The top 20% of American universities are among the best in the world. The rest, not so much. (I hold Master's degrees both from a US and an EU university)
Actually an important reason for the much higher speeds where I live (the Netherlands) is because there is a lot more competition between ISPs, no government subsidies at all (on the contrary, you pay sales tax on your connection fee).
Has anyone got that to work yet? (I signed up for the beta two days ago but didn't get an invite yet).
That would be really useful, I work with Google calendar people and need to check two calendars.
Actually in those days Philips still had a wonderful engineering culture, combined with true in depth research. The current Philips just markets Chinese built products, with all the serious engineering contracted out. Philips actually had a science museum of their own at their headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, called the Evoluon, and I clearly remember playing with a vowel machine there (although it probably said "koffie" instead). Sadly the Evoluon was closed with the whole redirection of Philips when they decided there was more money to be made in marketing than there was in actually designing cool new stuff. Probably makes sense from a shareholder point of view, since they did become a bigger business success. As a geek it still pains me to see a place that managed to invent the Compact Disc become a shade of it former self in the tech world.
You have to bear in mind that the UK police only invested in CCTV cameras, not in people or software to actually do something with the footage. This was mentioned in many media reports so you can assume criminals know about it too. So the only thing that this proves is that crime does not go down if you only put up cameras, if you actually start using the footage to catch bad guys the statistics might be very different.
-j
Now that the lasers from space idea has been suitably demolished, perhaps we can consider the other way around: Ground based lasers to write a warning on the moon! It will only work during new moon of course so lets forget about tsunami warning, lets put up commercial messages. I'm betting there a few companies willing to part with a few million dollars to have their logo written on the moon for a day. Great business plan. Publicity is instantaneous global and free. Endless debates in the press, Greenpeace is going to freak out. Technically feasible?
You could even follow the Unix model and do pretty well keeping the date and time (down to the second) in a single byte...
You are confusing bytes (8 bits) with words (32 bit or 64 bit depending on the system). A byte will only hold 256 discrete values so you could perhaps store the year in there but certainly not an entire date, let alone the time as well.
There was a time once when converting an integer value to and from ascii was prohibitively expensive (hard to imagine now), so it was not unheard of to store a year as 4 bytes.
I think what most people think with better control (at least what I believe, and I've heard others say) is you don't have to worry so much about what is in it. (ie not laced with something).
Correct. Coincidently, that's also why the pot in the Netherlands is of excellent quality: if they sell you garbage you would go back to complain (and you could even threaten to call the cops if you want to make a scene).
Dear mods,
I just noticed several of the "anonymous coward" posters are Chinese posters with useful insights, but with zero mod points. Even if you don't usually read ACs this might be a good occasion to make an exception.
I agree, but I would add another important point I picked up when training for naval officer: You have to keep some distance to give the men some room to goof off / bitch about the captain / etc. Specifically, we were told not to enter their quarters to have dinner with unless invited, and if invited for a drink/dinner to keep it brief. In a work situation it often may not be appropriate to go off and have lunch on your own somewhere, but I still think it's a good idea to make sure you are not always around them. (Of course, when you are making yourself scarce it may not be the best idea to do that by going home early, but that's another point)
It is also a missed opportunity to provide a better standard. This was the cheapest alternative on the table for the phone companies. The other proposals that offered multiple voltages would have cost a few dollars more but saved a lot more of the environment. So it does not only have plus points.
It's not that simple: if you provide 2A to a cheap phone without any form of rate limiting then that phone will indeed blow up. Granted, that's pretty rare on modern phones, however as a safety measure a lot of phones will simply refuse to charge if you supply too much current.
d) they propose to standardize on a 2.5W version of micro-USB to charge phones, while most modern smart phones need around 5W and future fast-charging phones will need even more
If so, I don't see a problem unless other users on the system have root access
It is not uncommon for people to store their web site assets in subversion. This means Apache will gladly serve your subversion hidden files to the world to anyone who asks for the appropriate page. A typical Rails stack + Capistrano setup will do unless properly configured.
I'm not sure if having IPv6 on the WAN side would be all that useful on a home router. Besides the fact that very few ISPs offer it yet, if you do have IPv6 on the WAN there is no need to use NAT so you might as well use a switch instead of a router.
Exercising is healthy but it only helps with losing weight if you spend at least half an hour a day on it, and then only contributes about 10-20%. So forget about the exercising if weight is your problem, just eat less.
Exercising, while healthy and beneficial for several reasons, does not contribute significantly to losing weight. Your burn about 10%-20% more if you exercise half an hour a day. If you have a problem with exercising, or just don't feel like it, just eat 10-20% less. Lots of skinny people do no exercise at all. Overweight people have a hard enough time to muster the self-discipline to eat less, it is not a good idea to make it harder on them by telling them they should exercise if that will make them abandon the effort entirely.
It's also a good example of regulators asking industry for a solution will not find an optimal solution:
Micro USB is only 5V and 500mA, that's just enough to power a phone but not useful for the next generation of fast charging batteries (the iPhone charger is 1000mA already)
You have 20 charger in your house, only a very small part will be able to make do with this, so it is not universal at all
USB is not certified to be used in wet environments like the kitchen or bathroom, another class of devices out the window
It's not very user friendly, elder people need reading glasses to plug it in the right way up
The connector is about 10 times more expensive than a simple 2 or 3 prong jobby
There are multi-voltage adapters available that adress all of the above problems, albeit they cost 50 cents more to produce, so the phone suppliers went for the cheap option.
That's putting it bluntly, but yes. Used incorrectly and/or in the wrong hands this would be bad, but that goes for any management tool. The reason most people in the discussion are focussing on how it applies to them is probably because most of them are not in a management position.
I've worked in management positions and I don't really need advice on who my most valuable employees are. But I wouldn't mind having this data to show to underperformers. It's sometimes hard to convince individuals that they are not as good as they think they are.
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The top 20% of American universities are among the best in the world. The rest, not so much. (I hold Master's degrees both from a US and an EU university)
Actually an important reason for the much higher speeds where I live (the Netherlands) is because there is a lot more competition between ISPs, no government subsidies at all (on the contrary, you pay sales tax on your connection fee).
Has anyone got that to work yet? (I signed up for the beta two days ago but didn't get an invite yet). That would be really useful, I work with Google calendar people and need to check two calendars.
Mod parent insightful please
Actually in those days Philips still had a wonderful engineering culture, combined with true in depth research. The current Philips just markets Chinese built products, with all the serious engineering contracted out. Philips actually had a science museum of their own at their headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, called the Evoluon, and I clearly remember playing with a vowel machine there (although it probably said "koffie" instead). Sadly the Evoluon was closed with the whole redirection of Philips when they decided there was more money to be made in marketing than there was in actually designing cool new stuff. Probably makes sense from a shareholder point of view, since they did become a bigger business success. As a geek it still pains me to see a place that managed to invent the Compact Disc become a shade of it former self in the tech world.
You have to bear in mind that the UK police only invested in CCTV cameras, not in people or software to actually do something with the footage. This was mentioned in many media reports so you can assume criminals know about it too. So the only thing that this proves is that crime does not go down if you only put up cameras, if you actually start using the footage to catch bad guys the statistics might be very different. -j
They're called judges
Entirely off-topic, but several (democratic) countries have a judicial system with law experts instead of laymen on the jury.
"Safety group Eurocontrol"... Eurocontrol is the European air traffic management center.
Now that the lasers from space idea has been suitably demolished, perhaps we can consider the other way around: Ground based lasers to write a warning on the moon! It will only work during new moon of course so lets forget about tsunami warning, lets put up commercial messages. I'm betting there a few companies willing to part with a few million dollars to have their logo written on the moon for a day. Great business plan. Publicity is instantaneous global and free. Endless debates in the press, Greenpeace is going to freak out. Technically feasible?
You could even follow the Unix model and do pretty well keeping the date and time (down to the second) in a single byte...
You are confusing bytes (8 bits) with words (32 bit or 64 bit depending on the system). A byte will only hold 256 discrete values so you could perhaps store the year in there but certainly not an entire date, let alone the time as well.
There was a time once when converting an integer value to and from ascii was prohibitively expensive (hard to imagine now), so it was not unheard of to store a year as 4 bytes.
I think what most people think with better control (at least what I believe, and I've heard others say) is you don't have to worry so much about what is in it. (ie not laced with something).
Correct. Coincidently, that's also why the pot in the Netherlands is of excellent quality: if they sell you garbage you would go back to complain (and you could even threaten to call the cops if you want to make a scene).
Dear mods,
I just noticed several of the "anonymous coward" posters are Chinese posters with useful insights, but with zero mod points. Even if you don't usually read ACs this might be a good occasion to make an exception.
I agree, but I would add another important point I picked up when training for naval officer: You have to keep some distance to give the men some room to goof off / bitch about the captain / etc. Specifically, we were told not to enter their quarters to have dinner with unless invited, and if invited for a drink/dinner to keep it brief. In a work situation it often may not be appropriate to go off and have lunch on your own somewhere, but I still think it's a good idea to make sure you are not always around them. (Of course, when you are making yourself scarce it may not be the best idea to do that by going home early, but that's another point)
The problem is Windows.
You can leave it to slashdot to blame Microsoft for this whole state of affairs :-/
It is also a missed opportunity to provide a better standard. This was the cheapest alternative on the table for the phone companies. The other proposals that offered multiple voltages would have cost a few dollars more but saved a lot more of the environment. So it does not only have plus points.
It's not that simple: if you provide 2A to a cheap phone without any form of rate limiting then that phone will indeed blow up. Granted, that's pretty rare on modern phones, however as a safety measure a lot of phones will simply refuse to charge if you supply too much current.
d) they propose to standardize on a 2.5W version of micro-USB to charge phones, while most modern smart phones need around 5W and future fast-charging phones will need even more
If so, I don't see a problem unless other users on the system have root access
It is not uncommon for people to store their web site assets in subversion. This means Apache will gladly serve your subversion hidden files to the world to anyone who asks for the appropriate page. A typical Rails stack + Capistrano setup will do unless properly configured.
I'm not sure if having IPv6 on the WAN side would be all that useful on a home router. Besides the fact that very few ISPs offer it yet, if you do have IPv6 on the WAN there is no need to use NAT so you might as well use a switch instead of a router.
We can reduce that a bit further:
Eat less
Exercising is healthy but it only helps with losing weight if you spend at least half an hour a day on it, and then only contributes about 10-20%. So forget about the exercising if weight is your problem, just eat less.
Exercising, while healthy and beneficial for several reasons, does not contribute significantly to losing weight. Your burn about 10%-20% more if you exercise half an hour a day. If you have a problem with exercising, or just don't feel like it, just eat 10-20% less. Lots of skinny people do no exercise at all. Overweight people have a hard enough time to muster the self-discipline to eat less, it is not a good idea to make it harder on them by telling them they should exercise if that will make them abandon the effort entirely.
There are multi-voltage adapters available that adress all of the above problems, albeit they cost 50 cents more to produce, so the phone suppliers went for the cheap option.
That's putting it bluntly, but yes. Used incorrectly and/or in the wrong hands this would be bad, but that goes for any management tool. The reason most people in the discussion are focussing on how it applies to them is probably because most of them are not in a management position.
I've worked in management positions and I don't really need advice on who my most valuable employees are. But I wouldn't mind having this data to show to underperformers. It's sometimes hard to convince individuals that they are not as good as they think they are.