finally! someone with a clue.
I keep trying to tell people that the high cost of gas isn't because we're running out of oil it's because of an energy market bubble. That's why the oil companies are posting record profits and why the gov. won't force BigOil(tm) to lower prices. The cost of producing a gallon of gas hasn't gone up only the price of gas has gone up. It sucks now but the bubble will pop and the market will correct itself.
The fact that alligators are one of the few (only?) animals to evolve this adaptation indicates that it comes with a hefty price.
The question is, can we leverage this adaptation for ourselves without incurring the price? yeah i don't even want to think about the copay
OT but it's funny to me that here in Texas PBR is getting trendy so the prices are going up. My favorite bar use to sell it for $1 now it's up to $2.50. There's a bar called City Tavern in downtown Dallas that will give you a PBR and a shot of Jack for $4.00. It's not that bad of a beer once you get use to it and the look on the faces of all the beer snobs when you order it is totally worth it.
I like twitter because it's fast. You only get so many characters for a post (likely due to SMS limitations) so you just type in something small and go. I don't use it over SMS just through the web, though i'm working on an AIM bridge. Their API is nice and the dev community is really friendly and helpful. The only downside is it's kind of hard to build up a set people to follow/followers
I've actually considered applying for a job there but i dunno... I live in Dallas.
my twitter name is chasd00 (along with almost everything else)
For example, a spreadsheet is often the favored client for an OLAP system, and complex spreadsheets will get reused a lot, so connection strings may be part of the overall "application" that the document has become.
I guess so but i figured the document itself would name the data resources it needs and it would be up to the application to actually connect and retrieve the data. I wonder if the document itself can initiate a connection and execute a command. It basically does a "select" to pull data in, can it do a "drop" as well? Seems it wouldn't be hard to put something together that appends a 'drop table' to the document...maybe this is the root of all the office macro security issues, i have no idea, these kinds of integrated documents aren't my specialty obviously.
I grew up in Mexico, and often refer to Hispanics. My girlfriend at the time gave me crap because some group of them (I'm assuming it was The Council of the Wise) decided that Hispanic reminded them of the Spanish conquest, and they preferred Latino.
yeah my fiance is half Mexican and resents the word "Hispanic" as well. Now I just say "Mexican" because all of the people I encounter who i would call "Hispanics" are from Mexico. Some of them don't like "Mexican" either but I just point out that it's quite literally correct and they get over it.
This has happened a few times in Dallas, pretty amusing but pretty dangerous too.
On a related note, The crew that filmed Dallas SWAT use to hang out at a coffee shop I frequent and they said more often then not when they got deployed it was to a vacant house or the wrong address. It was amusing hearing stories about late night raids on an address that didn't exist or empty houses/buildings.
There will always be a human in the loop as far as semi-autonomous weapons go. I'm surprised anyone on slashdot would think otherwise. Maybe 50 years from now an AI would have the intelligence to separate friend from foe from bystander but the tech is simply not there now.
I imagine what we'll see is weapons deployed around the world with their controllers located somewhere else safe. That means easier/faster deployment and none of your own soldiers in harm's way. Maybe UAV's push proposed targets to commanders instead of commanders pouring over recon:shrug: i can see that but not a pure autonomous firefight. For a long time a human will be giving the final OK to fire.
The only justification you ever hear for moving to IPv6 is address exhaustion in IPv4. There's a lot of other stuff built into the protocol that will make the net a much better place. Even if IPv4 had the same amount of addresses as IPv6 it would still be worthwhile to switch.
Just give this a once over for an introduction
I don't see how a robot will ever be able to solve an ethical dilemma on the battlefield. It's such a subjective, context sensitive, issue that we're centuries away from being able to handle that digitally. Another thing, I don't think the planet will ever agree to some "let the robots fight it out" type of warfare either. When a country's robot force is beaten they're not going to just throw up their arms and say "good match sir, here take our land/resource you won it fair and square". They'll still resist to the point of sacrificing their lives.
For the forseable future a human will be at the trigger somewhere in line. Maybe targets get pushed en-masse to central command for "destruction approval" and it's just a mouseclick then *kaboom* but a human will always be in the chain.
I think the over the next 100 years we'll see more UAV type combat robotics. Where an aircraft (or tank) is largely autonomous but is getting fire commands and mission details from a central human controller. I've wondered why strategic bombers aren't controlled like this already. Why not send 20 semi-autonomous F16's into a bombing mission rather than 2 or 3 very expensive, but safe, B2's? Maybe you lose one or 2 F16's but you lose no pilots. Overall I think it would be cheaper. (I'm aware that an F16 is not a bomber but there's certainly plenty of them around and they can carry JDAMs just like any other aircraft)
In the last story about this there was a guy who made a really good comment about mpeg4 and how Ogg/Theora isn't actually that good for HTML5. He basically said that the video codec was patent encumbered but the company who owned it made it available to the public under a free nonrevocable license since it was DOA anyway when compared to mpeg4. see here:
"Ogg's video codec is Theora, which was proprietary. On2 developed it as its closed competition to MPEG-4's H.263 (DivX) and H.264 (AVC) codecs, alongside other competing proprietary codecs from Real and Microsoft (WMV). The winner to shake out of all that competition has been the MPEG-4 standard, which includes both a container and different sets of codecs. MPEG-4 is open and supported by lots of companies, and is also supported by FOSS (x264 is among the best implementations)." - DECS
I get the feeling that if people would actually sit down and look at the issue objectively then it would be obvious that Ogg/Theora being included in the HTML5 spec isn't that great of an idea. The problem is the Ogg crowd has a huge chip on their shoulder since no one has really given them the time of day. So, here's a chance for them to get some validation for all their hard work but they've been cut out yet again so everyone's all up in arms.
Good for them for standing up. My bets are on NASA changing the policy since the people at JPL are irreplaceable in the short term. I think it would take decades for a newcomer to become as productive as a seasoned JPL engineer. I'm sure NASA knows this and isn't about to fire a bunch right out.
heh having said that, woe unto any grunt sys-admin or underling thinking their moral stand is going to mean anything when there's 30 in line behind them to gladly take their place.
Good for them for standing up. My bets are on NASA changing the policy. The people at JPL are irreplaceable in the short term. I would think it would take decades to replace a seasoned JPL engineer with a new comer. I'm sure NASA knows this and isn't about to fire a bunch right out.
And now our lack of vision as a nation and bureaucratical hassles have pushed the date even beyond that. It's a sad time to be an American. If only we had the drive of the Apollo era.
The iphone's screen isn't hard to read. just because Google wants to make a phone doesn't mean it has to be the same crap we have right now. In fact, I'd say Google has the innovation potential to make a really great phone the likes we haven't seen yet.
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finally! someone with a clue. I keep trying to tell people that the high cost of gas isn't because we're running out of oil it's because of an energy market bubble. That's why the oil companies are posting record profits and why the gov. won't force BigOil(tm) to lower prices. The cost of producing a gallon of gas hasn't gone up only the price of gas has gone up. It sucks now but the bubble will pop and the market will correct itself.
OT but it's funny to me that here in Texas PBR is getting trendy so the prices are going up. My favorite bar use to sell it for $1 now it's up to $2.50. There's a bar called City Tavern in downtown Dallas that will give you a PBR and a shot of Jack for $4.00. It's not that bad of a beer once you get use to it and the look on the faces of all the beer snobs when you order it is totally worth it.
I like twitter because it's fast. You only get so many characters for a post (likely due to SMS limitations) so you just type in something small and go. I don't use it over SMS just through the web, though i'm working on an AIM bridge. Their API is nice and the dev community is really friendly and helpful. The only downside is it's kind of hard to build up a set people to follow/followers
I've actually considered applying for a job there but i dunno... I live in Dallas.
my twitter name is chasd00 (along with almost everything else)
i'm pretty shocked that all of China is served through only 5 gateways.
For example, a spreadsheet is often the favored client for an OLAP system, and complex spreadsheets will get reused a lot, so connection strings may be part of the overall "application" that the document has become.
..maybe this is the root of all the office macro security issues, i have no idea, these kinds of integrated documents aren't my specialty obviously.
I guess so but i figured the document itself would name the data resources it needs and it would be up to the application to actually connect and retrieve the data. I wonder if the document itself can initiate a connection and execute a command. It basically does a "select" to pull data in, can it do a "drop" as well? Seems it wouldn't be hard to put something together that appends a 'drop table' to the document.
This may be off topic but why exactly are there database connection strings in a document format?
I grew up in Mexico, and often refer to Hispanics. My girlfriend at the time gave me crap because some group of them (I'm assuming it was The Council of the Wise) decided that Hispanic reminded them of the Spanish conquest, and they preferred Latino.
yeah my fiance is half Mexican and resents the word "Hispanic" as well. Now I just say "Mexican" because all of the people I encounter who i would call "Hispanics" are from Mexico. Some of them don't like "Mexican" either but I just point out that it's quite literally correct and they get over it.
This has happened a few times in Dallas, pretty amusing but pretty dangerous too.
On a related note, The crew that filmed Dallas SWAT use to hang out at a coffee shop I frequent and they said more often then not when they got deployed it was to a vacant house or the wrong address. It was amusing hearing stories about late night raids on an address that didn't exist or empty houses/buildings.
There will always be a human in the loop as far as semi-autonomous weapons go. I'm surprised anyone on slashdot would think otherwise. Maybe 50 years from now an AI would have the intelligence to separate friend from foe from bystander but the tech is simply not there now.
:shrug: i can see that but not a pure autonomous firefight. For a long time a human will be giving the final OK to fire.
I imagine what we'll see is weapons deployed around the world with their controllers located somewhere else safe. That means easier/faster deployment and none of your own soldiers in harm's way. Maybe UAV's push proposed targets to commanders instead of commanders pouring over recon
Reporter: Toby Hunter, Minneapolis Star. No really, is this a joke?
Scientist: No, Toby, and no more questions about whether this is a joke.
The only justification you ever hear for moving to IPv6 is address exhaustion in IPv4. There's a lot of other stuff built into the protocol that will make the net a much better place. Even if IPv4 had the same amount of addresses as IPv6 it would still be worthwhile to switch. Just give this a once over for an introduction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6#Features_and_differences_from_IPv4
I don't see how a robot will ever be able to solve an ethical dilemma on the battlefield. It's such a subjective, context sensitive, issue that we're centuries away from being able to handle that digitally. Another thing, I don't think the planet will ever agree to some "let the robots fight it out" type of warfare either. When a country's robot force is beaten they're not going to just throw up their arms and say "good match sir, here take our land/resource you won it fair and square". They'll still resist to the point of sacrificing their lives.
For the forseable future a human will be at the trigger somewhere in line. Maybe targets get pushed en-masse to central command for "destruction approval" and it's just a mouseclick then *kaboom* but a human will always be in the chain.
I think the over the next 100 years we'll see more UAV type combat robotics. Where an aircraft (or tank) is largely autonomous but is getting fire commands and mission details from a central human controller. I've wondered why strategic bombers aren't controlled like this already. Why not send 20 semi-autonomous F16's into a bombing mission rather than 2 or 3 very expensive, but safe, B2's? Maybe you lose one or 2 F16's but you lose no pilots. Overall I think it would be cheaper. (I'm aware that an F16 is not a bomber but there's certainly plenty of them around and they can carry JDAMs just like any other aircraft)
My name is Chad you insensitive clod!
Sad to hear about itojun. This is the first time i've heard of this news. Anyone know how he passed away?
yeah you'd think that would be in the summary.
I knew nothing of him but rest in peace and thanks for all the hard work
In the last story about this there was a guy who made a really good comment about mpeg4 and how Ogg/Theora isn't actually that good for HTML5. He basically said that the video codec was patent encumbered but the company who owned it made it available to the public under a free nonrevocable license since it was DOA anyway when compared to mpeg4. see here:
"Ogg's video codec is Theora, which was proprietary. On2 developed it as its closed competition to MPEG-4's H.263 (DivX) and H.264 (AVC) codecs, alongside other competing proprietary codecs from Real and Microsoft (WMV). The winner to shake out of all that competition has been the MPEG-4 standard, which includes both a container and different sets of codecs. MPEG-4 is open and supported by lots of companies, and is also supported by FOSS (x264 is among the best implementations)." - DECS
I get the feeling that if people would actually sit down and look at the issue objectively then it would be obvious that Ogg/Theora being included in the HTML5 spec isn't that great of an idea. The problem is the Ogg crowd has a huge chip on their shoulder since no one has really given them the time of day. So, here's a chance for them to get some validation for all their hard work but they've been cut out yet again so everyone's all up in arms.
Good for them for standing up. My bets are on NASA changing the policy since the people at JPL are irreplaceable in the short term. I think it would take decades for a newcomer to become as productive as a seasoned JPL engineer. I'm sure NASA knows this and isn't about to fire a bunch right out.
heh having said that, woe unto any grunt sys-admin or underling thinking their moral stand is going to mean anything when there's 30 in line behind them to gladly take their place.
Good for them for standing up. My bets are on NASA changing the policy. The people at JPL are irreplaceable in the short term. I would think it would take decades to replace a seasoned JPL engineer with a new comer. I'm sure NASA knows this and isn't about to fire a bunch right out.
And now our lack of vision as a nation and bureaucratical hassles have pushed the date even beyond that. It's a sad time to be an American. If only we had the drive of the Apollo era.
can you be any more emo?
why did you go?
The iphone's screen isn't hard to read. just because Google wants to make a phone doesn't mean it has to be the same crap we have right now. In fact, I'd say Google has the innovation potential to make a really great phone the likes we haven't seen yet.
I don't know why the parent was modded troll. Their statement:
Social Media sites have no influence over privacy
is exactly right. Social Media sites have about as much influence over privacy as a street corner does.
I also wonder, who's using these storage companies? Is it for backups of corporate data centers?
my guess would be disk for blade servers and virtual machines. Also, i think files, on average, are getting larger.
from Pod People: boy> wow trumpy you can do magic!! Tom Servo as trumpy, an alien> it's called Evil, kid
so velociraptors may have been pack hunters? thanks for the nightmares.