I own a warehouse and have to pay a security firm to receive emergency signals for freezing (pipes!) and smoke or overheating. I'd like to be able to monitor it myself. I'd live with ads if i can reduce what I pay the security company. Seems kind of obvious.
Not worthless, but I agree they weren't ready for peer review yet (or the long knives at/.) I agree they need to complete the comparisons with the particular groups and see if that leads to different conclusions.
When I smoked pot in high school, it was fairly intense and scary, and I never had the slightest desire to use it every day. I would wonder whether people with early signs of psychosis simply find it less strange and less frightening. Simply not as different an experience. By analogy, Eskimos don't necessarily enjoy the cold more, but might be less likely to be alarmed at experiencing cold. Kids who have been spanked tend to be less afraid of being in fights. Kids whose brains behave weirdly are less likely to fear mind altering experiences. Etc.
"The paradox arises when the team carried out two weak measurements. The first found the presence of neutrons in one arm while the second noted their magnetic properties in the other arm. “The neutrons behave as if particle and magnetic property are spatially separated while travelling through the interferometer,” they say. In other words, they observed a quantum Cheshire cat."
Per the peer review: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
If you define "internet device" to include laptops, tablets, and smart phones as well as PCs, the total sales are up. As total sales of a product (internet device) go up, segmentation occurs, niches occur. I was at Best Buy today and saw mostly all-in-one PC/Screens, and the little MS "Surface" tablets were between the PCs, the laptops and the tablets.
Total sales of devices are up. If you want to make the "PC decline" look even bigger, separate out the all-in-one screens as a separate category. It's all the same brands using the same ODM/Contract Manufacturers anyway. But bad news headlines sell better than good news.... "if it bleeds, it leads".
Does anyone on Slashdot have access to some older engineering journals on touchscreens? I was under the impression that the Taipei geeks were fiddling with the touchpad and display screen markets, out of their niche in ATM touchscreen displays (which wealthy nations ignored), and that when they were contracted by Apple to make Ipads they said "hey, check this out, we put a screen on it. And you can attach at telephone". And Apple said "heck yah make that" but nothing kept Samsung from doing the same. But that's a general recollection, I don't want to be cited as a source.
But gee, I can spot a lot of lawyer history-rewrites on the internet. I just spent 10-15 minutes trying to track down the history of the development of "touchscreen" as it was attached to phones and tablets, and it's getting really hard to actually do any research on the web. The stakes in the legal patent claims seem to fan the rewriting of history on wikipedia and About.com (both with versions that I know aren't right, even if I'm not sure what IS right).
I'm not comfortable enough just from reading Digitimes for 12 years to be an expert in this, but when you read display news for 12 years you can at least spot bullshit in patent claims and wikipedia articles that are years out of sync. Anyone here have any real scoop on this that's not been rewritten by the Anglican Church? It's like all the "pagan" inventions are being turned into Christian patents.
Well, to be the devil's advocate, in fact fewer and fewer people are dying in wars the more advanced the weaponry gets.
I realize this is a very minority position on this page. But it's pretty easy to take a position against defense weaponry and feel on a moral high ground, and pretty easy to adapt a fearful / risk-averse position to unknown change and new developments. It's harder to present a risk-benefit analysis that says electronics wars are hurting more people. It's not impossible to imagine that the robots will do a better job, and we'd have fewer headlines like "US Marine Sargent Kills 16 in Kandahar, 9 of them children". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_massacre]
"Carnivore Restaurant" and other ESP restaurants encourage bushmeat trading. I hope a volcano erupts on top of them. Every one of them, even the people standing beside them minding their own business, a la Pompei. Extinction is the closest thing we give, as a mistake, to our forever grandchildren, who will not care a whit if their ancesters skeletons tasted endangered species.
It only takes one bastard out of a hundred thousand to order gorilla brain as a fucking appetizer. Pompei them all.
Um... Have you checked where Panasonic, Sharp, Sony are made in the past 10 years? Korea is still a player. But Hitachi display division is now owned by Foxconn. Taiwan took over touch screen ATM displays in the 1990s, and no one cared because it was a small niche, but the techs who did touch screen made smartphones possible. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203731004576046023889689358
Because, no matter what, no matter how much I distrust the NSA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not my friend. Ironically, the most disturbing things about the spying systems NSA develops, and Snowden leaks, about monitoring things like Syrian internal communication, is the way those systems will be used by dictators in the nations the USA is trying to monitor. But although small nations like Syria and many others like to play the "underdog" card vs. the USA, wife beaters and child molesters don't make good partners. Thanks, but no thanks, SEA.
(Of course, there's a chance that the hackers posting / or just posing as Syrian dictator dogs are trying to make this same point... That the NSA, as the enemy of dictatorial tyrants, is not my friend either... Inception!!)
...To ruin robots for everyone. We've known that since the Lost In Space program of the 1960s. Whether Dr. Smith would create the software that turned Dick Tufeld's robot to "crush, kill, destroy", or whether Dr. Smith would be the one to bring the frivolous lawsuit vs. the "mechanical ninny" (more likely), it's the manufacturer that bears the burden of liability. "It is very foolhardy to activate a super android" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Nnd_JRb20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything = Best Science book I've ever read, very approachably written and very funny.
There are other important ones mentioned here already, I'd add Crime and Punishment, Walt Kelly's Pogo comics, Larsen's Far Side comics, Hesse's Siddhartha, and Huckleberry Finn.
Assuming people are surveyed between the ages of 25-75, five years could mean a 10 year or 20% change in sample population. For 20% of peoples opinions to change enough that the entire sample is altered by 10% means that a huge percentage of young people disbelieve evolution AND a huge percentage of dying people believed in evolution. So either the young people are more naive than they used to be, or... belief in evolution itself causes people to die, and it's natural selection which is driving the change in polls.
Read the article... and the big change is 10% fewer people "believe in evolution" than (expressed) belief in evolution in 2007. Did 10% of Americans REALLY change their views in 5 years?
I think the survey measures something else. Something even more disturbing, perhaps - the growing willingness to express falsehood as a demonstration of political purity. The last Republican primary showed even very educated Republicans willing to state opinions they didn't really hold (and I doubt Democrats are much different in that regard). It's expressed in immigration law reform, in budget reform, climate change... It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, you show your value as a teammate by expressing the teams' view loudly and forcefully. Did 10% of American change their views about evolution? No. They just taking cues from people who think "denial" is a "philosophy"?
I'm kind of a "fanboi" of Simon Lin and Terry Gou. Many of the stories in/. seem blind or deaf to the history of the "white box" manufacturers and "ODM" (original design manufacturers) who build the gadgets that USA Operating Systems run on never seem to get their share of appreciation. Chrome and Android basically did what "white box" permission by IBM and MS did in the early 90s, but much more quickly... allowed Asians to invent and design stuff which is actually more affordable and better made than the originals. I remember people mocking and making fun of "Jap cars" like Datsun, and the "made in Japan" sticker being an object of derision. Then it was Hyundai and Kia and the Koreans. It seems like we have to learn the same lessons over Taiwan.
BTW Lin is behind Wistron and Acer, Gou is behind Foxconn. Together they employ more engineers and inventors than anyone else.
This "Gibson" firm got their name in the papers, for what? Because a hacker "may" be able to see phone numbers with a username attached. So what? Where I live they still print peoples names and phone numbers in the phone book, which is available at the public library. What exactly bad is going to happen when someone decides to hack Snapchat to obtain those phone numbers?
Nice explanation of why women don't inherit land. I stand corrected, as does TheHindu.com. I'm sure the UN is also wrong, and that giving gold to daughters is utterly unrelated to not giving farmland. Thanks.
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I own a warehouse and have to pay a security firm to receive emergency signals for freezing (pipes!) and smoke or overheating. I'd like to be able to monitor it myself. I'd live with ads if i can reduce what I pay the security company. Seems kind of obvious.
Not worthless, but I agree they weren't ready for peer review yet (or the long knives at /.) I agree they need to complete the comparisons with the particular groups and see if that leads to different conclusions.
When I smoked pot in high school, it was fairly intense and scary, and I never had the slightest desire to use it every day. I would wonder whether people with early signs of psychosis simply find it less strange and less frightening. Simply not as different an experience. By analogy, Eskimos don't necessarily enjoy the cold more, but might be less likely to be alarmed at experiencing cold. Kids who have been spanked tend to be less afraid of being in fights. Kids whose brains behave weirdly are less likely to fear mind altering experiences. Etc.
Per the article:
"The paradox arises when the team carried out two weak measurements. The first found the presence of neutrons in one arm while the second noted their magnetic properties in the other arm. “The neutrons behave as if particle and magnetic property are spatially separated while travelling through the interferometer,” they say. In other words, they observed a quantum Cheshire cat."
Per the peer review: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
If you define "internet device" to include laptops, tablets, and smart phones as well as PCs, the total sales are up. As total sales of a product (internet device) go up, segmentation occurs, niches occur. I was at Best Buy today and saw mostly all-in-one PC/Screens, and the little MS "Surface" tablets were between the PCs, the laptops and the tablets.
Total sales of devices are up. If you want to make the "PC decline" look even bigger, separate out the all-in-one screens as a separate category. It's all the same brands using the same ODM/Contract Manufacturers anyway. But bad news headlines sell better than good news.... "if it bleeds, it leads".
Heavens Gate was right all along! We missed the Mothership, guys!
Does anyone on Slashdot have access to some older engineering journals on touchscreens? I was under the impression that the Taipei geeks were fiddling with the touchpad and display screen markets, out of their niche in ATM touchscreen displays (which wealthy nations ignored), and that when they were contracted by Apple to make Ipads they said "hey, check this out, we put a screen on it. And you can attach at telephone". And Apple said "heck yah make that" but nothing kept Samsung from doing the same. But that's a general recollection, I don't want to be cited as a source.
But gee, I can spot a lot of lawyer history-rewrites on the internet. I just spent 10-15 minutes trying to track down the history of the development of "touchscreen" as it was attached to phones and tablets, and it's getting really hard to actually do any research on the web. The stakes in the legal patent claims seem to fan the rewriting of history on wikipedia and About.com (both with versions that I know aren't right, even if I'm not sure what IS right).
I'm not comfortable enough just from reading Digitimes for 12 years to be an expert in this, but when you read display news for 12 years you can at least spot bullshit in patent claims and wikipedia articles that are years out of sync. Anyone here have any real scoop on this that's not been rewritten by the Anglican Church? It's like all the "pagan" inventions are being turned into Christian patents.
Well, to be the devil's advocate, in fact fewer and fewer people are dying in wars the more advanced the weaponry gets.
I realize this is a very minority position on this page. But it's pretty easy to take a position against defense weaponry and feel on a moral high ground, and pretty easy to adapt a fearful / risk-averse position to unknown change and new developments. It's harder to present a risk-benefit analysis that says electronics wars are hurting more people. It's not impossible to imagine that the robots will do a better job, and we'd have fewer headlines like "US Marine Sargent Kills 16 in Kandahar, 9 of them children". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_massacre]
"Carnivore Restaurant" and other ESP restaurants encourage bushmeat trading. I hope a volcano erupts on top of them. Every one of them, even the people standing beside them minding their own business, a la Pompei. Extinction is the closest thing we give, as a mistake, to our forever grandchildren, who will not care a whit if their ancesters skeletons tasted endangered species.
It only takes one bastard out of a hundred thousand to order gorilla brain as a fucking appetizer. Pompei them all.
Um... Have you checked where Panasonic, Sharp, Sony are made in the past 10 years? Korea is still a player. But Hitachi display division is now owned by Foxconn. Taiwan took over touch screen ATM displays in the 1990s, and no one cared because it was a small niche, but the techs who did touch screen made smartphones possible. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203731004576046023889689358
Because, no matter what, no matter how much I distrust the NSA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not my friend. Ironically, the most disturbing things about the spying systems NSA develops, and Snowden leaks, about monitoring things like Syrian internal communication, is the way those systems will be used by dictators in the nations the USA is trying to monitor. But although small nations like Syria and many others like to play the "underdog" card vs. the USA, wife beaters and child molesters don't make good partners. Thanks, but no thanks, SEA.
(Of course, there's a chance that the hackers posting / or just posing as Syrian dictator dogs are trying to make this same point... That the NSA, as the enemy of dictatorial tyrants, is not my friend either... Inception!!)
...To ruin robots for everyone. We've known that since the Lost In Space program of the 1960s. Whether Dr. Smith would create the software that turned Dick Tufeld's robot to "crush, kill, destroy", or whether Dr. Smith would be the one to bring the frivolous lawsuit vs. the "mechanical ninny" (more likely), it's the manufacturer that bears the burden of liability. "It is very foolhardy to activate a super android" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Nnd_JRb20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything = Best Science book I've ever read, very approachably written and very funny.
There are other important ones mentioned here already, I'd add Crime and Punishment, Walt Kelly's Pogo comics, Larsen's Far Side comics, Hesse's Siddhartha, and Huckleberry Finn.
Mod insightful. Actually, I'd like to quote this in an article, but "Anonymous Coward" doesn't carry as much weight.
Assuming people are surveyed between the ages of 25-75, five years could mean a 10 year or 20% change in sample population. For 20% of peoples opinions to change enough that the entire sample is altered by 10% means that a huge percentage of young people disbelieve evolution AND a huge percentage of dying people believed in evolution. So either the young people are more naive than they used to be, or... belief in evolution itself causes people to die, and it's natural selection which is driving the change in polls.
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Read the article... and the big change is 10% fewer people "believe in evolution" than (expressed) belief in evolution in 2007. Did 10% of Americans REALLY change their views in 5 years?
I think the survey measures something else. Something even more disturbing, perhaps - the growing willingness to express falsehood as a demonstration of political purity. The last Republican primary showed even very educated Republicans willing to state opinions they didn't really hold (and I doubt Democrats are much different in that regard). It's expressed in immigration law reform, in budget reform, climate change... It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, you show your value as a teammate by expressing the teams' view loudly and forcefully. Did 10% of American change their views about evolution? No. They just taking cues from people who think "denial" is a "philosophy"?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/atms-jackpotted/ Thanks for the tip
Looking where it is, right now, hard to imagine it was "infinitely stronger". But I'd guess that's a good thing, relatively speaking.
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I'm kind of a "fanboi" of Simon Lin and Terry Gou. Many of the stories in /. seem blind or deaf to the history of the "white box" manufacturers and "ODM" (original design manufacturers) who build the gadgets that USA Operating Systems run on never seem to get their share of appreciation. Chrome and Android basically did what "white box" permission by IBM and MS did in the early 90s, but much more quickly... allowed Asians to invent and design stuff which is actually more affordable and better made than the originals. I remember people mocking and making fun of "Jap cars" like Datsun, and the "made in Japan" sticker being an object of derision. Then it was Hyundai and Kia and the Koreans. It seems like we have to learn the same lessons over Taiwan.
BTW Lin is behind Wistron and Acer, Gou is behind Foxconn. Together they employ more engineers and inventors than anyone else.
This "Gibson" firm got their name in the papers, for what? Because a hacker "may" be able to see phone numbers with a username attached. So what? Where I live they still print peoples names and phone numbers in the phone book, which is available at the public library. What exactly bad is going to happen when someone decides to hack Snapchat to obtain those phone numbers?
It moves more like a tumbleweed than a superball. And I remember seeing many tumbleweeds around Roswell, NM, come to think of it.
Nice explanation of why women don't inherit land. I stand corrected, as does TheHindu.com. I'm sure the UN is also wrong, and that giving gold to daughters is utterly unrelated to not giving farmland. Thanks.
1) Potential for greater liability if the Site Owner tries to moderate but occasionally lets one slip.
2) Potential for greater profit if linked accounts are worth more to advertisers
3) China cracked down on anonymity (article from a year ago http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-12/28/china-internet-registration) and we can't be left behind
Vermont black market microbrews are currently selling for about $28 per can, and the market has been infiltrated by modern day Elliot Ness's. So this is worth serious study. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-06/vermont-tries-to-squelch-a-black-market-for-craft-beer