Most useful scientific research doesn't happen from lab technicians in sterile environments doing everything exactly to the scientific method, it comes from people who just wonder "What if....".
Here's another one, with the demise of MS: Less spam.
Most spam these days is sent from botnets, of compromised Windows machines. Kill those (oh, there'll be new ones, but I don't believe it will be as easy to have them as big), and it becomes easier to track who's actually sending the spam, while at the same time spam will cost more to send. (As the botnet multiplier will reduce.)
It's not a magic bullet, obviously, but I truly think if MS were to start losing real amounts of marketshare, spam volume would go down somewhat.
The book was a collection of short stories. Some of them probably would have made a decent movie. Or just write something new, but at least keep why Asmiov's robot stories are famous.
>>>misguided Will Smith feature I, Robot, the lame Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams, and two B-grade adaptations of Nightfall.
I have to disagree with this statement. Yeah the B-grade movies were bad, but I thought Bicentennial Man was faithful to the original text, and I Robot was an original non-asimov story, but still stayed true to Asimov's original Four Robot Laws (1,2,3, and 0). I saw that movie three times and enjoyed it every time. I wish they'd go back and adapt a few more (but this time stick to the text).
Bicentennial Man is probably fairly faithful - to the book, which wasn't actually by Asimov. (It was inspired by a short story he wrote.) I liked it, mostly.
I Robot... It may have been true to the wording of the four laws, but it completely missed their point: To have a world where robots weren't the enemy, and weren't running amok all the time. Which is where SciFi was when he started writing, and where SciFi movies still are. Instead he had robots who were machines, went wrong in predictable (non-destructive, usually) ways, and could be fixed.
Sure, he eventually went back and subverted that, but only after everyone else had started to write good robot stories, and it was then a subversion of his own rules.
So, to me, it just completely missed the point. If they'd called it what it was: Just another Hollywood robot movie, I'd have thought it decent, and liked it. But it wasn't an Asimov story, and calling it that was just a shallow marketing ploy.
No, they paid two hundred and fifty million dollars to get it to work. In space. Without taking up to much space or energy in the space station. (Where both are at a premium.)
And this is essential technology if we are ever going to leave the Earth-Moon system. Shipping enough water for a manned trip to even the nearest planet is simply prohibitive, in weight, volume, and cost. So long-term it's a good investment. (If you think we should invest in space at all, of course...)
While I agree in this case, I think such a law in general would be a bad idea: Think civil rights leader a couple of decades ago and you'll quickly be able to see why someone who is a felon might be the right person for office. (If the law is wrong.)
That said: If you are voting for this guy, you either don't care about corruption, or are in his pocket.
No, it's not there to make you feel safe. It's there to make you feel like you should feel safe, and be grateful for it, while feeling nervous enough to ask for more.
True, which is why I said 'most of the time'. (Some places even intentionally set traffic lights to stop you, especially at night.)
But if you don't know the timing, the best guess is that they are timed to the speed limit. That's the general default, unless there is some reason to set them otherwise. (Like it being a bad timing for the cross-road that is busier, etc.)
(And it's a personal pet-peeve of mine at the moment: The road I drive to work every morning is timed to the speed limit. There is nearly always someone driving 5MPH under the speed limit. So we hit every light. If I'm not stuck behind someone going 5MPH under, I can breeze through without slowing down. If I am, it doubles the amount of time I'm on that road.)
Also, most of the time, stoplights are timed to the speed limit. So the guy going 30 will have to stop when he gets to the light, because it has just turned red. He then will have to sit at idle while the light changes, and accelerate back up to speed. Repeat at next light, because he's going too slow.
If he'd just gone 45, he would have been able to coast through the light, and maintain speed. Which would have increased his fuel economy more significantly than any savings he's getting by going slower.
Actually, that's what Firefox is doing, effectively.
The problem is twofold: 1. We expect it from ssh, and not from a browser. 2. ssh users are usually people who know computers, browsers are general public.
Being an introvert is not a problem. Letting it rule your life may be, but then letting any one characteristic rule your life is a problem.
A sports league is good, but it is not what the questioner asked for: regular, daily, exercise. It's usually twice a week at best. For all you know he may actually be part of a sports league, and just not consider it to be enough exercise to be worth mentioning in his post.
I think CFLs are marginally more efficient, but they contain trace amounts of mercury and so should be given special handling in the trash. LEDs have no toxic materials, last longer, and are very close efficiency wise. (They are also currently much more expensive to produce, and have a narrower color range.)
Both groups are trying like mad to fix their downsides first. CFLs are ahead because their costs are already low.
There is another reason for the switch to LED taillights: They react faster. Pull up behind a car with a LED center light and standard outer lights, and you'll be able to notice that when they brake the center light comes on first. The extra few milliseconds can help.
That, the fact that you can form different shapes of lights, and the lower power consumption (a concern in cars, where a lot of cars are near the max for their electrical system, with all the gadgets these days...) will all push for more LEDs in cars.
Actually, from reading the article, this sounds like it might be a standard practice: If you have an issue with the randomly-assigned number you are given you can take it in and get a new one. The specific letters are just what brought the issue to this newspaper's attention.
Even BMI isn't all that great: I've been way over on that scale since middle school, and I was nearly skin-and-bones then.
There are some very easy-to-use devices to measure body fat percentage if that's what you want. I remember one in college that was basically a scale with metal studs on it. If you are doing this policy then test everyone once a year, or if they gain/loose a significant amount of weight. Easy enough.
(For the record: In middle and high school I had a waist size of 36 inches. When I tested my actual body fat percentage in college (when my waist was slightly bigger) I was right on the ideal percentage.)
Too bad it doesn't actually make a good ebook reader... (The hardware's fine. It's the software: Whomever wrote it has obviously never tried to read an ebook before. Pages are 'book pages' (which are completely irrelevant), there is no ability to bookmark pages, no ability to return to where you left off after closing the program, and no support for any real ebook format with any following. (Text isn't really a 'ebook' format, and it's the closest they've got.))
It's a shame, because the hardware would be a good ebook reader. But it's useless with the current software.
I said it was our best chance if the government doesn't break the monopoly, not that it is a good chance... (It would at least let all major telcos cover each area, which has a slightly higher chance of having some competition.)
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Then how come I've gotten about 10 "page load error" messages this morning?
I figure the server was Slashdotted.
Most useful scientific research doesn't happen from lab technicians in sterile environments doing everything exactly to the scientific method, it comes from people who just wonder "What if....".
It's also how most Darwin Awards happen.
Also a worthwhile human endeavor.
Sure, unless the ISP is picking up all DNS packets and answering them itself.
That only works if they are your only route out at that point, but...
Here's another one, with the demise of MS: Less spam.
Most spam these days is sent from botnets, of compromised Windows machines. Kill those (oh, there'll be new ones, but I don't believe it will be as easy to have them as big), and it becomes easier to track who's actually sending the spam, while at the same time spam will cost more to send. (As the botnet multiplier will reduce.)
It's not a magic bullet, obviously, but I truly think if MS were to start losing real amounts of marketshare, spam volume would go down somewhat.
The book was a collection of short stories. Some of them probably would have made a decent movie. Or just write something new, but at least keep why Asmiov's robot stories are famous.
>>>misguided Will Smith feature I, Robot, the lame Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams, and two B-grade adaptations of Nightfall.
I have to disagree with this statement. Yeah the B-grade movies were bad, but I thought Bicentennial Man was faithful to the original text, and I Robot was an original non-asimov story, but still stayed true to Asimov's original Four Robot Laws (1,2,3, and 0). I saw that movie three times and enjoyed it every time. I wish they'd go back and adapt a few more (but this time stick to the text).
Bicentennial Man is probably fairly faithful - to the book, which wasn't actually by Asimov. (It was inspired by a short story he wrote.) I liked it, mostly.
I Robot... It may have been true to the wording of the four laws, but it completely missed their point: To have a world where robots weren't the enemy, and weren't running amok all the time. Which is where SciFi was when he started writing, and where SciFi movies still are. Instead he had robots who were machines, went wrong in predictable (non-destructive, usually) ways, and could be fixed.
Sure, he eventually went back and subverted that, but only after everyone else had started to write good robot stories, and it was then a subversion of his own rules.
So, to me, it just completely missed the point. If they'd called it what it was: Just another Hollywood robot movie, I'd have thought it decent, and liked it. But it wasn't an Asimov story, and calling it that was just a shallow marketing ploy.
No, they paid two hundred and fifty million dollars to get it to work. In space. Without taking up to much space or energy in the space station. (Where both are at a premium.)
And this is essential technology if we are ever going to leave the Earth-Moon system. Shipping enough water for a manned trip to even the nearest planet is simply prohibitive, in weight, volume, and cost. So long-term it's a good investment. (If you think we should invest in space at all, of course...)
While I agree in this case, I think such a law in general would be a bad idea: Think civil rights leader a couple of decades ago and you'll quickly be able to see why someone who is a felon might be the right person for office. (If the law is wrong.)
That said: If you are voting for this guy, you either don't care about corruption, or are in his pocket.
No, it's not there to make you feel safe. It's there to make you feel like you should feel safe, and be grateful for it, while feeling nervous enough to ask for more.
True, which is why I said 'most of the time'. (Some places even intentionally set traffic lights to stop you, especially at night.)
But if you don't know the timing, the best guess is that they are timed to the speed limit. That's the general default, unless there is some reason to set them otherwise. (Like it being a bad timing for the cross-road that is busier, etc.)
(And it's a personal pet-peeve of mine at the moment: The road I drive to work every morning is timed to the speed limit. There is nearly always someone driving 5MPH under the speed limit. So we hit every light. If I'm not stuck behind someone going 5MPH under, I can breeze through without slowing down. If I am, it doubles the amount of time I'm on that road.)
Also, most of the time, stoplights are timed to the speed limit. So the guy going 30 will have to stop when he gets to the light, because it has just turned red. He then will have to sit at idle while the light changes, and accelerate back up to speed. Repeat at next light, because he's going too slow.
If he'd just gone 45, he would have been able to coast through the light, and maintain speed. Which would have increased his fuel economy more significantly than any savings he's getting by going slower.
Actually, that's what Firefox is doing, effectively.
The problem is twofold:
1. We expect it from ssh, and not from a browser.
2. ssh users are usually people who know computers, browsers are general public.
Trying not to give them ideas...
An enforceable punishment on suicide: Loss of all/some of your rights to dispose of your remaining assets. (Basically, invalidate their will.)
You've got two more choices than I do in WV. (My choices: Comcast, and dialup. Satellite isn't a choice since I'm in an apartment.)
Which just means I agree with you.
Being an introvert is not a problem. Letting it rule your life may be, but then letting any one characteristic rule your life is a problem.
A sports league is good, but it is not what the questioner asked for: regular, daily, exercise. It's usually twice a week at best. For all you know he may actually be part of a sports league, and just not consider it to be enough exercise to be worth mentioning in his post.
This got an insightful. I'm not sure to be proud of the mods for modding up a great bit of satire, or ashamed at how they did it.
I think CFLs are marginally more efficient, but they contain trace amounts of mercury and so should be given special handling in the trash. LEDs have no toxic materials, last longer, and are very close efficiency wise. (They are also currently much more expensive to produce, and have a narrower color range.)
Both groups are trying like mad to fix their downsides first. CFLs are ahead because their costs are already low.
There is another reason for the switch to LED taillights: They react faster. Pull up behind a car with a LED center light and standard outer lights, and you'll be able to notice that when they brake the center light comes on first. The extra few milliseconds can help. That, the fact that you can form different shapes of lights, and the lower power consumption (a concern in cars, where a lot of cars are near the max for their electrical system, with all the gadgets these days...) will all push for more LEDs in cars.
Actually, from reading the article, this sounds like it might be a standard practice: If you have an issue with the randomly-assigned number you are given you can take it in and get a new one. The specific letters are just what brought the issue to this newspaper's attention.
So, in other words, this is non-news.
Even BMI isn't all that great: I've been way over on that scale since middle school, and I was nearly skin-and-bones then.
There are some very easy-to-use devices to measure body fat percentage if that's what you want. I remember one in college that was basically a scale with metal studs on it. If you are doing this policy then test everyone once a year, or if they gain/loose a significant amount of weight. Easy enough.
(For the record: In middle and high school I had a waist size of 36 inches. When I tested my actual body fat percentage in college (when my waist was slightly bigger) I was right on the ideal percentage.)
To determine: For all 'FOO is a BAR agency', BAR controls FOO, while FOO has at best minimal influence on BAR. (BAR owns FOO, not vice-versa.)
Therefore, the Government is an **AA agency.
Have you seen those manuals?
I'd think bittorrent would be a great way to distribute manuals on which forms you need to fill out for which situation.
Too bad it doesn't actually make a good ebook reader... (The hardware's fine. It's the software: Whomever wrote it has obviously never tried to read an ebook before. Pages are 'book pages' (which are completely irrelevant), there is no ability to bookmark pages, no ability to return to where you left off after closing the program, and no support for any real ebook format with any following. (Text isn't really a 'ebook' format, and it's the closest they've got.))
It's a shame, because the hardware would be a good ebook reader. But it's useless with the current software.
I said it was our best chance if the government doesn't break the monopoly, not that it is a good chance... (It would at least let all major telcos cover each area, which has a slightly higher chance of having some competition.)