Complaining people are hacking the rules of a hackathon is a supreme irony. You're taking people who thrive on the idea of bending and breaking rules and trying to shove them in boxes and demand they follow your rules. That's rich.
If you cheat and get caught, you should not have cheated. Rules are rules, and you must not get caught breaking them. Adding extra checks to catch incompetent wannabe-hackers is perfectly ok.
"Adding more hackers to a late hacking project just makes it later."
By that logic, every project, no matter the size and scope, would be fastest to implement by 1 person team. Adding more would just slow things down... Not to mention, a competition project is not late when the extra teammates are added, they are added before the project even starts...
The optimal team size of competent hackers to minimize "wall clock time" while maximizing creativity and quality is almost certainly more than allowed team size in a competition.
That's true for current methods of developing software. Which is typing in code.
The thing is, there is an enormous amount of exact details even in a small piece of code. You can enter it by typing far faster than in any other way, especially when aided by advanced code completion and other forms of semiautomatic code generation. And the more expressive the language, the more each character counts, and more difficult it is to express same things in some other way.
Only when we have AIs comparable to humans, we can hope for something different. Except that is not so different after all, it is just the human code monkey replaced by the AI code monkey, taking orders from architects and managers...
Wikipedia article on Ocean acidification seems to put some estimated numbers on pH change, with source. Your source is your school chemistry book, which probably predates that particular source anyway. Even if that wikipedia source is wrong, that seems to be enough basis for thinking, that actually measuring this with latest technology seems like a good idea.
Anyway, the only reason one might not want to measure this is being in some kind of denial, not wanting to hear the result in case it is not the one you want to hear... I mean, if measuring shows no change in acidification, wouldn't that be great? And if it shows some acidification rate, wouldn't that be a good thing to know, too?
If you had passed general chem you would have studied buffered solutions. We know how they work, as a fact.
It's funny how some people think how we have totally insufficient knowledge about atmosphere to make any kind of climate predictions, yet as soon as someone suggests measuring ocean acidity, potentially linked to atmospheric CO2, they happily say that oceans are a buffered solution comparable to stuff in labs, no reason for any research...
I guess it's understandable. After all we can't see the atmosphere, it's transparent and unfathomable, while we can see all the oceans from satellite photos, plain as day... Nothing unknown about them...
The oceans aren't acidifying - they are alkaline and there are massive buffers in the oceans chemistry that prevent it changing very much.
So... We know this as a fact? No point in measuring actual pH change, or lack of it?
If only people would take "pumping and digging buried carbon up and turning it into a greenhouse gas will strengthen greenhouse effect directly, and also increase other greenhouse gasses like dihydrogen monoxide as a positive feedback side effect" with that conviction...
Argh, stop trying to measure global warming and climate change, us faithful aren't going to let you fix these problems. The world has to die so that Jesus comes faster, stop trying to screw it up!
That unfairly portrays people of a flavor of Christian faith as evil. Let me try a more reasonable and agnostic version:
Argh, stop trying to measure global warming and climate change. It is inevitable that oceans absorb carbon and increase in acidity, but this has nothing what so ever to do with our negligible carbon emissions or global cooling trend of past decade. Results will only be used as alarmist propaganda, in an attempt to destroy our way of life, and let the communists like Al Gore and EU take over the world.
I think you guys need to go back and read the screen a little more carefully! It does not say it will not install it, what it says is that it will not enable it!
From TFS: and the application is started each time the system is rebooted.
Wireless gets them some access which is better than nothing but not even close to fiber. Your not going to magic around the spectrum issues.
Fiber has the problem of not running on batteries (at least not cheaply). Ensuring uninterrupted power supply to a bunch of base stations serving thousands of people is much easier, than ensuring uninterrupted power supply all the way to those thousands of people (who, at this day and age, will have a laptop or a tablet with battery, and might have some extra charging solution for it too).
Note: I'm talking about brief power outages and brownouts, not total long term blackouts.
How soon will I have to buy a new TV and stereo because my new Blu ray player, or tablet only supports HDMI 2.0
I don't know how long you can wait at most, but I can say how long you can wait at least: until you buy a new cutting edge Blu Ray player or a tablet...
I have a suspicion about what happens to Windows Phone sales, everywhere except the US maybe.
Of course, you're aware of MS Phone's strong growth in all markets, right?
MS does not (yet) make phones, so I doubt there's any growth at the moment... They just make a smartphone OS, and Nokia phones using this OS have seen some nice growth this year. On the other hand, sales of Microsoft's own tablets, with a sister OS... not so hot. So current growth of Nokia Lumia sales is not much of an indication of what will happen to future Microsoft phones, one way or another.
Following the transaction, Nokia plans to focus on its three established businesses, each of which is a leader in enabling mobility in its respective market segment: NSN, a leader in network infrastructure and services; HERE, a leader in mapping and location services; and Advanced Technologies, a leader in technology development and licensing.
I doubt there's an agreement that Nokia will not re-enter the phone business... So this might actually make Nokia Android, or Nokia Sailfish phones a possibility in 1-2 year timeframe. It's a long shot, but one can always hope, eh?
So, Nokia will become a network infra company, with hefty cash reserves and some nice patent licensing revenue. Oh, and then there's the location business, essentially competing with Google, but... good luck with that.
But all the (remaining) Nokia fans, start to look for a new phone brand!
How many will choose Microsoft?
I have a suspicion about what happens to Windows Phone sales, everywhere except the US maybe. And low end Lumias like 520 were doing pretty good... Sad.
What the actual fuck. How could such a stupid mistake be made?
Well, situation was probably carefully evaluated, and everything considered, it was decided that this is a mistake worth making. Just speculating to provide an example, there may have been something else happening at the same time, some evaluation or hearing or whatever, and there it was important that the reading was not too high, so the short term mistake at the expense of looking like amateurs was deemed a good trade.
please explain how in some, even alternate universe how you believe Nokia's value is up 100% from bottom?
Lowest, about $2 at New York, or €1,50 at Helsinki, in July 2012. Increase that by 100%, and you get $4 or €3. Which, incidentally, is about the current stock price.
So, this raises the question, if this seems to be the alternate universe for you, then where are you coming from?
Odd as it might seem, I can like somebody (or some corp) without fully trusting them.
Like a fun buddy who you wouldn't want to introduce to your sister...
Well yeah, except if Google is the fun buddy and your data is the sister, then they're already living in the same house, owned by him, and you only have the fun buddy's word that nothing funny is going on, even though your sister does not pay any rent as far as you know...
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Complaining people are hacking the rules of a hackathon is a supreme irony. You're taking people who thrive on the idea of bending and breaking rules and trying to shove them in boxes and demand they follow your rules. That's rich.
If you cheat and get caught, you should not have cheated. Rules are rules, and you must not get caught breaking them. Adding extra checks to catch incompetent wannabe-hackers is perfectly ok.
"Adding more hackers to a late hacking project just makes it later."
By that logic, every project, no matter the size and scope, would be fastest to implement by 1 person team. Adding more would just slow things down... Not to mention, a competition project is not late when the extra teammates are added, they are added before the project even starts...
The optimal team size of competent hackers to minimize "wall clock time" while maximizing creativity and quality is almost certainly more than allowed team size in a competition.
The epsilon rocket is a) tiny ..
If it launched a payload to orbit, it can't be tiny... No rocket able to do that is tiny.
However, class names/function names/variables could all be custom icons.
This would work about as well as having icons for people, instead of names...
That's true for current methods of developing software. Which is typing in code.
The thing is, there is an enormous amount of exact details even in a small piece of code. You can enter it by typing far faster than in any other way, especially when aided by advanced code completion and other forms of semiautomatic code generation. And the more expressive the language, the more each character counts, and more difficult it is to express same things in some other way.
Only when we have AIs comparable to humans, we can hope for something different. Except that is not so different after all, it is just the human code monkey replaced by the AI code monkey, taking orders from architects and managers...
Wikipedia article on Ocean acidification seems to put some estimated numbers on pH change, with source. Your source is your school chemistry book, which probably predates that particular source anyway. Even if that wikipedia source is wrong, that seems to be enough basis for thinking, that actually measuring this with latest technology seems like a good idea.
Anyway, the only reason one might not want to measure this is being in some kind of denial, not wanting to hear the result in case it is not the one you want to hear... I mean, if measuring shows no change in acidification, wouldn't that be great? And if it shows some acidification rate, wouldn't that be a good thing to know, too?
Hmph. I was aiming at "funny" by trying to go well over the top. I see I failed...
If you had passed general chem you would have studied buffered solutions. We know how they work, as a fact.
It's funny how some people think how we have totally insufficient knowledge about atmosphere to make any kind of climate predictions, yet as soon as someone suggests measuring ocean acidity, potentially linked to atmospheric CO2, they happily say that oceans are a buffered solution comparable to stuff in labs, no reason for any research...
I guess it's understandable. After all we can't see the atmosphere, it's transparent and unfathomable, while we can see all the oceans from satellite photos, plain as day... Nothing unknown about them...
The oceans aren't acidifying - they are alkaline and there are massive buffers in the oceans chemistry that prevent it changing very much.
So... We know this as a fact? No point in measuring actual pH change, or lack of it?
If only people would take "pumping and digging buried carbon up and turning it into a greenhouse gas will strengthen greenhouse effect directly, and also increase other greenhouse gasses like dihydrogen monoxide as a positive feedback side effect" with that conviction...
I think animals with shells survived well enough in the past when atmospheric CO2 levels were far, far higher. They'll adapt.
Do you know what is another way to say "they'll adapt"?
It is "there will be a mass extinction, and survivors will inherit the Earth after hundreds of millenia of adapting to the changed biosphere."
Argh, stop trying to measure global warming and climate change, us faithful aren't going to let you fix these problems. The world has to die so that Jesus comes faster, stop trying to screw it up!
That unfairly portrays people of a flavor of Christian faith as evil. Let me try a more reasonable and agnostic version:
Argh, stop trying to measure global warming and climate change. It is inevitable that oceans absorb carbon and increase in acidity, but this has nothing what so ever to do with our negligible carbon emissions or global cooling trend of past decade. Results will only be used as alarmist propaganda, in an attempt to destroy our way of life, and let the communists like Al Gore and EU take over the world.
I think you guys need to go back and read the screen a little more carefully! It does not say it will not install it, what it says is that it will not enable it!
From TFS: and the application is started each time the system is rebooted.
Sounds Like They do enable it...
Wireless gets them some access which is better than nothing but not even close to fiber. Your not going to magic around the spectrum issues .
Fiber has the problem of not running on batteries (at least not cheaply). Ensuring uninterrupted power supply to a bunch of base stations serving thousands of people is much easier, than ensuring uninterrupted power supply all the way to those thousands of people (who, at this day and age, will have a laptop or a tablet with battery, and might have some extra charging solution for it too).
Note: I'm talking about brief power outages and brownouts, not total long term blackouts.
How soon will I have to buy a new TV and stereo because my new Blu ray player, or tablet only supports HDMI 2.0
I don't know how long you can wait at most, but I can say how long you can wait at least: until you buy a new cutting edge Blu Ray player or a tablet...
I have a suspicion about what happens to Windows Phone sales, everywhere except the US maybe.
Of course, you're aware of MS Phone's strong growth in all markets, right?
MS does not (yet) make phones, so I doubt there's any growth at the moment... They just make a smartphone OS, and Nokia phones using this OS have seen some nice growth this year. On the other hand, sales of Microsoft's own tablets, with a sister OS... not so hot. So current growth of Nokia Lumia sales is not much of an indication of what will happen to future Microsoft phones, one way or another.
Microsoft is buying the nav/maps too.
Not according to the press release:
Following the transaction, Nokia plans to focus on its three established businesses, each of which is a leader in enabling mobility in its respective market segment: NSN, a leader in network infrastructure and services; HERE, a leader in mapping and location services; and Advanced Technologies, a leader in technology development and licensing.
MS did not buy Nokia, MS bouth Nokia phone business, which I think is roughly half of Nokia. Nokia shareholders will not become MS shareholders here.
I doubt there's an agreement that Nokia will not re-enter the phone business... So this might actually make Nokia Android, or Nokia Sailfish phones a possibility in 1-2 year timeframe. It's a long shot, but one can always hope, eh?
So, Nokia will become a network infra company, with hefty cash reserves and some nice patent licensing revenue. Oh, and then there's the location business, essentially competing with Google, but... good luck with that.
But all the (remaining) Nokia fans, start to look for a new phone brand!
How many will choose Microsoft?
I have a suspicion about what happens to Windows Phone sales, everywhere except the US maybe. And low end Lumias like 520 were doing pretty good... Sad.
which means that one fifth of the candidate pool of US citizens who apply is someone 'suspicious.'
I didn't RTFA, but TFS does not say that, read again... Fifth of initially suspicious applicants turned out to really have suspicious connections.
Even so, this service does not protect an individual against wrenches.
Indeed it doesn't, but a wrench is not guaranteed to work either.
If the wrench does not work, you're holding it wrong.
What the actual fuck. How could such a stupid mistake be made?
Well, situation was probably carefully evaluated, and everything considered, it was decided that this is a mistake worth making. Just speculating to provide an example, there may have been something else happening at the same time, some evaluation or hearing or whatever, and there it was important that the reading was not too high, so the short term mistake at the expense of looking like amateurs was deemed a good trade.
Does that mean that Uranus has not "cleared its orbit" of other objects? (That being one of the IAU's criteria for planet-hood)
No, on the contrary, it means Uranus has cleared it's orbit, any rocks that remain are in Lagrange points and 100% controlled by Uranus.
please explain how in some, even alternate universe how you believe Nokia's value is up 100% from bottom?
Lowest, about $2 at New York, or €1,50 at Helsinki, in July 2012. Increase that by 100%, and you get $4 or €3. Which, incidentally, is about the current stock price.
So, this raises the question, if this seems to be the alternate universe for you, then where are you coming from?
Odd as it might seem, I can like somebody (or some corp) without fully trusting them.
Like a fun buddy who you wouldn't want to introduce to your sister...
Well yeah, except if Google is the fun buddy and your data is the sister, then they're already living in the same house, owned by him, and you only have the fun buddy's word that nothing funny is going on, even though your sister does not pay any rent as far as you know...