Well then, put me down for RedHat's business model (charge money for a product) instead of this other thing - charge me a low price (maybe call it free), then nag and chisel me for the rest of my life. It's sleazy. And yes, I pay the extra $20 for an e-reader without ads. How ad-driven can our culture possibly get? Somebody has to actually buy something at some point.
But going forward, this is going to be a huge issue, as owners of expensive waterfront property feel ripped off by rising sea levels (which they are not exclusively responsible for), but people who live far away don't want to subsidize millionaires' foolishness.
Perhaps, since garbage can always be carted away later.
Maybe a better analogy would be a government that decides not to compensate residents when it builds a dam to make a reservoir out of a valley where people were living.
First communities to make it a downhill run for Google win the digital economy.
Almost the whole world wants Google fiber.
Since this whole story is a pipe dream anyways, I'll take my imaginary gigabit-to-the-livingroom from some other company that's NOT google - from a company that provides bandwidth, and nothing else. I'm getting sick of google being all over the place. Lately they are nagging me for my cellphone number (since you need a google or Facebook login to post to 2/3 of the web boards around the Internet). WTF? Leave me alone. I never even wanted to have to go through an intermediary to have a video conference. But everybody has adopted Facebook and Google or Apple, draining all the demand for developing and adopting open standards.
There used to be such a thing. Ask your grandparents about the "magic of compounding interest" sometime. If you bought a home, or property, or some stocks in postwar America, you made a lot of money over time, pretty much automatically.
SpaceX is not governed by humans of a different nature than NASA, but it is a lot younger. Long-running organizations accrue a bit more red tape in response to every mishap, until eventually they are immobilized. It is very difficult to streamline and organization in-place. Not unlike how code gets crufty and has to be re-written, and old people can get very cautious and meticulous (because they lost their glasses once 25 years ago and don't want that to happen again!) A blank sheet of paper grants a lot of freedom. Granted it will lead to repeating past mistakes as well. It will be a real test for SpaceX, the first time they destroy a payload or kill some people.
a spark can start a gasoline fire, whereas diesel fuel needs to be atomized. Geeks should know this.
"Atomized" sounds rather exotic. I use diesel fuel rather than whatever is sold as lighter fuel on my charcoal grill routinely, almost weekly, and let me tell you, if you moisten stuff with diesel and set a match to it, it burns. It doesn't "woof!" as much as gasoline, but it certainly does burn.
No, I think we have only exhausted the demands of what you might call simplistic computing - fragile algorithms that efficiently follow usually a fixed number of steps to transform their input into some determined output, like drawing a rectangle. Given any imperfect input, they simply explode. Nothing in nature works this way. Living things are more messy, rooted in pattern matching and open-ended searching. We still can't even really simulate glass of water tipping over and spilling off the table. Computers that interact more naturalistically, such as IBM's Watson (the Jeapordy machine) and the highest-scoring image recognition algorithms consume massive (by today's standards) computing resources (at least to train if not also to execute).
It would be a shame if naturalistic computing were stunted by lack of demand for more capable processors.
Most gun crimes are not committed by professional outlaws that tap overseas suppliers for weaponry. The vast majority are just guys who got pissed off and / or drunk while a gun was handy.
His actions prove nothing except that a trusted senior individual with administrative rights and physical access to the system could, in fact, divulge sensitive information. That's not scandalous. In fact it is for all practical purposes unavoidable. OK, fault them for not inspecting everybody's bags on the way out of work every single day (ignoring the cost and alienation factor)... even then he could STILL have done it with a microSD under his tongue. At some point it comes down to trusting individuals.
I was watching The Queen of Versailles the other night (a pretty amazing documentary) and in one scene the tycoon is bragging on the phone that he defaulted on a $9M loan, then secretly sent a third party to the bank to buy back the assets on auction for $3M. Just like that, he stole $6M with a few phone calls, probably completely legally. More welfare than a dozen inner-city welfare moms could get in a lifetime. No retribution, even after everybody knows. The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
Your statement is so consistent with how people view scientific progress in general - by dreaming up some arbitrary vision of how the future will be, then feeling cheated when the universe doesn't turn out to be what they vaguely imagined.
As far as I am concerned the Curiosity mission is accountable for this: to gather the data they got funded to gather. This includes developing the sensors, getting them to the right spot on Mars, collecting the data, and transmitting it home. Whether that data confirms or disproves 1950's sci-fi (or blogosphere buzz) is really beside the point.
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If we could just cherry pick those kids now...
This has been tried, more or less, in a large study spanning over 70 years(!), but without great success: "In his book Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences (p. 70-76), sociologist Pitirim Sorokin criticized the research, showing that Terman's selected group of children with high IQs did about as well as a random group of children selected from similar family backgrounds would have done."
How cheap is it? I would love to light my livingroom with large panels of not-very-bright material. Light from a point source is so harsh. I tried to fix this with a light that shines up and bounces off the white ceiling, but that isn't quite right either.
Except that it wouldn't melt in your mouth and thus probably also be less delicious than normal chocolate.
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The problem was that making a chocolate bar that wouldn't melt wasn't hard. What was hard was to make one that people still wanted to eat. The military bars didn't melt and they were nutritious, but they were difficult to eat and they didn't taste very good. Thatâ(TM)s because the usual way to keep chocolate from melting was to either add fillers like oat flour and swap the cocoa butter for other fats, which made it taste like a candle, or adding water or glycerol to encourage sugar crystal formation, which made it gritty.
Cadbury's approach is...
Well, audio CDs devote less space to redundancy than data CDs, but not none:
Before being written to the disc, the LPCM audio data is divided into 12-sample frames (six left and right samples, alternating) and subjected to CIRC encoding, which segments and rearranges the data and expands it with "parity" bits in a way that allows occasional read errors to be detected and corrected.
But referring to the message I responded to, I don't see how a USB to SATA chipset would affect bit errors either way.
I never had great reliability with ripping CDs. Every drive has different discs it will or won't read. Since the OP is ripping his own disks I hope they are well cared for. When I rip audiobooks from the library or DVDs from Netflix the success rate is not great. IME optical media have always been somewhat hit-or-miss, like floppy drives. Good riddance to them both. 32 GB of music on a robust $20 MicroSD in my $35 Sansa Clip+, it's like a miracle.
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Well then, put me down for RedHat's business model (charge money for a product) instead of this other thing - charge me a low price (maybe call it free), then nag and chisel me for the rest of my life. It's sleazy. And yes, I pay the extra $20 for an e-reader without ads. How ad-driven can our culture possibly get? Somebody has to actually buy something at some point.
No, from the article, I think this is mainly what to do about the most accute cases - tiny island nations that will be underwater 50 years from now.
This has nothing to do with the UN, but yes, to the tune of $60 BN from Sandy alone. (Of course not all that damage is due to sea level rise).
But going forward, this is going to be a huge issue, as owners of expensive waterfront property feel ripped off by rising sea levels (which they are not exclusively responsible for), but people who live far away don't want to subsidize millionaires' foolishness.
Perhaps, since garbage can always be carted away later.
Maybe a better analogy would be a government that decides not to compensate residents when it builds a dam to make a reservoir out of a valley where people were living.
Mind if I ask where you live? I have a few truckloads of garbage to dump somewhere.
Since this whole story is a pipe dream anyways, I'll take my imaginary gigabit-to-the-livingroom from some other company that's NOT google - from a company that provides bandwidth, and nothing else. I'm getting sick of google being all over the place. Lately they are nagging me for my cellphone number (since you need a google or Facebook login to post to 2/3 of the web boards around the Internet). WTF? Leave me alone. I never even wanted to have to go through an intermediary to have a video conference. But everybody has adopted Facebook and Google or Apple, draining all the demand for developing and adopting open standards.
The only solution I know of to fix the inverted colors in flash is disable hardware acceleration, which makes it unsuitable for full-screen video.
There used to be such a thing. Ask your grandparents about the "magic of compounding interest" sometime. If you bought a home, or property, or some stocks in postwar America, you made a lot of money over time, pretty much automatically.
SpaceX is not governed by humans of a different nature than NASA, but it is a lot younger. Long-running organizations accrue a bit more red tape in response to every mishap, until eventually they are immobilized. It is very difficult to streamline and organization in-place. Not unlike how code gets crufty and has to be re-written, and old people can get very cautious and meticulous (because they lost their glasses once 25 years ago and don't want that to happen again!) A blank sheet of paper grants a lot of freedom. Granted it will lead to repeating past mistakes as well. It will be a real test for SpaceX, the first time they destroy a payload or kill some people.
"Atomized" sounds rather exotic. I use diesel fuel rather than whatever is sold as lighter fuel on my charcoal grill routinely, almost weekly, and let me tell you, if you moisten stuff with diesel and set a match to it, it burns. It doesn't "woof!" as much as gasoline, but it certainly does burn.
OK, then how about this? If she wins in court, then Yelp should cover her legal expenses.
If posting to Yelp is a huge financial risk, the site will quickly die.
It would be a shame if naturalistic computing were stunted by lack of demand for more capable processors.
Most gun crimes are not committed by professional outlaws that tap overseas suppliers for weaponry. The vast majority are just guys who got pissed off and / or drunk while a gun was handy.
His actions prove nothing except that a trusted senior individual with administrative rights and physical access to the system could, in fact, divulge sensitive information. That's not scandalous. In fact it is for all practical purposes unavoidable. OK, fault them for not inspecting everybody's bags on the way out of work every single day (ignoring the cost and alienation factor)... even then he could STILL have done it with a microSD under his tongue. At some point it comes down to trusting individuals.
Uncharitable translations are a staple of demagoguery. What surprises me is how much it still happens in the age of the global Internet.
I was watching The Queen of Versailles the other night (a pretty amazing documentary) and in one scene the tycoon is bragging on the phone that he defaulted on a $9M loan, then secretly sent a third party to the bank to buy back the assets on auction for $3M. Just like that, he stole $6M with a few phone calls, probably completely legally. More welfare than a dozen inner-city welfare moms could get in a lifetime. No retribution, even after everybody knows. The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
Games aren't necessarily about novelty, just as real sports are not.
If Iran produces photos of the drone, then the CIA will argue it was over international waters, not Iranian airspace. You read it here first.
I hate it when all the potentially interesting discussion on a slashdot story is headed off by a pedantic nitpick.
Goto is swell also. Just be sure not to make any mistakes!
As far as I am concerned the Curiosity mission is accountable for this: to gather the data they got funded to gather. This includes developing the sensors, getting them to the right spot on Mars, collecting the data, and transmitting it home. Whether that data confirms or disproves 1950's sci-fi (or blogosphere buzz) is really beside the point.
This has been tried, more or less, in a large study spanning over 70 years(!), but without great success: "In his book Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences (p. 70-76), sociologist Pitirim Sorokin criticized the research, showing that Terman's selected group of children with high IQs did about as well as a random group of children selected from similar family backgrounds would have done."
How cheap is it? I would love to light my livingroom with large panels of not-very-bright material. Light from a point source is so harsh. I tried to fix this with a light that shines up and bounces off the white ceiling, but that isn't quite right either.
RTA:
Well, I won't spoil it for you.
But referring to the message I responded to, I don't see how a USB to SATA chipset would affect bit errors either way.
I never had great reliability with ripping CDs. Every drive has different discs it will or won't read. Since the OP is ripping his own disks I hope they are well cared for. When I rip audiobooks from the library or DVDs from Netflix the success rate is not great. IME optical media have always been somewhat hit-or-miss, like floppy drives. Good riddance to them both. 32 GB of music on a robust $20 MicroSD in my $35 Sansa Clip+, it's like a miracle.