Which is why I think that student loans are kind of crazy. No bank (well, not many) would lend you money to start a business without first reviewing your business plan. Make sure they have a reasonable chance of getting their money back, and adjust interest rates and the amount borrowed as necessary. Same goes for buying a house. The bank wants to know which property you're (they're?) buying before they give you the money for the house. Banks should really be doing some investigation into what degree you're taking, what school you're going to, what kind of student you were previously to asses your likelihood of being able to repay the loans. They shouldn't be handing out $100,000 in student loans for somebody to get some degree in a field which will give them no job prospects. That's just irresponsible. Also those students who are doing well at good schools with good future job prospects should be able to get better interest rates, and should be able to make the banks compete to see who can give them better terms for their loans.
If I'm mistaken, Sarah Palin is in Alaska. That would put the Commies (Russian, I guess China more recently) on her left, and the stealth snowmobile on her right. I guess that's assuming she's facing north. But as far as maps go, that's usually the way things are oriented.
I think it means he's actually coding faster now than before he got the RSI. Although I think this works for the same reason that Palm Graffiti worked a lot better than regular handwriting recognition. Change the alphabet so there are no longer any ambiguous letters, and it's a lot easier to recognize them. In this case, he's only using a very limited vocabulary, with a very well defined grammar. This makes it a lot easier for the program to figure out what the correct interpretation is.
Yeah, but when you think about it, you can only own so much stuff. Most people spend most of their working lives paying off a house. If you could pay off your house and still how 50 years to save without paying for a mortgage you would probably be able to stockpile quite a bit of cash. After 100 years of working, you'd basically be able to live off the interest from the money you had saved up. That is assuming the prices of things didn't skyrocket from too many people trying to take advantage of this kind of situation.
This is why I just make my coffee at home. Even if you use really good beans, Even if you buy really expensive beans (fresh roasted and all that) you can still make a cup of coffee at home for under 50 cents. If you buy cheaper coffee it can be made for under a quarter. When they say "for the price of a coffee a day" they are usually referring to a coffee you buy from a coffee shop. Somewhere around $2. So if you make it at home, you can have your cake and eat it too. Save the money, and still drink your coffee.
I didn't say it wasn't more complicated. However, I think it's the only logical next step if a significant (perhaps 50%, I don't know) number of visitors to a site end up blocking ads. That or asking people to actually start paying for content. Most people won't be willing to go for the second option. I wonder though, if it could be made to work. It would have to be a very small amount of money. Maybe less than a dollar a month. But that's probably more than most content creators made off ads from a single person anyway.
The problem is, is that all this stuff can still be tracked from the site the content is actually coming from. The reason we are so easily able to block ads and cookies from advertisers is because they come from third party sites. What happens when the cookies, scripts, and ads start being served by the content provider themselves. It wouldn't take a genius to develop a system where all the cookies were set by the first party site, and the required information communicated to the advertising network through original website itself. They could even make the ad content look different every time, making it harder to fingerprint what is an ad, and therefore making it difficult to block. You wouldn't get a unique ID because it wouldn't send back the cookies from other sites, but using browser finger printing you could get a pretty good chance of matching people across different sites. This is just a small step in the grand scheme of things, and it won't stop advertisers for long. The worst part about this is to do it well, the advertising networks will want their code running on the content providers servers, opening up a whole slew of new and fun security holes. Bu the content providers will do it anyway, because they want to actually make a few bucks back on their website.
I really don't get where this stereotype of developers/geeks being unhealthy comes from. Of all the people I know, geeks seem to be more likely to engage in regular exercise. And most of them eat pretty well. Sure there's a few outliers, but for the most part, I find that developers are actually in pretty good shape compared to the average person.
I'm not sure if I would classify that as "his site". He's one of many bloggers. His site, only seems to block 2 cookies (using ghostery), and they are twitter and wordpress stats. I would classify those as at least not completely terrible. That being said, My browser reported blocking 9 things from Boing Boing. That's just a little bit crazy. It's probably one of the highest number of blocks that I've seen a "legitimate" site.
Yeah, because it was PayPal, not the banks, that lead to a world-wide financial crisis. Although I understand what you're saying, I don't trust that government regulation will protect us from everything. Make sure you understand the agreements you are entering into with your banking institution. There are thousands of banks in the US. I highly doubt that all of them are that trustworthy or safe with your money.
2.5 GB isn't enough to notice a difference. Once you get a whole bunch of RAM (like 8-16 GB), it definitely helps speed up the machine up. Boot time doesn't increase, but Windows 7/8 is pretty good about keeping file cached. Once your machine has been up for a few hours, things work really fast. They say that 8 GB of NAND is all you need in a Hybrid drive. But 8 GB of RAM is really cheap, so why not just get 8 GB more of RAM and use a regular hard drive. It'll be faster to access the the data from memory than it will be to access it from NAND. The only advantage is that the hybrid drive will maintain the data past reboots and power outages. If they only need 8 GB, they should probably be using DDR3 (or better) instead of NAND flash, combined with some sort of battery backup to ensure the data can be retained after rebooting, or even after short power outages.
Canadians stream the Super Bowl, so we can get the US feed. The Canadian feed has the commercials replaced with Canadian commercials. Half the fun of the Super Bowl is watching the million dollar commercials.
Relevant "What If" XKCD. TL;DR. The average person can throw something about 15 meters high. Someone with a good arm could throw about 25 meters. Even the best of athletes could probably only throw 80 meters high, and that's using a golf ball, which is pretty much ideal. Really people aren't good at throwing things up, and are much better at throwing things horizontally. The comic assumes a device which converts forward speed to vertical speed without causing the projectile to lose any energy.
Do they even use mag strip credit cards in South Korea? My credit cards and debit cards still have mag stripes on them, but I very seldom am presented with a machine that actually reads the stripe. Most have switched to the chip technology years ago. And I just live in Canada. I'm sure a more forward thinking country like Korea wouldn't even bother with mag stripes. Except, perhaps, for the sole purpose of being compatible with the United Statesian machines when travelling.
I would like to know how streaming content to watch it is any different then actually downloading the content. From the way the summary is worded, it seems like if you stream the content to the client, it's only a misdemeanor, however, if the client downloads the content, you are committing a felony. But the server really has no control what happens with the data that is sent to the client. It may be set up in such a way as to "stream" the content to the client, but the client can save the stream if they want, and watch it later. It could be argued that all copyright data going over the internet is being streamed. I'm not saying we need harsher sentencing, for any of this stuff, but it doesn't make sense to have different penalties for serving a file for streaming, and serving a file for download, when it's really up to the receiving end what happens to that data in the end.
Actually, in Canada, they can't call it ice cream if it isn't actually ice cream. If you read the package, it often says "frozen dessert" or some other such name. If it says ice cream on the box, it actually has to be real ice cream. To qualify as Ice Cream, it must be made only with 100% Canadian milk, apart from the stuff used to actually add the flavour like vanilla, sugar, chocolate, nuts, caramel, etc.
We don't really need to move the entire population off the earth, we just need to move enough people to sustain the species once we find a suitable new home. There haven't always been 7 billion people on the planet You could probably quite easily rebuild the population of earth on another suitable planet in a few hundred years if you started with 100,000 people. Just take a look at this chart to show how fast you can actually increase the human population.
I would probably think that it would end quite quickly. With no way to send additional supplies, I don't think they'd last long on the martian surface. Even small problems could turn potentially deadly really fast. Also, shows like "Big Brother" work well for TV by the precise fact that they are very cheap to produce. The "Winner" gets half a million dollars. Most actors on popular sit-coms get paid more than that per episode. This is why you see so much reality TV. I wonder if they even have the bandwidth to send back TV quality signals from Mars. What happens when it's on the far side of the sun? They will need to set up relay satellites to ensure they can always get a good signal. Even then I've seen lots of pictures from the Mars but I don't think I've seen too many videos.
This really bothers me about Amazon. At least with eBay I know that that I'm buying from some random person, but on Amazon, when you first click on an item, it's not clear whether you are buying off Amazon, directly from a reputable manufacturer, or some random person. There's no obvious way to filter searches to only show Amazon stuff either.
Exactly, as much as things can be sped up by using multicore technology, they can be sped up even more (while using less power) by implementing them in hardware. It's the reason the Raspberry Pi can play BluRay quality video but can't show a Linux Desktop without a whole lot of lag. They'd be much better off adding more specialized processors to deal with things that are common on phones than to use generic processors that just suck up a lot of power without speeding things up significantly anyway.
Personally, I've settled on this razor by Schick (4 for $6 at Walmart). They are quite cheap (cheaper than Mach 3) and I find they last quite a while. I have a pretty thick beard, and I can usually use them for a month or two, depending on the season. I've heard people rave about double edge safety razors, and I seriously considered going that route when I was overpaying for Gillette. Now I'm not so keen on switching, although I may decide to go that route in the future.
It's not a question of "where", but "when". I would expect that next year, this probably won't be unattainable. Which is probably the earliest I would expect them to actually get this phone in my hands. They are comparing it to an iPhone 5, which was released almost a year ago, and the Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S4, which is newer, but still probably due up for a new model to surpass by the time they release this phone. Also, you get the Galaxy S4 with 64 GB internally (hard to find though), and then add an additional 64 GB of storage using the SDXC card giving you 128 GB of storage.
Especially with the price of stuff. You can spend $20 and get nothing physical at all. You can spend $50 for a t-shirt, or your can spend $775 (sold out, now $780) and get the actual phone. If it actually get released. For that kind of money you can go out and buy a phone right now, and still have lots of money to spare. And you will actually have a phone. Instead of having the chance of getting a phone if the project is actually completed.
I had an old 15" CRT computer monitor that could only do 1024x768 if you put it in interlaced mode, unless you wanted to use 60 Hz, which hurt my eyes. Using a computer with interlacing is quite interesting to say the least. Although it's less painful than using a CRT at 60 Hz. It's not quite 1080i, more like 768i, but I'm pretty sure there probably exists a CRT monitor that can be set to 1080i, or probably something very close, like 1024i.
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Which is why I think that student loans are kind of crazy. No bank (well, not many) would lend you money to start a business without first reviewing your business plan. Make sure they have a reasonable chance of getting their money back, and adjust interest rates and the amount borrowed as necessary. Same goes for buying a house. The bank wants to know which property you're (they're?) buying before they give you the money for the house. Banks should really be doing some investigation into what degree you're taking, what school you're going to, what kind of student you were previously to asses your likelihood of being able to repay the loans. They shouldn't be handing out $100,000 in student loans for somebody to get some degree in a field which will give them no job prospects. That's just irresponsible. Also those students who are doing well at good schools with good future job prospects should be able to get better interest rates, and should be able to make the banks compete to see who can give them better terms for their loans.
If I'm mistaken, Sarah Palin is in Alaska. That would put the Commies (Russian, I guess China more recently) on her left, and the stealth snowmobile on her right. I guess that's assuming she's facing north. But as far as maps go, that's usually the way things are oriented.
I think it means he's actually coding faster now than before he got the RSI. Although I think this works for the same reason that Palm Graffiti worked a lot better than regular handwriting recognition. Change the alphabet so there are no longer any ambiguous letters, and it's a lot easier to recognize them. In this case, he's only using a very limited vocabulary, with a very well defined grammar. This makes it a lot easier for the program to figure out what the correct interpretation is.
Yeah, but when you think about it, you can only own so much stuff. Most people spend most of their working lives paying off a house. If you could pay off your house and still how 50 years to save without paying for a mortgage you would probably be able to stockpile quite a bit of cash. After 100 years of working, you'd basically be able to live off the interest from the money you had saved up. That is assuming the prices of things didn't skyrocket from too many people trying to take advantage of this kind of situation.
This is why I just make my coffee at home. Even if you use really good beans, Even if you buy really expensive beans (fresh roasted and all that) you can still make a cup of coffee at home for under 50 cents. If you buy cheaper coffee it can be made for under a quarter. When they say "for the price of a coffee a day" they are usually referring to a coffee you buy from a coffee shop. Somewhere around $2. So if you make it at home, you can have your cake and eat it too. Save the money, and still drink your coffee.
I didn't say it wasn't more complicated. However, I think it's the only logical next step if a significant (perhaps 50%, I don't know) number of visitors to a site end up blocking ads. That or asking people to actually start paying for content. Most people won't be willing to go for the second option. I wonder though, if it could be made to work. It would have to be a very small amount of money. Maybe less than a dollar a month. But that's probably more than most content creators made off ads from a single person anyway.
The problem is, is that all this stuff can still be tracked from the site the content is actually coming from. The reason we are so easily able to block ads and cookies from advertisers is because they come from third party sites. What happens when the cookies, scripts, and ads start being served by the content provider themselves. It wouldn't take a genius to develop a system where all the cookies were set by the first party site, and the required information communicated to the advertising network through original website itself. They could even make the ad content look different every time, making it harder to fingerprint what is an ad, and therefore making it difficult to block. You wouldn't get a unique ID because it wouldn't send back the cookies from other sites, but using browser finger printing you could get a pretty good chance of matching people across different sites. This is just a small step in the grand scheme of things, and it won't stop advertisers for long. The worst part about this is to do it well, the advertising networks will want their code running on the content providers servers, opening up a whole slew of new and fun security holes. Bu the content providers will do it anyway, because they want to actually make a few bucks back on their website.
I really don't get where this stereotype of developers/geeks being unhealthy comes from. Of all the people I know, geeks seem to be more likely to engage in regular exercise. And most of them eat pretty well. Sure there's a few outliers, but for the most part, I find that developers are actually in pretty good shape compared to the average person.
I'm not sure if I would classify that as "his site". He's one of many bloggers. His site, only seems to block 2 cookies (using ghostery), and they are twitter and wordpress stats. I would classify those as at least not completely terrible. That being said, My browser reported blocking 9 things from Boing Boing. That's just a little bit crazy. It's probably one of the highest number of blocks that I've seen a "legitimate" site.
Yeah, because it was PayPal, not the banks, that lead to a world-wide financial crisis. Although I understand what you're saying, I don't trust that government regulation will protect us from everything. Make sure you understand the agreements you are entering into with your banking institution. There are thousands of banks in the US. I highly doubt that all of them are that trustworthy or safe with your money.
2.5 GB isn't enough to notice a difference. Once you get a whole bunch of RAM (like 8-16 GB), it definitely helps speed up the machine up. Boot time doesn't increase, but Windows 7/8 is pretty good about keeping file cached. Once your machine has been up for a few hours, things work really fast. They say that 8 GB of NAND is all you need in a Hybrid drive. But 8 GB of RAM is really cheap, so why not just get 8 GB more of RAM and use a regular hard drive. It'll be faster to access the the data from memory than it will be to access it from NAND. The only advantage is that the hybrid drive will maintain the data past reboots and power outages. If they only need 8 GB, they should probably be using DDR3 (or better) instead of NAND flash, combined with some sort of battery backup to ensure the data can be retained after rebooting, or even after short power outages.
Canadians stream the Super Bowl, so we can get the US feed. The Canadian feed has the commercials replaced with Canadian commercials. Half the fun of the Super Bowl is watching the million dollar commercials.
Relevant "What If" XKCD. TL;DR. The average person can throw something about 15 meters high. Someone with a good arm could throw about 25 meters. Even the best of athletes could probably only throw 80 meters high, and that's using a golf ball, which is pretty much ideal. Really people aren't good at throwing things up, and are much better at throwing things horizontally. The comic assumes a device which converts forward speed to vertical speed without causing the projectile to lose any energy.
Do they even use mag strip credit cards in South Korea? My credit cards and debit cards still have mag stripes on them, but I very seldom am presented with a machine that actually reads the stripe. Most have switched to the chip technology years ago. And I just live in Canada. I'm sure a more forward thinking country like Korea wouldn't even bother with mag stripes. Except, perhaps, for the sole purpose of being compatible with the United Statesian machines when travelling.
I would like to know how streaming content to watch it is any different then actually downloading the content. From the way the summary is worded, it seems like if you stream the content to the client, it's only a misdemeanor, however, if the client downloads the content, you are committing a felony. But the server really has no control what happens with the data that is sent to the client. It may be set up in such a way as to "stream" the content to the client, but the client can save the stream if they want, and watch it later. It could be argued that all copyright data going over the internet is being streamed. I'm not saying we need harsher sentencing, for any of this stuff, but it doesn't make sense to have different penalties for serving a file for streaming, and serving a file for download, when it's really up to the receiving end what happens to that data in the end.
Actually, in Canada, they can't call it ice cream if it isn't actually ice cream. If you read the package, it often says "frozen dessert" or some other such name. If it says ice cream on the box, it actually has to be real ice cream. To qualify as Ice Cream, it must be made only with 100% Canadian milk, apart from the stuff used to actually add the flavour like vanilla, sugar, chocolate, nuts, caramel, etc.
We don't really need to move the entire population off the earth, we just need to move enough people to sustain the species once we find a suitable new home. There haven't always been 7 billion people on the planet You could probably quite easily rebuild the population of earth on another suitable planet in a few hundred years if you started with 100,000 people. Just take a look at this chart to show how fast you can actually increase the human population.
I would probably think that it would end quite quickly. With no way to send additional supplies, I don't think they'd last long on the martian surface. Even small problems could turn potentially deadly really fast. Also, shows like "Big Brother" work well for TV by the precise fact that they are very cheap to produce. The "Winner" gets half a million dollars. Most actors on popular sit-coms get paid more than that per episode. This is why you see so much reality TV. I wonder if they even have the bandwidth to send back TV quality signals from Mars. What happens when it's on the far side of the sun? They will need to set up relay satellites to ensure they can always get a good signal. Even then I've seen lots of pictures from the Mars but I don't think I've seen too many videos.
This really bothers me about Amazon. At least with eBay I know that that I'm buying from some random person, but on Amazon, when you first click on an item, it's not clear whether you are buying off Amazon, directly from a reputable manufacturer, or some random person. There's no obvious way to filter searches to only show Amazon stuff either.
Exactly, as much as things can be sped up by using multicore technology, they can be sped up even more (while using less power) by implementing them in hardware. It's the reason the Raspberry Pi can play BluRay quality video but can't show a Linux Desktop without a whole lot of lag. They'd be much better off adding more specialized processors to deal with things that are common on phones than to use generic processors that just suck up a lot of power without speeding things up significantly anyway.
Personally, I've settled on this razor by Schick (4 for $6 at Walmart). They are quite cheap (cheaper than Mach 3) and I find they last quite a while. I have a pretty thick beard, and I can usually use them for a month or two, depending on the season. I've heard people rave about double edge safety razors, and I seriously considered going that route when I was overpaying for Gillette. Now I'm not so keen on switching, although I may decide to go that route in the future.
It's not a question of "where", but "when". I would expect that next year, this probably won't be unattainable. Which is probably the earliest I would expect them to actually get this phone in my hands. They are comparing it to an iPhone 5, which was released almost a year ago, and the Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S4, which is newer, but still probably due up for a new model to surpass by the time they release this phone. Also, you get the Galaxy S4 with 64 GB internally (hard to find though), and then add an additional 64 GB of storage using the SDXC card giving you 128 GB of storage.
Especially with the price of stuff. You can spend $20 and get nothing physical at all. You can spend $50 for a t-shirt, or your can spend $775 (sold out, now $780) and get the actual phone. If it actually get released. For that kind of money you can go out and buy a phone right now, and still have lots of money to spare. And you will actually have a phone. Instead of having the chance of getting a phone if the project is actually completed.
I had an old 15" CRT computer monitor that could only do 1024x768 if you put it in interlaced mode, unless you wanted to use 60 Hz, which hurt my eyes. Using a computer with interlacing is quite interesting to say the least. Although it's less painful than using a CRT at 60 Hz. It's not quite 1080i, more like 768i, but I'm pretty sure there probably exists a CRT monitor that can be set to 1080i, or probably something very close, like 1024i.
I wonder if you are being serious or don't realize the irony of your statement.