You buy whatever THEY deem as a "smart" device and you are REQUIRED to buy a data plan.
You are not required to buy a data plan. They only heavily advertise subsidized phones that include the data plan and beat you over the head with "DATA PLAN IS REQUIRED FOR FULL USE OF FEATURES!!!" You may be able to buy a partially subsidized phone with a contract extension and just not get a data plan. I did that with T-Mobile already and just use Wifi. I pay only for voice and a few text messages.
Nobody will tell you this. The website doesn't say it, and the store employees don't say it. They even say the opposite. I rolled the dice with a purchase online, and I do get WiFi and don't pay for a data plan. I could have gotten an additional $50 rebate on the price of the phone if I chose the data plan, however.
Isaac Asimov saw the day coming when man would not be smart enough to design the next version of a computer. The computer would have to design its own successor, each supremely more powerful and yet smaller than the last. Extrapolating this trend over many iterations, the computer becomes uniquely supreme in power and omniscience. But we have a different word for that.
A classic only a few pages long and worth a read, The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov.
Goat gestation period are around 150 days.
Ibex is around 165 days.
Even if you take a healthy Ibex mother and remove the fetus after 150 days, it will have similar lung disability. Lungs being the last thing to develop in a fetus, if you chop off the last few days of fetal development, you're sacrificing lung function. They won't work at 100%, and they'll be way more sensitive to any agitation. It seems to me like a better approach would be to find an animal with a equal OR LONGER gestational period. I don't mean for Ibexes in particular; it just makes sense for any mammal. Try a mountain goat: 180 day average gestation period. Just make sure you bust the little guy out two weeks early.
If humans go extinct and you implant human DNA into a bonobo, you're putting something that takes 280 days to cook into an oven with a 230 day timer. No, it won't be fully cooked when the thing dings - the lungs especially. Premature human babies do survive that young, but we've had a long time and lots of money poured into finding ways to make that happen.
There was this other undulating cloud video from Iowa from a few months ago... It's at 60x normal speed or thereabouts, so I'm not sure the people standing there would notice. Nevermind that the video is titled like a tabloid... It's still impressive.
Well we've heard of neutrinos before, and we know what they are. But they're so cutting edge, that I'd wager most of us are shrugging our shoulders, saying "Cool" and scrolling on.
It's also so cutting edge that practical applications for results of this research are a long way off, meaning political arguments can't proceed about which congressmen and women are taking bribes from industries that will lose money if this stuff takes off in the US. Give it time tho; we'll comment after somebody figures a way to make tons of energy from neutrinos.
I agree totally about "u" and "r" but other words like "thru" and "tho" are in a different boat. Those two save three letters in trade for a more phonetic spelling, and I think everybody can agree that there is a line somewhere for the number of letters saved at which point the abbreviation is worth it; very few people say "facsimile" instead of "fax".
With regard to "through" and "though", I'm embarassed at our confusing spelling when non-english speakers ask why there are so many silent letters and how some words you just have to know how to pronounce. See Dr. Seuss's "The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough", although he could have been plouging through the dough.
People who flame, "Your to dumb to join there group" are no better for having used no abbreviations, but at least that's something that you can fight by not correcting them.
If items can be scanned and then their dimensions represented as vectors, I don't see a reason why the machine could not be used for making enlargements or reductions. That's a pretty useful scenario, depending on the resolution of the printer.
Your ratchet set could be reduced to the handle and one standard template socket. All other sockets would just be scale models of the one you have. The same concept could apply to all redundant tools in your garage. Can you make me a 72% crescent wrench?
Yeah, I was thinking of a big ball of goo too. Water is bad because it costs too much energy to keep it liquid, as opposed to helium, hydrogen, ammonium or whatever else is naturally liquid in space. Then things that collide with this big ball of liquid will either lose kinetic energy as they pass thru the goo or get stuck in it. Either one is good, with preference given to getting stuck inside it so you don't lose extra goo to splash.
The problem with having a liquid net up there is that it's just too small to do any good. Picture an Earth with no oceans, covered by drivable pavement, with a few thousand objects driving around it. They're not going to collide very often, even if one of them happens to be a much larger object that absorbs whatever it collides with.
I thought about an ion drive that shoots its ions at the trash. The trash would then be slowed down or pushed downward, hastening its orbital decay. But for such a targetting system to work, it would have to recognize the center of mass for objects or else it might just end up spinning them instead of slowing them down. Pretty tricky...
Can we let the atmosphere do the cleaning for us? What if we just slow the orbitting trash down so it can't maintain orbital velocity? Then stuff can just burn up in the atmosphere or land in the ocean somewhere...
Maybe we can launch a satellite that orbits way above most of the trash. It can have regular propulsion and an ion gun (like an ion drive, but with targetting system) and regular propulsion to maintain it's position. It'll push the trash downward by shooting it with ions, and the atmosphere will burn it up.
Not to mention the million probes of those million other civilizations... How much would it suck if our probes saw one of their probes and thought it was just a comet or lone asteroid?
So now our probes would have to recognize alien life as well as alien probes... Maybe if we design our probes in giant ass-shapes, we can rely on them recognizing it and doing what comes naturally to all alien probes.
Doesn't this seem kind of convenient, given the purpose?
Terrorist A: What's that spy-satellite looking thing up there that appears to be looking right at us?
Terrorist B: It actually is a spy satellite, but it's broken. We know because they said so. Continue terrorizing with impunity, my friend.
I kind of wonder if the recent growth of CFL's has been because LED's are so close to being accepted themselves. It's like GE, Philips and other light manufacturers are deliberately pushing an obsolete technology so they can profit from the upgrade to CFL now and then profit again a few years later for the upgrade to LED.
CFL's use a fraction of the power of their incandescent counterparts. LED's use a fraction of the power of CFL's, and LED's are instant on. Is anyone out there using LED "bulbs" and can report on their friendliness/where to get them?
Oh, and maybe backdating isn't illegal, it just should be declared.
This is what I heard too, on NPR a couple weeks ago. Backdating options is a way to just give people money. You can give somebody backdated options only if you debit your company account by the current cost of the options. The fraudulent part is when the cost of these options are not properly calculated towards the company's bottom line...
The article mentioned that the 2MB cache per die pieces are smaller than the ones pictured and that by using them, up to 4 pieces of silicon could fit. So by chopping the cache a little, you can make the die smaller and allow 6 or 8 cores in the same socket. But they say that this would take way too much power to be feasable...
The old type-command interface limited the marketability of the product to a single language and to those of literate and correctly-spelling age. One could argue that such demands are educational. I didn't know what a prophylactic was (or their many varieties) until Liesure Suit Larry. I didn't know what a uvula was until I was stuck for days in a whale's mouth in King's Quest 4.
I liked it better too, including the frustration of Police Quest III, where you had to type "look behind bench" to find some item with no clues, no sparkles, no sound or anything. It's strange that the frustration is what you remember so fondly; dying with different epitaphs and pictures in Space Quest III was probably not as fun or funny as I remember it.
14 years eh? That's definitely a design flaw as far as a printer manufacturer is concerned - too reliable. Recent models will have this feature deliberately left out, I'm sure... What parts have you replaced in it?
I was thinking about this too. Like why don't the metals of the other salts come out instead or in addition to titanium?
I think because the bonds between titanium and oxygen, since they're in a relatively high outer shell of titanium, are not as strong as the magnesium or calcium oxide bonds. I don't know how they find the sweet spot of temperature and current/voltage to get the job done, but when you mix metals like this, the weaker bonded ones will likely separate first.
That is a seriously awesome connection. How much do you pay for it, and what part of what city do you live in?
If this information becomes widespread, you might see an influx of geeks to your area, along with maybe an increase in land values - good if you own, bad if you rent. I wonder if fiber-to-door will become a standard feature on home listings...
It does seem improbable that the police would make a comment to a random caller, presumably from another country.
The guy's nick is nordicfrost. To me, that and his lowish UID lend a bit of credibility to him being from the neighborhood? Sure he's a random caller, but why is it odd for police to disclose information like that especially if he speaks the local language with the local accent and has a local phone number according to caller ID? The police work for the public, no? Cheers for countries whose public serving agencies operate transparently.
So here's a quick experiment to gauge the impact of the BlueSecurity nospam list. Create two email accounts and sign one of them up for Blue, and don't do anything with the second one including implying its existence. We already get spammed anyway, so what are they going to do to people that don't unsubscribe from Blue? More spam?
Lets call their bluff. Do this experiment yourself. And use Blue Frog.
And if you wanted to secretly hack your buddy's account, you just use dump some booze packets in his mouth port and wait til his buffer overflows. Shortly afterward, his brain will be DOS'd and you can take images of his face at will...
Did somebody already mention creating a file called "-i" and putting that in/? Then when you rm -rf/, this file usually gets processed first (alphabetically) and the file gets interpretted as an argument, forcing interactivity for the rest of the files.
Sure, it's easy to beat but considering how easy it is to do, might as well make another hurdle for bad stuff to jump over.
If you own the oil and you want to increase the price, you can't do so without some reason that we the people think is justified. You can, but we'll complain a lot less if we think it's justified.
So there's this war in Iraq, and all the perceived and real instability in the oil shipping and handling business... When things go wrong, oil prices go up. When things get better, oil prices can go back down again...
But when oil prices go down, people have already adjusted to paying higher prices at the pump. Since you're a major oil company here, providing us with gas that we're used to paying lots of dough for, when prices go down you make money by not lowering your prices proportionally or not lowering it very quickly.
1. Start a war in an oil producing country
2. Introduce instability into the oil market
3. Exploit instability covertly
4. Profit
Granted, this is probably too greedy and forward thinking than the shrub may be capable of...
Or it could be that we don't pay our own ISP bills... Aside from you backward schools, for those living on campus, the bill is included in dorm costs, which my parents are paying.:)
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You buy whatever THEY deem as a "smart" device and you are REQUIRED to buy a data plan.
You are not required to buy a data plan. They only heavily advertise subsidized phones that include the data plan and beat you over the head with "DATA PLAN IS REQUIRED FOR FULL USE OF FEATURES!!!" You may be able to buy a partially subsidized phone with a contract extension and just not get a data plan. I did that with T-Mobile already and just use Wifi. I pay only for voice and a few text messages.
Nobody will tell you this. The website doesn't say it, and the store employees don't say it. They even say the opposite. I rolled the dice with a purchase online, and I do get WiFi and don't pay for a data plan. I could have gotten an additional $50 rebate on the price of the phone if I chose the data plan, however.
Isaac Asimov saw the day coming when man would not be smart enough to design the next version of a computer. The computer would have to design its own successor, each supremely more powerful and yet smaller than the last. Extrapolating this trend over many iterations, the computer becomes uniquely supreme in power and omniscience. But we have a different word for that.
A classic only a few pages long and worth a read, The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov.
Goat gestation period are around 150 days.
Ibex is around 165 days.
Even if you take a healthy Ibex mother and remove the fetus after 150 days, it will have similar lung disability. Lungs being the last thing to develop in a fetus, if you chop off the last few days of fetal development, you're sacrificing lung function. They won't work at 100%, and they'll be way more sensitive to any agitation. It seems to me like a better approach would be to find an animal with a equal OR LONGER gestational period. I don't mean for Ibexes in particular; it just makes sense for any mammal. Try a mountain goat: 180 day average gestation period. Just make sure you bust the little guy out two weeks early.
If humans go extinct and you implant human DNA into a bonobo, you're putting something that takes 280 days to cook into an oven with a 230 day timer. No, it won't be fully cooked when the thing dings - the lungs especially. Premature human babies do survive that young, but we've had a long time and lots of money poured into finding ways to make that happen.
See this is why I come to Slashdot - people getting burned with educated, concise responses.
There was this other undulating cloud video from Iowa from a few months ago... It's at 60x normal speed or thereabouts, so I'm not sure the people standing there would notice. Nevermind that the video is titled like a tabloid... It's still impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
Well we've heard of neutrinos before, and we know what they are. But they're so cutting edge, that I'd wager most of us are shrugging our shoulders, saying "Cool" and scrolling on.
It's also so cutting edge that practical applications for results of this research are a long way off, meaning political arguments can't proceed about which congressmen and women are taking bribes from industries that will lose money if this stuff takes off in the US. Give it time tho; we'll comment after somebody figures a way to make tons of energy from neutrinos.
I agree totally about "u" and "r" but other words like "thru" and "tho" are in a different boat. Those two save three letters in trade for a more phonetic spelling, and I think everybody can agree that there is a line somewhere for the number of letters saved at which point the abbreviation is worth it; very few people say "facsimile" instead of "fax".
With regard to "through" and "though", I'm embarassed at our confusing spelling when non-english speakers ask why there are so many silent letters and how some words you just have to know how to pronounce. See Dr. Seuss's "The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough", although he could have been plouging through the dough.
People who flame, "Your to dumb to join there group" are no better for having used no abbreviations, but at least that's something that you can fight by not correcting them.
Your ratchet set could be reduced to the handle and one standard template socket. All other sockets would just be scale models of the one you have. The same concept could apply to all redundant tools in your garage. Can you make me a 72% crescent wrench?
Yeah, I was thinking of a big ball of goo too. Water is bad because it costs too much energy to keep it liquid, as opposed to helium, hydrogen, ammonium or whatever else is naturally liquid in space. Then things that collide with this big ball of liquid will either lose kinetic energy as they pass thru the goo or get stuck in it. Either one is good, with preference given to getting stuck inside it so you don't lose extra goo to splash.
The problem with having a liquid net up there is that it's just too small to do any good. Picture an Earth with no oceans, covered by drivable pavement, with a few thousand objects driving around it. They're not going to collide very often, even if one of them happens to be a much larger object that absorbs whatever it collides with.
I thought about an ion drive that shoots its ions at the trash. The trash would then be slowed down or pushed downward, hastening its orbital decay. But for such a targetting system to work, it would have to recognize the center of mass for objects or else it might just end up spinning them instead of slowing them down. Pretty tricky...
Can we let the atmosphere do the cleaning for us? What if we just slow the orbitting trash down so it can't maintain orbital velocity? Then stuff can just burn up in the atmosphere or land in the ocean somewhere...
Maybe we can launch a satellite that orbits way above most of the trash. It can have regular propulsion and an ion gun (like an ion drive, but with targetting system) and regular propulsion to maintain it's position. It'll push the trash downward by shooting it with ions, and the atmosphere will burn it up.
Not to mention the million probes of those million other civilizations... How much would it suck if our probes saw one of their probes and thought it was just a comet or lone asteroid?
So now our probes would have to recognize alien life as well as alien probes... Maybe if we design our probes in giant ass-shapes, we can rely on them recognizing it and doing what comes naturally to all alien probes.
Doesn't this seem kind of convenient, given the purpose?
Terrorist A: What's that spy-satellite looking thing up there that appears to be looking right at us?
Terrorist B: It actually is a spy satellite, but it's broken. We know because they said so. Continue terrorizing with impunity, my friend.
CFL's use a fraction of the power of their incandescent counterparts. LED's use a fraction of the power of CFL's, and LED's are instant on. Is anyone out there using LED "bulbs" and can report on their friendliness/where to get them?
This is what I heard too, on NPR a couple weeks ago. Backdating options is a way to just give people money. You can give somebody backdated options only if you debit your company account by the current cost of the options. The fraudulent part is when the cost of these options are not properly calculated towards the company's bottom line...
Right?
The article mentioned that the 2MB cache per die pieces are smaller than the ones pictured and that by using them, up to 4 pieces of silicon could fit. So by chopping the cache a little, you can make the die smaller and allow 6 or 8 cores in the same socket. But they say that this would take way too much power to be feasable...
The old type-command interface limited the marketability of the product to a single language and to those of literate and correctly-spelling age. One could argue that such demands are educational. I didn't know what a prophylactic was (or their many varieties) until Liesure Suit Larry. I didn't know what a uvula was until I was stuck for days in a whale's mouth in King's Quest 4.
I liked it better too, including the frustration of Police Quest III, where you had to type "look behind bench" to find some item with no clues, no sparkles, no sound or anything. It's strange that the frustration is what you remember so fondly; dying with different epitaphs and pictures in Space Quest III was probably not as fun or funny as I remember it.
14 years eh? That's definitely a design flaw as far as a printer manufacturer is concerned - too reliable. Recent models will have this feature deliberately left out, I'm sure... What parts have you replaced in it?
I was thinking about this too. Like why don't the metals of the other salts come out instead or in addition to titanium? I think because the bonds between titanium and oxygen, since they're in a relatively high outer shell of titanium, are not as strong as the magnesium or calcium oxide bonds. I don't know how they find the sweet spot of temperature and current/voltage to get the job done, but when you mix metals like this, the weaker bonded ones will likely separate first.
If this information becomes widespread, you might see an influx of geeks to your area, along with maybe an increase in land values - good if you own, bad if you rent. I wonder if fiber-to-door will become a standard feature on home listings...
The guy's nick is nordicfrost. To me, that and his lowish UID lend a bit of credibility to him being from the neighborhood? Sure he's a random caller, but why is it odd for police to disclose information like that especially if he speaks the local language with the local accent and has a local phone number according to caller ID? The police work for the public, no? Cheers for countries whose public serving agencies operate transparently.
Lets call their bluff. Do this experiment yourself. And use Blue Frog.
And if you wanted to secretly hack your buddy's account, you just use dump some booze packets in his mouth port and wait til his buffer overflows. Shortly afterward, his brain will be DOS'd and you can take images of his face at will...
Sure, it's easy to beat but considering how easy it is to do, might as well make another hurdle for bad stuff to jump over.
So there's this war in Iraq, and all the perceived and real instability in the oil shipping and handling business... When things go wrong, oil prices go up. When things get better, oil prices can go back down again...
But when oil prices go down, people have already adjusted to paying higher prices at the pump. Since you're a major oil company here, providing us with gas that we're used to paying lots of dough for, when prices go down you make money by not lowering your prices proportionally or not lowering it very quickly.
1. Start a war in an oil producing country
2. Introduce instability into the oil market
3. Exploit instability covertly
4. Profit
Granted, this is probably too greedy and forward thinking than the shrub may be capable of...
Or it could be that we don't pay our own ISP bills... Aside from you backward schools, for those living on campus, the bill is included in dorm costs, which my parents are paying. :)