I'd rather not have neighbors. If I can see them, they're too close. In fact, if I can see them through a rifle scope, they're too close.
Of course, because if you can see them through a scope, it means they can see you the same way. That's why everybody should have large enough security perimeter around their home, as well as over-the-horizon offensive capability. Why put one's family into unnecessary risk which can be easily avoided?
Well, I don't think this would ever be used with network application, nobody sensibl... ok yeah.
But indeed, there are security implications for desktop applications that load documents, too. A document which previously caused the application to just hang or "safely" crash, could now cause malicious code to be executed.
Not to mention that if you just jump out of the loop, the software state is probably (in most cases) invalid anyhow.
These days many programs are event based. I'd say there's a decent chance, that program is left in valid state, especially if loop is broken at the condition, and remaining code in the function is allowed to execute before function returns to the main event loop.
Why would patent troll settle for 20%, when a patent is becoming useless to the inventor, and they're expected to take the risk of losing in court? They might give you 20%, if the patents are especially exploitable. Likely you could only use them as a means to exact revenge, giving all financial gain (and risk) to the patent troll.
Well, UK has some other... quaint stuff too;-) But that blackout thing sounds pretty bad, and that kind of system sounds like it's susceptible for problems.
But I guess it has a lot to do with lesser demands per household. I mean, aren't gas stoves and boilers and heaters quite common, instead of electrical ones?
In the countries using 220-240 Volts, I think the power coming to the house is generally 3 phase 380 Volts, each phase being 220 alone, and can be directly used the for normal 1 phase circuits in the house. Stoves, or generally any device which may draw more than about 2 kW, will usually take all 3 phases (and needs to have fixed wiring or use a totally different plug with more pins).
Well (the case of the TFA notwithstanding), I agree that investing in lottery is about as wise as investing in beer (meaning the substance, not the business), except lottery probably has less risk of having adverse effects on one's life, than beer. Which reminds me, I think I'm all out of beer:-(
I'm all for freedom to live your life the way you want and all that. But for the *state* to openly exploit its citizens with these parasitic lotteries makes my stomach turn. Rather than raise taxes, let's exploit out poorest and dumbest citizens! Yea!!!
Still, it's worth noting that people do get rich with lottery. Of course it may actually ruin the life of some people who can't handle it (and nobody knows that beforehand), but that's beside the point.
The lottery isn't about making a profit. It's about either losing a negligible amount of money while using negligible amount of time, or winning a life-changing amount of money. And doing all this while getting entertained by the excitement. Any other methods of getting rich when poor aren't risk-free, they generally require risking what you have to get capital for starting a business, and of course require person to be business-savvy and lucky and ready to put in long hours at least untill the business takes off, which most people aren't.
Yes, absolutely! Now wait there while your IP is tracked, and nice people dressed all in white will come and take you to meet other deities in... Mt. Olympus institute for... gods.
Yeah! The vast potential of customers who don't like to pay for their software, that market is totally untapped!
No, wait, I think the malware business has that market covered and monetized pretty good, actually. And some of those companies specialize in spreading their own anti-malware kits too. I think it'll be really hard to enter that market for legitimate anti-malware companies.
And now manufacturers in these nations are talking about increased mechanization in order to circumvent the desire of workers for better conditions of employment. In a lot of respects, it sounds like we (in the western world) just shot ourselves in the head: we shipped out the low skill jobs and we don't have the infrastructure for the high skill jobs needed in highly mechanized factories.
Just what infrastructure for highly mechanized factories you're talking about, which eg. China has, but eg. US does not? As cost of labor becomes smaller and smaller part of the total cost, the more and more lucrative it is to have the factory as close to the R&D as possible. We all know the horror stories of the unexpected costs of outsourcing. There's still lots and lots of all kinds of manufacturing in US and Europe, even with all the outsourcing to cheaper parts of the world. The infrastructure is all there. Next it'll be eg. Foxconn "insourcing" their manufacturing to be close to the customer.
I bet it will crash. Too complex, too many points of failure.
That's why you should have budget for 2nd and 3rd try from the start. Getting as complex a thing as this right from the start is hard, so hard it might be cheaper to not try quite so hard (law of dimnishing returns and all that), but instead prepare for crash and new mission which will not crash, at least not for the same reason. That's the single most important reason to do robotic and not manned missions: crash can be an option, if having it as an option is overall cheaper.
Lots of paranoia in the UK about 'illegal immigrants'. Quite ironic seeing as the people who make the most noise about this are likely to be descended from illegal immigrants themselves;-) Our whole country is basically immigrants if you look far enough back...
Well, they'll be illegal only until they take over, and rewrite history and laws so that they're not illegal any more. I mean, that has basically happened many times in every country. But there are also cases where a particular wave of immigrants failed to take over, and existing population remained in power, and immigrants either melded in or disappeared in less nice ways.
At this time in history, the process of melding in has been happening in places like "chinatowns" and "little indias" of major metropolises, as long as they are small enough and open enough, and there isn't too much influx of new immigrants slowing down the melding. The process of immigrants being driven out has been going on in a few African countries at least, since the end of European colonialism.
Now the question for current main population of any country getting immigrants is: how do they want it to go for them and their children.
Nah, more like pressure fusion steam cleaning. If it's crowded, the matter falling in to the black hole reaches billion of degrees, molecules breaking up, electrons ripped from atoms, nuclei fusing into new elements, before being ripped apart again by tidal forces (something like 10% of the matter is converted to energy per E=mc^2, when falling into a black hole in an accretion disk).
And if it's not crowded enough for it to get hot, then the lone water molecules will get ripped apart by tidal forces anyway, so it's not water that goes in.
Doesn't "reservoir" imply it's reachable, usable as a water reserve? This water was rotating a black hole 12 billion years ago, and was probably all sucked up by the hole or the water molecules ripped apart in the quasar jets by 11.999 billion years ago. I don't think "reservoir" is quite a right word here.
If we ignore that GPP talked about "today, right now", then home gene sequencing alone will be of very little use, just like home computers alone were of very little use except as a hobby for a decade or so. However, once we have molecular construction machinery available, then we can have customized drugs (including, but not limited to the medicine kind...) made at home. But that's quite a few decades away, possibly not happening in this century, and most likely will be illegal as long as corporations rule the world.
Doesn't electroweak already encompass electromagnetic? Should that be 'unifies the electromagnetic and weak forces'?
Electroweak breed is getting a bit too weak, with a few nasty hereditary diseases. They hope to strengthen the breed by adding more electromagnetism to it.
...these objects represent some of the "dark matter" we are searching for?
Yes, but according to current knowledge, there isn't enough, and large majority of dark matter must be non-baryonic (not made of normal matter like hydrogen and helium).
Sounds like "common sense" to me, so probably not republican;-)
There are other search providers with significant market share. Google can keep their position only as long as they provide service that's overall better than competitors' services. Even if their position as leader gives them an edge at staying better, they still can't start slipping up. Runner ups are more easily forgiven and their mistakes forgotten.
I think it'd be more accurate to say, his level of social and/or technical ability is not in balance with his level of humility. This is a pity, as his level of humility might be suitable for da Vinci, Newton or Einstein.
How can a device be dream come true for any Linux fan, when it's non-trivial and tedious (all the libs etc) to even compile "Linux software" for it?
Also, how can a device which always(?) needs to be jailbroken (be it easy or tricky) to get full functionality be any kind of dream of a Linux fan?
It may be best there is. Above points may be necessary evil to have a cool phone. But dream come true, hardly!
Now N9, that looks much more like it! But of course hard to say for sure, as the phone isn't actually available... Fortunately marketing looks like it really will be available soon. I hope it lives up to the hype and early reviews, because if it does, it will be dream come true for Linux users.
Alligators are not dinosaurs, they're Crurotarsi, which are well known to deeply hate dinosaurs for playing dirty tricks on 'em back in the Triassic-Jurassic transition. So for your own sake, don't even mention dinosaurs to your pet alligator, and especially don't start an argument about it! Only thing the alligator is going to like about the argument is taste of your ripped-off limbs!
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Since it doesn't serve the ultra-rich, the right wing won't support it, no matter how much it might possibly help everyone.
Would it require massive public spending?
Would it increase private spending on cars?
If answer is yes to just one of these questions, who do you think will reap the profits?
shouldn't this have been quietly handed to the police so that they don't tip their hand?
How would one go about quietly handing this kind of info to the police so, that anybody there would give rats ass about it?
I'd rather not have neighbors. If I can see them, they're too close. In fact, if I can see them through a rifle scope, they're too close.
Of course, because if you can see them through a scope, it means they can see you the same way. That's why everybody should have large enough security perimeter around their home, as well as over-the-horizon offensive capability. Why put one's family into unnecessary risk which can be easily avoided?
Well, I don't think this would ever be used with network application, nobody sensibl... ok yeah.
But indeed, there are security implications for desktop applications that load documents, too. A document which previously caused the application to just hang or "safely" crash, could now cause malicious code to be executed.
Not to mention that if you just jump out of the loop, the software state is probably (in most cases) invalid anyhow.
These days many programs are event based. I'd say there's a decent chance, that program is left in valid state, especially if loop is broken at the condition, and remaining code in the function is allowed to execute before function returns to the main event loop.
Why would patent troll settle for 20%, when a patent is becoming useless to the inventor, and they're expected to take the risk of losing in court? They might give you 20%, if the patents are especially exploitable. Likely you could only use them as a means to exact revenge, giving all financial gain (and risk) to the patent troll.
Well, UK has some other... quaint stuff too ;-) But that blackout thing sounds pretty bad, and that kind of system sounds like it's susceptible for problems.
But I guess it has a lot to do with lesser demands per household. I mean, aren't gas stoves and boilers and heaters quite common, instead of electrical ones?
In the countries using 220-240 Volts, I think the power coming to the house is generally 3 phase 380 Volts, each phase being 220 alone, and can be directly used the for normal 1 phase circuits in the house. Stoves, or generally any device which may draw more than about 2 kW, will usually take all 3 phases (and needs to have fixed wiring or use a totally different plug with more pins).
Well (the case of the TFA notwithstanding), I agree that investing in lottery is about as wise as investing in beer (meaning the substance, not the business), except lottery probably has less risk of having adverse effects on one's life, than beer. Which reminds me, I think I'm all out of beer :-(
Seriously, if "Slide to Lock" deserves a patent, someone in the USPTO should be hit over the head with a hammer. Repeatedly.
I think this may have already happened. It would explain a lot.
I'm all for freedom to live your life the way you want and all that. But for the *state* to openly exploit its citizens with these parasitic lotteries makes my stomach turn. Rather than raise taxes, let's exploit out poorest and dumbest citizens! Yea!!!
Still, it's worth noting that people do get rich with lottery. Of course it may actually ruin the life of some people who can't handle it (and nobody knows that beforehand), but that's beside the point.
The lottery isn't about making a profit. It's about either losing a negligible amount of money while using negligible amount of time, or winning a life-changing amount of money. And doing all this while getting entertained by the excitement. Any other methods of getting rich when poor aren't risk-free, they generally require risking what you have to get capital for starting a business, and of course require person to be business-savvy and lucky and ready to put in long hours at least untill the business takes off, which most people aren't.
I use lynx. Does this make me a God?
Yes, absolutely! Now wait there while your IP is tracked, and nice people dressed all in white will come and take you to meet other deities in... Mt. Olympus institute for... gods.
Yeah! The vast potential of customers who don't like to pay for their software, that market is totally untapped!
No, wait, I think the malware business has that market covered and monetized pretty good, actually. And some of those companies specialize in spreading their own anti-malware kits too. I think it'll be really hard to enter that market for legitimate anti-malware companies.
And now manufacturers in these nations are talking about increased mechanization in order to circumvent the desire of workers for better conditions of employment. In a lot of respects, it sounds like we (in the western world) just shot ourselves in the head: we shipped out the low skill jobs and we don't have the infrastructure for the high skill jobs needed in highly mechanized factories.
Just what infrastructure for highly mechanized factories you're talking about, which eg. China has, but eg. US does not? As cost of labor becomes smaller and smaller part of the total cost, the more and more lucrative it is to have the factory as close to the R&D as possible. We all know the horror stories of the unexpected costs of outsourcing. There's still lots and lots of all kinds of manufacturing in US and Europe, even with all the outsourcing to cheaper parts of the world. The infrastructure is all there. Next it'll be eg. Foxconn "insourcing" their manufacturing to be close to the customer.
I bet it will crash. Too complex, too many points of failure.
That's why you should have budget for 2nd and 3rd try from the start. Getting as complex a thing as this right from the start is hard, so hard it might be cheaper to not try quite so hard (law of dimnishing returns and all that), but instead prepare for crash and new mission which will not crash, at least not for the same reason. That's the single most important reason to do robotic and not manned missions: crash can be an option, if having it as an option is overall cheaper.
Lots of paranoia in the UK about 'illegal immigrants'. Quite ironic seeing as the people who make the most noise about this are likely to be descended from illegal immigrants themselves ;-) Our whole country is basically immigrants if you look far enough back...
Well, they'll be illegal only until they take over, and rewrite history and laws so that they're not illegal any more. I mean, that has basically happened many times in every country. But there are also cases where a particular wave of immigrants failed to take over, and existing population remained in power, and immigrants either melded in or disappeared in less nice ways.
At this time in history, the process of melding in has been happening in places like "chinatowns" and "little indias" of major metropolises, as long as they are small enough and open enough, and there isn't too much influx of new immigrants slowing down the melding. The process of immigrants being driven out has been going on in a few African countries at least, since the end of European colonialism.
Now the question for current main population of any country getting immigrants is: how do they want it to go for them and their children.
galactic enema?
Nah, more like pressure fusion steam cleaning. If it's crowded, the matter falling in to the black hole reaches billion of degrees, molecules breaking up, electrons ripped from atoms, nuclei fusing into new elements, before being ripped apart again by tidal forces (something like 10% of the matter is converted to energy per E=mc^2, when falling into a black hole in an accretion disk).
And if it's not crowded enough for it to get hot, then the lone water molecules will get ripped apart by tidal forces anyway, so it's not water that goes in.
Doesn't "reservoir" imply it's reachable, usable as a water reserve? This water was rotating a black hole 12 billion years ago, and was probably all sucked up by the hole or the water molecules ripped apart in the quasar jets by 11.999 billion years ago. I don't think "reservoir" is quite a right word here.
If we ignore that GPP talked about "today, right now", then home gene sequencing alone will be of very little use, just like home computers alone were of very little use except as a hobby for a decade or so. However, once we have molecular construction machinery available, then we can have customized drugs (including, but not limited to the medicine kind...) made at home. But that's quite a few decades away, possibly not happening in this century, and most likely will be illegal as long as corporations rule the world.
Doesn't electroweak already encompass electromagnetic? Should that be 'unifies the electromagnetic and weak forces'?
Electroweak breed is getting a bit too weak, with a few nasty hereditary diseases. They hope to strengthen the breed by adding more electromagnetism to it.
...these objects represent some of the "dark matter" we are searching for?
Yes, but according to current knowledge, there isn't enough, and large majority of dark matter must be non-baryonic (not made of normal matter like hydrogen and helium).
Sounds like "common sense" to me, so probably not republican ;-)
There are other search providers with significant market share. Google can keep their position only as long as they provide service that's overall better than competitors' services. Even if their position as leader gives them an edge at staying better, they still can't start slipping up. Runner ups are more easily forgiven and their mistakes forgotten.
now we know.
the developer lacks humility.
I think it'd be more accurate to say, his level of social and/or technical ability is not in balance with his level of humility. This is a pity, as his level of humility might be suitable for da Vinci, Newton or Einstein.
How can a device be dream come true for any Linux fan, when it's non-trivial and tedious (all the libs etc) to even compile "Linux software" for it?
Also, how can a device which always(?) needs to be jailbroken (be it easy or tricky) to get full functionality be any kind of dream of a Linux fan?
It may be best there is. Above points may be necessary evil to have a cool phone. But dream come true, hardly!
Now N9, that looks much more like it! But of course hard to say for sure, as the phone isn't actually available... Fortunately marketing looks like it really will be available soon. I hope it lives up to the hype and early reviews, because if it does, it will be dream come true for Linux users.
Alligators are not dinosaurs, they're Crurotarsi, which are well known to deeply hate dinosaurs for playing dirty tricks on 'em back in the Triassic-Jurassic transition. So for your own sake, don't even mention dinosaurs to your pet alligator, and especially don't start an argument about it! Only thing the alligator is going to like about the argument is taste of your ripped-off limbs!