It's not about absolute brain size, it's "a link between the size of an animal's brain in relation to its body and how socially active it was". While elephants and whales have huge brains in absolute weight, they're relatively tiny when expressign the weight of their brains as a percentage of the overall body weight.
I know TFS gets that wrong at the start, but not at the end. You should at least try to read that far if you can't be botherd with RTFA:)
Indeed. And based on that pic, you can see (or not - no pun intended) why there wasn't a pic in the other write-ups. As the BBC article says:
At the moment, the set-up only works in controlled laboratory conditions and can get confused by complex scenes. "It looks like they are very far from handling regular scenes," said Prof Nayar. In everyday situations, he said, the system may compute "multiple solutions" for an image, largely because it relied on such small amounts of light and it was therefore difficult to extrapolate the exact path of the particle as it bounced around a room.
Yup, they do. It's quite convenient, actually - if you have a mobile phone, why invest extra money in an alarm clock? Mobile phone alarms go off even when the phone is switched off (at least I haven't found a phone for which this isn't true yet). Most phones allow you to schedule your alarms in a more comprehensive way than typical alarm clocks. I have a non-smart, very basic phone (Sony Ericsson w890i) and even on that, I can set multiple alarms and specify for each of them what day of the week they're allowed to go off. I basically never have to worry about (un)setting an alarm - it goes off like it should on weekdays and stays silent at weekends. I also like the fact that it makes my bedroom pitch black - no lights anywhere. Although I realise that completely dark alarm clocks also exist, of course.
So, to summarise - mobile phone alarms do everything a normal alarm clock does plus more and it all comes for free since you likely already have a mobile phone. Why have a normal alarm clock? The one argument I could see is that you want your phone switched off, yet your ability to know the time, even at night, intact. In that case, fair enough.
Really? Even if these captchas actually turn out easier to use than the current ones? I mean no more guesstimating which bit of what overlapping miscoloured squiggles belong to which potential letters (and is that a 1 or an l? O or 0?), just a quick message and an easily identifiable word within it.
Or, to rephrase the question: would you oppose the system if it wasn't about ads but just another innovation in captchas? Assuming, of course, that this innovation does actually make captchas less of a hassle. Just sayin' that this isn't necessarily bad and you might find that the benefits outweigh the agony of having to listen to an ad message (is that really so bad?).
Personally though, I don't think it's going to work, neither as an ad nor as a captcha. If it's based on videos with meaningful messages (ads!), the possibilities for remixing and regenerating random captchas is going to be severely limited. Which means it will take no time at all until someone has built a plugin that builds a database of these and simply looks up the correct answer in the background.
Someone 40 years ago probably would've imagined that they saw someone singing along to a transistor radio.
Or, you know, someone using one of those communicators like on that relatively recent Star Trek show...
Why does everyone go on about cellphones while that person's clearly just checking in with the mothership in orbit?
And why does it have to be a time traveller at all? Why not an alien disguising said communicator as one of those hearing aids that everyone thinks this is.
Not saying I actually believe that. Just saying the time traveler with cellphone idea doesn't really strike me as the most obvious scifi explanation here...
if you want to argue infinite repeating decimals, than yes, 0.9999... is approaching 1
First of all, yes, this is an infinitely repeating decimal and second, no it is not approaching 1, it is equal to 1. The proof is correct as are the others (1/9 = 0.111111..., multiply both sides by 9, simplify fraction on the left, 1 = 0.9999999..., (notice the =, no approaching done here) the end). Infinity has nothing to do in this argument (just because a number is infinitely long doesn't make anything about it moot - how would we deal with sqrt(2), pi, e, etc otherwise?)
You clearly have no clue about mathematics and misunderstand infinity. That's fine though. Life is a learning process and hopefully you learn something now. But the idiots who modded you informative should really have known better. Factually wrong statements are not informative and if you can't tell right from wrong, you shouldn't mod.
being knocked back uncontrollably by enemies (often into pits)
What, as opposed to being knocked very uncontrollably onto a health pack? Why would an enemy want to do that? Surely knocking you into pits or at least making sure you lose control is pretty high up on the enemy's to-do list, so while I agree with the rest of what you say, this is a strange criticism.
You should also add bad English to the list of things that make some games difficult. What were supposed to be helpful hints become mere cryptic messages. I'm looking at you, original Zelda. Then there were things that simply made no sense. Why could the blue candle only be lit once per screen, forcing you to exit and re-enter it until you've checked every damn bush (or several of them at once, but still) for something shiny? Things like that just made the game longer not by making it harder but simply by increasing the legwork you had to do. I think those were the things I hated most. Bad controls and so on, I could live with - eventually, you learned how to master them. You figured out what the actual collision detection was rather than what it should have been. You understood where a particular enemy would throw you and could use it to your advantage if the guy was really unavoidable. But spending 5 mins on burning bushes just cos the blue candle is rubbish? Please.
Anyways, I don't understand how Americans can drink that watered down [crap*] like Budweiser or Coors after tasting "real" beer like the Germans or Ale that the Bristish make...
I dunno, every time I've been to the States, things like Budweiser or Coors were suspiciously absent from my drinking experiences. On the other hand, there were a lot of microbrews, which, in all fairness, were pretty tasty and easily in the same league as British Ales. I'm not sure if there is a place in the US where Budweiser or Coors would be the main beer of choice, but my impression so far is that most people in the US have access to decent beers. We just don't get to see it in Europe.
Imagine what the perception of British beer would be if the major export was Carling...
So does everything else actually. The solar system, then the galaxy and eventually the Universe itself. So, sooner or later, humanity is going bye bye. I guess the question merely is which mass extinction event is going to be our ride out, and the challenge therefore to dodge as many as possible.
Because I live in Scandinavia and changing tires(summer/winter) is most certainly relevant to safe driving?
Sure, but why would a DVLA test be relevant to you if you live in Scandinavia? Conversely, why should the DVLA test for things that might be useful in Scandinavia? I agree that it's useful to know how to change tires (and it ain't exactly rocket science anyways). But "the British DVLA should test it because it saves me money in Norway" is not a good argument.
It's been done. I've seen lots of timers for both red and green lights in, e.g. Ankara, Turkey when I was there. Also, I saw it a few times in Spain, but for pedestrians only.
Car analogy failure.
It is illegal to drive a car without a spare tire, so the removal would actually affect every single person and not just a "small part of the userbase".
The last time I even saw a floppy disk was in 2001 in a computer lab at my University at that time. Actually, I didn't see a floppy disk itself, I saw a floppy disk vending machine, And I remember thinking "How quaint. Does anyone still use these? And want one badly enough to actually pay for it?"
Semi-related... are rewritable CDs still around? Haven't seen one of those in ages either....
NASA (via the Register says you're wrong. Well, not anymore, obviously, but the final position wasn't known and certainly not to a centimeter or better because (page 2 of the linked article):
laser ranging can't be used to pin the lost machine down on a Moon map: The uneven distribution of accurate control points causes the accuracy of the network to vary strongly with lunar position.
Ok, I do have to admit that this is the first time I heard about the filter... but how can they possibly square that with human rights? Especially this part:
Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I get that various dictatorships and so on around the globe might not care all that much about human rights, but New Zealand was still a democracy last time I checked?
I don't want to bring the mood down, but this is just a good summary of a bad article. The parliament did not vote against ACTA per se, they voted in favour of resolution RC-B7-0154/2010. Much better summary is the press release from the parliament itself.
In brief, they are mostly pissed off about the secrecy of the negotiations and lack of transparency. The resolution calls on the negotiations being made accessible to the public and the MEPs in a timely manner. So it's not against ACTA, it's against how negotiations are conducted. However, the resolution does also call out against the 3-strike rule and personal searches at EU borders. Regarding warrantless searches, they merely want a "clarification" of clauses that would allow such things.
This could be a great excuse though. 1. Pick up girl in bar 2. Take "home" to poshest, grandest, most expensive-looking villa/mansion in the city 3. "Awwww, sorry, honey, battery on my iKey's flat. How about we just go to your place and I'll show you my master bedroom tomorrow instead?" 4. ????? 5. Return to Mom's basement before she (mom or girl) wakes up.
please, do not be alarmed. You suffer from an interesting form of amnesia that makes you believe we are still living sometime in February 2010. You also thought that J Cameron's (not to be confused with the late 20th-century fictionfilmer J Cameron. This one is more like the factfilmer D Attenborough) documentary on our early days on Pandora was syfy. But that's ok.
The fact is, however, that these days, normal people run "stock" kernels provided by "distros". It works pretty well and we think Linux is almost "ready for the desktop" now. If only we could get multiple monitors to work....
While we're at it, I should also tell you that Ubuntu is no longer with us. They never really recovered from the unexpected Crappy Century bug after it's version numbers began to repeat in the early 2100s, turning almost all computers into a "Warty".
This may all come as a shock to you. But do not worry. The nature of your amnesia means that you will very soon - right about now in fact - have convinced yourself that this post was humorous in nature and not actually reflective of reality. Trust me, many wish they could live in your world. The end of the 20th/beginning of the 21st century was the highlight for the human race. In fact, many of us are currently working on a project - codename "Charging" - that would result in the creation of a VR set in this glorious era. Like "Second Life", only more immersive. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and figure out where we'll get the energy to power this VR from....
The point about Linus's machine having no coprocessor is actually true
Nineteen years ago or so, I also got my hands on my first PC, pretty much same specs but with the coprocessor. My programming achievements at the time were pretty much limited to batch files. Linus wrote an OS on smaller hardware. Kinda makes me feel like I wasn't really using the full potential available to me:)
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It's not about absolute brain size, it's "a link between the size of an animal's brain in relation to its body and how socially active it was". While elephants and whales have huge brains in absolute weight, they're relatively tiny when expressign the weight of their brains as a percentage of the overall body weight.
:)
I know TFS gets that wrong at the start, but not at the end. You should at least try to read that far if you can't be botherd with RTFA
Sorry, but your information is outdated. They are no longer with PRQ. Admittedly, that news is from only two days ago.
Indeed. And based on that pic, you can see (or not - no pun intended) why there wasn't a pic in the other write-ups. As the BBC article says:
Yup, they do. It's quite convenient, actually - if you have a mobile phone, why invest extra money in an alarm clock? Mobile phone alarms go off even when the phone is switched off (at least I haven't found a phone for which this isn't true yet). Most phones allow you to schedule your alarms in a more comprehensive way than typical alarm clocks. I have a non-smart, very basic phone (Sony Ericsson w890i) and even on that, I can set multiple alarms and specify for each of them what day of the week they're allowed to go off. I basically never have to worry about (un)setting an alarm - it goes off like it should on weekdays and stays silent at weekends. I also like the fact that it makes my bedroom pitch black - no lights anywhere. Although I realise that completely dark alarm clocks also exist, of course.
So, to summarise - mobile phone alarms do everything a normal alarm clock does plus more and it all comes for free since you likely already have a mobile phone. Why have a normal alarm clock? The one argument I could see is that you want your phone switched off, yet your ability to know the time, even at night, intact. In that case, fair enough.
Really? Even if these captchas actually turn out easier to use than the current ones? I mean no more guesstimating which bit of what overlapping miscoloured squiggles belong to which potential letters (and is that a 1 or an l? O or 0?), just a quick message and an easily identifiable word within it.
Or, to rephrase the question: would you oppose the system if it wasn't about ads but just another innovation in captchas? Assuming, of course, that this innovation does actually make captchas less of a hassle. Just sayin' that this isn't necessarily bad and you might find that the benefits outweigh the agony of having to listen to an ad message (is that really so bad?).
Personally though, I don't think it's going to work, neither as an ad nor as a captcha. If it's based on videos with meaningful messages (ads!), the possibilities for remixing and regenerating random captchas is going to be severely limited. Which means it will take no time at all until someone has built a plugin that builds a database of these and simply looks up the correct answer in the background.
Or, you know, someone using one of those communicators like on that relatively recent Star Trek show...
Why does everyone go on about cellphones while that person's clearly just checking in with the mothership in orbit?
And why does it have to be a time traveller at all? Why not an alien disguising said communicator as one of those hearing aids that everyone thinks this is.
Not saying I actually believe that. Just saying the time traveler with cellphone idea doesn't really strike me as the most obvious scifi explanation here...
First of all, yes, this is an infinitely repeating decimal and second, no it is not approaching 1, it is equal to 1. The proof is correct as are the others (1/9 = 0.111111..., multiply both sides by 9, simplify fraction on the left, 1 = 0.9999999..., (notice the =, no approaching done here) the end). Infinity has nothing to do in this argument (just because a number is infinitely long doesn't make anything about it moot - how would we deal with sqrt(2), pi, e, etc otherwise?)
You clearly have no clue about mathematics and misunderstand infinity. That's fine though. Life is a learning process and hopefully you learn something now. But the idiots who modded you informative should really have known better. Factually wrong statements are not informative and if you can't tell right from wrong, you shouldn't mod.
What, as opposed to being knocked very uncontrollably onto a health pack? Why would an enemy want to do that? Surely knocking you into pits or at least making sure you lose control is pretty high up on the enemy's to-do list, so while I agree with the rest of what you say, this is a strange criticism.
You should also add bad English to the list of things that make some games difficult. What were supposed to be helpful hints become mere cryptic messages. I'm looking at you, original Zelda.
Then there were things that simply made no sense. Why could the blue candle only be lit once per screen, forcing you to exit and re-enter it until you've checked every damn bush (or several of them at once, but still) for something shiny? Things like that just made the game longer not by making it harder but simply by increasing the legwork you had to do. I think those were the things I hated most. Bad controls and so on, I could live with - eventually, you learned how to master them. You figured out what the actual collision detection was rather than what it should have been. You understood where a particular enemy would throw you and could use it to your advantage if the guy was really unavoidable. But spending 5 mins on burning bushes just cos the blue candle is rubbish? Please.
I dunno, every time I've been to the States, things like Budweiser or Coors were suspiciously absent from my drinking experiences. On the other hand, there were a lot of microbrews, which, in all fairness, were pretty tasty and easily in the same league as British Ales. I'm not sure if there is a place in the US where Budweiser or Coors would be the main beer of choice, but my impression so far is that most people in the US have access to decent beers. We just don't get to see it in Europe.
Imagine what the perception of British beer would be if the major export was Carling...
So does everything else actually. The solar system, then the galaxy and eventually the Universe itself. So, sooner or later, humanity is going bye bye. I guess the question merely is which mass extinction event is going to be our ride out, and the challenge therefore to dodge as many as possible.
Sure, but why would a DVLA test be relevant to you if you live in Scandinavia? Conversely, why should the DVLA test for things that might be useful in Scandinavia? I agree that it's useful to know how to change tires (and it ain't exactly rocket science anyways). But "the British DVLA should test it because it saves me money in Norway" is not a good argument.
It's been done. I've seen lots of timers for both red and green lights in, e.g. Ankara, Turkey when I was there. Also, I saw it a few times in Spain, but for pedestrians only.
Just don't buy an iDevice then. Nobody is forcing you.
Car analogy failure. It is illegal to drive a car without a spare tire, so the removal would actually affect every single person and not just a "small part of the userbase".
The last time I even saw a floppy disk was in 2001 in a computer lab at my University at that time. Actually, I didn't see a floppy disk itself, I saw a floppy disk vending machine, And I remember thinking "How quaint. Does anyone still use these? And want one badly enough to actually pay for it?"
Semi-related... are rewritable CDs still around? Haven't seen one of those in ages either....
Ah, but now there is an obligatory xkcd for it. Surely this counts as re-posting a story due to recent changes in circumstances? ;)
NASA (via the Register says you're wrong. Well, not anymore, obviously, but the final position wasn't known and certainly not to a centimeter or better because (page 2 of the linked article):
Ok, I do have to admit that this is the first time I heard about the filter... but how can they possibly square that with human rights? Especially this part:
I get that various dictatorships and so on around the globe might not care all that much about human rights, but New Zealand was still a democracy last time I checked?
I don't want to bring the mood down, but this is just a good summary of a bad article. The parliament did not vote against ACTA per se, they voted in favour of resolution RC-B7-0154/2010. Much better summary is the press release from the parliament itself.
In brief, they are mostly pissed off about the secrecy of the negotiations and lack of transparency. The resolution calls on the negotiations being made accessible to the public and the MEPs in a timely manner. So it's not against ACTA, it's against how negotiations are conducted. However, the resolution does also call out against the 3-strike rule and personal searches at EU borders. Regarding warrantless searches, they merely want a "clarification" of clauses that would allow such things.
This could be a great excuse though.
1. Pick up girl in bar
2. Take "home" to poshest, grandest, most expensive-looking villa/mansion in the city
3. "Awwww, sorry, honey, battery on my iKey's flat. How about we just go to your place and I'll show you my master bedroom tomorrow instead?"
4. ?????
5. Return to Mom's basement before she (mom or girl) wakes up.
Hasn't it been like 25 years since the last Frenchman (Hinault) won the Tour De France?
Ok, I'll do it.
Dear Hurricane78,
please, do not be alarmed. You suffer from an interesting form of amnesia that makes you believe we are still living sometime in February 2010. You also thought that J Cameron's (not to be confused with the late 20th-century fictionfilmer J Cameron. This one is more like the factfilmer D Attenborough) documentary on our early days on Pandora was syfy. But that's ok.
The fact is, however, that these days, normal people run "stock" kernels provided by "distros". It works pretty well and we think Linux is almost "ready for the desktop" now. If only we could get multiple monitors to work....
While we're at it, I should also tell you that Ubuntu is no longer with us. They never really recovered from the unexpected Crappy Century bug after it's version numbers began to repeat in the early 2100s, turning almost all computers into a "Warty".
This may all come as a shock to you. But do not worry. The nature of your amnesia means that you will very soon - right about now in fact - have convinced yourself that this post was humorous in nature and not actually reflective of reality. Trust me, many wish they could live in your world. The end of the 20th/beginning of the 21st century was the highlight for the human race. In fact, many of us are currently working on a project - codename "Charging" - that would result in the creation of a VR set in this glorious era. Like "Second Life", only more immersive. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and figure out where we'll get the energy to power this VR from....
Kinda quoted the wrong bit there :)
So just to address the VPN point too - it will once it's jailbroken.
Microsoft Exchange is supported on the iPad Nano (formerly known as iPod Touch), so I don't see why it shouldn't be supported on the big brother.
Nineteen years ago or so, I also got my hands on my first PC, pretty much same specs but with the coprocessor. My programming achievements at the time were pretty much limited to batch files. Linus wrote an OS on smaller hardware. Kinda makes me feel like I wasn't really using the full potential available to me :)
Of course, I was 10 years younger at the time :)