I'm glad he was able to create something that he is pleased with and has brought happiness and pleasure to those around him. May we all be so fortunate.
So we're at the first step in the Apple Product Cycle? It's nice to see we're right on track.
As an aside, I think it makes lots of sense for Apple to produce a tablet product, but I can't imagine them actually producing 10,000,000 of these things for launch. First, it's a ridiculously high number, far exceeding the number of iPhones sold in a year and coming close to the number of all types of iPods combined.
Second, I doubt Apple would ever allow any of their new products to be overproduced. Artificial scarcity only adds to the perceived desirability of Apple products, driving the hype engine even more.
I'd recommend going straight to the company Cranberry is licensing from, Millenniata. It looks like you can purchase identical products for about 1/3 the price. Cranberry's got one heck of a mark-up.
Finland is very highly urbanized. Most of the population is clustered in the south of the country near Helsinki in a relatively small geographic area, while northern Finland is mostly empty. Population density is a poor metric for judging the amount of wireless infrastructure needed for such types of population distributions. See also: British Columbia.
Ugh, I see this idea brought out any time someone talks about comparing European and US population density statistics, and it's entirely misleading. It isn't population density that matters in this case, it's percent urbanization. If the population of a country is very highly concentrated in a few central areas, with large amounts of relatively uninhabited space, this will skew your population density and give a very false sense of what kinds of environments people live in. In short, your own argument is weakened by the use of an ill-fitting statistic. You're trying to convince us that Finland is very sparsely populated, which is simply not the case. It is highly urbanized with lots of empty space.
A perfect example of this is British Columbia. The total population of BC is 4.4 million or so, and the total land area of the province is 925,000 square kilometers. That gives a population density of 4.7 inhabitants/sq. km. By this metric, British Columbia is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world, on par with Montana or Wyoming in the United States. Of course, what this doesn't tell us is that nearly 50% of the entire population of BC lives in the Vancouver metropolitan area, with a land area of about 3000 sq. km. The typical British Columbian lives in a highly urban environment, not the middle of the tundra, as the population density implies. The same argument holds true for Finland, where nearly 1/3 of the total population of the country lives in around Helsinki, and for almost all the rest of Europe, where there is very little suburban-style living compared to the US.
Wireless infrastructure costs decrease dramatically as the population becomes more centralized because you simply don't need to build as many towers, and coverage extends farther because of the relatively flat geography of Finland (and most of western Europe, for that matter). Just slap one up in the middle of your quaint European village and you're good to go, complete with electricity and connectivity.
Contrast this with the costs of building a tower to effectively cover sprawling US suburbs or every 20 miles along a freeway in the middle of nowhere in the western United States and you'll see that a good deal of that price difference is indeed justified and not just a product of greedy and incompetent telecommunications companies.
I don't quite see how you came to this conclusion, especially given the text of this article. The authors were specifically looking at misconduct in research published in peer-reviewed journals. The vast majority of material published in these journals originates from universities, not industrial research and development.
I would suggest, in fact, that misconduct is probably at least as common if not more so in a university environment than in an industrial one. Tenure-track professors are under enormous pressure to publish and their research projects are operated in an essentially unsupervised environment. The graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who actually do the lab work are generally in no position to correct or even be aware of misconduct by a professor, and are also under the same kinds of pressure to produce results in order to succeed. Couple this with the fact that much research is esoteric and funding, time, and interest to reproduce others' results is nearly non-existent and you have an environment ripe for scientific misconduct.
In the very least, in industry, you're constrained by reality. If you say you can make a product and you can't, there is an economic penalty (and potential loss of employment) which encourages conservatism and honesty in research. In academics, a paper containing falsified data published in an obscure journal which no one reads is still a publication that you can add to your c.v. and really, who will ever notice?
I can't imagine Dick Cheney trying to ride on the coattails of GWB, so who will be the Republican candidate? And is the Democratic Party going to start grooming Hillary for a run like everyone was talking about a while ago? Is John Kerry going to go into seclusion and grow a beard? Lots of things to think about.
The Commandant to the graduating class of the military academy that Bart and Lisa joined:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
What about those of us with really big thumbs? My 64 MB drive is a lot closer to the size of my pinkie than my thumb, and if I get a Sandisk Cruzer Micro, it's more like the size of one of my knuckles. I personally prefer the generic "USB drive."
Seem to lean pretty far to the left. I would guess that most of the readers at Slashdot are younger and more tech savvy than the population at large, and that seems to have a strong correlation with left-leaning politics.
Perhaps the concepts behind Open Source software attract people with a certain political and social beliefs, although I must say I think OSS is great, but most people here would classify my politics as extremely far to the right.
In any case, many topics posted here eventually digress to political discussions, so having a place specifically for it sounds great to me.
Plus, the color scheme looks nice! My eyes need a break after that awful yellow theme that seems to have finally disappeared.
Hopefully they stay the course.
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China's need for energy in the future is going to be enormous, and I'd much rather see it produced by nuclear fission than by buring coal. No matter how bad you might think nuclear power is, buring coal is even worse.
The UW has also recently started construction of a new Genome Sciences Building that was funded in large part by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I've had version 1.6 running for several hours now and I haven't had any problems. v1.5 and Firebird would randomly lock up my system, but that probably has more to do with the OS than the browser. Hopefully this will be a permanent replacement for IE on my home computer.
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I'm glad he was able to create something that he is pleased with and has brought happiness and pleasure to those around him. May we all be so fortunate.
So we're at the first step in the Apple Product Cycle? It's nice to see we're right on track.
As an aside, I think it makes lots of sense for Apple to produce a tablet product, but I can't imagine them actually producing 10,000,000 of these things for launch.
First, it's a ridiculously high number, far exceeding the number of iPhones sold in a year and coming close to the number of all types of iPods combined.
Second, I doubt Apple would ever allow any of their new products to be overproduced. Artificial scarcity only adds to the perceived desirability of Apple products, driving the hype engine even more.
I'd recommend going straight to the company Cranberry is licensing from, Millenniata. It looks like you can purchase identical products for about 1/3 the price. Cranberry's got one heck of a mark-up.
Finland is very highly urbanized. Most of the population is clustered in the south of the country near Helsinki in a relatively small geographic area, while northern Finland is mostly empty. Population density is a poor metric for judging the amount of wireless infrastructure needed for such types of population distributions. See also: British Columbia.
Ugh, I see this idea brought out any time someone talks about comparing European and US population density statistics, and it's entirely misleading. It isn't population density that matters in this case, it's percent urbanization. If the population of a country is very highly concentrated in a few central areas, with large amounts of relatively uninhabited space, this will skew your population density and give a very false sense of what kinds of environments people live in. In short, your own argument is weakened by the use of an ill-fitting statistic. You're trying to convince us that Finland is very sparsely populated, which is simply not the case. It is highly urbanized with lots of empty space.
A perfect example of this is British Columbia. The total population of BC is 4.4 million or so, and the total land area of the province is 925,000 square kilometers. That gives a population density of 4.7 inhabitants/sq. km. By this metric, British Columbia is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world, on par with Montana or Wyoming in the United States. Of course, what this doesn't tell us is that nearly 50% of the entire population of BC lives in the Vancouver metropolitan area, with a land area of about 3000 sq. km. The typical British Columbian lives in a highly urban environment, not the middle of the tundra, as the population density implies. The same argument holds true for Finland, where nearly 1/3 of the total population of the country lives in around Helsinki, and for almost all the rest of Europe, where there is very little suburban-style living compared to the US.
Wireless infrastructure costs decrease dramatically as the population becomes more centralized because you simply don't need to build as many towers, and coverage extends farther because of the relatively flat geography of Finland (and most of western Europe, for that matter). Just slap one up in the middle of your quaint European village and you're good to go, complete with electricity and connectivity.
Contrast this with the costs of building a tower to effectively cover sprawling US suburbs or every 20 miles along a freeway in the middle of nowhere in the western United States and you'll see that a good deal of that price difference is indeed justified and not just a product of greedy and incompetent telecommunications companies.
I don't quite see how you came to this conclusion, especially given the text of this article. The authors were specifically looking at misconduct in research published in peer-reviewed journals. The vast majority of material published in these journals originates from universities, not industrial research and development.
I would suggest, in fact, that misconduct is probably at least as common if not more so in a university environment than in an industrial one. Tenure-track professors are under enormous pressure to publish and their research projects are operated in an essentially unsupervised environment. The graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who actually do the lab work are generally in no position to correct or even be aware of misconduct by a professor, and are also under the same kinds of pressure to produce results in order to succeed. Couple this with the fact that much research is esoteric and funding, time, and interest to reproduce others' results is nearly non-existent and you have an environment ripe for scientific misconduct.
In the very least, in industry, you're constrained by reality. If you say you can make a product and you can't, there is an economic penalty (and potential loss of employment) which encourages conservatism and honesty in research. In academics, a paper containing falsified data published in an obscure journal which no one reads is still a publication that you can add to your c.v. and really, who will ever notice?
I can't imagine Dick Cheney trying to ride on the coattails of GWB, so who will be the Republican candidate? And is the Democratic Party going to start grooming Hillary for a run like everyone was talking about a while ago? Is John Kerry going to go into seclusion and grow a beard? Lots of things to think about.
The Commandant to the graduating class of the military academy that Bart and Lisa joined:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
What about those of us with really big thumbs? My 64 MB drive is a lot closer to the size of my pinkie than my thumb, and if I get a Sandisk Cruzer Micro, it's more like the size of one of my knuckles. I personally prefer the generic "USB drive."
Seem to lean pretty far to the left. I would guess that most of the readers at Slashdot are younger and more tech savvy than the population at large, and that seems to have a strong correlation with left-leaning politics. Perhaps the concepts behind Open Source software attract people with a certain political and social beliefs, although I must say I think OSS is great, but most people here would classify my politics as extremely far to the right. In any case, many topics posted here eventually digress to political discussions, so having a place specifically for it sounds great to me. Plus, the color scheme looks nice! My eyes need a break after that awful yellow theme that seems to have finally disappeared.
China's need for energy in the future is going to be enormous, and I'd much rather see it produced by nuclear fission than by buring coal. No matter how bad you might think nuclear power is, buring coal is even worse.
Nope, looks like they are (or were) running Red Hat.
NOVA ran a show a few months ago about the development and deployment of unmanned military aircraft. They have some interesting items here.
In addition to the aforementioned William H. Gates Hall, the University of Washington also has:
- Mary Gates Hall
- The brand new Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering.
The UW has also recently started construction of a new Genome Sciences Building that was funded in large part by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I've had version 1.6 running for several hours now and I haven't had any problems. v1.5 and Firebird would randomly lock up my system, but that probably has more to do with the OS than the browser. Hopefully this will be a permanent replacement for IE on my home computer.