Last I read the British have better dental hygiene than us Americans do. They're just not as fixated on the bleaching and such.
And before some horse's ass drags out the new "i'm confused by your 'americans' reference", I meant the US.
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Hm. I'd imagine the conditions for culturing the related bacteria are pretty specific to a living host. The chemistry of the mouth, eating food, temperature, enclosed cavity (flesh of your face), etc.
But, from reading his blog, it sounds like he didn't do much if anything in the way of testing, he mostly just hoped.
He did a fair bit of research for a hobby project. He used someone else's published results on the performance of the radio equipment.
He also had to test the effects of temperature on the servos, and determined he had to remove most of the grease, as that's the part that locks up at lower temperatures.
He tested the line cutting method (resistor and match head) on a previous project of his, that was good fun... a quadcopter shooting balloons like a video game.
He's done quite a lot of work with all the other stuff from his other FPV video projects. He's done a lot of really interesting stuff and knows what he's doing, so he wasn't just gluing a bunch of rc plane parts together and crossing his fingers.
There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[3] than others.[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[7] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law. It is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized corollary that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful.[8]
Ideally they'd release a test suite, and anything that passes the test suite may be called OpenStack, while anything that fails may not. That would be a simple, objective criterion.
It looks like Rackspace made, and open sourced, the test suite.
I'm sure that's exactly the situation... there's only enough money in doing the job if the customer is willing to pay through the nose to have something done and in their hands right now.
You'd think these local shops would fill the queue with nearly competitive options with long turn-around... but they don't seem interested in doing that. I assume there's just no margin in it.
It makes me wonder why this still works for companies like Apple.
Meanwhile, I price out a few PCB's at four shops, all ten minutes from me in one of the largest industrial parks in the US. It's nearly ten times more expensive to order them from next door, even if I drove over there and picked them up. I mean, that includes the cost for the Chinese to pack them, put them on a cargo ship traveling across the pacific, and delivery from the west coast to the midwest by air, truck, and foot.
I understand that things are very different in large quantities, but it sure doesn't seem like manufacturing is going to come back here any time soon.
I don't think he meant the Google software must be exclusive, just that they must be included if you want to add Play.
Which is good, because AT&T puts their shitty navigation, shitty messaging software, etc. on their android devices. Samsung puts their shitty email software, contact crap, etc. on the devices too. All of these try to duplicate the much better functionality of Google's apps.
And if they could, you know companies like AT&T would get rid of the Google alternatives and make you use their trash. As it is they make it so you can't remove the AT&T junk. So thank god Google makes that stuff a package deal.
I mean, I couldn't explain net neutrality to my parents or friends and have them get it, but I could say, "do you want Comcast charging you $20 a month just to use the Netflix you already pay for over the internet connection you already pay for?" They sure as hell understand that argument. And the blackouts did get peoples' attention.
In this case, much as it was with net neutrality, businesses look at patent trolls as a miserable pain in the ass, keeping everyone from doing what they do. Even many of the companies with huge patent portfolios acquire them as defensive holdings rather than weapons of mass litigation. They have them because it's easier to buy paper on the cheap, rather than fight every single I.P. chop shop on earth.
I'm not trying to get all political with "markets cure all", but do witness this exact story. Many businesses that are trying to do their thing hate this shit too, just like small ones. That could help.
I'm just curious, how does an airline offshore their maintenance to China? It seems like this is the sort of thing they have to be prepared to do for any plane in the fleet at most major hubs, no?
Or are we just talking about major retrofits, and only for planes that are in suitable condition for long overseas flights?
Presumably your postback handlers at the server aren't going to validate a payment for [zero dollars as converted from the price point arg].
In any case, no payment schema allows the client to change the price without screwing up a signed request or failing validation at the server... this was considered somehow.
Absolutely, if you go the torrent route. I think a more Netflix, or appropriately, HBO Go approach would make a lot more sense.
Though as HBO has said themselves, they're uncomfortable jeopardizing the arrangement they have right now by getting aggressive in online delivery. Today the TV companies sell everyone on HBO, handle the customer support, all the billing, etc. HBO doesn't necessarily want to have to do a lot of dealing with customers directly.
I think of it like an Adobe and Microsoft approach. Don't make anything too hard to pirate, because you want kids and emerging markets using your products. Hook 'em so you'll be the standard.
Maybe later you bitch that nobody pays for anything and release the hounds. But mindshare comes in at priority #1.
Exactly this. Science doesn't make you ethical, and being ethically minded doesn't make you enjoy science. That said...
You're thoughtful. You're curious. You're interested in how things work, probably even at a young age. You also take the time to think problems through, because you care about the right answer. Right and wrong apply to math problems, and you like to think they apply in ethical problems. Sometimes you don't know the answer, or you question your result, but you're far more likely to try to work it out. You're suspicious of simple answers and you're smart enought to know when simple answers are totally insufficient. These are diciplines you learn and apply to problems.
So thoughtful, perpetually curious people care about answers to hard questions. Caring makes you study, if only in your own noggin.
You should read the article, because it doesn't resemble how the US political system works at all. If it did, these feckless board members would be removed all the time.
The difference here is most of this shit is supposed to be public.
This whole article is goddamn idiotic. One of the primary uses of S3 is as an asset hosting service for websites. That doesn't mean there are a trillion public files that aren't supposed to be. It means people are using the service. So great, you found a trillion public files. You know what else does that already? Google.
It sounds to me like this "security researcher" is just some asshat that wasted time writing a script, and news outlets have zero technical standards.
Someone is trying desperately to make this into something bigger than it is.
Absolutely this. Those guys told a tame (even boring) joke in the wrong place, she immediately went nutso-nuclear. One of the guys lost his job and so did she.
Case closed.
Aside from those two, there's no good reason anyone should avoid PyCon, and we all know it. If you can act like a normal adult, it's unlikely you'll have any problems with anyone.
A Funny force multiplier... that post just used more offensive language to a much larger audience than what cost this guy his job, and possibly a big hit to his career.
And often cheaper. And certainly fewer maintenance headaches. And no barrier to entry for people that wouldn't know how to maintain their own server, like... almost everyone.
I don't remember aggressive hang-ups being audibly distrubing. Maybe it's because you had hammered the switch down before the crashing noise.
The real problem is that mobile phone calls disconnect all the time, and for a number of reasons. So terminating a call prematurely isn't always a definitive, "fuck you, you've been hung up on."
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Last I read the British have better dental hygiene than us Americans do. They're just not as fixated on the bleaching and such.
And before some horse's ass drags out the new "i'm confused by your 'americans' reference", I meant the US.
Hm. I'd imagine the conditions for culturing the related bacteria are pretty specific to a living host. The chemistry of the mouth, eating food, temperature, enclosed cavity (flesh of your face), etc.
But, from reading his blog, it sounds like he didn't do much if anything in the way of testing, he mostly just hoped.
He did a fair bit of research for a hobby project. He used someone else's published results on the performance of the radio equipment.
He also had to test the effects of temperature on the servos, and determined he had to remove most of the grease, as that's the part that locks up at lower temperatures.
He tested the line cutting method (resistor and match head) on a previous project of his, that was good fun... a quadcopter shooting balloons like a video game.
He's done quite a lot of work with all the other stuff from his other FPV video projects. He's done a lot of really interesting stuff and knows what he's doing, so he wasn't just gluing a bunch of rc plane parts together and crossing his fingers.
Ahem.
There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[3] than others.[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[7] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law. It is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized corollary that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful.[8]
Ideally they'd release a test suite, and anything that passes the test suite may be called OpenStack, while anything that fails may not. That would be a simple, objective criterion.
It looks like Rackspace made, and open sourced, the test suite.
I'm sure that's exactly the situation... there's only enough money in doing the job if the customer is willing to pay through the nose to have something done and in their hands right now.
You'd think these local shops would fill the queue with nearly competitive options with long turn-around... but they don't seem interested in doing that. I assume there's just no margin in it.
It makes me wonder why this still works for companies like Apple.
Meanwhile, I price out a few PCB's at four shops, all ten minutes from me in one of the largest industrial parks in the US. It's nearly ten times more expensive to order them from next door, even if I drove over there and picked them up. I mean, that includes the cost for the Chinese to pack them, put them on a cargo ship traveling across the pacific, and delivery from the west coast to the midwest by air, truck, and foot.
I understand that things are very different in large quantities, but it sure doesn't seem like manufacturing is going to come back here any time soon.
Oh god, those things you did to GeoCities and MySpace... you owe us all an apology!
I don't think he meant the Google software must be exclusive, just that they must be included if you want to add Play.
Which is good, because AT&T puts their shitty navigation, shitty messaging software, etc. on their android devices. Samsung puts their shitty email software, contact crap, etc. on the devices too. All of these try to duplicate the much better functionality of Google's apps.
And if they could, you know companies like AT&T would get rid of the Google alternatives and make you use their trash. As it is they make it so you can't remove the AT&T junk. So thank god Google makes that stuff a package deal.
So have our cars. Now we rely on the ridiculous capabilities and crazy-effective safety mechanisms built into them.
This manifests as everyone driving like a fucking moron.
Laziness? XP to Vista I understand, Vista was a pile of poopy fart poops. But 7 [is] even more reliable than XP.
You don't have to qualify your impressions like you did... that's pretty much what everyone would say in IT department too. Verbatim.
You might be right. I hope not though.
I mean, I couldn't explain net neutrality to my parents or friends and have them get it, but I could say, "do you want Comcast charging you $20 a month just to use the Netflix you already pay for over the internet connection you already pay for?" They sure as hell understand that argument. And the blackouts did get peoples' attention.
In this case, much as it was with net neutrality, businesses look at patent trolls as a miserable pain in the ass, keeping everyone from doing what they do. Even many of the companies with huge patent portfolios acquire them as defensive holdings rather than weapons of mass litigation. They have them because it's easier to buy paper on the cheap, rather than fight every single I.P. chop shop on earth.
I'm not trying to get all political with "markets cure all", but do witness this exact story. Many businesses that are trying to do their thing hate this shit too, just like small ones. That could help.
That was bizarrely random.
First, that's certainly not the best print job even an inexpensive 3d printer can do.
Second, very high fidelity isn't the only metric for utility.
And finally, there are finishing techniques that are useful for aesthetic qualities of a part, if that's something you're concerned with.
I'm just curious, how does an airline offshore their maintenance to China? It seems like this is the sort of thing they have to be prepared to do for any plane in the fleet at most major hubs, no?
Or are we just talking about major retrofits, and only for planes that are in suitable condition for long overseas flights?
Presumably your postback handlers at the server aren't going to validate a payment for [zero dollars as converted from the price point arg].
In any case, no payment schema allows the client to change the price without screwing up a signed request or failing validation at the server... this was considered somehow.
I don't get it. I played with the RT ones, and they're ok... but I kinda want one of the Pro's. They're certainly more appealing to me than an iPad.
Absolutely, if you go the torrent route. I think a more Netflix, or appropriately, HBO Go approach would make a lot more sense.
Though as HBO has said themselves, they're uncomfortable jeopardizing the arrangement they have right now by getting aggressive in online delivery. Today the TV companies sell everyone on HBO, handle the customer support, all the billing, etc. HBO doesn't necessarily want to have to do a lot of dealing with customers directly.
You win all the cookies for today.
I think of it like an Adobe and Microsoft approach. Don't make anything too hard to pirate, because you want kids and emerging markets using your products. Hook 'em so you'll be the standard.
Maybe later you bitch that nobody pays for anything and release the hounds. But mindshare comes in at priority #1.
Exactly this. Science doesn't make you ethical, and being ethically minded doesn't make you enjoy science. That said...
You're thoughtful. You're curious. You're interested in how things work, probably even at a young age. You also take the time to think problems through, because you care about the right answer. Right and wrong apply to math problems, and you like to think they apply in ethical problems. Sometimes you don't know the answer, or you question your result, but you're far more likely to try to work it out. You're suspicious of simple answers and you're smart enought to know when simple answers are totally insufficient. These are diciplines you learn and apply to problems.
So thoughtful, perpetually curious people care about answers to hard questions. Caring makes you study, if only in your own noggin.
You should read the article, because it doesn't resemble how the US political system works at all. If it did, these feckless board members would be removed all the time.
The difference here is most of this shit is supposed to be public.
This whole article is goddamn idiotic. One of the primary uses of S3 is as an asset hosting service for websites. That doesn't mean there are a trillion public files that aren't supposed to be. It means people are using the service. So great, you found a trillion public files. You know what else does that already? Google.
It sounds to me like this "security researcher" is just some asshat that wasted time writing a script, and news outlets have zero technical standards.
Someone is trying desperately to make this into something bigger than it is.
Absolutely this. Those guys told a tame (even boring) joke in the wrong place, she immediately went nutso-nuclear. One of the guys lost his job and so did she.
Case closed.
Aside from those two, there's no good reason anyone should avoid PyCon, and we all know it. If you can act like a normal adult, it's unlikely you'll have any problems with anyone.
A Funny force multiplier... that post just used more offensive language to a much larger audience than what cost this guy his job, and possibly a big hit to his career.
And often cheaper. And certainly fewer maintenance headaches. And no barrier to entry for people that wouldn't know how to maintain their own server, like... almost everyone.
I don't remember aggressive hang-ups being audibly distrubing. Maybe it's because you had hammered the switch down before the crashing noise.
The real problem is that mobile phone calls disconnect all the time, and for a number of reasons. So terminating a call prematurely isn't always a definitive, "fuck you, you've been hung up on."