I have a Galaxy Nexus and the screen does look like (pentile is still noticeable when very close up) but unfortunately, burn-in is an issue. my old Droid X I had pandora playing with the screen auto-off disabled and had no problems; with the OLED screen on the galaxy nexus, pandora has burned in, unfortunately.
Either fix that in the screens (and get rid of pentile), or I won't be getting another samsung phone.
If the head of supercomputing at IBM can't even get Moore's Law right, what the hell is he doing there? He seems to think that processor speed not increasing means Moore's Law is dying when in reality, Moore's Law has been doing pretty well for itself. Transistor density has been increasing and new breakthroughs I seem to see on/. every other day don't show it slowing down anytime soon... Turek sounds like an idiot or the journalist who wrote the article made him sound like one at least.
Google+ just didn't make it out of the gate fast enough to get the support from those already attached to Facebook. Because of that, people who did sign up with Google+ didn't have the same support from those they wanted to communicate with so (probably) stuck with Facebook for its user base. Unless Google does something to get users to switch en masse, there's not much they can do about it. You can't expect users to post on both sites and, I'm assuming, anyone that is gung-ho about social networking has been Facebook-whoring for quite a while now and has no intention of starting over.
This is all aside from social networking being a complete waste of time (my opinion, anyway...).
Why can't I pay off expenses before taxes are levied? I want to pay my rent, student loans, food, electricity, etc with pre-tax money. Regardless of what Apple pays, it still feels unfair (even if there are good reasons for it being the way it is, it FEELS unfair).
So FP64 performance went from 1/8th FP32 performance in the 500 series to 1/24th FP32 in the 600 series? I, for one, would love it if using doubles in OpenGL 4.x didn't suck so much. I write visualization software with planet-sized ranges and having that extra precision on the card would be quite nice.
Wikipedia also states that gasoline is 13kWh/kg vs. the summary's stated 12kWh/kg for IBM's new battery. Maybe IBM's version is better than the version referenced in your link?
My brother had that issue with an HP laptop he got before going on deployment (USS Eisenhower; carrier, no internets). We just downloaded an HP Windws 7 Home DVD image, burned it, used the CD Key on the case, no problems. Go Pirate Bay! (Actually, his laptop came with a corrupt OS install so we tried to re-install using the image, it was corrupt too, somehow. HP wanted $50 for a Win7 install CD; we told them to fuck off)
DRM free and all that is great, but they're still asking $7.99 for the kindle version on Amazon vs. $8.79 for the paperback version. It does not cost them eight bucks to send me a 300kb file...
I honestly have no problem with the cameras themselves its the 1. lowering yellow light durations and 2. the "fees" required by the outsourced company. Keep yellow lights at a still safe level and do the camera work in-house and I'd be delighted to install these. I don't speed or run red lights anyway; make money off the other people on the road, less taxes for me!
That comic is spot on why I understand when people decide to torrent things. The corporations are making it increasingly hard for customers to give them money for things they are willing to pay for so, out of frustration, the would-be customer goes somewhere they won't get the arse-hole (you don't want to give me the arse-hole, do you, Gary?).
Another big issue is that they're just understanding that digital distribution is in for good (legal or torrent-based) but they expect you to pay the brick-and-mortar prices for digital versions. Again, this pushes people to torrent because they feel like they're getting fucked when the Blu-Ray in stores is $30 and the download is $35. For example, season 7 of "How I Met Your Mother" is $1.99 for SD and $2.99 for HD per episode on Amazon. 18 episodes total, so $35.82 or $53.82 total. Since the Blu-Ray isn't released for Season 7, the Season 4 Blu-Ray is $29.99 ("on sale" from $49.99). So, even if it weren't "on sale" the Blu-Ray version would be cheaper than the digital version.
Same thing for DRM and those pesky FBI Priacy warnings that aren't fast-forwardable; pirates have no issues, paying customers are berated for doing the right thing. Overall, it feels like they WANT their potential customers to say, "fuck it, i'll torrent" and not give them their money. Honestly, it's frustrating...
You wouldn't need 100k candidates; only accept write-ins (no list so nobody can be at the "top") and you do your own research. How is 100k candidates any better than 2, anyway? I'd expect 20-30 to be able to get through a decently set up pre-screen. (again, how that is handled would be a separate issue. assume that it is fair for this argument.)
You can give candidate history (publicly available history; not where they live, what previous jobs they had, etc) and still keep it anonymous.
I'm not saying who makes the test and who grades it wouldn't be difficult to keep unbiased, but it is possible. I also wouldn't want them to be opinion questions; factual questions only; then there's no bias to be had when grading.
I agree with you completely; civics test to demonstrate you care enough about the process to learn about the candidates and the good/bad effects of their policies; preferably immediately before you are allowed to enter the voting booth. The publicly funded campaigns would also allow everyone who wanted to run (there should be entry requirements as well if we're giving them money) has an equal chance to be seen and get heard. Private contributions shouldn't be illegal, but they should go into the general fund and be distributed equally. Also, I would love to see every candidate be hidden from view so no personally identifiable information is available, that way, people vote based on the issues and not on the person specifically. And stop labeling people by affiliation; we don't need people thinking, "hey, he's a rep/dem, I'll vote for him"
I would also love to see similar rules for reproducing....
Distributed power is how our grid should be set up. Also, being self-contained, these would allow us to put them closer to the actual users and cut transmission losses and costs. Why the hell aren't we doing it yet?
ISP's should be forced to either A) sell their infrastructure business to the people or a single private entity (government, which sucks from a privacy standpoint) or B) split off to a separate corporate entity (privacy might be better but competition is difficult when there is limited physical ways to connect and multiple suppliers; one supplier seems a better option) so that their infrastructure cannot be leveraged as part of their services package and all companies are on fair footing when it comes to bandwidth pricing.
There are pro's and con's to how the split-up is managed but I think either direction (public or private) the infrastructure ends up being in is preferable to the ISPs running it and their services.
for instance in Java locks can be owned by a thread and that thread never has to lock or unlock at all, but instead it periodically checks if another thread has written a flag saying it wants to become the owner, then there is synchronization to pass off ownership. This works ok for Java, where there are fewer things that can change at runtime and they are explicitly listed out (using 'synchronized'), but in a dynamic language it's usually just too much overhead.
So, I write Java a lot (java/jogl actually) and we do quite a bit with multi-threading. usually we use reentrant locks where anyone that wants to read/modify needs to lock/unlock, even the lock owner. you can't just assume the owner can check if nobody is owning it because, if it is currently changing something and then another object in another thread requests the lock, the owner won't know; it needs to lock the lock as well so other threads know to wait.
Also, synchronized is not a way to denote what can change but a cheap lock built into java. it isn't an initialization flag like volatile, final, or static, but a block like if, else, or try and everything inside the block is synchronized on the object in question ie. synchronized(this) {// stuff }. This CAN be a flag on a method like 'public synchronized void doStuff() {// stuff }' but that's really the same as 'public void doStuff() { synchronized(this) {// stuff } }'. you need to synchronize on an object that won't go away or be null ('this' usually works okay) and if you use something else, you can get warnings for not synchronizing when it is accessed but it won't stop you from doing so. You could be a horrible programmer and forget to synchronize and still break everything; java won't necessarily care.
Maybe I misunderstood your meaning, but if not, I hope I explained it well.
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I have a Galaxy Nexus and the screen does look like (pentile is still noticeable when very close up) but unfortunately, burn-in is an issue. my old Droid X I had pandora playing with the screen auto-off disabled and had no problems; with the OLED screen on the galaxy nexus, pandora has burned in, unfortunately. Either fix that in the screens (and get rid of pentile), or I won't be getting another samsung phone.
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where the fuck do you go to the movies? holy shit $22?! the theatre near me was $6 for a 10pm showing just last week...
If the head of supercomputing at IBM can't even get Moore's Law right, what the hell is he doing there? He seems to think that processor speed not increasing means Moore's Law is dying when in reality, Moore's Law has been doing pretty well for itself. Transistor density has been increasing and new breakthroughs I seem to see on /. every other day don't show it slowing down anytime soon... Turek sounds like an idiot or the journalist who wrote the article made him sound like one at least.
ahh, yes. I used google and it didn't like my order of operations. mass/vol = 1 154 562.33 kg/m^3 redone. oh well.
4x10^6 solar masses = 7.95568 × 10^36 kilograms
Schwarzchild radius = 1.1804758431349163 x 10^10 meters
4/3 pi r^3 = 6.89064573 × 10^30 m3
mass / volume = 1.19612658 × 10^-27 kg / m3
1 tsp = 5.0 × 10^-6 m3
1 tsp of Sagittarius A* = 5.9806329 × 10-33 kg
Google+ just didn't make it out of the gate fast enough to get the support from those already attached to Facebook. Because of that, people who did sign up with Google+ didn't have the same support from those they wanted to communicate with so (probably) stuck with Facebook for its user base. Unless Google does something to get users to switch en masse, there's not much they can do about it. You can't expect users to post on both sites and, I'm assuming, anyone that is gung-ho about social networking has been Facebook-whoring for quite a while now and has no intention of starting over.
This is all aside from social networking being a complete waste of time (my opinion, anyway...).
Why can't I pay off expenses before taxes are levied? I want to pay my rent, student loans, food, electricity, etc with pre-tax money. Regardless of what Apple pays, it still feels unfair (even if there are good reasons for it being the way it is, it FEELS unfair).
So FP64 performance went from 1/8th FP32 performance in the 500 series to 1/24th FP32 in the 600 series? I, for one, would love it if using doubles in OpenGL 4.x didn't suck so much. I write visualization software with planet-sized ranges and having that extra precision on the card would be quite nice.
ffs bethesda, i don't have time for this...
Wikipedia also states that gasoline is 13kWh/kg vs. the summary's stated 12kWh/kg for IBM's new battery. Maybe IBM's version is better than the version referenced in your link?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_content_.28high_and_low_heating_value.29
My brother had that issue with an HP laptop he got before going on deployment (USS Eisenhower; carrier, no internets). We just downloaded an HP Windws 7 Home DVD image, burned it, used the CD Key on the case, no problems. Go Pirate Bay! (Actually, his laptop came with a corrupt OS install so we tried to re-install using the image, it was corrupt too, somehow. HP wanted $50 for a Win7 install CD; we told them to fuck off)
DRM free and all that is great, but they're still asking $7.99 for the kindle version on Amazon vs. $8.79 for the paperback version. It does not cost them eight bucks to send me a 300kb file...
Didn't the moon impact the earth at one point? Isn't that why it's fairly lopsided?
I honestly have no problem with the cameras themselves its the 1. lowering yellow light durations and 2. the "fees" required by the outsourced company. Keep yellow lights at a still safe level and do the camera work in-house and I'd be delighted to install these. I don't speed or run red lights anyway; make money off the other people on the road, less taxes for me!
That comic is spot on why I understand when people decide to torrent things. The corporations are making it increasingly hard for customers to give them money for things they are willing to pay for so, out of frustration, the would-be customer goes somewhere they won't get the arse-hole (you don't want to give me the arse-hole, do you, Gary?).
Another big issue is that they're just understanding that digital distribution is in for good (legal or torrent-based) but they expect you to pay the brick-and-mortar prices for digital versions. Again, this pushes people to torrent because they feel like they're getting fucked when the Blu-Ray in stores is $30 and the download is $35. For example, season 7 of "How I Met Your Mother" is $1.99 for SD and $2.99 for HD per episode on Amazon. 18 episodes total, so $35.82 or $53.82 total. Since the Blu-Ray isn't released for Season 7, the Season 4 Blu-Ray is $29.99 ("on sale" from $49.99). So, even if it weren't "on sale" the Blu-Ray version would be cheaper than the digital version.
Same thing for DRM and those pesky FBI Priacy warnings that aren't fast-forwardable; pirates have no issues, paying customers are berated for doing the right thing. Overall, it feels like they WANT their potential customers to say, "fuck it, i'll torrent" and not give them their money. Honestly, it's frustrating...
You wouldn't need 100k candidates; only accept write-ins (no list so nobody can be at the "top") and you do your own research. How is 100k candidates any better than 2, anyway? I'd expect 20-30 to be able to get through a decently set up pre-screen. (again, how that is handled would be a separate issue. assume that it is fair for this argument.)
You can give candidate history (publicly available history; not where they live, what previous jobs they had, etc) and still keep it anonymous.
I'm not saying who makes the test and who grades it wouldn't be difficult to keep unbiased, but it is possible. I also wouldn't want them to be opinion questions; factual questions only; then there's no bias to be had when grading.
I agree with you completely; civics test to demonstrate you care enough about the process to learn about the candidates and the good/bad effects of their policies; preferably immediately before you are allowed to enter the voting booth. The publicly funded campaigns would also allow everyone who wanted to run (there should be entry requirements as well if we're giving them money) has an equal chance to be seen and get heard. Private contributions shouldn't be illegal, but they should go into the general fund and be distributed equally. Also, I would love to see every candidate be hidden from view so no personally identifiable information is available, that way, people vote based on the issues and not on the person specifically. And stop labeling people by affiliation; we don't need people thinking, "hey, he's a rep/dem, I'll vote for him"
I would also love to see similar rules for reproducing....
I use OpenDNS as my primary and Google's 8.8.8.8/9.9.9.9 as backups.
Distributed power is how our grid should be set up. Also, being self-contained, these would allow us to put them closer to the actual users and cut transmission losses and costs. Why the hell aren't we doing it yet?
ISP's should be forced to either A) sell their infrastructure business to the people or a single private entity (government, which sucks from a privacy standpoint) or B) split off to a separate corporate entity (privacy might be better but competition is difficult when there is limited physical ways to connect and multiple suppliers; one supplier seems a better option) so that their infrastructure cannot be leveraged as part of their services package and all companies are on fair footing when it comes to bandwidth pricing.
There are pro's and con's to how the split-up is managed but I think either direction (public or private) the infrastructure ends up being in is preferable to the ISPs running it and their services.
Well, it locks during whatever it does. It can cause deadlocks, yes, if something it calls itself also tries to access the same lock.
I was looking for the same; either tiles or a single 4k or 8k image for use as a texture?
for instance in Java locks can be owned by a thread and that thread never has to lock or unlock at all, but instead it periodically checks if another thread has written a flag saying it wants to become the owner, then there is synchronization to pass off ownership. This works ok for Java, where there are fewer things that can change at runtime and they are explicitly listed out (using 'synchronized'), but in a dynamic language it's usually just too much overhead.
So, I write Java a lot (java/jogl actually) and we do quite a bit with multi-threading. usually we use reentrant locks where anyone that wants to read/modify needs to lock/unlock, even the lock owner. you can't just assume the owner can check if nobody is owning it because, if it is currently changing something and then another object in another thread requests the lock, the owner won't know; it needs to lock the lock as well so other threads know to wait.
// stuff }. This CAN be a flag on a method like 'public synchronized void doStuff() { // stuff }' but that's really the same as 'public void doStuff() { synchronized(this) { // stuff } }'. you need to synchronize on an object that won't go away or be null ('this' usually works okay) and if you use something else, you can get warnings for not synchronizing when it is accessed but it won't stop you from doing so. You could be a horrible programmer and forget to synchronize and still break everything; java won't necessarily care.
Also, synchronized is not a way to denote what can change but a cheap lock built into java. it isn't an initialization flag like volatile, final, or static, but a block like if, else, or try and everything inside the block is synchronized on the object in question ie. synchronized(this) {
Maybe I misunderstood your meaning, but if not, I hope I explained it well.
pics or it didn't happen!