*you* arent the mobile customer in this case, amazon is. The device they're selling you comes with free cellular access, the whole point being it's entirely self contained and doesnt depend on you phone contract. So yes, they need to negotiate with the phone companies. Amazon wants to make money, if it'd been cheaper to go with a European carrier over the kludgey legal hack of using AT&T (and thus AT&Ts already negotiated network deals) they would have. Sounds to me like the EU providers made it too hard for amazon to work with them directly and you guys got screwed.
While I'll admit that there arent a whole lot of practical uses for an ak47 in civilian life, that's not necessarily a reason to ban it (especially considering the many [debatable] meanings of the 2nd amendment in the US.
A person can honestly kill just as easily with many other weapons and "weapons" if they want to - hell, my car in a particular cynical light is a multi-ton, self-propelled, kinetic weapon with massive explosive capabilities...
And even if that were true (which I dont entirely buy), consumer backup tech like Apple's time-machine necessitate larger backup devices than the one on which the data is stored. Like, say, the myriad of 1TB devices that are around. GIve it time and 4TB will be standard for a consumer far faster than you think.
no its bureaucratic. "Ph.D level education" != holding a PhD.
Well, yes, but generally if you have a PhD level education you do, in fact, have a PhD. Unlike a BS or a Masters (or for that matter, a great deal of the other "end-point" degrees like a JD), a PhD's primary component is not courses and simple learning but *research* - and in the process making a unique and substantive contribution to the sum of human knowledge.
You can be admitted to the bar and practice law (if anyone will hire you is another story) without a law degree, you can be a certified engineer without a BSE, but generally speaking if you have made a substantive research contribution on the PhD level and published you will most likely have gained a PhD doing it.
Come to think of it, I'd also toss in a general vote for any of the small, local NY Natural History museums, a lot of small historic towns have them, usually focusing on the region they're in!
OK, there is a difference between lies, brutal honesty, and honesty with tact you know... As in (keeping the bad sex example):
Lie: That was mindblowing! Best sex evar!!! Nothing could be improved, you're perfect in bed, honey!
Brutal honesty: That farking sucked, I hated it, I'd rather go screw a badger than have sex like that again! Get the hell off me so I can get to my porn and I hope it's better next time!
Honesty with tact: That could have been better honey, what'd you think? Maybe if you'd moved just so... Maybe if I moved just so... Let's try this again, and figure out what works...
For the same reason we'll allow tens of thousands to die every year in auto accidents due to driver error but we'd never consider automating driving because maybe somebody might die every year or two due to a computer error.
Oh, bull. No-one has seriously considered automated driving anywhere you'd see it in a consumer environment because it's a lot harder than it sounds, harder than automated flying, harder than automated trains, harder than automated sailing, etc.
Hell, there's a reason we have the DARPA Grand Challenge. Even worse, considering the number of cars on the road, even with a perfect mesh network between them all (you'd have to retrofit the 100s of millions of older cars too) it'd be more complicated than even the terrain issues the DARPA challenge deals with (and their urban challenge didn't touch on the kind of obstacles and traffic that a major US city has
Heard a story once, don't remem where, but it was related to me basically as follows:
My grandparents came to American from the old country, they called themselves Italians, America was their new home, but they were still of the old country, they still spoke the old language, english was only for use when they had no choice, and it was broken and incomplete.
My parents were born here, to their italian sires. They were Italian-Americans, of Italy, but distinctly American. They spoke Italian fluently, and tried to use it was much as possible to maintain their heritage.
I am here, third generation, American-Italian. I still trace my roots, but I am an American. I speak a few words of italian, a few sentances. I can understand most of what is spoken to me. I am of my parents lineage, but English is my native tongue.
My children are Americans. They know where their family roots are, but they do not draw much of their primary culture from it. They know a couple Italian curse words, a couple pieces of slang.
My girlfriend's family is actually italian, and that describes them to a T. In my own family, even with a bit more diverse roots it's true too. It takes a long time for culture to amalgamate, longer still when groups are (either voluntarily or not) isolated and/or discriminated against.
I don't know why, but that may be the funniest thing I've read in.. well, quite a while. It's been a long night, and I needed that! Thank you for the wonderful images of morse code generating morris dancers:-D.
Also, you owe me a new keyboard and cup of coffee:-p
Not to mention that New York is (in)famous for being the rudest city in the US. If a tweenbot can survive there, it can survive anywhere.
Not really true though:-p. From personal experience since I grew up in the city, still live here, but have traveled a lot - it's not really that we're rude, it's that jumbled as we are we're more "nosy" than most, combined with a brusqueness that outsiders interpret as rude.
Actually, I like apple because of the price-point (or did), my previous gen 8-core mac pro was cheaper with my student discount than a comparable system from any other manufacturer or building it myself. Its thermal design also means that it's exceptionally quiet. OSX is a also a very nice OS, though ~half the time my tower spends on is in debian (with a small amnt of time in vista for gaming:-) )
BTW, at the time when the g3/4 was being lavished with praise it *was* far faster, clock for clock, than intel/amd/via/etc. With the innovations of AMD64/EM64T and the stagnation of PPC (because apple is a very small fish to IBM), x86 caught up and surpassed
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Thank you for making me laugh, best chuckle I've had all day. Oh, and you owe me a new keyboard!
Your post can quite literally be summarized as:
"this stuff that they improved, they didnt invent it so improving it doesnt count!"
also known as:
"I'm dont understand open source"
Gah, /. ate my formatting apparently....
At first I thought they were talking about Swarm, a "attempt to gather up many different kinds of models that go under the heading of "agent-based modeling" and create a common language and programming approach." that I've worked with before. I'm surprised they went with the name of an established toolkit in another aspect of programming. Still, looks like a cool tool, another layer of abstraction to make distributed computing easier might make it more attractive to those that don't use it much at the moment.
*you* arent the mobile customer in this case, amazon is. The device they're selling you comes with free cellular access, the whole point being it's entirely self contained and doesnt depend on you phone contract. So yes, they need to negotiate with the phone companies. Amazon wants to make money, if it'd been cheaper to go with a European carrier over the kludgey legal hack of using AT&T (and thus AT&Ts already negotiated network deals) they would have. Sounds to me like the EU providers made it too hard for amazon to work with them directly and you guys got screwed.
It's fairly common usage in HPC circles, vis. NCSA to add 47 teraflops of compute power with new heterogeneous system
I'm confused, can you change the analogy to something involving a 4-wheeled motorized device?
While I'll admit that there arent a whole lot of practical uses for an ak47 in civilian life, that's not necessarily a reason to ban it (especially considering the many [debatable] meanings of the 2nd amendment in the US.
A person can honestly kill just as easily with many other weapons and "weapons" if they want to - hell, my car in a particular cynical light is a multi-ton, self-propelled, kinetic weapon with massive explosive capabilities...
And even if that were true (which I dont entirely buy), consumer backup tech like Apple's time-machine necessitate larger backup devices than the one on which the data is stored. Like, say, the myriad of 1TB devices that are around. GIve it time and 4TB will be standard for a consumer far faster than you think.
in reply to both you and the AC who said:
no its bureaucratic. "Ph.D level education" != holding a PhD.
Well, yes, but generally if you have a PhD level education you do, in fact, have a PhD. Unlike a BS or a Masters (or for that matter, a great deal of the other "end-point" degrees like a JD), a PhD's primary component is not courses and simple learning but *research* - and in the process making a unique and substantive contribution to the sum of human knowledge.
You can be admitted to the bar and practice law (if anyone will hire you is another story) without a law degree, you can be a certified engineer without a BSE, but generally speaking if you have made a substantive research contribution on the PhD level and published you will most likely have gained a PhD doing it.
I'm going to assume this isnt a troll and answer:
1) You can't charge it if it runs down (yes, you could keep a ups for this I suppose - POTS however has it's own power, not reliant on the main grid).
2)The cell tower may lose power
3)In a blackout the cell may be saturated with everyone trying to call and make sure other people are OK
Come to think of it, I'd also toss in a general vote for any of the small, local NY Natural History museums, a lot of small historic towns have them, usually focusing on the region they're in!
Always loved the LSC, you just reminded me I should go visit again, it's been a while :-)
Seconded, and it happens to be one of the largest of it's kind in the world (AMNH). (disclaimer: I do actually work at AMNH)
OK, there is a difference between lies, brutal honesty, and honesty with tact you know... As in (keeping the bad sex example):
Lie: That was mindblowing! Best sex evar!!! Nothing could be improved, you're perfect in bed, honey!
Brutal honesty: That farking sucked, I hated it, I'd rather go screw a badger than have sex like that again! Get the hell off me so I can get to my porn and I hope it's better next time!
Honesty with tact: That could have been better honey, what'd you think? Maybe if you'd moved just so... Maybe if I moved just so... Let's try this again, and figure out what works...
For the same reason we'll allow tens of thousands to die every year in auto accidents due to driver error but we'd never consider automating driving because maybe somebody might die every year or two due to a computer error.
Oh, bull. No-one has seriously considered automated driving anywhere you'd see it in a consumer environment because it's a lot harder than it sounds, harder than automated flying, harder than automated trains, harder than automated sailing, etc.
Hell, there's a reason we have the DARPA Grand Challenge. Even worse, considering the number of cars on the road, even with a perfect mesh network between them all (you'd have to retrofit the 100s of millions of older cars too) it'd be more complicated than even the terrain issues the DARPA challenge deals with (and their urban challenge didn't touch on the kind of obstacles and traffic that a major US city has
::grins:: Thanks!
Heard a story once, don't remem where, but it was related to me basically as follows:
My grandparents came to American from the old country, they called themselves Italians, America was their new home, but they were still of the old country, they still spoke the old language, english was only for use when they had no choice, and it was broken and incomplete.
My parents were born here, to their italian sires. They were Italian-Americans, of Italy, but distinctly American. They spoke Italian fluently, and tried to use it was much as possible to maintain their heritage.
I am here, third generation, American-Italian. I still trace my roots, but I am an American. I speak a few words of italian, a few sentances. I can understand most of what is spoken to me. I am of my parents lineage, but English is my native tongue.
My children are Americans. They know where their family roots are, but they do not draw much of their primary culture from it. They know a couple Italian curse words, a couple pieces of slang.
My girlfriend's family is actually italian, and that describes them to a T. In my own family, even with a bit more diverse roots it's true too. It takes a long time for culture to amalgamate, longer still when groups are (either voluntarily or not) isolated and/or discriminated against.
I didn't see the first quote mark and read that as: I may find a perfect 10" woman, made the rest of your post highly amusing reading :-p
if they have can use ssh from your existing session they can: cat $NEW_PUBLIC_KEY >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
better than "lens cap"! :-p
I don't know why, but that may be the funniest thing I've read in.. well, quite a while. It's been a long night, and I needed that! Thank you for the wonderful images of morse code generating morris dancers :-D.
Also, you owe me a new keyboard and cup of coffee :-p
You mean your friend bought diamonds to have his meat cut...er polished.
The meaning entirely depends on how kinky his friend is :-p
Not to mention that New York is (in)famous for being the rudest city in the US. If a tweenbot can survive there, it can survive anywhere.
Not really true though :-p. From personal experience since I grew up in the city, still live here, but have traveled a lot - it's not really that we're rude, it's that jumbled as we are we're more "nosy" than most, combined with a brusqueness that outsiders interpret as rude.
Actually, I like apple because of the price-point (or did), my previous gen 8-core mac pro was cheaper with my student discount than a comparable system from any other manufacturer or building it myself. Its thermal design also means that it's exceptionally quiet. OSX is a also a very nice OS, though ~half the time my tower spends on is in debian (with a small amnt of time in vista for gaming :-) )
BTW, at the time when the g3/4 was being lavished with praise it *was* far faster, clock for clock, than intel/amd/via/etc. With the innovations of AMD64/EM64T and the stagnation of PPC (because apple is a very small fish to IBM), x86 caught up and surpassed