I am really friekin' confused as to the radiation around Fukushima.
She considers weeding her driveway so risky that she waved away a visitor who offered to help, pointing to her dosimeter showing readings two and a half times the level that would normally force an evacuation.
Why is the radiation in her driveway so high? Why is it safe to walk around there, but not to weed the driveway?
Every time she visits, she said, she receives a dose equivalent to one or two chest X-rays even if she remains indoor
Where is that radiation coming from if they are inside their house?
Ha! I feel dumb. But perhaps this is a difference between how geeks read news, and the average person reads news.
I see other people browse "news" sites that have a single news area with a blurb of text over a picture. (news.yahoo.com, nbcnews.com, etc.) It remains for a few seconds, then it slides off the screen and another picture + headline appears. I tend to scoff at such sites as being sensationalistic. I want my news to look more like a scholarly article than a TV news report. I look at Slashdot and think that *this* looks like a real geek news site.
Regarding the Snowden picture: There are lots of famous persons I admire, but I don't know what many of them look like. Mark Klein, Bjarne Stroustrup, Scott Hanselman, Carl Sagan. I think if there were pictures of them next to every news article, I would quickly become annoyed. It is distracting - we are drawn toward faces. Here at work, everyone is adding their picture to Microsoft Outlook. It is useful to be able to look that up in case I go to a meeting, but for most of the day, I want that gone so I can read my email in peace.
Or perhaps this has nothing to do with news. I don't like how modern UI design tends to put an icon next to every option. Often times those icons have nothing to do with the option. A flag, a gear, a star. Or how marketing materials always have pictures of people working, or smiling, or talking -- even though none of those people were involved in the product. It's just feel good stuff. It's like white space, but more distracting.
Umm... The title of that article is "Apple iOS 7 now blocks some non-certified lightning cables" so umm... yes they did. The article clarifies that indeed it is not merely a message: it actually blocks charging, and they even post a messy workaround. The article agrees with every other article I've read, as well as my own personal experience.
A video game guy with a gun means I better block images or I'll be unable to read Slashdot at work. Which means probably never given my lack of time at home. That sucks because Slashdot is very relevant to what I do. Just today I sent the Microsoft Azure story to our director. I would hate to have to create a separate work account that filters out stories about games.
It doesn't work at all as of 10/1/2013 4:56 PM EST on Firefox 23.0.1. There are two crippling issues:
1) The CSS doesn't work at all. So I just see a stream of unformatted text and images. I've reloaded a few times and it still happens. The head has the following in the top (modified to pass the lameness filter) link href "//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.0/css/font-awesome.css" link rel "stylesheet" href "//c.fsdn.com/s/css/application.css?release_20131001.01"
2) It has a NSFW ad that says "MALE GAMERS ONLY" The ad image is: here I have enough Karma that I could disable ads, but I leave them on so you can have a revenue stream. But as of today I will disable ads because I can't have a mostly naked female body on my work computer screen.
You do know there's a marked difference between "blocking" and alerting the user that they can't verify if the cheap crappy cable actually works correctly.
Yes, and unfortunately, Apple chose blocking instead. The beta versions of IOS 7 merely alerted the user.
This guy was enforcing the law as written. The law must be changed. It is preposterou that using a hand-held GPS at a stop light sure is illegal but unfolding a map is not. Or was that illegal too, but never enforced? Civil disobedience. Running for office. Writing letters. Just change this.
That the mining and preparation of the nuclear fuel is quite carbon dirty. Not to mention the enormous costs of the structures and transportation of the fuel and whatever.
I expect that the carbon released by mining, preparing, and transporting nuclear fuel is much less than the carbon released by doing the same things for fossil fuels since nuclear is so much more energy dense. As for dollar cost and structural costs: that all goes into the kilowatt hours you pay.
Dropping the suit, but continuing to pursue others for the same patent, is evidence that they are committing fraud. I believe that in the US, there have been cases where MPAA did this "drop the lawsuit" thing and was later forced to pay legal costs anyway.
Hmmm... yeah, I can see the problem with different C runtime versions. Why does Microsoft have a different CRT with each edition of the compiler? (That's probably rhetorical)
I find it annoying when projects don't build with the latest C compilers. If your C code can't build against the latest version of the standard, that's as good as a bug. Although that is why so much OSS uses gcc instead of the Microsoft compiler. You don't have to know what subset of the standard the MS compiler enforces.
This is always the story with SSDs. They suddenly die
and
Supposedly, the drives enter a read-only state where they can only be read, because they are out of space to wear-level. Has anyone ever had a drive actually do this?
So far, I know of no one who has had a drive die from lack of wear leveling, which is why I want to know what really happened.
The article pointed to a recent USA Today article that says:
We're unimpressed with the weekly tallies posted on the TSA blog of weapons confiscated by screeners; we just want to know when they've stopped a terrorist from blowing up a plane
Is that what the TSA exists for? The 9/11 terrorists did not blow-up a plane. Instead, they crashed a plane into a building. So is the TSA there to stop another 9/11, or to stop terrorists from blowing-up a plane? In reality, they aren't necessary to stop either of these goals.
As for the 9/11 goal: That happened because the cockpit doors were unlocked, and because nobody really thought about the possibility of crashing the plane into a national icon. So simple procedures + public awareness makes a repeat of that scenario impossible.
As for the blow-up goal: Did we have a lot of planes getting blown-up by terrorists before the TSA? Nope! Has the TSA detected lots of bombs on planes? Nope! If the TSA was nothing other than an officer walking around the airport, he would have foiled as many plots as this $7 billion organization.
I read this as "We can't profile, so we are less efficient." Police say the same thing and it's probably true. This is one of those trade-offs for liberty where it is good that we recognize the cost of the decision.
Just remember: it doesn't mean this was the wrong decision. It doesn't mean that phony whole-body scanners that don't work are a good idea. It's not an excuse for detaining people who recite the constitution. It doesn't justify searching laptops without a warrant.
Last question: What information does the TSA want that they don't have? We know they get the names of passengers, and they have a list of "detain these people." Do they want to know our religious beliefs? Ethnicity? Country of origin? Shopping habits? It is interesting that the article points out that the people doing the border searches get a lot more information than the TSA.
This is always the story with SSDs. They suddenly die, even though all the literature from the manufacturers says this is not a mode of failure that ever happens. Supposedly, the drives enter a read-only state where they can only be read, because they are out of space to wear-level. Has anyone ever had a drive actually do this? I want Linus to send this drive back, and get an answer from the SSD manufacturer as to what happened.
But this isn't the pattern for how SSDs die of old age. When they age, they start to run out of sectors to relocate data, and they report SMART errors indicating the wear leveling is running out of room. Then they enter a read-only state where you can read data for eternity, but they refuse to allow writes.
Syncing files like this is a mess. Perhaps you should look beyond share drives. You are trying to solve the technical problem, but if you step back you might see a business problem. Consider 3 alternative approaches: 1) Keep the files on the share drive and do not mirror them locally. 2) Use a source control system (Ex: GIT, TFS, Subversion) 3) Use a groupware / content management system / document management system. ( Ex: Sharepoint, Confluence, QDMS, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Drupal, SAP, Groupwise)
What do they fill it with? If it is rigid, then couldn't it be a vacuum since that would give the most buoyancy? Or perhaps an aerogel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
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But the soil contamination flowed from the plant, toward the sea, not toward land. So how did the soil further inland get contaminated?
I am really friekin' confused as to the radiation around Fukushima.
She considers weeding her driveway so risky that she waved away a visitor who offered to help, pointing to her dosimeter showing readings two and a half times the level that would normally force an evacuation.
Why is the radiation in her driveway so high? Why is it safe to walk around there, but not to weed the driveway?
Every time she visits, she said, she receives a dose equivalent to one or two chest X-rays even if she remains indoor
Where is that radiation coming from if they are inside their house?
Ha! I feel dumb. But perhaps this is a difference between how geeks read news, and the average person reads news.
I see other people browse "news" sites that have a single news area with a blurb of text over a picture. (news.yahoo.com, nbcnews.com, etc.) It remains for a few seconds, then it slides off the screen and another picture + headline appears. I tend to scoff at such sites as being sensationalistic. I want my news to look more like a scholarly article than a TV news report. I look at Slashdot and think that *this* looks like a real geek news site.
Regarding the Snowden picture: There are lots of famous persons I admire, but I don't know what many of them look like. Mark Klein, Bjarne Stroustrup, Scott Hanselman, Carl Sagan. I think if there were pictures of them next to every news article, I would quickly become annoyed. It is distracting - we are drawn toward faces. Here at work, everyone is adding their picture to Microsoft Outlook. It is useful to be able to look that up in case I go to a meeting, but for most of the day, I want that gone so I can read my email in peace.
Or perhaps this has nothing to do with news. I don't like how modern UI design tends to put an icon next to every option. Often times those icons have nothing to do with the option. A flag, a gear, a star. Or how marketing materials always have pictures of people working, or smiling, or talking -- even though none of those people were involved in the product. It's just feel good stuff. It's like white space, but more distracting.
Maybe I'm just old school? Am I a dying breed?
Umm... The title of that article is "Apple iOS 7 now blocks some non-certified lightning cables" so umm... yes they did. The article clarifies that indeed it is not merely a message: it actually blocks charging, and they even post a messy workaround. The article agrees with every other article I've read, as well as my own personal experience.
Trolling maybe?
I tried in IE 10 as well with the same result on the CSS issue. Are those links with the leading slashes even valid?
The images will prevent me from reading Slashdot at work. The plain text layout one of the reasons I can read it here without setting off alarms.
Of the images on the page:
Some guy's head adds no meaning or context to the story.
A video game guy with a gun means I better block images or I'll be unable to read Slashdot at work. Which means probably never given my lack of time at home. That sucks because Slashdot is very relevant to what I do. Just today I sent the Microsoft Azure story to our director. I would hate to have to create a separate work account that filters out stories about games.
It doesn't work at all as of 10/1/2013 4:56 PM EST on Firefox 23.0.1. There are two crippling issues:
1) The CSS doesn't work at all. So I just see a stream of unformatted text and images. I've reloaded a few times and it still happens.
The head has the following in the top (modified to pass the lameness filter)
link href "//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.0/css/font-awesome.css"
link rel "stylesheet" href "//c.fsdn.com/s/css/application.css?release_20131001.01"
2) It has a NSFW ad that says "MALE GAMERS ONLY"
The ad image is: here
I have enough Karma that I could disable ads, but I leave them on so you can have a revenue stream. But as of today I will disable ads because I can't have a mostly naked female body on my work computer screen.
That is the definition of FUD.
You do know there's a marked difference between "blocking" and alerting the user that they can't verify if the cheap crappy cable actually works correctly.
Yes, and unfortunately, Apple chose blocking instead. The beta versions of IOS 7 merely alerted the user.
a compiler developed by the Lords of the Walled Garden at Apple is ever going to be a good thing for free software.
License: NCSA Open Source License
Product: ISO standards compliant
So what is the problem here?
The AC is right!
http://www.ulasolicitors.com/road-traffic/driving-without-due-care-and-attention.html
"Reading a map while driving"
This guy was enforcing the law as written. The law must be changed. It is preposterou that using a hand-held GPS at a stop light sure is illegal but unfolding a map is not. Or was that illegal too, but never enforced? Civil disobedience. Running for office. Writing letters. Just change this.
That the mining and preparation of the nuclear fuel is quite carbon dirty. Not to mention the enormous costs of the structures and transportation of the fuel and whatever.
I expect that the carbon released by mining, preparing, and transporting nuclear fuel is much less than the carbon released by doing the same things for fossil fuels since nuclear is so much more energy dense. As for dollar cost and structural costs: that all goes into the kilowatt hours you pay.
Dropping the suit, but continuing to pursue others for the same patent, is evidence that they are committing fraud. I believe that in the US, there have been cases where MPAA did this "drop the lawsuit" thing and was later forced to pay legal costs anyway.
Well put.
Hmmm... yeah, I can see the problem with different C runtime versions. Why does Microsoft have a different CRT with each edition of the compiler? (That's probably rhetorical)
I find it annoying when projects don't build with the latest C compilers. If your C code can't build against the latest version of the standard, that's as good as a bug. Although that is why so much OSS uses gcc instead of the Microsoft compiler. You don't have to know what subset of the standard the MS compiler enforces.
Very interesting! I've been wondering about that.
Right. We are in agreement.
This is always the story with SSDs. They suddenly die
and
Supposedly, the drives enter a read-only state where they can only be read, because they are out of space to wear-level. Has anyone ever had a drive actually do this?
So far, I know of no one who has had a drive die from lack of wear leveling, which is why I want to know what really happened.
The article pointed to a recent USA Today article that says:
We're unimpressed with the weekly tallies posted on the TSA blog of weapons confiscated by screeners; we just want to know when they've stopped a terrorist from blowing up a plane
Is that what the TSA exists for? The 9/11 terrorists did not blow-up a plane. Instead, they crashed a plane into a building. So is the TSA there to stop another 9/11, or to stop terrorists from blowing-up a plane? In reality, they aren't necessary to stop either of these goals.
As for the 9/11 goal: That happened because the cockpit doors were unlocked, and because nobody really thought about the possibility of crashing the plane into a national icon. So simple procedures + public awareness makes a repeat of that scenario impossible.
As for the blow-up goal: Did we have a lot of planes getting blown-up by terrorists before the TSA? Nope! Has the TSA detected lots of bombs on planes? Nope! If the TSA was nothing other than an officer walking around the airport, he would have foiled as many plots as this $7 billion organization.
I read this as "We can't profile, so we are less efficient." Police say the same thing and it's probably true. This is one of those trade-offs for liberty where it is good that we recognize the cost of the decision.
Just remember: it doesn't mean this was the wrong decision. It doesn't mean that phony whole-body scanners that don't work are a good idea. It's not an excuse for detaining people who recite the constitution. It doesn't justify searching laptops without a warrant.
Last question: What information does the TSA want that they don't have? We know they get the names of passengers, and they have a list of "detain these people." Do they want to know our religious beliefs? Ethnicity? Country of origin? Shopping habits? It is interesting that the article points out that the people doing the border searches get a lot more information than the TSA.
This is always the story with SSDs. They suddenly die, even though all the literature from the manufacturers says this is not a mode of failure that ever happens. Supposedly, the drives enter a read-only state where they can only be read, because they are out of space to wear-level. Has anyone ever had a drive actually do this? I want Linus to send this drive back, and get an answer from the SSD manufacturer as to what happened.
His SSD died a natural death of old age.
But this isn't the pattern for how SSDs die of old age. When they age, they start to run out of sectors to relocate data, and they report SMART errors indicating the wear leveling is running out of room. Then they enter a read-only state where you can read data for eternity, but they refuse to allow writes.
Allow me to help.
Trying to find and install the correct version of Visual Studio Express was difficult.
Well, there's Visual Studio Express 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012. That's not so hard. You will want to use 2012 since that is the latest.
I had to learn far too many things about the registry, DLLs, building installers, etc
Don't use the registry. DLLs = .so, installers = installers. That's about it.
Syncing files like this is a mess. Perhaps you should look beyond share drives. You are trying to solve the technical problem, but if you step back you might see a business problem. Consider 3 alternative approaches:
1) Keep the files on the share drive and do not mirror them locally.
2) Use a source control system (Ex: GIT, TFS, Subversion)
3) Use a groupware / content management system / document management system. ( Ex: Sharepoint, Confluence, QDMS, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Drupal, SAP, Groupwise)
Knowing the right terms helps find the software you need. Here are some links to Wikipedia which has the right terms, and some lists of software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_Systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software#Comparison_of_notable_software
What do they fill it with? If it is rigid, then couldn't it be a vacuum since that would give the most buoyancy? Or perhaps an aerogel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
Just to clarify: this is a quantum processor, not a quantum chip. It is probably more room-sized than chip-sized.