They snapchat. Its basically a photo sharing app with sexting optimized features although the flyer was careful to note the optimized for does not necessarily equal exclusively used for... No I'm not involved don't have an account LOL, this is from one of those "parents learn about your kids life online" type of flyers I believe sent home from school, or maybe it was online, so its probably already months outta date. Facebook is seen as the place mom and dad hang out, so you can't "do stuff" without them so go somewhere else to socialize...
I seldom announce to my "friends" on Facebook (even though they are mostly really my friends) what movies I like or what products I like, etc.
Maybe its public purpose is to help you and others share and search trivialities, but the private purpose is to provide feedback to astroturfers, those who hire astroturfers, crazy super fans, and self promoters on how far the astroturfers reach goes.
For example before I deleted my account I didn't log in or use it for a couple months (it was a slow gradual decline), so you can't simply count a guy who's not really a follower as a follower. Or something like that.
I think its interesting the discussion is being carefully and methodically framed by both sides as being solely for trivial deep as a rain puddle pop culture queries.
It would be interesting to data mine my "friends" for religious beliefs, political party membership, stuff that is at least theoretically more important. Or information to sell to potential employers. So according to my friends, illegal drugs are (select one) a) bad b) good c) too expensive. My friends think I should (select one) a) get married b) not get married
Then again my limited experience on FB some years ago was most people pretty strongly believed it was only for "trivial deep as a rain puddle pop culture" and people got pretty freaked out if you directly displayed above room temp IQ via comment, hobby, pic, or interest. Then again, indirectly, maybe via geotag analysis and so forth you could pull interesting data anyway.
He's making fun of my WM which is "awesome window manager" which is pretty much ratpoison with limited mouse support (weird, I know) and Lua scripting.
Note that I need and use a WM not a complete desktop GUI environment. I don't need or want a complete desktop GUI environment nor am I interested in one. Just a WM please.
Virtual tabs/screens, an interface into the system wide menu system, some way to move windows around on the screen, that's really all I want/need.
Most importantly just like the "civil war on some drugs", this would guarantee wide and easy availability of large magazines to everybody who's not a complete hermit.
So if you really needed/wanted a 30 rounder, rather than being perpetually sold out at the gun store since Obama was elected, every punk on the street corner will have 10 to sell to you for cash, any time of day or night.
Because a criminal obviously can't carry more than one gun or magazine.
LOL this is by far the funniest part about the whole ban. Now carrying ten "three shot" 50 caliber rifles is impractical but multiple saturday night specials is quite reasonable. In fact a RAID array of handguns is by far higher availability than a single high capacity handgun. Any/.er should understand this about RAID arrays. Did "saturday night special #5" jam? Who cares drop #5 and grab #6.
The real reason is wanting to appear to be doing something, mostly to "preach to the choir" and appease supporters who are profoundly ignorant and like it that way.
No religious experience here (then again, never seen in person) but everything I've read is the Merlin series is all about Chapman's "simplify and add lightness" which a lot of the old time aerospace pioneers used to use before they became profit munching incumbent contractors.
Pintle injector for throttling, stability, and some wall cooling. Damn good idea.
Don't wanna run a completely isolated hydraulic system and include a zillion new single points of failure? Hmm how bout using the fuel as the hyd fluid. How bout pressurize the hydraulic "fluid" using the main turbopump. Damn good idea.
The vacuum model uses radiative cooling. I'm sure a fat cat modern contractor would try for regenerative just to boost the contract cost / profit, but they're the "simplify and add lightness" people so simple radiative. Hardly a new idea for vacuum nozzle cooling, but a damn good one anyway.
They also show great judgment in knowing their own limitations, they buy their turbopumps from a specialist. Things that need to be custom they do, things that can be COTS are COTS.
I hope they can stay on task with the whole "simplify and add lightness" thing. The X and XX sound a little more like something you'd see from the incumbents rather than startups. Unless they have secrets up their sleeves, which is certainly possible.
Maybe the standard/. car example is the Merlin is as minimal as can possibly be made that'll work, like a 60s muscle car engine or a race car engine, whereas the incumbents are more like a modern engine which is mostly an elaborate emissions control system, oh and with an engine bolted onto it almost as an afterthought.
I would agree with this completely, obviously in the extreme limiting decks to two or three types of cards simplifies the game immensely.
The problem with a game having 16000 different cards or whatever is it seems to devolve into natural language processing. MtG isnt just written in free prose, but itself is sorta a language. So now you're stuck with the equivalent of proving there exists an optimal "winning" solution to free form paper and pencil RPGs like DnD or Pathfinder. Kind alike a Turing test variant. Or even worse, a Turing test-LIKE competition where the point is not just a conversation but win a free form debate.
When you have a computer sit down at a free form Pathfinder RPG table and it "wins" then we're probably going to be stuck with hard AI computer politicians running for office and winning, etc. Singularity time.
It could be worse. Define "winning" in creative-mode minecraft (adventure or survival mode at least have a metric of sorts)
I thought it was more if you win playing the same moves that a computer would make you are cheating.
In the old days, beyond student level, you had to play against tough human opponents to grind out experience, slowly learn to play like your human opponents, and with any luck you'd advance beyond your human trainers.
In the new day, because the computers are the strongest players and always available etc, you'll grind your experience out against a computer, slowly learn to play like your computer opponents, and with any luck you'll advance beyond the programmers of your computer trainers.
It seems inevitable that in a couple generations human chess will look "computer" to a current player.
As long as we still have band plans that encourage the separation of all digital modes from the analog modes, I fully support your proposal.
Its important to note that there are a zillion levels of regulation, and the current obsolete rules are the wrong level for the regulation, not just the wrong rules at that level as Bruce's plan claims.
For example, how many contests have you heard lately on the WARC bands? Thats a gentleman's agreement thats held for decades now.
I don't see anything wrong with a gentlemans agreement to never operate USB with a digital station higher in freq than you and never operate digital with a USB station lower in freq than you. Or something similar. It doesn't have to be written into fcc part 97, any more than ending a qso or post with 73 has to be written into part 97.
I suspect they'd really like 440/902/1296/2304/3456 but this proposal is for HF. Nobody wants to carry an antenna for 160M attached to their shiny new iphone. Or even 10M.
At the moment, US rules have separate sub-bands for voice, data and image transmissions.
Note that the FCC currently regulates by information content, not modulation. I guess a/. analogy is its like classifying networking tech first by layer 2/3 at the bottom as the "fundamental layer", then layer 1, then the upper layers, sorta. Which is obviously wrong. So if I send you a string of ones and zeros in PSK-31 modulation or whatever, that represents speech, we have to go in one subband on HF. Then if I send you ones and zeros representing text data, like this post, we have to QSY to yet another subband. Then if I send you ones and zeros representing a goatse jpeg picture (which would run afoul of the fcc reg against obscenity, but I digress), we have to QSY to yet another frequency... even if its all the same modulation technology, the same "stuff on the airwaves" for the ones and zeros. Maybe another way to put it, is our "MIME-type" is our frequency subband, not something a little more modern or realistic.
Legally/technically if I went on CW (aka morse code) and told you verbally how to draw an amplifier schematic that could be seen as illegal as its obviously image traffic, no worse than if I sent you postscript code or the ones and zeros of a.png file.
There are two killer problems which may or may not be discussed here.
First the proposal claims to promote "paperwork reduction" while installing a whole new crazy array of complicated regs ON TOP OF the existing overall rules for reasonable and prudent and good engineering practice and emergency traffic priority or WTF the exact phrases. In my opinion as a third generation ham with over three decades of experience, what works with the smart people on the VHF/UHF/microwave bands should work with the glorified CBers on the HF bands, which in summary is do whatever the heck you want as long as its good engineering practice and stays within ham band edges (note this is a simplification, but basically correct). Yes I know this is the peak of this solar cycle but when 10M is closed and dead I see no reason my buddy and I shoudn't be able to use 200 KHz of wideband FM on 10M across the city if we please, because it certainly can't hurt anyone. Or do something weird on 160M during the day time in summer, why not? So the most rational bandplan is not this proposal, but is: Do whatever the F you want between 3.5 MHz and 4 MHz as long as it stays in band edges and follows all the other numerous "content and performance based" regulations (like no intentional interference, good engineering standards, content rules wrt obscenity (which is certainly ignored on 80 and to some extent on 20 aka the high tech redneck CB bands, so why can't we accept that we'll ignore bandwidth limits too?), emergency traffic gets priority, blah blah blah)
The other thing carefully not discussed, regardless if true or not, the widely held belief was Bonnie's plan from a decade ago, mentioned in this very proposal, was just the thin edge of the wedge to fill 20M from band edge to band edge with psuedo-commercial winlink traffic. There's two problems with this. The first is it doesn't seem to modify the unattended operation rules but then again its the thin edge, the next proposal will be expanding the unattended operation subbands to 3.5 to 4 MHz for example, etc. The second is, see #1 above, why should anyone care if the vast majority of hams wanted to use winlink, if so, then let them... its not the "SSB-preservation amateur radio service" or the "AM amateur radio service" or for that matter the "CW amateur radio service".
Well, this mostly accurate history lesson outta stir the pot some.
But then, who would want a fridge that lets your food go bad just because your internet connection failed?
A supermarket, obviously. So they'll hire some politicians to pass a law to make it illegal for any retailer except a supermarket to sell fridges... This is how America does business.
DeviantArt has a better business model than Instagram. Some lovely content there, too -- much of it available for sale, by content makers willing to work on commission.
If that doesn't go thru just google for "deviantart cthulhu seuss". If you can't guess, its the HP Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu retold in a Dr Seuss style "for beginning readers" as the cover states.
Pretty awesome by any measure. This in book form would make a pretty interesting/. book review...
There are some things turing machines can't compute, like solving the halting problem.
Zactly and the fastest way to test a halting type problem is to run it. So its possible to specify a program inside MtG that cannot be solved other than running it. So at least theoretically (however impractically) there exists uncountable strategies that can only be tested by running them... so there is no simple solution to finding an optimal strategy. A weak proof to be sure, but interesting.
On a long term basis looking at the graph it drops in half semi-permanently each recession, so its about to plummet again anyway.
The question is why do a buyout now at current prices when you're sure to pay less in the future?
As for why go private, if you don't plan to ever expand / require capital ever again, you don't care about access to the stock market to raise capital, you've got to balance long term the costs of the buyout vs the permanent drain on finances of being a public stock, SOX compliance, the various fees, accounting expenses, last but not least idiotic demands from "the market" for exclusively short term (like the next quarter) profitability. I suppose the idea of Dell expanding is kind of unlikely in the near to medium term future. Maybe they have a chance for sales during the Y2036 problem in just 23 more years. Till then if the price drops in half every couple years at each recession...
It is hard to tell what the age group for this book is as children have such varied technical skills
Beyond that, language level? Gimme a sample? How bout a comparison? A kid who reads "Boys Life" (the boy scouting magazine) would find this simple or complicated? On your amazon affiliate link above, there are "customer images" from "jessica" that are JUST barely too far away for me to read it.
You know what would be cool, a comic book version of "the little schemer". Assuming that translates to comics well enough.
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A flexible battery might allow 'more' battery to be inserted in an available space.
Adult entertainment novelty items. The phone's "vibrate motor" comes in handy too.
Do teenagers still care about FB?
They snapchat. Its basically a photo sharing app with sexting optimized features although the flyer was careful to note the optimized for does not necessarily equal exclusively used for... No I'm not involved don't have an account LOL, this is from one of those "parents learn about your kids life online" type of flyers I believe sent home from school, or maybe it was online, so its probably already months outta date. Facebook is seen as the place mom and dad hang out, so you can't "do stuff" without them so go somewhere else to socialize...
I seldom announce to my "friends" on Facebook (even though they are mostly really my friends) what movies I like or what products I like, etc.
Maybe its public purpose is to help you and others share and search trivialities, but the private purpose is to provide feedback to astroturfers, those who hire astroturfers, crazy super fans, and self promoters on how far the astroturfers reach goes.
For example before I deleted my account I didn't log in or use it for a couple months (it was a slow gradual decline), so you can't simply count a guy who's not really a follower as a follower. Or something like that.
I don't really care what movies they like
I think its interesting the discussion is being carefully and methodically framed by both sides as being solely for trivial deep as a rain puddle pop culture queries.
It would be interesting to data mine my "friends" for religious beliefs, political party membership, stuff that is at least theoretically more important. Or information to sell to potential employers. So according to my friends, illegal drugs are (select one) a) bad b) good c) too expensive. My friends think I should (select one) a) get married b) not get married
Then again my limited experience on FB some years ago was most people pretty strongly believed it was only for "trivial deep as a rain puddle pop culture" and people got pretty freaked out if you directly displayed above room temp IQ via comment, hobby, pic, or interest. Then again, indirectly, maybe via geotag analysis and so forth you could pull interesting data anyway.
All our guided-weaponry would bombard some random address, probably a good, wholesome family of 5.
Yeah as if that doesn't happen all the time already
I'm guessing the reason why it tracks to his house is he's the closest resident to a tower, so if GPS nav fails, it picks the strongest tower?
So they've already got an unmanned facility across the street or whatever. Put a sign up there, put a manned store there, whatever.
But how is Xfce only for "a complete troglodyte"?
He's making fun of my WM which is "awesome window manager" which is pretty much ratpoison with limited mouse support (weird, I know) and Lua scripting.
Note that I need and use a WM not a complete desktop GUI environment. I don't need or want a complete desktop GUI environment nor am I interested in one. Just a WM please.
Virtual tabs/screens, an interface into the system wide menu system, some way to move windows around on the screen, that's really all I want/need.
Most importantly just like the "civil war on some drugs", this would guarantee wide and easy availability of large magazines to everybody who's not a complete hermit.
So if you really needed/wanted a 30 rounder, rather than being perpetually sold out at the gun store since Obama was elected, every punk on the street corner will have 10 to sell to you for cash, any time of day or night.
Because a criminal obviously can't carry more than one gun or magazine.
LOL this is by far the funniest part about the whole ban. Now carrying ten "three shot" 50 caliber rifles is impractical but multiple saturday night specials is quite reasonable. In fact a RAID array of handguns is by far higher availability than a single high capacity handgun. Any /.er should understand this about RAID arrays. Did "saturday night special #5" jam? Who cares drop #5 and grab #6.
The real reason is wanting to appear to be doing something, mostly to "preach to the choir" and appease supporters who are profoundly ignorant and like it that way.
Also, any news on a gamma radiation reflector, a possible prerequisite to a propulsion with gamma rays from "cheaper" antimatter?
Prereq to a lot of weird stuff, including certain .mil toys you probably won't like very much. Probably would make an interesting hard sci fi novel.
No religious experience here (then again, never seen in person) but everything I've read is the Merlin series is all about Chapman's "simplify and add lightness" which a lot of the old time aerospace pioneers used to use before they became profit munching incumbent contractors.
Pintle injector for throttling, stability, and some wall cooling. Damn good idea.
Don't wanna run a completely isolated hydraulic system and include a zillion new single points of failure? Hmm how bout using the fuel as the hyd fluid. How bout pressurize the hydraulic "fluid" using the main turbopump. Damn good idea.
The vacuum model uses radiative cooling. I'm sure a fat cat modern contractor would try for regenerative just to boost the contract cost / profit, but they're the "simplify and add lightness" people so simple radiative. Hardly a new idea for vacuum nozzle cooling, but a damn good one anyway.
They also show great judgment in knowing their own limitations, they buy their turbopumps from a specialist. Things that need to be custom they do, things that can be COTS are COTS.
I hope they can stay on task with the whole "simplify and add lightness" thing. The X and XX sound a little more like something you'd see from the incumbents rather than startups. Unless they have secrets up their sleeves, which is certainly possible.
Maybe the standard /. car example is the Merlin is as minimal as can possibly be made that'll work, like a 60s muscle car engine or a race car engine, whereas the incumbents are more like a modern engine which is mostly an elaborate emissions control system, oh and with an engine bolted onto it almost as an afterthought.
I would agree with this completely, obviously in the extreme limiting decks to two or three types of cards simplifies the game immensely.
The problem with a game having 16000 different cards or whatever is it seems to devolve into natural language processing. MtG isnt just written in free prose, but itself is sorta a language. So now you're stuck with the equivalent of proving there exists an optimal "winning" solution to free form paper and pencil RPGs like DnD or Pathfinder. Kind alike a Turing test variant. Or even worse, a Turing test-LIKE competition where the point is not just a conversation but win a free form debate.
When you have a computer sit down at a free form Pathfinder RPG table and it "wins" then we're probably going to be stuck with hard AI computer politicians running for office and winning, etc. Singularity time.
It could be worse. Define "winning" in creative-mode minecraft (adventure or survival mode at least have a metric of sorts)
Too limited. Needs to block light.
It is possible there could be an accomplice. Or a hidden camera.
Or a live studio audience member with a smartphone.
I thought it was more if you win playing the same moves that a computer would make you are cheating.
In the old days, beyond student level, you had to play against tough human opponents to grind out experience, slowly learn to play like your human opponents, and with any luck you'd advance beyond your human trainers.
In the new day, because the computers are the strongest players and always available etc, you'll grind your experience out against a computer, slowly learn to play like your computer opponents, and with any luck you'll advance beyond the programmers of your computer trainers.
It seems inevitable that in a couple generations human chess will look "computer" to a current player.
As long as we still have band plans that encourage the separation of all digital modes from the analog modes, I fully support your proposal.
Its important to note that there are a zillion levels of regulation, and the current obsolete rules are the wrong level for the regulation, not just the wrong rules at that level as Bruce's plan claims.
For example, how many contests have you heard lately on the WARC bands? Thats a gentleman's agreement thats held for decades now.
I don't see anything wrong with a gentlemans agreement to never operate USB with a digital station higher in freq than you and never operate digital with a USB station lower in freq than you. Or something similar. It doesn't have to be written into fcc part 97, any more than ending a qso or post with 73 has to be written into part 97.
73 and have a nice day
appropriate spectrum
I suspect they'd really like 440/902/1296/2304/3456 but this proposal is for HF. Nobody wants to carry an antenna for 160M attached to their shiny new iphone. Or even 10M.
At the moment, US rules have separate sub-bands for voice, data and image transmissions.
Note that the FCC currently regulates by information content, not modulation. I guess a /. analogy is its like classifying networking tech first by layer 2/3 at the bottom as the "fundamental layer", then layer 1, then the upper layers, sorta. Which is obviously wrong. So if I send you a string of ones and zeros in PSK-31 modulation or whatever, that represents speech, we have to go in one subband on HF. Then if I send you ones and zeros representing text data, like this post, we have to QSY to yet another subband. Then if I send you ones and zeros representing a goatse jpeg picture (which would run afoul of the fcc reg against obscenity, but I digress), we have to QSY to yet another frequency... even if its all the same modulation technology, the same "stuff on the airwaves" for the ones and zeros. Maybe another way to put it, is our "MIME-type" is our frequency subband, not something a little more modern or realistic.
Legally/technically if I went on CW (aka morse code) and told you verbally how to draw an amplifier schematic that could be seen as illegal as its obviously image traffic, no worse than if I sent you postscript code or the ones and zeros of a .png file.
There are two killer problems which may or may not be discussed here.
First the proposal claims to promote "paperwork reduction" while installing a whole new crazy array of complicated regs ON TOP OF the existing overall rules for reasonable and prudent and good engineering practice and emergency traffic priority or WTF the exact phrases. In my opinion as a third generation ham with over three decades of experience, what works with the smart people on the VHF/UHF/microwave bands should work with the glorified CBers on the HF bands, which in summary is do whatever the heck you want as long as its good engineering practice and stays within ham band edges (note this is a simplification, but basically correct). Yes I know this is the peak of this solar cycle but when 10M is closed and dead I see no reason my buddy and I shoudn't be able to use 200 KHz of wideband FM on 10M across the city if we please, because it certainly can't hurt anyone. Or do something weird on 160M during the day time in summer, why not? So the most rational bandplan is not this proposal, but is: Do whatever the F you want between 3.5 MHz and 4 MHz as long as it stays in band edges and follows all the other numerous "content and performance based" regulations (like no intentional interference, good engineering standards, content rules wrt obscenity (which is certainly ignored on 80 and to some extent on 20 aka the high tech redneck CB bands, so why can't we accept that we'll ignore bandwidth limits too?), emergency traffic gets priority, blah blah blah)
The other thing carefully not discussed, regardless if true or not, the widely held belief was Bonnie's plan from a decade ago, mentioned in this very proposal, was just the thin edge of the wedge to fill 20M from band edge to band edge with psuedo-commercial winlink traffic. There's two problems with this. The first is it doesn't seem to modify the unattended operation rules but then again its the thin edge, the next proposal will be expanding the unattended operation subbands to 3.5 to 4 MHz for example, etc. The second is, see #1 above, why should anyone care if the vast majority of hams wanted to use winlink, if so, then let them... its not the "SSB-preservation amateur radio service" or the "AM amateur radio service" or for that matter the "CW amateur radio service".
Well, this mostly accurate history lesson outta stir the pot some.
But then, who would want a fridge that lets your food go bad just because your internet connection failed?
A supermarket, obviously. So they'll hire some politicians to pass a law to make it illegal for any retailer except a supermarket to sell fridges... This is how America does business.
DeviantArt has a better business model than Instagram. Some lovely content there, too -- much of it available for sale, by content makers willing to work on commission.
Typical example,
http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Cover-276564815
If that doesn't go thru just google for "deviantart cthulhu seuss". If you can't guess, its the HP Lovecraft Call of Cthulhu retold in a Dr Seuss style "for beginning readers" as the cover states.
Pretty awesome by any measure. This in book form would make a pretty interesting /. book review...
There are some things turing machines can't compute, like solving the halting problem.
Zactly and the fastest way to test a halting type problem is to run it. So its possible to specify a program inside MtG that cannot be solved other than running it. So at least theoretically (however impractically) there exists uncountable strategies that can only be tested by running them... so there is no simple solution to finding an optimal strategy. A weak proof to be sure, but interesting.
could save more than $81 billion a year by adopting electronic health records
Needs a better reason. You'd pay anything for your health, right? And with the miracle of insurance you don't have to pay anything at all...
So why would patients or hospitals be even remotely interested in this?
Does Dell have a purpose other than being middlemen?
it could plummet if the buyout doesn't happen.
On a long term basis looking at the graph it drops in half semi-permanently each recession, so its about to plummet again anyway.
The question is why do a buyout now at current prices when you're sure to pay less in the future?
As for why go private, if you don't plan to ever expand / require capital ever again, you don't care about access to the stock market to raise capital, you've got to balance long term the costs of the buyout vs the permanent drain on finances of being a public stock, SOX compliance, the various fees, accounting expenses, last but not least idiotic demands from "the market" for exclusively short term (like the next quarter) profitability. I suppose the idea of Dell expanding is kind of unlikely in the near to medium term future. Maybe they have a chance for sales during the Y2036 problem in just 23 more years. Till then if the price drops in half every couple years at each recession...
It is hard to tell what the age group for this book is as children have such varied technical skills
Beyond that, language level? Gimme a sample? How bout a comparison? A kid who reads "Boys Life" (the boy scouting magazine) would find this simple or complicated? On your amazon affiliate link above, there are "customer images" from "jessica" that are JUST barely too far away for me to read it.
You know what would be cool, a comic book version of "the little schemer". Assuming that translates to comics well enough.