It was plugged into the mains, however I haven't ever noticed such a problem with that (10 year old Dell) laptop. And, well we do touch it all the time that it is plugged in (i.e. when typing). Anyway, still can't explain that shock. I would have actually just forgotten about it (unless my wife would remind me with "keep that iphone away" etc), but it was only 2 days later that the lady getting killed was on the news, and I started wondering what would have happened if it wasn't on the 5V USB... But still, since I am not an electronics guy I am wondering. Say you get a crappy charger/cable whatever and it sends a surge up the wrong pin. How would that go to the phone housing, isn't that something that shouldn't happen?
What are you talking about? It was an iPhone charging on a USB port of a laptop. No charger involved, just the 5V USB, which is why I consider my case weirder.
I'd also like to know that. I have an old iPhone 3GS that I use sometimes for Skype and my wife picked it up while it was charging through the USB port of a laptop and she received a generous shock! She has vowed to not go near any iphone ever again! So I was wondering if it was the cable (can't be sure if it is original or 3rd party, I have both and they look kind of similar) or something else. I mean, even if it is the cable, shouldn't the connector and iphone in general be designed in a way that it cannot shock you (without getting damaged itself)? Most of my devices have a micro-usb port and I never had a problem with cheap 3rd party usb cables...
What are the odds of getting six white people on a jury?
For a state with 16% black population, there is a 35% chance of getting six non-black people on a jury.
What are the odds of tossing heads six times in a row?
Not sure of the relevance. The probability is of course 1/64 (1.6%). Perhaps when you finish high school you will have learned some basic probability so you won't be amazed at such events.
Eh, you are comparing man-rated (multiple times the cost, built specifically for 100% reliability) with cargo-only rockets (built for price/performance, where price actually includes failures). There is simply no comparison. For Proton to still be in use it is obviously reliable enough that its cost including insurance for cargo is competitive. The space shuttle on the other had a much larger than acceptable failure rate. Hey, get in this "bus", there is only 1.5% chance you will blow up! Way, way too much and all because of politics basically, it was not really an engineering choice to make the boosters far away and move them disassembled or to fly in temperatures dangerous for the O-rings etc.
Exactly. I worked for 4 years with an H1b. I was in NYC and there was no way to go for a green card in any sort of logical time frame (the solutions proposed were either marry or move to somewhere like Maine). What's worse, my wife was finishing her degree and she would also have to get her own H1b sponsorship, since H1b does not allow your dependents to work, with all the trouble that H1b applications entail (considerable). So, instead of drawing talent, H1bs end up only used for entry-level positions. Not to brag, but if you are very talented like myself, you will probably get pissed at how the US immigration system is treating you (waiting long lines every time at the airport, dependents not allowed to work, difficulty changing job etc). So, one day I told my boss that I'm going back to Europe and he was very pleased that I accepted to work remotely. And I left one more H1b available for those want to train their call center guys;)
First of all, you should try DoubleCommand. It helped me with changing key behavior across the OS. Secondly, when creating an account with iTunes, there is an option for Payment method "none". Apart from that I agree almost completely with your list. Well I guess I could add some things: *Windows* - I have 3 monitors and multiple app windows open at the same time. My workflow requires me to click (or right click) on one window, then to the other etc. On all other window managers I use, this is easily done. For OS X, if I have one application "active", then I have to left click on the window of another app to "activate" it, then I can click or right click in that application. To me, this is "1995 called and asked for their window manager" bad and it is significantly impacting my productivity. - Dock. Crap. I have even noticed that it sometimes gets the "program is running" highlight wrong! It doesn't do much else. How about giving us something like a taskbar - no, expose is not always useful to locate an application window when you have multiple applications over many monitors. Also I am having trouble finding the window I am looking for if I have multiple windows open for an application (expose sort of stacks them) - all that space taken by the dock could be used to help perhaps something like that. *Multiple monitors" - Sometimes I need to move applications from one monitor to the other (especially if I am sending the 3rd monitor output to the room next door with the projector and an application starts there instead of on a monitor in front of me). For windows there is a keyboard shortcut. OS X had something possibly better, spaces. They took it out in Mountain lion (because of course you don't need multi-monitor functionality when we are trying to migrate you to an ipad?) so now I have to pay for it. *Keyboard / Mouse* - I have the wireless keyboard, so I have different issues than you. In fact I envy you. You have 2 "delete" keys? I don't even have ONE! So, for the wireless keyboard they got rid of Insert, Home, End, Pg up/down and also Delete! At least, unlike yours, mine has "alt". - Reversing the mouse scroll wheel direction - brilliant! (not) *USB/CD/DVD transfer rate* - Whenever I try to transfer files from/to my thumb-drives (pretty expensive ones too, different brands) on my Mac Pro, I get speeds less than 1MB/sec. If I fire up a Win XP VM right there, I can transfer through it (to/from the same Mac filesystem) dozens of MB/s. Reproducible every time, hasn't seen any difference since Lion. Similar but less pronounced is my experience with CD/DVD transfers. On the same machine I can read CD/DVD data at least 2x faster through windows. How? Why? It does not make any sense!
Don't worry, this time it will be ok, just don't put in charge anyone from the military or any polititian. Choose someone simple and well known, e.g. a TV personality like Jenny McCarthy!
The employee's card being charged doesn't make my pillow look good either.
It says that SF held the project hostage, they demanded that payment right then and there and My Pillow tried to cut them a check but they refused. Apparently their corporate card had less than $125k limit and the employee was happy to make a couple thousand dollars or so in rewards.
If it is true that SF missed the deadlines twice and yet charged also twice the original estimate, I can't see how they could be suing for "damages"...
If you saw some random episodes, then there was really not much chance to like it. That is one of the reasons the show did not pick up more viewers during its run (along with the fact that its schedule was not consistent of course). The series is pretty self-referential as it goes on, so some of the best jokes cannot be appreciated. Also, its strength is that there is a design, things don't just happen at random. For example a certain Korean character sort of stops appearing on some episode and is not mentioned for quite a while. Many episodes later you find out the reason. Also, the characters are so extreme that for the first few episodes you can't easily "feel" them (or for them) which sort of kills it. I started watching the show because a friend of mine (Seinfeld fan) told me it was great. For the first couple of episodes I was really unimpressed and it was mostly for the aforementioned reason. But I watched another, then another and got hooked. I now yell at my friend when he tries to compare the best American comedy series (Arrested Development) with stuff like Seinfeld. But of course it is a comedy and humor is highly subjective. And I am also very subjective when I tell you that if you don't like it (after watching at least the first 3-4 episodes) you are probably a humorless idiot. Or you might need to see an analrapist.
In our algorithms lab there were programs that would gain more than 2x when compiled for 64 bit. A more "real-world" example is when I started in 2005 at my current company. The engineers had 6-month old P4s @ 3.2 or 3.4GHz, running 32bit linux. For a project they used VisualStudio on VMWare and it took over a minute to compile the project. The company allowed engineers to choose their hardware, so I built an Athlon 64 @ 2.2 or 2.4GHz and I had it run 64bit SuSE. I remember the shock and awe from the first time I tried to compile the project under VMWare - a little more than 10 secs - the engineer next to me had his jaw drop. Of course most of the engineers immediately requested to switch to 64bit machines. I am not sure why it made such a difference in that application - perhaps the 16 general purpose registers come in really handy in this scenario? Of course it didn't help that the P4 was slower in everything (funny how at the time very few reviews really clarified this), but not order of magnitude slower...
It's not even that. I bet the numbers called were all premium-rate telephone numbers and that is how the hijacker makes his money. By calling them you will give them more of your money.
Ehm, remember that the "Americans" you refer to are descendants of people from all over the world who came to the US to make a life for themselves. Your solution is the opposite of what is required. Instead of trying to exclude talented foreigners so that they won't compete with "Americans", why don't you instead give the good ones an incentive to stay? E.g. give them a visa that does not make their spouse ineligible for work. Set up an easier process for those who have MS/PhD from good US universities - you provided them the best education in the world (for many disciplines), why not try to hang on to them? My company was looking for a software engineer in NY. Trust me, there are no US software engineers left unemployed that are worth anything - actually even incompetent ones were usually not without a job.
Call me ignorant. but can someone explain why we have more than a post per week either about or mentioning Wayland for the last couple of months? Is it really that interesting for the average/. user to hear about every feature added to Wayland or every project/company whatever that supports or does not support Wayland in some way? Or is it just one of those strange obsessions of the/. editors? I understand it is an important project, supposed to be the successor to X11 etc so it has more interest to geeks than, say, bitcoins, but is it really that interesting?
I don't see how plugged-in laptop batteries dieing has anything to do with a memory effect. Lithium-Ion batteries when stored lose capacity depending on how much they are charged and how high the temperature is. At the relatively high temperatures of a laptop and kept at near 100% charge they can lose as much as 40% capacity per year. This is a known fact and has nothing to do with what is called memory-effect. The summary talks about a specific (and not widely used as I understand it) kind of Lithium battery which has a memory effect (in addition I assume to the effect I described that kills Li-Ion batteries). If you want to make sure your Li-Ion batteries won't go bad, when you don't use charge (or discharge) them to 40% capacity and put them far from heat.
I'm not sure why you would say this. It is true that you could not have a power network with ONLY solar power without any sort of energy storage, however the big advantage of solar power is that the production is high when it is required - i.e. during the day. So power companies can take advantage of that and increase their output during peak hours using solar PV energy.
When solar was more expensive than nuclear there was a reason you would go for nuclear, but now solar has an advantage in most latitudes. Yes, it requires a large area for production, but it can just go over existing structures etc.
Offtopic but: why complain about the Chinese subsidies that make non-Chinese panels uncompetitive? Just BUY those cheap Chinese panels and have cheap power!
The H1-b program is supposed to attract highly skilled workers. Instead it is used for lowering the cost of workers or for outsourcing firms to train some of their foreign workers to, well, improve their outsourcing offerings. It is rather simple to improve it. First of all, allow their dependents to work. A good highly skilled professional that won't have a hard time finding a job in the country of his choosing won't elect to go to a country where he has to go through all these hoops and end up a 2nd class citizen with a spouse that is not allowed to work unless they go through the same lengthy (you apply on the April window to get a visa on October) and expensive process. Secondly, limit the apps per company based on something like white US/H1-b worker ratio they already have. I don't know if this has changed recently, but I remember up to a few years ago some big outsourcing companies were snagging all the positions. Thirdly, prioritize the applications based on qualifications. Accept first the ones who have a graduate degree from an accredited US university, followed by the ones with a US undergrad degree. The US is far ahead in education in many fields. Try to get foreigners who take advantage of it to stay.
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It was plugged into the mains, however I haven't ever noticed such a problem with that (10 year old Dell) laptop. And, well we do touch it all the time that it is plugged in (i.e. when typing). Anyway, still can't explain that shock. I would have actually just forgotten about it (unless my wife would remind me with "keep that iphone away" etc), but it was only 2 days later that the lady getting killed was on the news, and I started wondering what would have happened if it wasn't on the 5V USB...
But still, since I am not an electronics guy I am wondering. Say you get a crappy charger/cable whatever and it sends a surge up the wrong pin. How would that go to the phone housing, isn't that something that shouldn't happen?
What are you talking about? It was an iPhone charging on a USB port of a laptop. No charger involved, just the 5V USB, which is why I consider my case weirder.
I'd also like to know that. I have an old iPhone 3GS that I use sometimes for Skype and my wife picked it up while it was charging through the USB port of a laptop and she received a generous shock! She has vowed to not go near any iphone ever again! So I was wondering if it was the cable (can't be sure if it is original or 3rd party, I have both and they look kind of similar) or something else. I mean, even if it is the cable, shouldn't the connector and iphone in general be designed in a way that it cannot shock you (without getting damaged itself)? Most of my devices have a micro-usb port and I never had a problem with cheap 3rd party usb cables...
What are the odds of getting six white people on a jury?
For a state with 16% black population, there is a 35% chance of getting six non-black people on a jury.
What are the odds of tossing heads six times in a row?
Not sure of the relevance. The probability is of course 1/64 (1.6%). Perhaps when you finish high school you will have learned some basic probability so you won't be amazed at such events.
Eh, you are comparing man-rated (multiple times the cost, built specifically for 100% reliability) with cargo-only rockets (built for price/performance, where price actually includes failures).
There is simply no comparison. For Proton to still be in use it is obviously reliable enough that its cost including insurance for cargo is competitive. The space shuttle on the other had a much larger than acceptable failure rate.
Hey, get in this "bus", there is only 1.5% chance you will blow up!
Way, way too much and all because of politics basically, it was not really an engineering choice to make the boosters far away and move them disassembled or to fly in temperatures dangerous for the O-rings etc.
Exactly. I worked for 4 years with an H1b. I was in NYC and there was no way to go for a green card in any sort of logical time frame (the solutions proposed were either marry or move to somewhere like Maine). What's worse, my wife was finishing her degree and she would also have to get her own H1b sponsorship, since H1b does not allow your dependents to work, with all the trouble that H1b applications entail (considerable). So, instead of drawing talent, H1bs end up only used for entry-level positions. ;)
Not to brag, but if you are very talented like myself, you will probably get pissed at how the US immigration system is treating you (waiting long lines every time at the airport, dependents not allowed to work, difficulty changing job etc). So, one day I told my boss that I'm going back to Europe and he was very pleased that I accepted to work remotely. And I left one more H1b available for those want to train their call center guys
Yes, we^H^HEcuador received an asylum request from Snowden a few hours ago.
A. Not your concern.
B. At least as long as it gets Slashdot topics.
Well, I'd probably trust Manning even less.
First of all, you should try DoubleCommand. It helped me with changing key behavior across the OS.
Secondly, when creating an account with iTunes, there is an option for Payment method "none".
Apart from that I agree almost completely with your list. Well I guess I could add some things:
*Windows*
- I have 3 monitors and multiple app windows open at the same time. My workflow requires me to click (or right click) on one window, then to the other etc. On all other window managers I use, this is easily done. For OS X, if I have one application "active", then I have to left click on the window of another app to "activate" it, then I can click or right click in that application. To me, this is "1995 called and asked for their window manager" bad and it is significantly impacting my productivity.
- Dock. Crap. I have even noticed that it sometimes gets the "program is running" highlight wrong! It doesn't do much else. How about giving us something like a taskbar - no, expose is not always useful to locate an application window when you have multiple applications over many monitors. Also I am having trouble finding the window I am looking for if I have multiple windows open for an application (expose sort of stacks them) - all that space taken by the dock could be used to help perhaps something like that.
*Multiple monitors"
- Sometimes I need to move applications from one monitor to the other (especially if I am sending the 3rd monitor output to the room next door with the projector and an application starts there instead of on a monitor in front of me). For windows there is a keyboard shortcut. OS X had something possibly better, spaces. They took it out in Mountain lion (because of course you don't need multi-monitor functionality when we are trying to migrate you to an ipad?) so now I have to pay for it.
*Keyboard / Mouse*
- I have the wireless keyboard, so I have different issues than you. In fact I envy you. You have 2 "delete" keys? I don't even have ONE! So, for the wireless keyboard they got rid of Insert, Home, End, Pg up/down and also Delete! At least, unlike yours, mine has "alt".
- Reversing the mouse scroll wheel direction - brilliant! (not)
*USB/CD/DVD transfer rate*
- Whenever I try to transfer files from/to my thumb-drives (pretty expensive ones too, different brands) on my Mac Pro, I get speeds less than 1MB/sec. If I fire up a Win XP VM right there, I can transfer through it (to/from the same Mac filesystem) dozens of MB/s. Reproducible every time, hasn't seen any difference since Lion. Similar but less pronounced is my experience with CD/DVD transfers. On the same machine I can read CD/DVD data at least 2x faster through windows. How? Why? It does not make any sense!
Don't worry, this time it will be ok, just don't put in charge anyone from the military or any polititian. Choose someone simple and well known, e.g. a TV personality like Jenny McCarthy!
The employee's card being charged doesn't make my pillow look good either.
It says that SF held the project hostage, they demanded that payment right then and there and My Pillow tried to cut them a check but they refused. Apparently their corporate card had less than $125k limit and the employee was happy to make a couple thousand dollars or so in rewards.
If it is true that SF missed the deadlines twice and yet charged also twice the original estimate, I can't see how they could be suing for "damages"...
If you saw some random episodes, then there was really not much chance to like it. That is one of the reasons the show did not pick up more viewers during its run (along with the fact that its schedule was not consistent of course).
The series is pretty self-referential as it goes on, so some of the best jokes cannot be appreciated. Also, its strength is that there is a design, things don't just happen at random. For example a certain Korean character sort of stops appearing on some episode and is not mentioned for quite a while. Many episodes later you find out the reason.
Also, the characters are so extreme that for the first few episodes you can't easily "feel" them (or for them) which sort of kills it. I started watching the show because a friend of mine (Seinfeld fan) told me it was great. For the first couple of episodes I was really unimpressed and it was mostly for the aforementioned reason. But I watched another, then another and got hooked. I now yell at my friend when he tries to compare the best American comedy series (Arrested Development) with stuff like Seinfeld.
But of course it is a comedy and humor is highly subjective. And I am also very subjective when I tell you that if you don't like it (after watching at least the first 3-4 episodes) you are probably a humorless idiot. Or you might need to see an analrapist.
This was in 2005, a year before the first AMD-V CPU.
In our algorithms lab there were programs that would gain more than 2x when compiled for 64 bit.
A more "real-world" example is when I started in 2005 at my current company. The engineers had 6-month old P4s @ 3.2 or 3.4GHz, running 32bit linux. For a project they used VisualStudio on VMWare and it took over a minute to compile the project. The company allowed engineers to choose their hardware, so I built an Athlon 64 @ 2.2 or 2.4GHz and I had it run 64bit SuSE. I remember the shock and awe from the first time I tried to compile the project under VMWare - a little more than 10 secs - the engineer next to me had his jaw drop. Of course most of the engineers immediately requested to switch to 64bit machines. I am not sure why it made such a difference in that application - perhaps the 16 general purpose registers come in really handy in this scenario? Of course it didn't help that the P4 was slower in everything (funny how at the time very few reviews really clarified this), but not order of magnitude slower...
It's not even that. I bet the numbers called were all premium-rate telephone numbers and that is how the hijacker makes his money. By calling them you will give them more of your money.
You remember the joke...
Bush and Powell were sitting in a bar. A guy walked in and asked the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Powell?"
The barman said, "Yep, that's them."
So the guy walked over and said, "Hello. What are you guys doing?"
Bush said, "We're planning World War III."
The guy asked, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Bush said, "Well, we're going to kill 10 million Iraqis and one bicycle repairman."
The guy exclaimed, "Why are you gonna kill a bicycle repairman?!"
Bush turned to Powell and said, "See, I told you no one would worry about the 10 million Iraqis!"
Ehm, remember that the "Americans" you refer to are descendants of people from all over the world who came to the US to make a life for themselves. Your solution is the opposite of what is required. Instead of trying to exclude talented foreigners so that they won't compete with "Americans", why don't you instead give the good ones an incentive to stay? E.g. give them a visa that does not make their spouse ineligible for work. Set up an easier process for those who have MS/PhD from good US universities - you provided them the best education in the world (for many disciplines), why not try to hang on to them?
My company was looking for a software engineer in NY. Trust me, there are no US software engineers left unemployed that are worth anything - actually even incompetent ones were usually not without a job.
Of course, we could just start arbitrarily ignoring projects and other things that Ecuador doesn't like.
Yes, please, can we go back to Assange and how Ecuador offered him asylum?
Call me ignorant. but can someone explain why we have more than a post per week either about or mentioning Wayland for the last couple of months? Is it really that interesting for the average /. user to hear about every feature added to Wayland or every project/company whatever that supports or does not support Wayland in some way? Or is it just one of those strange obsessions of the /. editors?
I understand it is an important project, supposed to be the successor to X11 etc so it has more interest to geeks than, say, bitcoins, but is it really that interesting?
I don't see how plugged-in laptop batteries dieing has anything to do with a memory effect. Lithium-Ion batteries when stored lose capacity depending on how much they are charged and how high the temperature is. At the relatively high temperatures of a laptop and kept at near 100% charge they can lose as much as 40% capacity per year. This is a known fact and has nothing to do with what is called memory-effect. The summary talks about a specific (and not widely used as I understand it) kind of Lithium battery which has a memory effect (in addition I assume to the effect I described that kills Li-Ion batteries).
If you want to make sure your Li-Ion batteries won't go bad, when you don't use charge (or discharge) them to 40% capacity and put them far from heat.
I'm not sure why you would say this. It is true that you could not have a power network with ONLY solar power without any sort of energy storage, however the big advantage of solar power is that the production is high when it is required - i.e. during the day. So power companies can take advantage of that and increase their output during peak hours using solar PV energy.
When solar was more expensive than nuclear there was a reason you would go for nuclear, but now solar has an advantage in most latitudes. Yes, it requires a large area for production, but it can just go over existing structures etc.
Offtopic but: why complain about the Chinese subsidies that make non-Chinese panels uncompetitive? Just BUY those cheap Chinese panels and have cheap power!
Ok, I have no idea how that "white" before "US/H1-b" got there.
The H1-b program is supposed to attract highly skilled workers. Instead it is used for lowering the cost of workers or for outsourcing firms to train some of their foreign workers to, well, improve their outsourcing offerings.
It is rather simple to improve it.
First of all, allow their dependents to work. A good highly skilled professional that won't have a hard time finding a job in the country of his choosing won't elect to go to a country where he has to go through all these hoops and end up a 2nd class citizen with a spouse that is not allowed to work unless they go through the same lengthy (you apply on the April window to get a visa on October) and expensive process.
Secondly, limit the apps per company based on something like white US/H1-b worker ratio they already have. I don't know if this has changed recently, but I remember up to a few years ago some big outsourcing companies were snagging all the positions.
Thirdly, prioritize the applications based on qualifications. Accept first the ones who have a graduate degree from an accredited US university, followed by the ones with a US undergrad degree. The US is far ahead in education in many fields. Try to get foreigners who take advantage of it to stay.