Presumably either "cell-phone usage causes cancer" or "the two are commonly caused by a third factor", unless you can think of a plausible mechanism by which having cancer would retroactively cause cell-phone usage.
Houston's space museum is quite good, but also sort of out of the way in the suburbs. It has a large "rocket park" with a bunch of things, and has tours of one of the giant pools used for low-G training, the original Apollo mission-command room, and (when not in use) the current mission-command room. The cons are mainly that it's in suburban Houston. The pros are that there isn't much in Houston, so it actually gets quite a few visitors, because it's one of the main things a tourist does if they're in southeast Texas.
If Slashdot employed journalists with real professional headline-writing experience, the headline would've been something like: Schumer Shoots to Snag Shutdown Shuttle for NY Ship
It would be particularly difficult to require suspects to show ID, because you aren't even required to have ID. Sure, in practice it's difficult to avoid getting a government-issued ID (can't do lots of things without one), but there's no law mandating it, if you don't drive and don't need to exit/reenter the country.
It's been the case for a while; not too many people in postcolonial studies are big fans of science. There's a decent amount of writing accusing scientific study of non-Western cultures of "epistemic violence", by displacing another culture's explanations with Western-science-culture's explanations.
Unfortunately, this is also making Google's ads worse. Since a year or two ago, by default AdSense publishers have a box checked that allows Google to sell the space to "third-party networks" as well, and they use DoubleClick for that a lot. You can uncheck the box and require only ads that go via actual Google AdSense, but I suspect few publishers do.
I haven't found a huge pushback against relatively unobtrusive ads that are reasonably tasteful, especially if the site owner explains why they were introduced, and the site has a community that actually knows and believes the site owner. A lot of the backlash is over the total opposite extreme of no ads: ads plastered on the page in 10-15 locations and even breaking the flow of articles, some animated in Flash (which also grabs your mouse pointer and breaks kb navigation), some of which play sounds at you, and some displaying gross teeth and spiders and fat bellies and god knows what else.
If you have a community that cares about the site, you might try gently introducing some optional payment options also. Even trivial things like: support the site with a $10 donation and you get a little icon next to your name in the forums as recognition.
More a fault of the article submitter; they should've linked to the Wikimedia Commons page, which can play it in the browser most OS/browser combinations.
Yes, but you're on the internet, so local namespace dictates that "meme" refers to "internet meme", just like "post" by default refers to "post on a website" rather than "post office".
I think that was actually pretty common in the 70s/80s hacking scene, though, so Woz isn't a huge outlier. A lot of people got interested in breaking security as a sort of puzzle-solving challenge. There was of course a vague sense of triumph over The Man, and thrill of breaking into an AT&T system or whatever, but there was still an ethos of not damaging the systems you broke into, not using them for stupid things like fraud, etc.
That wouldn't have much effect: due to the First Amendment, it's not actually illegal for third parties to republish classified information. It is a crime to leak it in the first place (so e.g. if you're a CIA officer and start mailing out documents, you can go to jail), but not to publish if you somehow get a hold of it. So making it classified information wouldn't prevent Google from publishing their own statistics.
Texas attempts (seriously) to solve that problem by only allowing its legislature to meet every other year. Unfortunately, the governor works overtime in the off-years to make up for the stupid-government shortfall (and he can call the legislature into special 30-day sessions even in the off-year, if he needs their approval for something.)
But OpenGL immediate mode really is fast enough for a huge range of applications. It was fast enough twenty years ago, so surely it should be fast enough today also, unless someone graphics cards have magically gotten slower.
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Not sure it answers all your concerns, but on the iPhone at least, you can package up a web-app so it installs locally. Then it's basically a local app that happens to be written in Javascript and render via the Webkit toolkit.
That I agree with, which is why I purposely quoted the part of his sentence including "on the desktop". On the desktop, the vast majority of OpenGL apps, i.e. anything except state-of-the-art AAA game, does not really need to squeeze that last bit of performance out.
Oh but don't worry, if you use the new enlightened way of doing OpenGL programming, you can write a "Hello World" app that fades between two images in:
380 lines of C and a couple dozen lines of shader code
In fact, you shouldn't be using them on the desktop either, if you're at all concerned about performance
If you mean, are making an AAA game title, sure, but then your job is probably "3d graphics programming specialist" or something, so you can jump through whatever hoops are necessary. There's a huge range of apps for which performance is not really a concern; they ran fine on hardware of 10 years ago, so they ought to be able to run fine on today's. xDaliClock is one of those.
My impression was that most non-RP (i.e. non-BBC) dialects dropped the initial h, but I could be wrong. Here is some random journal article that claims:
It is notable too that RP is virtually the only major accent of England that sounds initial [h]
Initial 'h' is actually dropped considerably more frequently in UK English than US English; e.g. "an 'istoric event" in British but "a historic event" in American.
Yes, which is what operating-system-level virtualization, which is basically an extension of the old concept of chroots or jails, is intended to do: give you many of the benefits of virtualization without the overhead of having multiple full copies of the OS running. It can also manage some resources better, e.g. having a unified filesystem cache. OpenVZ is Linux's approach.
However, full virtualization, like Xen, is somewhat more rock-solid in its separation of the virtual machines, and also allows more flexibility, in that each of the virtualized OSs can be different (don't even have to all be Linux, or if they are, can run different kernels/modules).
This article claims that on Solaris, "fork() has been improved over the years to use the COW (copy-on-write) semantics". It's sort of an in-passing comment, though, and I can't find a definitive statement in docs anywhere (the Solaris fork() manpage doesn't give any details).
I do think there are probably bad things one can do with demographic data as opposed to good ones, but I'm not sure you can do much by simply hiding the data. De-facto racial segregation in housing exists long after the eradication of de-jure segregation, and even if you hid the data, people who live in a city are going to notice that neighborhoods have different demographics, and if they were going to avoid neighborhoods with races they don't like, they can (and do) already do it without the app.
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Presumably either "cell-phone usage causes cancer" or "the two are commonly caused by a third factor", unless you can think of a plausible mechanism by which having cancer would retroactively cause cell-phone usage.
Houston's space museum is quite good, but also sort of out of the way in the suburbs. It has a large "rocket park" with a bunch of things, and has tours of one of the giant pools used for low-G training, the original Apollo mission-command room, and (when not in use) the current mission-command room. The cons are mainly that it's in suburban Houston. The pros are that there isn't much in Houston, so it actually gets quite a few visitors, because it's one of the main things a tourist does if they're in southeast Texas.
If Slashdot employed journalists with real professional headline-writing experience, the headline would've been something like: Schumer Shoots to Snag Shutdown Shuttle for NY Ship
It would be particularly difficult to require suspects to show ID, because you aren't even required to have ID. Sure, in practice it's difficult to avoid getting a government-issued ID (can't do lots of things without one), but there's no law mandating it, if you don't drive and don't need to exit/reenter the country.
It's been the case for a while; not too many people in postcolonial studies are big fans of science. There's a decent amount of writing accusing scientific study of non-Western cultures of "epistemic violence", by displacing another culture's explanations with Western-science-culture's explanations.
Unfortunately, this is also making Google's ads worse. Since a year or two ago, by default AdSense publishers have a box checked that allows Google to sell the space to "third-party networks" as well, and they use DoubleClick for that a lot. You can uncheck the box and require only ads that go via actual Google AdSense, but I suspect few publishers do.
I haven't found a huge pushback against relatively unobtrusive ads that are reasonably tasteful, especially if the site owner explains why they were introduced, and the site has a community that actually knows and believes the site owner. A lot of the backlash is over the total opposite extreme of no ads: ads plastered on the page in 10-15 locations and even breaking the flow of articles, some animated in Flash (which also grabs your mouse pointer and breaks kb navigation), some of which play sounds at you, and some displaying gross teeth and spiders and fat bellies and god knows what else.
If you have a community that cares about the site, you might try gently introducing some optional payment options also. Even trivial things like: support the site with a $10 donation and you get a little icon next to your name in the forums as recognition.
On the other hand, Slashdot has a right to grouse about it on their own site if they want! Everyone's got rights all around. ;-)
More a fault of the article submitter; they should've linked to the Wikimedia Commons page, which can play it in the browser most OS/browser combinations.
Yes, but you're on the internet, so local namespace dictates that "meme" refers to "internet meme", just like "post" by default refers to "post on a website" rather than "post office".
I think that was actually pretty common in the 70s/80s hacking scene, though, so Woz isn't a huge outlier. A lot of people got interested in breaking security as a sort of puzzle-solving challenge. There was of course a vague sense of triumph over The Man, and thrill of breaking into an AT&T system or whatever, but there was still an ethos of not damaging the systems you broke into, not using them for stupid things like fraud, etc.
That wouldn't have much effect: due to the First Amendment, it's not actually illegal for third parties to republish classified information. It is a crime to leak it in the first place (so e.g. if you're a CIA officer and start mailing out documents, you can go to jail), but not to publish if you somehow get a hold of it. So making it classified information wouldn't prevent Google from publishing their own statistics.
I agree, but within that reasonable time, you probably can't sell it.
They were often the same people, too, e.g. Woz was both varieties of hacker (which weren't that strongly differentiated anyway).
Texas attempts (seriously) to solve that problem by only allowing its legislature to meet every other year. Unfortunately, the governor works overtime in the off-years to make up for the stupid-government shortfall (and he can call the legislature into special 30-day sessions even in the off-year, if he needs their approval for something.)
But OpenGL immediate mode really is fast enough for a huge range of applications. It was fast enough twenty years ago, so surely it should be fast enough today also, unless someone graphics cards have magically gotten slower.
Not sure it answers all your concerns, but on the iPhone at least, you can package up a web-app so it installs locally. Then it's basically a local app that happens to be written in Javascript and render via the Webkit toolkit.
That I agree with, which is why I purposely quoted the part of his sentence including "on the desktop". On the desktop, the vast majority of OpenGL apps, i.e. anything except state-of-the-art AAA game, does not really need to squeeze that last bit of performance out.
Oh but don't worry, if you use the new enlightened way of doing OpenGL programming, you can write a "Hello World" app that fades between two images in:
If you mean, are making an AAA game title, sure, but then your job is probably "3d graphics programming specialist" or something, so you can jump through whatever hoops are necessary. There's a huge range of apps for which performance is not really a concern; they ran fine on hardware of 10 years ago, so they ought to be able to run fine on today's. xDaliClock is one of those.
My impression was that most non-RP (i.e. non-BBC) dialects dropped the initial h, but I could be wrong. Here is some random journal article that claims:
Initial 'h' is actually dropped considerably more frequently in UK English than US English; e.g. "an 'istoric event" in British but "a historic event" in American.
Yes, which is what operating-system-level virtualization, which is basically an extension of the old concept of chroots or jails, is intended to do: give you many of the benefits of virtualization without the overhead of having multiple full copies of the OS running. It can also manage some resources better, e.g. having a unified filesystem cache. OpenVZ is Linux's approach.
However, full virtualization, like Xen, is somewhat more rock-solid in its separation of the virtual machines, and also allows more flexibility, in that each of the virtualized OSs can be different (don't even have to all be Linux, or if they are, can run different kernels/modules).
This article claims that on Solaris, "fork() has been improved over the years to use the COW (copy-on-write) semantics". It's sort of an in-passing comment, though, and I can't find a definitive statement in docs anywhere (the Solaris fork() manpage doesn't give any details).
You can already get much of that data pretty easily from the federal government, e.g. your hypothetical racial map for Chicago.
I do think there are probably bad things one can do with demographic data as opposed to good ones, but I'm not sure you can do much by simply hiding the data. De-facto racial segregation in housing exists long after the eradication of de-jure segregation, and even if you hid the data, people who live in a city are going to notice that neighborhoods have different demographics, and if they were going to avoid neighborhoods with races they don't like, they can (and do) already do it without the app.