Do you expect the officers to pull you over, walk up to you window and say "Excuse me, are you the armed fugitive who has killed two police officers? I wouldn't want to offend you by drawing my gun without knowing"? The fact that you look like a fugitive is a bad situation but the Border patrol has a job to do. You have not been shot yet have you? It seems that the government's fire control is pretty good to me.
I DON'T look like a known fugitive. My name (not passport number, nationality, birthdate, or ANY other piece of information) matches him. If US policy at their borders is to pull their guns on people who ONLY share a name with someone they're looking for, why would anyone believe that unaccountable figures in the US government, CIA and military should be allowed to be the world's judge, jury and executioners?
In case you hadn't notice, most hatred isn't based on logic. His relatives don't care that uncle Larry was someone the United States dislikes. Furthermore, if uncle Larry is hanging out in the Phillipines (i.e. not in a war zone) he might well expect that there won't be a hellfire missile popping through the window at any moment. He might expect a (Philippine) commando or police team, but that would probably give him the opportunity to surrender, or at least let his kids get out.
I do not think it is a good thing for the US to be going around assassinating people, with very little oversight, in sovereign nations. When you were doing it in a war zone, fine. Attempting to kill "terrorists" in the Philippines? Where next?
One of the major criticisms of drone weapons is that they make fighting too easy. Countries will go to war on a whim because it no longer involves anyone (you know) sacrificing his life. Drone pilots will be less likely to check their targets, and refuse to fire if there's doubt, because they're more isolated from the actual killing.
It seems that drones are very much living up to that criticism. Drone assassinations are becoming more common, and spreading from war zones to unstable foreign countries, to stable foreign countries. Will they eventually be used in a Waco type situation in Texas? Maybe the US will "accidentally" conduct a strike just on the other side of the Canadian border? Or the Mexican?
When I cross the US border I get pulled aside, often at gunpoint, because I have a common name. It turns out the guy they're looking for is black and has obvious tattoos, a description I obviously don't fit. Yet US border guards draw first and ask questions later. That experience gives me very little confidence in your government's desire to carefully check it's targets.
When you cold press graphite you get new forms of carbon that are not graphite and are not diamond. It damages the diamond anvils in your compression apparatus, so it seems to be as hard as diamond. But nobody could figure out what the crystal structure was, even though several theoretical structures had been proposed. These guys have shown that only one of those structures, M carbon, fits the experimental data.
I have an uncle who runs a small company building electronic devices. He says that certification costs about $200 to get the guy to come out, but once he's there he's happy to do as many devices as you've got ready (within reason, probably).
So if you know the algorithm and training data, and you can feed the system new data with manipulated labels then you can confuse it. It's a little early to panic about your spam filter. Hopefully everyone realizes that if you let the spammers tell your computer what is and is not spam, they can cause it to let their spam through.
The intent may be different, but look at it from the other side. Sudden death rains down unexpectedly from the sky at the whim of some faraway, foreign, commander who has decided uncle Larry is a bad guy. And sometimes uncle Larry is baby sitting at the time. No trial, little evidence, precious little accountability.
WWII was a pretty big deal. That's got the French and the Germans. The Russians weren't very fond of Germans after WWII either. And there are plenty of Japanese who still despise Americans, even as they smile and sell you stuff.
It's not the top priority of most people. That would be price. Android sells more phones, but many of those are low end models where you kind of expect to get the second rate. If you look at revenue or profit, rather than count, Android doesn't do as well.
Most Android manufacturers seem not to have learned that if you screw over your customers, particularly your best customers, they won't be your customers next time. Unfortunately, Google takes a bit of that flak because their name is prominently associated with Android.
While that may be a reasonable argument, Apple is less than 50% of the smartphone market. Actually, doesn't Android have more market share than Apple does? So is Google arguing that all their smartphone patents should be FRAND, not just the standards ones?
"In a car the equivalent would be a trim wheel to correct for a camber in the road or crosswind so you're not always steering slightly to one side."
Which would be awesome. My sea kayak has one of those, why doesn't my car? I heard once that truckers sometimes let a bit of air out of their left tires so that when they're driving on highways that are raised in the middle (so rain runs off), they don't have to constantly pull the wheel to the left.
I hate to tell you, but sticks have been used for a long time in airplanes (not joysticks like the F15, bigger ones) and fly by wire is a relatively new invention. A stick can give you much more leverage than a reasonably sized car wheel. If you want to see the equivalent wheel, take a look on a bigger sailboat sometime.
The reason sticks are silly in cars is that cars only turn on one axis, not two or three.
Customers are learning that if you want updates, by an iPhone. They see on the news that there's a new version of iOS and all their friends are playing with it the next day. Meanwhile a new version of Android comes out and most of their friends aren't playing with it because their phones don't support it.
If Google seriously pushed the Nexus and got it in a significant number of hands then maybe they'd benefit from the incompetence of other Android manufacturer's. As it is, there are so few Nexuses that "Android" gets the blame.
Read for comprehension. The summary says "exposes the problems of Android fragmentation." That is, Google being able to update their two year old phone with no problems demonstrates what a crappy job many other manufacturers are doing, the variability of update support, and presumably the variability of installed hardware to allow those updates. In shorter form, Google being able to update their two year old phone and many other manufacturers not begin able to update their two month old phones exposes fragmentation in the Android installed base.
Those aren't "PhD" level courses. They're graduate level courses. I was required to take three of them, which worked out to about the same load as half of one semester for an average undergrad.
A PhD isn't about the courses. If yours is, it's really a second undergraduate degree.
Khan's selection of just about everything is at around a high school level. It's a great general introduction for people new to a subject who can stand the online video medium, but it's not going to replace any university courses anytime soon.
What does that mean? Are you talking about some mickey mouse course-based doctorates, or real doctorates? A real PhD involves becoming an expert on a subject and then advancing the state of knowledge of that subject. You can't "teach" things at a doctoral level, never mind above it, because nobody knows them yet!
Strange. Everyone I know uses those features in Word for scientific writing. And equation editor is crap, but you can type LaTeX into MathType. Or MathML I believe.
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Threats are an exception to most freedom of speech laws/amendments/statements of rights. Including in the US.
I DON'T look like a known fugitive. My name (not passport number, nationality, birthdate, or ANY other piece of information) matches him. If US policy at their borders is to pull their guns on people who ONLY share a name with someone they're looking for, why would anyone believe that unaccountable figures in the US government, CIA and military should be allowed to be the world's judge, jury and executioners?
And by the way:
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/264637/news/nation/despite-pnoy-denial-us-conducted-drone-strikes-in-the-philippines
You don't even know what your government is doing. On your behalf.
In case you hadn't notice, most hatred isn't based on logic. His relatives don't care that uncle Larry was someone the United States dislikes. Furthermore, if uncle Larry is hanging out in the Phillipines (i.e. not in a war zone) he might well expect that there won't be a hellfire missile popping through the window at any moment. He might expect a (Philippine) commando or police team, but that would probably give him the opportunity to surrender, or at least let his kids get out.
I do not think it is a good thing for the US to be going around assassinating people, with very little oversight, in sovereign nations. When you were doing it in a war zone, fine. Attempting to kill "terrorists" in the Philippines? Where next?
One of the major criticisms of drone weapons is that they make fighting too easy. Countries will go to war on a whim because it no longer involves anyone (you know) sacrificing his life. Drone pilots will be less likely to check their targets, and refuse to fire if there's doubt, because they're more isolated from the actual killing.
It seems that drones are very much living up to that criticism. Drone assassinations are becoming more common, and spreading from war zones to unstable foreign countries, to stable foreign countries. Will they eventually be used in a Waco type situation in Texas? Maybe the US will "accidentally" conduct a strike just on the other side of the Canadian border? Or the Mexican?
When I cross the US border I get pulled aside, often at gunpoint, because I have a common name. It turns out the guy they're looking for is black and has obvious tattoos, a description I obviously don't fit. Yet US border guards draw first and ask questions later. That experience gives me very little confidence in your government's desire to carefully check it's targets.
When you cold press graphite you get new forms of carbon that are not graphite and are not diamond. It damages the diamond anvils in your compression apparatus, so it seems to be as hard as diamond. But nobody could figure out what the crystal structure was, even though several theoretical structures had been proposed. These guys have shown that only one of those structures, M carbon, fits the experimental data.
I doubt it. Google's spam filter seems to work just as well as my local one, and spammers are definitely not managing my spam/not spam button.
If that were the case though, it's an excellent reason not to use spam filters that spammers control.
They have. Google Milgram experiment.
I have an uncle who runs a small company building electronic devices. He says that certification costs about $200 to get the guy to come out, but once he's there he's happy to do as many devices as you've got ready (within reason, probably).
So if you know the algorithm and training data, and you can feed the system new data with manipulated labels then you can confuse it. It's a little early to panic about your spam filter. Hopefully everyone realizes that if you let the spammers tell your computer what is and is not spam, they can cause it to let their spam through.
The intent may be different, but look at it from the other side. Sudden death rains down unexpectedly from the sky at the whim of some faraway, foreign, commander who has decided uncle Larry is a bad guy. And sometimes uncle Larry is baby sitting at the time. No trial, little evidence, precious little accountability.
WWII was a pretty big deal. That's got the French and the Germans. The Russians weren't very fond of Germans after WWII either. And there are plenty of Japanese who still despise Americans, even as they smile and sell you stuff.
Unless of course the weight of their arm hanging off the left side of the wheel causes them to drift the other way.
It's not the top priority of most people. That would be price. Android sells more phones, but many of those are low end models where you kind of expect to get the second rate. If you look at revenue or profit, rather than count, Android doesn't do as well.
Most Android manufacturers seem not to have learned that if you screw over your customers, particularly your best customers, they won't be your customers next time. Unfortunately, Google takes a bit of that flak because their name is prominently associated with Android.
Most planes taxiing can execute a 90 degree turn in considerably less than their own length.
Fair point though, a wheel would be better than a stick when you're moving slowly.
While that may be a reasonable argument, Apple is less than 50% of the smartphone market. Actually, doesn't Android have more market share than Apple does? So is Google arguing that all their smartphone patents should be FRAND, not just the standards ones?
"In a car the equivalent would be a trim wheel to correct for a camber in the road or crosswind so you're not always steering slightly to one side."
Which would be awesome. My sea kayak has one of those, why doesn't my car? I heard once that truckers sometimes let a bit of air out of their left tires so that when they're driving on highways that are raised in the middle (so rain runs off), they don't have to constantly pull the wheel to the left.
I hate to tell you, but sticks have been used for a long time in airplanes (not joysticks like the F15, bigger ones) and fly by wire is a relatively new invention. A stick can give you much more leverage than a reasonably sized car wheel. If you want to see the equivalent wheel, take a look on a bigger sailboat sometime.
The reason sticks are silly in cars is that cars only turn on one axis, not two or three.
Actually, if you actually read those arguments, and the patents that back them up, they include things like the arrangement of the home screen, etc.
But if you get all your information from Slashdot and various bloggers in the form of sound bites, then yes, black rectangle.
Customers are learning that if you want updates, by an iPhone. They see on the news that there's a new version of iOS and all their friends are playing with it the next day. Meanwhile a new version of Android comes out and most of their friends aren't playing with it because their phones don't support it.
If Google seriously pushed the Nexus and got it in a significant number of hands then maybe they'd benefit from the incompetence of other Android manufacturer's. As it is, there are so few Nexuses that "Android" gets the blame.
Read for comprehension. The summary says "exposes the problems of Android fragmentation." That is, Google being able to update their two year old phone with no problems demonstrates what a crappy job many other manufacturers are doing, the variability of update support, and presumably the variability of installed hardware to allow those updates. In shorter form, Google being able to update their two year old phone and many other manufacturers not begin able to update their two month old phones exposes fragmentation in the Android installed base.
Those aren't "PhD" level courses. They're graduate level courses. I was required to take three of them, which worked out to about the same load as half of one semester for an average undergrad.
A PhD isn't about the courses. If yours is, it's really a second undergraduate degree.
Khan's selection of just about everything is at around a high school level. It's a great general introduction for people new to a subject who can stand the online video medium, but it's not going to replace any university courses anytime soon.
"even above the doctorate level"
What does that mean? Are you talking about some mickey mouse course-based doctorates, or real doctorates? A real PhD involves becoming an expert on a subject and then advancing the state of knowledge of that subject. You can't "teach" things at a doctoral level, never mind above it, because nobody knows them yet!
You know what's WAY better than watching a video? Having an actual live person do the same thing, interactively.
Videos are horrible for people who do learn well from books, and they're not so great for hands on learners either.
Did you just make tat up without even cursory checking, just so you could say "Apple fanbois?"
Strange. Everyone I know uses those features in Word for scientific writing. And equation editor is crap, but you can type LaTeX into MathType. Or MathML I believe.