It might be illegal, but nobody knows it; everybody who wants one will probably just get one (I used to live in China). Not that I agree one iota with it, but I can definitely understand the government's need to control thoughts: it's lead to great stable economic development so far; they operate in what has always been the prevailing mode of government throughout history; they have a different idea of morality (one that's not necessarily wrong) - that the individual rights are weighed much more lightly compared with the greater societal good. In addition, though not overtly, our media is also structured in such a way that they passively try to control our thoughts.
I'm not sure your argument is complete. Is it fair that Walmart can keep using the money you paid for Halo long after you stopped playing Halo? Your information is the payment. Though I agree with you: services and companies should be a lot more upfront about what you're paying for their "free" service. I bet not a lot would change (maybe 1% of facebook.5% of google users would stop using the service) but at least people would feel better. And this provides a path to progress: if every service listed the price clearly, it's easier for competitors to lower the price ("oh they track everything but we only track your click habits, and that information expires 30 days after you stop using our service").
To be honest with the bandwidth/data plans as abysmal as they are right now in the US, those extra bits seem too steep a price to pay for the effect they provide.
Maintaining standards of aesthetics in your code is the cheapest and easiest way to ensure it does what it's supposed to do. Simple logic: if I have a hard time reading your code, I might misunderstand its intention and modify it the wrong way.
The university has LAN based connectivity as well as 802.11 connectivity. 802.11 connectivity is free - as long as you can get on at the network level you're free to use it. LAN based connectivity is obviously only available in classrooms and in dorm rooms.
Now at the beginning of school year, each LAN port is "reset", in the sense that it becomes unregistered. When a user connects next (this means the new student to move into that dorm room), it will be served a special page upon any HTTP request. That special page will check the UserAgent of the browser and, if Windows is indicated, will be prompted to run a security scan of the PC (windows-only software). If any other OS (or a router) is indicated, then the user is let through un-scanned, for the rest of the year.
Seems to me, that while technically more support is provided to Windows users, anyone would prefer to connect as a non-Windows user.
Actually the IT you see at Joe Papercompany is different from the IT you need to successfully run a large company whose business is tied to the IT (such as Google or certain types of finance companies). So "most IT" that most people here think they know about is dramatically different from the top 10% of IT.
I believe the point is to model how people are using the trains rather than the status of the trains. How many people/who/when are the questions they want to answer.
Such as in any subway system in China. Where reception doesn't end at the subway entrance. People are making calls and surfing the web while riding the train.
I wonder what happens when people start selling portable "camera controllers". The intended purpose can be overridden and the nefarious purpose can propagate easily.
The idea is that if they're chained together in the direction of flow they have less probability of hampering with each others' flow. But if they're lined up perpendicular to the flow wouldn't that just cause a clog?
I'll respond to your proposal directly and point out the flaws. Patent trolls only exist because a) the patent system exists and b) it's not possible to differentiate the "trolls" from the legitimate inventors. Either you solve b) and remove this problem of trolls altogether, or any solution targeting patent trolls would altogether undermine a). So in short, your solution is the roundabout way of removing the patent system.
Can someone in the know help interpret the article? Is this an engineering breakthrough or a scientific breakthrough? From my understanding the wavelength of light is a physical limitation to optically viewing small objects. Does this somehow provide us a way to go beyond that limit or is this simply getting closer to it?
It's also speedier than the full blown mouse-driven GUI. This retains that one. Also ls/grep for navigating is sometimes better/sometimes worse than folder with icons for navigating. This seems to allow you to mix the two. I think the idea is very nice and can probably be tweaked to make it a viable default CLI.
Comfortable velocity basically means any velocity at which you can reach your destination. As space is mostly a vacuum, reaching escape velocity seems to be the biggest obstacle to getting off this rock so far.
By "junk", I do mean things like the hydrogen you see every so often. If the goal is to reach the destination eventually, as long as you are moving closer relative to the next piece of hydrogen, you will eventually get your reaction mass.
Reaction mass doesn't have to come from within the craft itself. See airplanes, where air is used. It's conceivable that we can find a way to harness all that junk out there in space. Plus, keep in mind that once you've reached a comfortable velocity, the only change in momentum you'll need is for navigational purposes. And considering there isn't really all that much junk out in space (the universe is mostly empty), navigation might not be as necessary as you might think.
Also most people don't watch and hope for cheese. They watch hoping for a good show - some new variation on a well known strategy in the current metagame or some novel response to a build order. They want to see mind games going on without the players directly communicating with each other. None of that is information asymmetry.
Last point is, playing at anything above diamond level is exhausting. After a few games I just want to relax. Then sometimes I'll play less serious formats like custom games or 4v4 games. Other times it's good to just put on a youtube video of a game and see how pros played the build order that I or my opponent had played.
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I believe that looks like a jail cell.
It might be illegal, but nobody knows it; everybody who wants one will probably just get one (I used to live in China). Not that I agree one iota with it, but I can definitely understand the government's need to control thoughts: it's lead to great stable economic development so far; they operate in what has always been the prevailing mode of government throughout history; they have a different idea of morality (one that's not necessarily wrong) - that the individual rights are weighed much more lightly compared with the greater societal good. In addition, though not overtly, our media is also structured in such a way that they passively try to control our thoughts.
That aphorism sounds nice, until you consider how well Wikipedia, Firefox, and LibreOffice are doing.
I'm not sure your argument is complete. Is it fair that Walmart can keep using the money you paid for Halo long after you stopped playing Halo? Your information is the payment. Though I agree with you: services and companies should be a lot more upfront about what you're paying for their "free" service. I bet not a lot would change (maybe 1% of facebook .5% of google users would stop using the service) but at least people would feel better. And this provides a path to progress: if every service listed the price clearly, it's easier for competitors to lower the price ("oh they track everything but we only track your click habits, and that information expires 30 days after you stop using our service").
To be honest with the bandwidth/data plans as abysmal as they are right now in the US, those extra bits seem too steep a price to pay for the effect they provide.
No kidding. The iPhone app the article mentions is rated 2 stars on the app store. Tons of complaints that it doesn't do what it is described to do.
And eventually we wouldn't need to spend a quarter of our life times in school.
Funny, but not really accurate. The concept of an absolute sense of time doesn't make sense when we're talking about objects so far away.
Maintaining standards of aesthetics in your code is the cheapest and easiest way to ensure it does what it's supposed to do. Simple logic: if I have a hard time reading your code, I might misunderstand its intention and modify it the wrong way.
The university has LAN based connectivity as well as 802.11 connectivity. 802.11 connectivity is free - as long as you can get on at the network level you're free to use it. LAN based connectivity is obviously only available in classrooms and in dorm rooms.
Now at the beginning of school year, each LAN port is "reset", in the sense that it becomes unregistered. When a user connects next (this means the new student to move into that dorm room), it will be served a special page upon any HTTP request. That special page will check the UserAgent of the browser and, if Windows is indicated, will be prompted to run a security scan of the PC (windows-only software). If any other OS (or a router) is indicated, then the user is let through un-scanned, for the rest of the year.
Seems to me, that while technically more support is provided to Windows users, anyone would prefer to connect as a non-Windows user.
Actually the IT you see at Joe Papercompany is different from the IT you need to successfully run a large company whose business is tied to the IT (such as Google or certain types of finance companies). So "most IT" that most people here think they know about is dramatically different from the top 10% of IT.
I believe the point is to model how people are using the trains rather than the status of the trains. How many people/who/when are the questions they want to answer.
Such as in any subway system in China. Where reception doesn't end at the subway entrance. People are making calls and surfing the web while riding the train.
I wonder what happens when people start selling portable "camera controllers". The intended purpose can be overridden and the nefarious purpose can propagate easily.
While funny, the sad thing is that technology doesn't really exist: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shield[/url]
The idea is that if they're chained together in the direction of flow they have less probability of hampering with each others' flow. But if they're lined up perpendicular to the flow wouldn't that just cause a clog?
I'll respond to your proposal directly and point out the flaws. Patent trolls only exist because a) the patent system exists and b) it's not possible to differentiate the "trolls" from the legitimate inventors. Either you solve b) and remove this problem of trolls altogether, or any solution targeting patent trolls would altogether undermine a). So in short, your solution is the roundabout way of removing the patent system.
Is going to know the master character's password, dig a tunnel through the sewage, and get the warden arrested!
Sure this is a site for nerdy news, but this literally has no impact on anything. It's just a number.
Can someone in the know help interpret the article? Is this an engineering breakthrough or a scientific breakthrough? From my understanding the wavelength of light is a physical limitation to optically viewing small objects. Does this somehow provide us a way to go beyond that limit or is this simply getting closer to it?
It's also speedier than the full blown mouse-driven GUI. This retains that one. Also ls/grep for navigating is sometimes better/sometimes worse than folder with icons for navigating. This seems to allow you to mix the two. I think the idea is very nice and can probably be tweaked to make it a viable default CLI.
Or solar sails. Momentum can come in the form of a photon :)
Also gravity assists were used in the Voyager mission.
Comfortable velocity basically means any velocity at which you can reach your destination. As space is mostly a vacuum, reaching escape velocity seems to be the biggest obstacle to getting off this rock so far.
By "junk", I do mean things like the hydrogen you see every so often. If the goal is to reach the destination eventually, as long as you are moving closer relative to the next piece of hydrogen, you will eventually get your reaction mass.
Reaction mass doesn't have to come from within the craft itself. See airplanes, where air is used. It's conceivable that we can find a way to harness all that junk out there in space. Plus, keep in mind that once you've reached a comfortable velocity, the only change in momentum you'll need is for navigational purposes. And considering there isn't really all that much junk out in space (the universe is mostly empty), navigation might not be as necessary as you might think.
Also most people don't watch and hope for cheese. They watch hoping for a good show - some new variation on a well known strategy in the current metagame or some novel response to a build order. They want to see mind games going on without the players directly communicating with each other. None of that is information asymmetry.
Last point is, playing at anything above diamond level is exhausting. After a few games I just want to relax. Then sometimes I'll play less serious formats like custom games or 4v4 games. Other times it's good to just put on a youtube video of a game and see how pros played the build order that I or my opponent had played.