multi-touch (except for modifier keys like SHIFT), but keyboards do utilize the ability to move several fingers at once to achieve high-bandwidth input.
Naiive question, but what limits the capacity of superconductor? With no resistance, therefore no overheating, what stops it from being able to carry even more?
Rubber-banding is no different than a golf handicap, tennis ladder, or beginner/expert/pro leagues in most sports. It's simply not fun to play too far out of your skill range. The talk about "rewarding mediocrity" is misplaced in an activity that exists only for fun - it should be rewarding for everybody, otherwise players would (and should) quit.
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The fake scroll wheels (like all rocker switches) are a disaster. Why connect your "next track" button (right) to your "volume up" button (up) without a gap between? Horrible. Good players have physical buttons with some space between them so you can click one button without mashing the others, and tell by feel which button you are pressing without looking at the player.
? Just use whatever you use for paper books. A headlamp works well.
HTML had the same intent, but that aspect of it basically failed, and it was eventually patched up with more tags and parameters to give content authors more control over presentation. Even so, everybody resorted to special versions of content for handheld devices (from Plucker for Palm Pilots to Apps rather than standard web pages for the iPhone). Heck, even slashdot doesn't work at less than 1024 pixels wide (e.g. on a 1024x768 screen with TreeTabs firefox extension). And the Java vision of running an app on anything from a handheld to a mainframe didn't help it too much either.
Automatic layout simply isn't desirable beyond a fairly narrow range of display sizes.
Electronics survive humidity and moderate water much better than books. A paper book is ruined the first time it's in a backpack that gets rained on. Even touching it with wet fingers will permanently damage it. Electronics, on the other hand, almost always survive this level of wetness without damage. And an SD card will usually survive going through the wash.
If you really think paper is more durable, try carrying a steno notebook everywhere you take your cellphone for the next few months, taking it in and out of your pocket just as often, etc. The steno won't last a month.
The use of human brain cells doesn't imply "real" intelligence. Computationally, this thing is vastly weaker than "traditional" (silicon) computers from 30 years ago, much less whatever is on Predators (or your iPhone) today. There isn't any pixie dust in neurons.
BTW, I say "probably" misguided because I had a grandfather who said he was long depressed but didn't kill himself because of his belief that it would only make his life (or afterlife) worse than it already was. One could argue that his belief was only prolonging his misery and he'd have been better off dead, but by the end of his life, he seemed glad to have stuck it out. If nothing else, even if his net happiness was negative, he was of service to those around him.
Sco and Microsoft just invested millions in his education!
That is interesting, because it seems like that's exactly what traction control systems do, and specifically under highly dynamic handling conditions to boot.
The private sector is already doing something much more stupid - namely, failing to use this glass for the 99% of car windows for which it makes sense. By comparison, requiring it in the 1% of cases (Jeep windows!) where it's not necessary is a little unfortunate but insignificant.
Sure you can! If people just stopped having character flaws, the world would be great, and nobody would have to gripe about anything any more. Expensive loans? We wouldn't even need money anymore, since we could trust people to consume less than they produce without keeping track. Also there would be no crime and hardly any obesity. Can you come up with a solution that does all that? So, my part in improving the world is all done until people take the advice I've already given, and stop having character flaws.
Really? Is there data available on the default rates broken down by degree? It would be interesting.
The parent provided its own nonstandard definition of "mutation" under which the question makes sense, in fact it's the point of the Nature article - which in the abstract is called "genomic vs adaptive evolution." Some mutations matter to the fitness of the organism, and some don't, and some can change the mutation rate itself, so it would be wrong to assume uniform rates of either genomic or adaptive evolution. This has implications for phylogenetics, where it would be a lot easer to infer the relatedness of different species and the time frames involved if the rate of mutation were constant. But it isn't, so, too bad. I think this was already pretty well accepted from the fossil record, but I guess directly observing it under controlled conditions is a nice confirmation.
The problem is we are backsliding in all those areas, not getting better. Assume he came here 10 years ago - his complaints probably aren't compared to some imaginary version of the US, but rather to how it was when he got here. The more time passes, the more it becomes clear that we really shot ourselves in the foot in a major way with our unhinged militaristic response to 911.
But we have been told that by imposing tariffs and monetary controls, a country is only shooting itself in the foot. If true, China would only be stronger if they played by "our" rules.
Pleasing the majority almost comes naturally; it's the size of the disaffected minority that matters.
What's new is pushing the add-ons as the "next gen", as a fig leaf for the lack of new consoles / longer product cycle. The "new thing" is less new stuff.
A more obvious explanation is that google is a major impetus behind the net neutrality push coming from the Obama administration. I guess it's possible this is all a convoluted plot for Sergey Brin to promote abortion on demand or something, but I think it's more likely google just doesn't want to get extorted by Comcast.
Do you feel at all hypocritical posting that on the existing Internet, which came from earlier DARPA projects of the same nature?
Every imaginable right has some effect on other, unwilling people. Thus all rights are a compromise. It's a fact libertarians conveniently ignore.
Mainly what government does is force people to provide for themselves. Otherwise many won't bother to buy health insurance or save for old age or unemployment. Then the inevitable happens and they become a burden on everybody else. Granted, social security and medicare are somewhat redistributive, but for the most part, they amount to you providing for your own future needs.
Wow, do you have numbers to support this? My general impression of day traders is they are suckers that end up paying a lot of commissions and rarely beat the market with enough consistency to do well over a significant timespan. Let me put it another way, Warren Buffet is not a day trader. It's amazing how quickly a bull market makes people think they are smart.
That's like saying books are bad because they assume eyesight. Should we all switch to Braille?
I switched from VI to emacs about 10 years ago primarily because of emacs' ability to manage multiple windows (by which I mean buffers in this post, not separate X windows), and I still think it offers most all the benefits of 10/GUI! You can have columns of buffers (windows), but also rows (addressing your concern), but they're not just arbitrarily strewn around. You have a high-bandwidth, but precise input channel that doesn't block the screen, called a keyboard. You can easily access a labeled list of open windows. No, I don't expect a resurgence of emacs to wipe out the gui, but people who are designing windowing systems should at least be familiar with how emacs worked. (Maybe emacs borrowed it from lisp machines? I don't know). Granted, keyboards aren't exactly multi-touch (except for modifier keys like SHIFT), but keyboards do utilize the ability to move several fingers at once to achieve high-bandwidth input.
Naiive question, but what limits the capacity of superconductor? With no resistance, therefore no overheating, what stops it from being able to carry even more?
Rubber-banding is no different than a golf handicap, tennis ladder, or beginner/expert/pro leagues in most sports. It's simply not fun to play too far out of your skill range. The talk about "rewarding mediocrity" is misplaced in an activity that exists only for fun - it should be rewarding for everybody, otherwise players would (and should) quit.