Actually, if you run without shoes, you'll naturally run on your toes. Hitting with your heel first is generally only possible when you're wearing shoes, and not something that would have happened for much of our evolutionary history. There's a lot of stuff coming out about how many of the common injuries occur because we wear shoes, and the kinds of problems caused in running form because we wear shoes.
I found all of my GPS problems disappear once I stopped trying to use my phone as a GPS and moved to a proper GPS (Garmin Oregon 450). My phone would literally take over 5 minutes to get a signal, and even after it did, it would drop constantly. My Garmin on the other hand get's a signal seconds after turning on (which is less than 15 seconds). I've never had it lose signal outside. Most people's problems with GPS are probably just due to bad devices, and not really any problems with the GPS system itself. If it was so bad, I don't imagine it would be in such high use for military and commercial systems.
Exactly. I still only have a 30 inch tube TV, but still enjoy watching movies at home way more than going to the theatre. I'll go 3 or 4 times a year at most. It's just really not worth the cost of going. When I do go, I make sure I pay a couple bucks extra for AVX, primarily because you can reserve specific seats, but also because everybody is paying a little bit extra, so you tend to keep out the people who are going to ruin the experience anyway. That may sound a little "classist" but places that charge a little more tend to have less people who are just there because they have nothing else to do, and not because they really want to see the movie.
I think you mean "V ger". And, if I'm not mistaken, it was Voyager VI, which never actually existed. NASA only ever made Voyager I and II. And apparently slashdot doesn't let me put in multiple spaces, even if I use the HTML entity.
I wonder how this hasn't happened already. Woman obtains DNA of famous person. Has their kid (not a clone) by combining their DNA an that of the famous person and using invitro fertilization. Sues them for child support. The famous person could claim they never slept with the person, but if she had his child, it would be pretty hard to refuse otherwise.
Then pay the $10 a month (or less) and host your own server, and you can put any ads/content you want to on your blog (including Google ads). It's really not that expensive to get shared hosting or even a VPS to host your content on. I really fail to understand why anybody who's actually making money off their blog would host it on Blogger. They could decide to cancel that service at any time (see Reader and iGoogle). Blogger is fine if it's just a blog for you and your friends to read. But as soon as you make the decision to make money off of it, and get some serious readership, you should move to a VPS/Shared server as soon as possible.
You're welcome. I live in Canada, and I use it to access US Netflix and the BBC. This kind of stuff has been around for ages. Although this is the first case I can think of that an ISP is offering it direct to their customers.
What's really high risk about starting your own company? Especially when you aren't taking out any loans to do it. The way they played blackjack, they basically removed all the risk, by coming up with a system to beat the house. If you're just developing software, it doesn't cost anything but your time (and the other developers), and the cost of a few computers. If you can develop a well needed product, the payout is immense. If it turns out not to be as successful as you thought, you can probably still land a day-job by showing off your MIT degree and the software you did create. All you stand to lose is the money you paid yourself while developing the software for a year or two.
This is oh so very true. Nobody "needs" to watch the latest movie or TV episode. Pirating content just gives them ammunition to push government for laws against breaking DRM, and justifies their use of DRM. If there was nobody pirating the content, there would be no use for the DRM to be there in the first place. Netflix gives more more content than I could ever hope to watch. Sure, it may not have specific movies that I want, but at $7.99 a month, it certainly is a great deal. That's less than the cost of 2 movie rentals with Blockbuster.
Perhaps the ones who graduate are quite smart, or the ones who go on to get advanced degrees in philosophy, but the average person studying philosophy can't grasp the simplest of concepts. As part of my engineering degree, we did have to take humanities courses. One of my classmates took a first year philosophy course. They spend a whole class (1.5 hours, about 13 classes in the semester) going over De Morgan's Laws. By the end of the course, they had learned about one third as much formal logic as we were required to learn for our discrete mathematics for computing course. As someone who took humanities courses as part of my engineering degree, I have to say, I found them quite easy, and they were a welcome change from the workload of my engineering courses. I know very few humanities students who would have fared so well in engineering courses.
From the sounds of it, he also rowed some other boat across the atlantic and pacific. This is a completely different journey in a different boat. Although I have to wonder, if it's solar powered, why does he have to bring so much weight in batteries? He should be able to travel when there's light, and anchor at night, so as not to stray too far off course. Also, despite the fact the I realize he's probably doing this just to prove he can, there's a million other ways to power a boat, many of which, such as wind power (using sails), are good for the environment. It apparently took him 584 days to go around the earth. It only took Columbus 5 weeks to cross the Atlantic, and he didn't even know where he was going.
I'm a cyclist, so I do in fact carry allen keys wherever I go. Even if I"m not going cycling I usually have my bike multitool on me because it's harder to forget it if you're used to bringing it everywhere. Also it does have very small allen keys. All the way down to 1.5 mm.
By that logic, they can just go ahead and say you opened it, even if the original screws are in there. And you'd have to prove that you didn't open it and replace the screws, which would be impossible. If they want to fault you for opening the phone, they should have some sort of sticker or other mechanism which is destroyed upon actually opening the phone.
What I want to know is, if they are going through the trouble of making the iPhone hard to open, why not make it so that device is actually waterproof? My Garmin GPS (cost me $200) is waterproof, even though it has an external USB port. I don't see how it would be so difficult to make a waterproof cell phone. I really hate this business of having to put an extra case around my phone because they couldn't be bothered to make it a little more sturdy in the first place.
Yes, but the disadvantage of using phillips, is that the screw head may end up getting stripped, rendering your phone which was previously only able to be opened by a special screwdriver now in the state of needing a screw extractor to open it. And Torx, Hex, and Robertson aren't that rare. You can't walk into any hardware store and find them. Perhaps they only one you couldn't use would be Robertson, because they don't make them very small usually.
Also, if you're going to bother replacing the screws, why not replace them with something good like torx, hex(allen key), or Robertson? Basically, anything other than phillips and slotted.
Well, maybe it isn't rare, but if it's hard to get at then it's effectively the same thing. There' a lot of hydrogen out there, so why not use it to create tons of cheap electricity. Maybe because it's tied up in water (and other substances), and hard to extract. If the way that "rare earth elements" happen to exist in our earths crust makes them hard to mine in sizable quantities, then it would probably make sense to find a cheaper source. If they happen to accumulate better in asteroids for some reason, then it might make sense to mine them there. At the very least, if the processing plant was off-planet, we wouldn't have to worry about mucking up our own environment to get at them.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "long term". Obviously the sun will eventually get too hot, and then obviously we can't survive on earth, but we still got a billion years until that happens. If it's at all possible for us to leave this planet, We'll do it before our time is up. We've only been around for 100,000 years, and only had science for a few hundred years at that. We've come a long way in a very short time, and we shouldn't run around spending all our resources on getting off the planet when there's such a very little chance of anything happening in the near future. We should really be focusing our efforts on making this planet more livable and not destroying way before we should have. If we manage stuff properly on earth, we'll be quiet well off for the "long term", and we'll have plenty of time to figure out how to get off the earth in the next million years or so.
Yeah, some people are definitely more sensitive to it than others. I know people who had no problem looking at a 60 Hz CRT, but could never do it for more than a few minutes, as i could see the light flickering. I've never had any problems with LCD/LED displays, but I'm sure there's people with enough sensitivity in their eyes for it to bother them.
I'm not really even talking from a trust point of view, but more the other point of open source software, which is, "if there's a bug in the code, you can fix it yourself". Without even going down that whole tangent of recursively verifying the entire build chain, there's the problem of being able to even functionally compile the source code so that you can make fixes when you need to.
Ok, maybe not exact binaries, but what if you can't even make a binary at all, or if you do make one, how do you ensure it's functioning the same? That's the problem that many people have with open source code that exists in languages that you can only compile with a proprietary compiler. Take.Net for instance. It's possible to write a program that is open source, and yet you're at the mercy of Microsoft to be able to compile the code. Even when I download Linux packages in C, it's often the case that I can't compile them, because I'm missing some obscure library that the original developer just assumed I had. What good is code if you are unable to compile it is right up there with "what use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak". Some code only works with certain compilers, or with certain flags turned on in those compilers. Simply having the source code doesn't mean you have the ability to actually use the source code to make bug fixes should the need arise.
Microsoft really gets a a hard time trying to change anything. When Apple dropped OS9 support when moving to OSX, or when they dropped PowerPC support moving to X86, or when they created a tablet that wasn't compatible with their desktop operating system, nobody did this much complaining. But everytime MS tries to do anything that changes anything in anyway people say they are making bad decisions. ARM will have to get a lot faster before they can run real Windows and all the standard Windows applications on it. I really think the only major failings of their Surface line is that it's a little to expensive for what it is. Surface RT would be nice if the price was a little closer to the Nexus 7 than it is to the iPad, and their Surface Pro should be a little close in price to the iPad. But I think they got the basic idea and concept right.
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Actually, if you run without shoes, you'll naturally run on your toes. Hitting with your heel first is generally only possible when you're wearing shoes, and not something that would have happened for much of our evolutionary history. There's a lot of stuff coming out about how many of the common injuries occur because we wear shoes, and the kinds of problems caused in running form because we wear shoes.
I found all of my GPS problems disappear once I stopped trying to use my phone as a GPS and moved to a proper GPS (Garmin Oregon 450). My phone would literally take over 5 minutes to get a signal, and even after it did, it would drop constantly. My Garmin on the other hand get's a signal seconds after turning on (which is less than 15 seconds). I've never had it lose signal outside. Most people's problems with GPS are probably just due to bad devices, and not really any problems with the GPS system itself. If it was so bad, I don't imagine it would be in such high use for military and commercial systems.
Exactly. I still only have a 30 inch tube TV, but still enjoy watching movies at home way more than going to the theatre. I'll go 3 or 4 times a year at most. It's just really not worth the cost of going. When I do go, I make sure I pay a couple bucks extra for AVX, primarily because you can reserve specific seats, but also because everybody is paying a little bit extra, so you tend to keep out the people who are going to ruin the experience anyway. That may sound a little "classist" but places that charge a little more tend to have less people who are just there because they have nothing else to do, and not because they really want to see the movie.
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I think you mean "V ger". And, if I'm not mistaken, it was Voyager VI, which never actually existed. NASA only ever made Voyager I and II. And apparently slashdot doesn't let me put in multiple spaces, even if I use the HTML entity.
I wonder how this hasn't happened already. Woman obtains DNA of famous person. Has their kid (not a clone) by combining their DNA an that of the famous person and using invitro fertilization. Sues them for child support. The famous person could claim they never slept with the person, but if she had his child, it would be pretty hard to refuse otherwise.
Then pay the $10 a month (or less) and host your own server, and you can put any ads/content you want to on your blog (including Google ads). It's really not that expensive to get shared hosting or even a VPS to host your content on. I really fail to understand why anybody who's actually making money off their blog would host it on Blogger. They could decide to cancel that service at any time (see Reader and iGoogle). Blogger is fine if it's just a blog for you and your friends to read. But as soon as you make the decision to make money off of it, and get some serious readership, you should move to a VPS/Shared server as soon as possible.
You're welcome. I live in Canada, and I use it to access US Netflix and the BBC. This kind of stuff has been around for ages. Although this is the first case I can think of that an ISP is offering it direct to their customers.
What's really high risk about starting your own company? Especially when you aren't taking out any loans to do it. The way they played blackjack, they basically removed all the risk, by coming up with a system to beat the house. If you're just developing software, it doesn't cost anything but your time (and the other developers), and the cost of a few computers. If you can develop a well needed product, the payout is immense. If it turns out not to be as successful as you thought, you can probably still land a day-job by showing off your MIT degree and the software you did create. All you stand to lose is the money you paid yourself while developing the software for a year or two.
This is oh so very true. Nobody "needs" to watch the latest movie or TV episode. Pirating content just gives them ammunition to push government for laws against breaking DRM, and justifies their use of DRM. If there was nobody pirating the content, there would be no use for the DRM to be there in the first place. Netflix gives more more content than I could ever hope to watch. Sure, it may not have specific movies that I want, but at $7.99 a month, it certainly is a great deal. That's less than the cost of 2 movie rentals with Blockbuster.
Perhaps the ones who graduate are quite smart, or the ones who go on to get advanced degrees in philosophy, but the average person studying philosophy can't grasp the simplest of concepts. As part of my engineering degree, we did have to take humanities courses. One of my classmates took a first year philosophy course. They spend a whole class (1.5 hours, about 13 classes in the semester) going over De Morgan's Laws. By the end of the course, they had learned about one third as much formal logic as we were required to learn for our discrete mathematics for computing course. As someone who took humanities courses as part of my engineering degree, I have to say, I found them quite easy, and they were a welcome change from the workload of my engineering courses. I know very few humanities students who would have fared so well in engineering courses.
From the sounds of it, he also rowed some other boat across the atlantic and pacific. This is a completely different journey in a different boat. Although I have to wonder, if it's solar powered, why does he have to bring so much weight in batteries? He should be able to travel when there's light, and anchor at night, so as not to stray too far off course. Also, despite the fact the I realize he's probably doing this just to prove he can, there's a million other ways to power a boat, many of which, such as wind power (using sails), are good for the environment. It apparently took him 584 days to go around the earth. It only took Columbus 5 weeks to cross the Atlantic, and he didn't even know where he was going.
I'm a cyclist, so I do in fact carry allen keys wherever I go. Even if I"m not going cycling I usually have my bike multitool on me because it's harder to forget it if you're used to bringing it everywhere. Also it does have very small allen keys. All the way down to 1.5 mm.
By that logic, they can just go ahead and say you opened it, even if the original screws are in there. And you'd have to prove that you didn't open it and replace the screws, which would be impossible. If they want to fault you for opening the phone, they should have some sort of sticker or other mechanism which is destroyed upon actually opening the phone.
What I want to know is, if they are going through the trouble of making the iPhone hard to open, why not make it so that device is actually waterproof? My Garmin GPS (cost me $200) is waterproof, even though it has an external USB port. I don't see how it would be so difficult to make a waterproof cell phone. I really hate this business of having to put an extra case around my phone because they couldn't be bothered to make it a little more sturdy in the first place.
Yes, but the disadvantage of using phillips, is that the screw head may end up getting stripped, rendering your phone which was previously only able to be opened by a special screwdriver now in the state of needing a screw extractor to open it. And Torx, Hex, and Robertson aren't that rare. You can't walk into any hardware store and find them. Perhaps they only one you couldn't use would be Robertson, because they don't make them very small usually.
Also, if you're going to bother replacing the screws, why not replace them with something good like torx, hex(allen key), or Robertson? Basically, anything other than phillips and slotted.
As somebody who know's SQL, I always thought it would be useful to be able to (optionally) query the file system using SQL queries.
Well, maybe it isn't rare, but if it's hard to get at then it's effectively the same thing. There' a lot of hydrogen out there, so why not use it to create tons of cheap electricity. Maybe because it's tied up in water (and other substances), and hard to extract. If the way that "rare earth elements" happen to exist in our earths crust makes them hard to mine in sizable quantities, then it would probably make sense to find a cheaper source. If they happen to accumulate better in asteroids for some reason, then it might make sense to mine them there. At the very least, if the processing plant was off-planet, we wouldn't have to worry about mucking up our own environment to get at them.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "long term". Obviously the sun will eventually get too hot, and then obviously we can't survive on earth, but we still got a billion years until that happens. If it's at all possible for us to leave this planet, We'll do it before our time is up. We've only been around for 100,000 years, and only had science for a few hundred years at that. We've come a long way in a very short time, and we shouldn't run around spending all our resources on getting off the planet when there's such a very little chance of anything happening in the near future. We should really be focusing our efforts on making this planet more livable and not destroying way before we should have. If we manage stuff properly on earth, we'll be quiet well off for the "long term", and we'll have plenty of time to figure out how to get off the earth in the next million years or so.
What's interesting is that he paired it with an iPad instead of an Android tablet.
Yeah, some people are definitely more sensitive to it than others. I know people who had no problem looking at a 60 Hz CRT, but could never do it for more than a few minutes, as i could see the light flickering. I've never had any problems with LCD/LED displays, but I'm sure there's people with enough sensitivity in their eyes for it to bother them.
I'm not really even talking from a trust point of view, but more the other point of open source software, which is, "if there's a bug in the code, you can fix it yourself". Without even going down that whole tangent of recursively verifying the entire build chain, there's the problem of being able to even functionally compile the source code so that you can make fixes when you need to.
Ok, maybe not exact binaries, but what if you can't even make a binary at all, or if you do make one, how do you ensure it's functioning the same? That's the problem that many people have with open source code that exists in languages that you can only compile with a proprietary compiler. Take .Net for instance. It's possible to write a program that is open source, and yet you're at the mercy of Microsoft to be able to compile the code. Even when I download Linux packages in C, it's often the case that I can't compile them, because I'm missing some obscure library that the original developer just assumed I had. What good is code if you are unable to compile it is right up there with "what use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak". Some code only works with certain compilers, or with certain flags turned on in those compilers. Simply having the source code doesn't mean you have the ability to actually use the source code to make bug fixes should the need arise.
Microsoft really gets a a hard time trying to change anything. When Apple dropped OS9 support when moving to OSX, or when they dropped PowerPC support moving to X86, or when they created a tablet that wasn't compatible with their desktop operating system, nobody did this much complaining. But everytime MS tries to do anything that changes anything in anyway people say they are making bad decisions. ARM will have to get a lot faster before they can run real Windows and all the standard Windows applications on it. I really think the only major failings of their Surface line is that it's a little to expensive for what it is. Surface RT would be nice if the price was a little closer to the Nexus 7 than it is to the iPad, and their Surface Pro should be a little close in price to the iPad. But I think they got the basic idea and concept right.