Unlike an Apple event, where they make a huge deal about a feature, then immediately invite journalists from the crowd to try it out... Wait, that never happens.
Just more proof that actual facts don't enter into the Apple haters' worlds. In fact, you don't even bother to learn thing one about Apple before you spout off against them. They ALWAYS let hundreds of journalists use the products, warts and all.
I won't get involved in the "who was the greatest pilot ever" debate. I will just say that when you are involved in a trivia contest of any kind and the word "aviatrix" comes up, the answer will definitely be "Amelia Earhart."
Well, I had never heard of Charles Lindbergh before.
I don't expect the current generation to know everything about the previous generations. But if a person's achievements resulted in a huge ticker-tape parade being thrown for them, and subsequently were on the front pages of every newspaper in the country when their baby was kidnapped, then that's a name you should probably have been taught in school. I don't blame you, I blame your teachers. Shame on them.
I think the question lies in what you consider worse. Do you fear unlimited, unaccountable, and unbridled surveillance, like the kind that's being proposed in the US... or are you more worried about censorship
Unfortunately it's not either/or. We're all likely to eventually get both.
The only thing they are worried about is that the US would not control it.
Did you bother reading even the summary? I'm usually pro-U.N. but here they're sanctioning government censorship of the Internet. This is seriously messed up and there is no way the U.S. should support it.
This is the first time ever I've been able to view TPB from work.
Perhaps I have a very aggressive employer, but mine is blocking the new IP already, saying "P2P content is forbidden." So the premise of the original article is already proven wrong; fast-acting internet filters can take down TPB as fast as they put new addresses up.:(
'For far too long, the American people have been forced to navigate a labyrinth of information across different government programs in order to find the services they need.'"
Or perhaps we need to simplify the number of "programs", that might help too.
...until they "simplify" ("eliminate" if I am reading your intent) the program you happen to use. Then you will scream bloody murder.
My old feature phone could show YouTube videos. You're not going to be watching any TV or listening to much radio on your iPhone without installing apps for each one, because almost all the video and radio station streams use Flash.
Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound, not knowing that every iPhone ever manufactured can play YouTube out of the box with no extra apps installed? Or that YouTube has an ongoing effort to move away from Flash? As do an awful lot of other companies?
He definitely cares about himself first. He care about getting reelected. He wants the younger generation vote. The younger generation is more likely to use smart phones. Obama is probable thinking if I do something that the younger people like/want they will vote for me.
I doubt Obama is reading slashdot but anyway...
It is the economy! Work on that first!
It sure is interesting how anyone opposing this directive somehow thinks we can only work on one thing at a time. I suppose because your brains can't parallel process, you can't fathom the concept of others parallel processing? Oh, and there's no chance that this and other directives might actually be part of improving the economy?
This president sure has some really scatter-shot priorities.
You HONESTLY have a problem with this?? The directive is completely common sense, needs doing, and is so non-partisan and useful that you have to be an ultra-partisan to have any notion that it's in any way wrong. Grow up.
Actually, short breaks _don't_ improve productivity. Latest study (Harvard Business Review - http://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks-dont-boost-productivity-after-all/ar/1 - _do_ sign up and read the whole article, don't just read the headline) shows that productivity is, at best, indifferent to micro breaks and at worst, reduced significantly.
How about both sides in this debate stop assuming all workers are the same. Some need short breaks and others are able to sit and stare at a problem to make progress. PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. Stop grouping.
It's not that they don't have common sense (I'm not saying they do), but they're not ALLOWED to exercise common sense. There is so much hubbub about patdowns of 90 year old grandmothers and 3 year old toddlers, but they're instructed to treat everyone equally. Otherwise, it would be profiling.
Sorry, no. They absolutely are allowed to read a doctor's note and not put the girl through the scanner.
OK, it drew a huge audience because it managed to be both a chick film and (at the time) a guy film with all of the special effects and geeky historical research. But the script and acting were mediocre, and the song that won the Grammy was weak.
The Poseiden Adventure from the '70s was a much better film with a similar subject, on a much smaller budget.
Having seen them both (and a couple thousand other films, as my cred.), no, Poseidon Adventure was not a better film than Titanic. It was staid 70's filmmaking with the cliche "group of survivors encounters various obstacles and die off one by one" ending. Go back a couple of decades and watch The Great Escape or Stalag 17. They do it way better than Poseidon.
According to the article, it took more than a month for the bees to show the CCD effects when they were fed trace amounts.
Also, if the hives are running out of honey in late winter, then the keeper is taking too much honey.
Sorry, that's simply not the case. If a hive produces only enough honey to get itself through the winter, then under your plan, the beekeeper can harvest no honey. That's not viable business. It's quite normal to take most (no, not all) the honey from a hive and augment what the bees have left with sugar water or (more recently) HFCS.
Is the FDA on board with pesticide being passed thru at detectable levels in a supposedly simple processed food product?
Welp, farmers are definitely the sort of folks that try to make the best use of anything. "Ah hell, well this batch isn't any good for selling, but I guess I could feed it to the bees..."
The much more likely scenario would be that the maker of the pesticide lobbied the FDA to make it "acceptable" for the pesticide to appear in non-zero amounts in HFCS. That's how things work in this country.
The tough problems aren't about running the code and seeing what happens, they're about setting up very specific situations and testing them easily.
another way to phrase it is at least one of the specific situations needs to be the input of a random number generator doing crazy stuff.
Your Arabic to Roman numeral converter accepts a INT? Well it better not crash when fed a negative, or zero, 2**63-1 (or whatever max_int is where you live), and any ole random place in between
This is still archaic thinking. A much more efficient way would be for the IDE to, when specifying a variable, ask there & then what the boundaries of the variable should be. Then the compiler could error any time it saw a situation where the variable could be (or was) handed a value outside those boundaries. Programmers should not be having to catch weird situations over and over; that's what computers are for. Allowing a variable to be any possible INT/FLOAT/REAL just doesn't make any sense in many situations so I'm quite curious why we're still having to even talk about random number generators for debugging & testing. It feels like we're still working for the computers instead of the other way around.
All the internet tools and services you enjoy CAME FROM UNIVERSITIES. Cutting off Interent = cutting off education, the very reason for the university TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Is there a reason your organization wants this to be easy-to-steal-and-expensive tablets?
The hospital management is being treated well by the tablet manufacturer, who would very much like this hospital to become the envy of the `non-tablet' hospitals. Plus, it's healthcare; they have money to burn.
The reason the tablet manufacturer is throwing money/product at the hospital is because they know they don't have the right solution but want you to shoehorn it in anyway. Sometimes free is not the best solution.
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Serious question: If you wrap your smart meter in tinfoil (or for purposes of this argument) lead, what happens?
Google has been using this for some time and is used on Android devices - you can see their patent here: http://www.google.com/patents/US7532158
A-GPS is not new (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS), though they seem to want to extend it to other radio sources.
iPhones have been doing this for years as well. I'll let someone else explain how Apple could be doing it if Google has a patent on it...
Unlike an Apple event, where they make a huge deal about a feature, then immediately invite journalists from the crowd to try it out... Wait, that never happens.
Just more proof that actual facts don't enter into the Apple haters' worlds. In fact, you don't even bother to learn thing one about Apple before you spout off against them. They ALWAYS let hundreds of journalists use the products, warts and all.
I won't get involved in the "who was the greatest pilot ever" debate. I will just say that when you are involved in a trivia contest of any kind and the word "aviatrix" comes up, the answer will definitely be "Amelia Earhart."
Well, I had never heard of Charles Lindbergh before.
I don't expect the current generation to know everything about the previous generations. But if a person's achievements resulted in a huge ticker-tape parade being thrown for them, and subsequently were on the front pages of every newspaper in the country when their baby was kidnapped, then that's a name you should probably have been taught in school. I don't blame you, I blame your teachers. Shame on them.
I think the question lies in what you consider worse. Do you fear unlimited, unaccountable, and unbridled surveillance, like the kind that's being proposed in the US... or are you more worried about censorship
Unfortunately it's not either/or. We're all likely to eventually get both.
The only thing they are worried about is that the US would not control it.
Did you bother reading even the summary? I'm usually pro-U.N. but here they're sanctioning government censorship of the Internet. This is seriously messed up and there is no way the U.S. should support it.
This is the first time ever I've been able to view TPB from work.
Perhaps I have a very aggressive employer, but mine is blocking the new IP already, saying "P2P content is forbidden." So the premise of the original article is already proven wrong; fast-acting internet filters can take down TPB as fast as they put new addresses up. :(
'For far too long, the American people have been forced to navigate a labyrinth of information across different government programs in order to find the services they need.'"
Or perhaps we need to simplify the number of "programs", that might help too.
...until they "simplify" ("eliminate" if I am reading your intent) the program you happen to use. Then you will scream bloody murder.
My old feature phone could show YouTube videos. You're not going to be watching any TV or listening to much radio on your iPhone without installing apps for each one, because almost all the video and radio station streams use Flash.
Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound, not knowing that every iPhone ever manufactured can play YouTube out of the box with no extra apps installed? Or that YouTube has an ongoing effort to move away from Flash? As do an awful lot of other companies?
He definitely cares about himself first. He care about getting reelected. He wants the younger generation vote. The younger generation is more likely to use smart phones. Obama is probable thinking if I do something that the younger people like/want they will vote for me.
I doubt Obama is reading slashdot but anyway...
It is the economy! Work on that first!
It sure is interesting how anyone opposing this directive somehow thinks we can only work on one thing at a time. I suppose because your brains can't parallel process, you can't fathom the concept of others parallel processing? Oh, and there's no chance that this and other directives might actually be part of improving the economy?
This president sure has some really scatter-shot priorities.
You HONESTLY have a problem with this?? The directive is completely common sense, needs doing, and is so non-partisan and useful that you have to be an ultra-partisan to have any notion that it's in any way wrong. Grow up.
Actually, short breaks _don't_ improve productivity. Latest study (Harvard Business Review - http://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks-dont-boost-productivity-after-all/ar/1 - _do_ sign up and read the whole article, don't just read the headline) shows that productivity is, at best, indifferent to micro breaks and at worst, reduced significantly.
How about both sides in this debate stop assuming all workers are the same. Some need short breaks and others are able to sit and stare at a problem to make progress. PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. Stop grouping.
It's not that they don't have common sense (I'm not saying they do), but they're not ALLOWED to exercise common sense. There is so much hubbub about patdowns of 90 year old grandmothers and 3 year old toddlers, but they're instructed to treat everyone equally. Otherwise, it would be profiling.
Sorry, no. They absolutely are allowed to read a doctor's note and not put the girl through the scanner.
And they have the power to detain you until you miss your flight.
Which is still way cheaper than replacing a $10K insulin pump.
Here's the thing: No one's saying small children should be excluded from screening.
I am.
OK, it drew a huge audience because it managed to be both a chick film and (at the time) a guy film with all of the special effects and geeky historical research. But the script and acting were mediocre, and the song that won the Grammy was weak.
The Poseiden Adventure from the '70s was a much better film with a similar subject, on a much smaller budget.
Having seen them both (and a couple thousand other films, as my cred.), no, Poseidon Adventure was not a better film than Titanic. It was staid 70's filmmaking with the cliche "group of survivors encounters various obstacles and die off one by one" ending. Go back a couple of decades and watch The Great Escape or Stalag 17. They do it way better than Poseidon.
According to the article, it took more than a month for the bees to show the CCD effects when they were fed trace amounts.
Also, if the hives are running out of honey in late winter, then the keeper is taking too much honey.
Sorry, that's simply not the case. If a hive produces only enough honey to get itself through the winter, then under your plan, the beekeeper can harvest no honey. That's not viable business. It's quite normal to take most (no, not all) the honey from a hive and augment what the bees have left with sugar water or (more recently) HFCS.
(Yes, I grew up performing these very duties.)
But was this food grade HFCS?
Is the FDA on board with pesticide being passed thru at detectable levels in a supposedly simple processed food product?
Welp, farmers are definitely the sort of folks that try to make the best use of anything. "Ah hell, well this batch isn't any good for selling, but I guess I could feed it to the bees..."
The much more likely scenario would be that the maker of the pesticide lobbied the FDA to make it "acceptable" for the pesticide to appear in non-zero amounts in HFCS. That's how things work in this country.
How long until there's a virus that starts crashing players' ships?
But how would it do that? Isn't Java sandboxed? Or is it only sandboxed on more recent operating systems (Win7 & OS X 10.7)?
The tough problems aren't about running the code and seeing what happens, they're about setting up very specific situations and testing them easily.
another way to phrase it is at least one of the specific situations needs to be the input of a random number generator doing crazy stuff.
Your Arabic to Roman numeral converter accepts a INT? Well it better not crash when fed a negative, or zero, 2**63-1 (or whatever max_int is where you live), and any ole random place in between
This is still archaic thinking. A much more efficient way would be for the IDE to, when specifying a variable, ask there & then what the boundaries of the variable should be. Then the compiler could error any time it saw a situation where the variable could be (or was) handed a value outside those boundaries. Programmers should not be having to catch weird situations over and over; that's what computers are for. Allowing a variable to be any possible INT/FLOAT/REAL just doesn't make any sense in many situations so I'm quite curious why we're still having to even talk about random number generators for debugging & testing. It feels like we're still working for the computers instead of the other way around.
NO, school isn't free. However, the money pays for tuition and course materials, not free internet porn.
Because of course the Internet is nothing but porn. :: roll eyes ::
All the internet tools and services you enjoy CAME FROM UNIVERSITIES. Cutting off Interent = cutting off education, the very reason for the university TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Is there a reason your organization wants this to be easy-to-steal-and-expensive tablets?
The hospital management is being treated well by the tablet manufacturer, who would very much like this hospital to become the envy of the `non-tablet' hospitals. Plus, it's healthcare; they have money to burn.
The reason the tablet manufacturer is throwing money/product at the hospital is because they know they don't have the right solution but want you to shoehorn it in anyway. Sometimes free is not the best solution.