There are some claiming the imminent demise of SMS, and that email is already dead. The argument is that sending SMS costs money and sends your message through a third party but somehow misses the point that Facebook/Google +/etc. cost money in data charges, send your message through several third parties, cost in loss of privacy, and ultimately line the pockets of the same telcos.
Hack : Wednesday 21 September
Could SMSing be dead within 5 years? The public launch of Google + draws the attention of some social media analysts who says texting and email are dead men walking. Also, we take a look at what the high profile Afghan assassination means for the war... and an Adelaide gaming bar runs into licensing dramas and not just because of its name: Pimp Pad.
download mp3: 12 MB
The lack of vendor lock-in/uneven playing field that being the vendor of the target player and the main dev tools gave them? With HTML5 they can longer be ahead of their dev tools competitors by fiddling the target.
Sure, fire the guy for publishing without involving the Ministry of Spin, but at least do it for the right reasons. He didn't describe any part of the phone as sub-optimal. He described the lighting as sub-optimal and praised the camera: ''the camera was good, but I didn't have optimal lighting." The lighting is not a feature of the phone no matter how much Microsoft might like to embrace and extinguish the Sun;)
Microsoft Corp. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. have entered into a broad, multiyear patent cross-licensing agreement that, among other things, will provide Casio’s customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices.
(emphasis mine). I would not mind betting the "other things" are actually the ones that were worth paying for, and that Microsoft slipped the "Linux patents" into the mix because Casio is using Linux. It costs Microsoft nothing but they get "precedent" with which to argue they hold valid patents affecting Linux.
If the distance between stars is very much smaller than the distance of the planet from the stars then you can grossly approximate the system as two bodies. The mass of the two stars is placed at their centre of mass and the virtual star and planet then orbit their centre of mass. In the real world there will be perturbations from the dual stars and the other bodies in orbit that we have yet to see.
The "obvious" nature of "regular" solar systems is far from simple. The barycentre of a multi-planet solar system is a movable point especially in the presence of large planets.
Flash is the single buggiest, leakiest, most insecure and least reliable piece of software on your average PC.
Buggiest, possibly, leakiest, maybe, most insecure, almost certainly, least reliable... not even close! Adobe Reader browser plugin on Linux takes that crown in my world. At least Adobe kept it in the family:)
They recommended 20x80 or 25x100 binoculars. The second number is the diameter in mm of the objective (front) lens. It needs to be this big in order to collect sufficient light to make the object clearly visible to a naked eye. The first number is the magnification (crudely speaking the ratio of objective to eyepiece focal lengths). 20 is simply the common magnification in binoculars, which have fixed eyepieces, with objective lens sizes large enough to be useful.
You'll also notice that when recommending a telescope there's no mention of focal length or magnification at all, just object lens/mirror size > 75mm. Eyepieces in telescopes can be changed to change magnification and field of view but it is the collecting area that is truly important to making the dim visible.
Now, if only someone could move M101 about 10 or 15 degrees further south I might have a hope of seeing it.
In more massive brown dwarfs low rate fusion of deuterium (> approx 13 Jupiter masses) and lithium (>60 Mj) is possible. At the low end of brown dwarf mass the distinction with large gas planet is a little blurred, with neither sustaining fusion, being roughly similar in diameter etc.
Graft, corruption, and self-interest exist, even in China.
In theory, the ballot box is supposed to be a check against corruption, but in practice it simply doesn't work as voters are too stupid and easily swayed to vote for the right candidates, instead of corporate-backed corrupt candidates
You are supposing that there is a "right candidate" (and that that candidate is the one you would choose).
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)
Exactly where my mind went. It may save money on the government printing and mail budget (I doubt it) but it smells of a trojan horse for a national ID number for all to abuse.
I'm not really sure how this differs from typical APIs where the programmer...
One is a marketing term that Microsoft can slap a trademark application in for, the other is not? Then Microsoft can claim to be the only vendor with Open Surface(tm) systems, or OSS.
There is a little thing called The-rest-of-the-World where your nation's law does not necessarily hold. In a lot of places data generated by Govt. bodies, as climate data often is, is not automatically in the public domain. In a lot of places a compilation of facts into a database is protected by copyright while each individual fact is not (try to sell a reproduced phone book and see if you end up in court). Even in the absence of copyright protection, a contracted condition of access to a data set might preclude distribution. An NDA is useful to permit others to use the data you have put significant effort into collating, sanitising, etc. while protecting your ability to gain from first use of that data. The Hubble program achieved this by providing a 12 month exclusive period to the original researchers: effectively a self-imposed NDA.
In any case, it is plain common courtesy to ask the originator of the data set you are using if they mind you making another use of it.
Doctors apprentice--as nurses, then as apprentice doctors. Programmers don't apprentice; managers don't apprentice; Engineers don't apprentice. I don't understand this.
It is easier to understand when you learn that sweeping generalisations are rarely absolute. Graduate an engineering or programming degree, join a large aerospace company and try to make a design decision without supervision and you will soon discover the limits of your "non"-apprenticeship. Or, as a new management graduate, try making a decision that affects schedule or cost without supervisory approval. Both are career limiting moves in some circles. The apprenticeship is not explicit but it does exist.
Actually, the speed at which science funding migrates from one flavour-of-the-month to the next clearly exceeds the speed of light. If we could turn that speed violation into workable time travel we could start processing the data mountain (astronomy data is not alone here) about 3000 years ago so that it is complete by lunch-time Sunday.
This is the equivalent of the US federal government trying to get all the US states to agree on, for example, a nationwide uniform driver's licence or uniform state taxes. These things require the states to cede some level of actual or perceived control. If any state doesn't come to the party you don't get a uniform whatever, which is why federal governments usually have to offer sweeteners. That is not to stop any of the states that do agree from legislating the equivalent... but they miss out on the sweetener, so that won't happen either.
The existing national classification scheme in Australia requires the agreement of all State, Territory, and Federal governments in order to introduce a new classification. This was probably one of the 'safeguards' that had to be agreed to to get the scheme through in the first place (1970 or thereabouts). That it is being exploited by a conservative State government of the opposite flavour to those in most other States and Territories is unsurprising.
They are modelling their risk exposure. If they have failed to adapt to recent risk stupidities then all they have achieved is a faster misrepresentation of their position. They might even get to ruin faster than their competitors, which is hardly a good thing even on a trading "floor".
So they have sped up to computation but have they spent any time and effort on getting a sane algorithm that, for example, can identify a house-of-cards situation like the recent collapse?
The term "surface" when used in relation to the Sun is used to mean the place from which the majority of photons we see are emitted; known as the photosphere. That surface is defined to be at optical depth 2/3 (a photon, on average, escapes without scattering off a particle). It is a fuzzy boundary, varying in depth with wavelength of light, but it is a small range in comparison to the size of a star.
If the company owns said patent, shouldn't that patent be null and/or become common when said company closes doors?
Welcome to the world of Imaginary Property, where a idea^Wpatent is an asset that is both tradable and the most valuable thing left when the company is still extant but under administration.
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Even in the perverse world of the USPTO you could not get away with patenting the tree (yet). Therefore, trees simply cannot be the solution ;)
There are some claiming the imminent demise of SMS, and that email is already dead. The argument is that sending SMS costs money and sends your message through a third party but somehow misses the point that Facebook/Google +/etc. cost money in data charges, send your message through several third parties, cost in loss of privacy, and ultimately line the pockets of the same telcos.
Hack : Wednesday 21 September
Could SMSing be dead within 5 years? The public launch of Google + draws the attention of some social media analysts who says texting and email are dead men walking. Also, we take a look at what the high profile Afghan assassination means for the war... and an Adelaide gaming bar runs into licensing dramas and not just because of its name: Pimp Pad.
download mp3: 12 MB
What's not to like?
The lack of vendor lock-in/uneven playing field that being the vendor of the target player and the main dev tools gave them? With HTML5 they can longer be ahead of their dev tools competitors by fiddling the target.
Sure, fire the guy for publishing without involving the Ministry of Spin, but at least do it for the right reasons. He didn't describe any part of the phone as sub-optimal. He described the lighting as sub-optimal and praised the camera: ''the camera was good, but I didn't have optimal lighting." The lighting is not a feature of the phone no matter how much Microsoft might like to embrace and extinguish the Sun ;)
The article starts:
Microsoft Corp. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. have entered into a broad, multiyear patent cross-licensing agreement that, among other things, will provide Casio’s customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices.
(emphasis mine). I would not mind betting the "other things" are actually the ones that were worth paying for, and that Microsoft slipped the "Linux patents" into the mix because Casio is using Linux. It costs Microsoft nothing but they get "precedent" with which to argue they hold valid patents affecting Linux.
If the distance between stars is very much smaller than the distance of the planet from the stars then you can grossly approximate the system as two bodies. The mass of the two stars is placed at their centre of mass and the virtual star and planet then orbit their centre of mass. In the real world there will be perturbations from the dual stars and the other bodies in orbit that we have yet to see.
The "obvious" nature of "regular" solar systems is far from simple. The barycentre of a multi-planet solar system is a movable point especially in the presence of large planets.
Flash is the single buggiest, leakiest, most insecure and least reliable piece of software on your average PC.
Buggiest, possibly, leakiest, maybe, most insecure, almost certainly, least reliable... not even close! Adobe Reader browser plugin on Linux takes that crown in my world. At least Adobe kept it in the family :)
They recommended 20x80 or 25x100 binoculars. The second number is the diameter in mm of the objective (front) lens. It needs to be this big in order to collect sufficient light to make the object clearly visible to a naked eye. The first number is the magnification (crudely speaking the ratio of objective to eyepiece focal lengths). 20 is simply the common magnification in binoculars, which have fixed eyepieces, with objective lens sizes large enough to be useful.
You'll also notice that when recommending a telescope there's no mention of focal length or magnification at all, just object lens/mirror size > 75mm. Eyepieces in telescopes can be changed to change magnification and field of view but it is the collecting area that is truly important to making the dim visible.
Now, if only someone could move M101 about 10 or 15 degrees further south I might have a hope of seeing it.
When you work out where to get 50MW from when you are solar powered and in orbit around Mars let me know. I'd love some of that action for my roof :)
In more massive brown dwarfs low rate fusion of deuterium (> approx 13 Jupiter masses) and lithium (>60 Mj) is possible. At the low end of brown dwarf mass the distinction with large gas planet is a little blurred, with neither sustaining fusion, being roughly similar in diameter etc.
What, you mean hating each others guts. I thought that was already in place ;)
Graft, corruption, and self-interest exist, even in China.
In theory, the ballot box is supposed to be a check against corruption, but in practice it simply doesn't work as voters are too stupid and easily swayed to vote for the right candidates, instead of corporate-backed corrupt candidates
You are supposing that there is a "right candidate" (and that that candidate is the one you would choose).
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)
Exactly where my mind went. It may save money on the government printing and mail budget (I doubt it) but it smells of a trojan horse for a national ID number for all to abuse.
I am assuming that it is a set of one-time passwords not a one-time pad. Can a Dane correct me?
I'm not really sure how this differs from typical APIs where the programmer...
One is a marketing term that Microsoft can slap a trademark application in for, the other is not? Then Microsoft can claim to be the only vendor with Open Surface(tm) systems, or OSS.
There is a little thing called The-rest-of-the-World where your nation's law does not necessarily hold. In a lot of places data generated by Govt. bodies, as climate data often is, is not automatically in the public domain. In a lot of places a compilation of facts into a database is protected by copyright while each individual fact is not (try to sell a reproduced phone book and see if you end up in court). Even in the absence of copyright protection, a contracted condition of access to a data set might preclude distribution. An NDA is useful to permit others to use the data you have put significant effort into collating, sanitising, etc. while protecting your ability to gain from first use of that data. The Hubble program achieved this by providing a 12 month exclusive period to the original researchers: effectively a self-imposed NDA.
In any case, it is plain common courtesy to ask the originator of the data set you are using if they mind you making another use of it.
Doctors apprentice--as nurses, then as apprentice doctors. Programmers don't apprentice; managers don't apprentice; Engineers don't apprentice. I don't understand this.
It is easier to understand when you learn that sweeping generalisations are rarely absolute. Graduate an engineering or programming degree, join a large aerospace company and try to make a design decision without supervision and you will soon discover the limits of your "non"-apprenticeship. Or, as a new management graduate, try making a decision that affects schedule or cost without supervisory approval. Both are career limiting moves in some circles. The apprenticeship is not explicit but it does exist.
You have to charge 42.9% more to Apple-sourced customers to cover the 30% commission and still pocket the same amount yourself.
Actually, the speed at which science funding migrates from one flavour-of-the-month to the next clearly exceeds the speed of light. If we could turn that speed violation into workable time travel we could start processing the data mountain (astronomy data is not alone here) about 3000 years ago so that it is complete by lunch-time Sunday.
This is the equivalent of the US federal government trying to get all the US states to agree on, for example, a nationwide uniform driver's licence or uniform state taxes. These things require the states to cede some level of actual or perceived control. If any state doesn't come to the party you don't get a uniform whatever, which is why federal governments usually have to offer sweeteners. That is not to stop any of the states that do agree from legislating the equivalent... but they miss out on the sweetener, so that won't happen either.
The existing national classification scheme in Australia requires the agreement of all State, Territory, and Federal governments in order to introduce a new classification. This was probably one of the 'safeguards' that had to be agreed to to get the scheme through in the first place (1970 or thereabouts). That it is being exploited by a conservative State government of the opposite flavour to those in most other States and Territories is unsurprising.
They are modelling their risk exposure. If they have failed to adapt to recent risk stupidities then all they have achieved is a faster misrepresentation of their position. They might even get to ruin faster than their competitors, which is hardly a good thing even on a trading "floor".
So they have sped up to computation but have they spent any time and effort on getting a sane algorithm that, for example, can identify a house-of-cards situation like the recent collapse?
The term "surface" when used in relation to the Sun is used to mean the place from which the majority of photons we see are emitted; known as the photosphere. That surface is defined to be at optical depth 2/3 (a photon, on average, escapes without scattering off a particle). It is a fuzzy boundary, varying in depth with wavelength of light, but it is a small range in comparison to the size of a star.
What happened to Rumsfeld promising that we'd get Iraq's Oil, and it would pay for the war???
That just provided a prize piece of recruiting material for almost any anti-US militant group in the middle east.
If the company owns said patent, shouldn't that patent be null and/or become common when said company closes doors?
Welcome to the world of Imaginary Property, where a idea^Wpatent is an asset that is both tradable and the most valuable thing left when the company is still extant but under administration.