Actually some buses are. They have a GPS receiver and some kind of wireless uplink (probably cellular), so that riders can view a (near) real-time map on their phone/tablet/laptop/etc. and see when their ride is going to arrive. It's quite handy.
Even better, they could combine the "SS" with the new "Lightning" connector, and shape the S's like lightning bolts! Think about how cool would that be!... what?
You're welcome. This is what happens when an undergrad is stuck in the library for 2 hours with no meaningful homework because it's only the second week of classes.:(
B-but... it's a sphere? How? Where... does the roof? I... i'm so confused.... Shouldn't he also be the, uh, waller... and flooring guy...? My childhood... crumbling... Nnooooooooooooo!
By my count from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#2000s there were about 23 terrorism related deaths from 2000-2009, excluding 9/11 (which can be safely considered an outlier). That's 2.3 deaths/yr. If we do include 9/11, it's 302deaths/yr.
From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf (I know it's only one year, I don't have time to compile a decade of statistics - but removal of any single outlier statistic shouldn't impact the overall message) page 89+.
Things that have killed ~2-3 people a year include: -Measles (2) -Malaria (3) -Shigellosis (shingles) and amebiasis (4) -Scarlet fever and erysipelas (5)
Things that have killed ~300 people/yr or more: -Bronchitis and Bronchiolitis or other acute unspecified lower respirator infection (272) -Diseases of appendix (426) -Hyperplasia of prostate (446) -Tuberculosis (529) -Infections of kidney (604) -Bronchitis, chronic and unspecified (639) -Meningitis (649) -Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (6-weeks postnatal) (960) -Malnutrition (2,680)
Even if you play mad-scientist with the statistics and assume that there will be a 9/11 every single year (~3000 deaths), these still kill about as many or more people a year -Influenza (2,918) -Cholelithiasis and other disorders of gallbladder (3,300) -Asthma (3,388) -Accidental drowning and submersion (3,517) -Other and unspecified events of undetermined intent and their sequelae (4,773) -Atherosclerosis (7,377) -Viral hepatitis (7,694) -HIV disease (9,406)
Things that GP mentioned:
Obesity (no single statistic, but assume a fraction of the 600,000 death by cardiac diseases are from obesity)
Cancer (Malignant neoplasms - 567,628)
Car accident (Motor vehicle accident - 36,216)
Non-terrorism based plane crash (Water/air/space/unspecified accident - 1,782)
Somebody elses gun (Homicide by firearm - 11,493)
Their own gun (Accidental discharge of firearms - 554)
Alcohol (24,518)
Stress (again, no single stat - assume a portion of Hypertensive heart disease (high blood pressure) with 33,157 death/yr)
I couldn't find stats for Dogs/Cats, Lack of healthcare (too vague) or Peanuts (although I did read several times an approximate rate of 150-200 deaths/yr from food allergens, a significant portion of which are from peanuts).
I know you weren't disagreeing with GP, but there you go.
I'd be interested in hearing a working definition of religion that doesn't tread on territory already covered by a science or humanity, and that isn't entirely circular in nature.
Flamebait? Really? So it's ok to snicker at medicines and treatments which have no body of evidence to stand on and are rooted solely in mysticism and belief, but it's not ok to shine the same light on religion? I expected better of you,/.
Um, actually most airbags are designed to be used in conjunction with seat belts. An airbag without a seatbelt is worse than nothing at all, because without a seatbelt that soft pillow for your face becomes a 200mph punch to the skull.
The only Logitech peripheral I wasn't happy with was a webcam a few years back. I've had two keyboards, a handful of mice (I still miss my mx500/518s), two speaker sets, and a pair of headphones. They were all acceptable or better. My keyboard is almost 9 years old and still kicking - albeit minus a good bit of the labels and finish. And yes, it survived the dishwasher just fine.
"[Google] is believed to have angered Apple leaders by withholding the Street View and turn-by-turn navigation features. Its demands were for better branding within the app and incorporation of its Latitude service, which Apple was unwilling to integrate." (WSJ)
Sounds like Apple wanted to just buy the data and do their own thing with it. Google wanted an inside track. Apple refused. Doesn't really sound like either company was doing anything other than what would serve them best.
It's this. I went on Mapcrunch and jumped around urban CAN/USA random locations. I couldn't find a single shot in Canada that was older than 2009. They all looked great. Most of the USA ones looked just as good, with the exception of those images taken in 2008 or earlier. Those ones were obviously lower quality (especially scenes dated 2007).
NFC is very short range. Centimeters. The devices would have to touch or very nearly touch, although modified attack hardware (stronger antennas) would probably allow some leeway. NFC is enabled by default on the Galaxy Nexus and (I believe) the Nexus S. But it's trivial to disable (Settings -> More -> NFC) and AFAIK cannot be forced on unless you compromise the device via some other vector (at which point, you're already screwed). Furthermore, the article on Ars states that most of the exploits were for Gingerbread (2.3), some of which had been patched in ICS (4.0), and that it hadn't yet been tested against Jelly Bean (4.1).
My take on it is that most enthusiasts/power users won't have to worry about it, as they're the ones who seek out updates on their own, as well as being conscious of disabling things they aren't using (such as NFC) either for security or power concerns. But, as always, there will be plenty of clueless and gullible idiots ready to be taken advantage of.
Edison didn't invent the first incandescent light bulb. Ford didn't invent the automobile. The Wright brothers didn't even invent the first experimental aircraft, they were just the first to get the thing off the ground reliably. Jobs is not God, Apple is not good, and you sir are a terrible troll.
The mobile game world is an ocean of shit. Games are either crippled (sorry, "freemium") or just bad shovelware, and finding one that's neither is a futile exercise. When it comes to games my phone is basically a NES/SNES/GBA emulator now.
What's funny to me is that I once used Khan Academy to pass a (required) intro Stats course when my university prof turned out to be HORRIBLE. His accent was thicker than molasses, he couldn't actually answer a student's question when asked (he just repeated the same steps/examples), he didn't even have his own notes - he was working off of another prof's lessons! They might as well have put a parrot at the front of the room. I learned jack squat in class. So, I stopped going, and started digging into my textbook (helpful but tedious) and ripping through Khan's stuff (quick but not very in depth). KA was helpful for quickly learning the overarching concepts, where the text was better at dissecting specific problems. I doubt I would have had the patience to learn everything from the text; Khan was a lifesaver. I passed the course, rated the prof into the toilet on his faculty eval, sold the textbook, became a fan of Khan's stuff, and smashed my $4 statistics calculator with a hammer just for the satisfaction of finishing a terrible course.
You do know that android releases are named after desserts/treats in alphabetical order, right? Last release was I (ice cream sandwich), this was J (jelly bean), next is K (Key lime pie). I can't think of too many treats that aren't brand names and begin with J.
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Actually some buses are. They have a GPS receiver and some kind of wireless uplink (probably cellular), so that riders can view a (near) real-time map on their phone/tablet/laptop/etc. and see when their ride is going to arrive. It's quite handy.
Have you tried "I'm going to stab you in the EEPROM" ?
It worked for Frontalot...
kinda....
Even better, they could combine the "SS" with the new "Lightning" connector, and shape the S's like lightning bolts! Think about how cool would that be! ... what?
You're welcome. This is what happens when an undergrad is stuck in the library for 2 hours with no meaningful homework because it's only the second week of classes. :(
You're the roofer on the Death Star.
B-but... it's a sphere? How? Where... does the roof? I... i'm so confused.... Shouldn't he also be the, uh, waller... and flooring guy...? My childhood... crumbling... Nnooooooooooooo!
Oh well, at least I still have Clerks...
By my count from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#2000s there were about 23 terrorism related deaths from 2000-2009, excluding 9/11 (which can be safely considered an outlier). That's 2.3 deaths/yr. If we do include 9/11, it's 302deaths/yr.
From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf (I know it's only one year, I don't have time to compile a decade of statistics - but removal of any single outlier statistic shouldn't impact the overall message) page 89+.
Things that have killed ~2-3 people a year include:
-Measles (2)
-Malaria (3)
-Shigellosis (shingles) and amebiasis (4)
-Scarlet fever and erysipelas (5)
Things that have killed ~300 people/yr or more:
-Bronchitis and Bronchiolitis or other acute unspecified lower respirator infection (272)
-Diseases of appendix (426)
-Hyperplasia of prostate (446)
-Tuberculosis (529)
-Infections of kidney (604)
-Bronchitis, chronic and unspecified (639)
-Meningitis (649)
-Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (6-weeks postnatal) (960)
-Malnutrition (2,680)
Even if you play mad-scientist with the statistics and assume that there will be a 9/11 every single year (~3000 deaths), these still kill about as many or more people a year
-Influenza (2,918)
-Cholelithiasis and other disorders of gallbladder (3,300)
-Asthma (3,388)
-Accidental drowning and submersion (3,517)
-Other and unspecified events of undetermined intent and their sequelae (4,773)
-Atherosclerosis (7,377)
-Viral hepatitis (7,694)
-HIV disease (9,406)
Things that GP mentioned:
Obesity (no single statistic, but assume a fraction of the 600,000 death by cardiac diseases are from obesity)
Cancer (Malignant neoplasms - 567,628)
Car accident (Motor vehicle accident - 36,216)
Non-terrorism based plane crash (Water/air/space/unspecified accident - 1,782)
Somebody elses gun (Homicide by firearm - 11,493)
Their own gun (Accidental discharge of firearms - 554)
Alcohol (24,518)
Stress (again, no single stat - assume a portion of Hypertensive heart disease (high blood pressure) with 33,157 death/yr)
I couldn't find stats for Dogs/Cats, Lack of healthcare (too vague) or Peanuts (although I did read several times an approximate rate of 150-200 deaths/yr from food allergens, a significant portion of which are from peanuts).
I know you weren't disagreeing with GP, but there you go.
It's all named after (alphabetical) delicious treats, man. What's not to like? Oh, and just wait until the next major release - Key Lime Pie, mmm mmm!
I'd be interested in hearing a working definition of religion that doesn't tread on territory already covered by a science or humanity, and that isn't entirely circular in nature.
Flamebait? Really? So it's ok to snicker at medicines and treatments which have no body of evidence to stand on and are rooted solely in mysticism and belief, but it's not ok to shine the same light on religion? /.
I expected better of you,
Um, actually most airbags are designed to be used in conjunction with seat belts. An airbag without a seatbelt is worse than nothing at all, because without a seatbelt that soft pillow for your face becomes a 200mph punch to the skull.
The only Logitech peripheral I wasn't happy with was a webcam a few years back. I've had two keyboards, a handful of mice (I still miss my mx500/518s), two speaker sets, and a pair of headphones. They were all acceptable or better. My keyboard is almost 9 years old and still kicking - albeit minus a good bit of the labels and finish. And yes, it survived the dishwasher just fine.
It turns out that space is in metric. Who knew?
Yeah but they don't do it quite as much, on average.
Only when you're the one holding the keys to the garden...
2012 and we still can't punch people in the face over TCP/IP...
"[Google] is believed to have angered Apple leaders by withholding the Street View and turn-by-turn navigation features. Its demands were for better branding within the app and incorporation of its Latitude service, which Apple was unwilling to integrate." (WSJ)
Sounds like Apple wanted to just buy the data and do their own thing with it. Google wanted an inside track. Apple refused. Doesn't really sound like either company was doing anything other than what would serve them best.
It's this. I went on Mapcrunch and jumped around urban CAN/USA random locations. I couldn't find a single shot in Canada that was older than 2009. They all looked great. Most of the USA ones looked just as good, with the exception of those images taken in 2008 or earlier. Those ones were obviously lower quality (especially scenes dated 2007).
NFC is very short range. Centimeters. The devices would have to touch or very nearly touch, although modified attack hardware (stronger antennas) would probably allow some leeway.
NFC is enabled by default on the Galaxy Nexus and (I believe) the Nexus S. But it's trivial to disable (Settings -> More -> NFC) and AFAIK cannot be forced on unless you compromise the device via some other vector (at which point, you're already screwed).
Furthermore, the article on Ars states that most of the exploits were for Gingerbread (2.3), some of which had been patched in ICS (4.0), and that it hadn't yet been tested against Jelly Bean (4.1).
My take on it is that most enthusiasts/power users won't have to worry about it, as they're the ones who seek out updates on their own, as well as being conscious of disabling things they aren't using (such as NFC) either for security or power concerns. But, as always, there will be plenty of clueless and gullible idiots ready to be taken advantage of.
Edison didn't invent the first incandescent light bulb. Ford didn't invent the automobile. The Wright brothers didn't even invent the first experimental aircraft, they were just the first to get the thing off the ground reliably.
Jobs is not God, Apple is not good, and you sir are a terrible troll.
The mobile game world is an ocean of shit. Games are either crippled (sorry, "freemium") or just bad shovelware, and finding one that's neither is a futile exercise. When it comes to games my phone is basically a NES/SNES/GBA emulator now.
What's funny to me is that I once used Khan Academy to pass a (required) intro Stats course when my university prof turned out to be HORRIBLE. His accent was thicker than molasses, he couldn't actually answer a student's question when asked (he just repeated the same steps/examples), he didn't even have his own notes - he was working off of another prof's lessons! They might as well have put a parrot at the front of the room. I learned jack squat in class. So, I stopped going, and started digging into my textbook (helpful but tedious) and ripping through Khan's stuff (quick but not very in depth). KA was helpful for quickly learning the overarching concepts, where the text was better at dissecting specific problems. I doubt I would have had the patience to learn everything from the text; Khan was a lifesaver. I passed the course, rated the prof into the toilet on his faculty eval, sold the textbook, became a fan of Khan's stuff, and smashed my $4 statistics calculator with a hammer just for the satisfaction of finishing a terrible course.
Rumoured, anyways.
I don't even care if it ends up being good, it's guaranteed to be funny.
You do know that android releases are named after desserts/treats in alphabetical order, right? Last release was I (ice cream sandwich), this was J (jelly bean), next is K (Key lime pie). I can't think of too many treats that aren't brand names and begin with J.
We would do *nothing* else all day long except vote on issues we would barely understand.
Sounds like what most politicians already do.
Ah, but what if i'm carrying plastic keys AND a loaded D20? What will you do then?