The stupider part though was that they didn't sail due East to get away from the storm, but instead tried to sail South towards their destination in Florida (after going only a little bit East to try to avoid the storm).
Until Thursday, the storm was expected to go East off into the Atlantic after wrecking Cuba and Haiti. It was until the 11am Thursday forecast that it was expected to make landfall in New Jersey. At the speed they would be going and given how damn big Sandy is, I don't think going East at that point would have made any difference except putting them further from help.
As for the boat, I'm no sailing expert but don't you typically not take low tech replicas of old ships sailing in a hurricane?
When they set sail, this storm wasn't expected to be anywhere near them. It was expected to trash Cuba and Haiti, then wander off west into empty ocean.
It wasn't until Thursday that the forecast showed it headed for New Jersey.
If you can keep your cool, when you've snapped a great takedown pick and a mall-cop demands something of you, politely decline.
Actually, they CAN (in BC and Ontario, at least) legally tell you to stop taking pictures and/or leave the property. Failing to do so "as soon as practicable" then becomes trespassing and they can have you arrested.
They cannot make you delete the pictures you've already taken nor can they detain you nor can they search or seize anything.
They can tell him to stop photographing and/or leave the property. If he doesn't do so "as soon as practicable after receiving the direction", then it's trespassing and they can call the police and have him arrested. They ARE NOT allowed to seize his property nor order him to delete any pictures already taken.
Yeah, and that "super hit phone" has exactly zero competition that runs the same OS, unlike Android, where you've got lots of options running the same OS and do come with removable batteries and expandable storage.
The problem with using a commodity OS is that you do not get much, if any, slack when you start doing stupid things. HTC's stupid things were locking bootloaders, getting rid of replaceable batteries, and getting rid of microSD slots.
This resulted in everyone knowledgeable, who previously recommended HTC devices to everyone, dropping them like a bad habit and instead recommending Samsung.
Article 1, section 4 explicitly says Congress can override state regulations regarding elections.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [sic] Senators.
So, I can see a legal argument that the Feds can only dictate the admission of election observers in places under Federal jurisdiction. Places like Washington, DC, overseas military bases and embassies, etc.
After all, the elections are called and run by the States and their delegated authorities.
Nope. See Article 1, Section 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [sic] Senators.
This bug is only 10 days old. It's rather unlikely this has percolated down to anything important, much less Android, which still runs 3.0.31 from May.
Yes they have far right members, but also many socially liberal members because the core goal overlaps with people of many different philosophical backgrounds.
Yes, and I see lots of the former and none of the latter actually in office.
Note that Wind's data isn't quite fully unlimited. Their "data fair use" policy kicks in at 5GB (10GB with the $10/month premium data) and may throttle you to 256k/128k, and if you keep pushing it, down to a sub-dial-up 32k/16k.
Not sure if they actually utilize that throttling option regularly or not, but even if they do, they're still better than anyone else's data plans except Sasktel's 10GB-then-drop-priority method.
What necessary number crunching? It gets nothing real done. It just gives you some fake money.
No, it is not just "you get some money".
The number crunching is to log transactions in the block chain in a tamper-proof manner. Someone who wanted to forge or alter a transaction in the past would need to redo all the number crunching from that point forward to the current block, which would be highly impractical.
You could do a lottery to assign bitcoins, have the same outcome and save everyone a ton of real money and time.
No, because mining is what makes the system run. Mining is nothing more or less than recording and verifying transactions. The block subsidy simply encourages people to do the necessary number crunching and doubles as the method of initially distributing the coins.
1. No. The complexity is dynamic. It adjusts based on the total power of the network so that on average, 1 block is found every 10 minutes. If fewer people are mining, the difficulty will drop to maintain that rate.
2. The mechanism for that is that every 210k blocks, the reward for finding the block (currently 50BTC) is cut in half. This will happen for the first time (dropping from 50 to 25) sometime around the end of November.
3. That depends on what you're using for the calculations. Using a CPU stopped being profitable long ago, unless your power is free, but even then unless you have a company worth of computers, you're not going to get much out of it. A good GPU, like something recent from ATI, is slightly profitable, depending on your electrical rates. FPGA based mining equipment is far more power efficient and should remain profitable for quite some time, but isn't cheap.
4. Mining will always be needed, as that's what makes the whole system run. Without mining, transactions aren't recorded into the blockchain. The difference is that the method of paying the miners for their work shifts from creating coins from whole cloth to being paid by the people sending transactions around.
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Uhh, we predicted the exact path of this storm last Monday, nearly a full week before it hit.
Who is "we"? The NHC's predicted track showed it headed for Bermuda until Wednesday.
The stupider part though was that they didn't sail due East to get away from the storm, but instead tried to sail South towards their destination in Florida (after going only a little bit East to try to avoid the storm).
Until Thursday, the storm was expected to go East off into the Atlantic after wrecking Cuba and Haiti. It was until the 11am Thursday forecast that it was expected to make landfall in New Jersey. At the speed they would be going and given how damn big Sandy is, I don't think going East at that point would have made any difference except putting them further from help.
Wander off east, rather.
As for the boat, I'm no sailing expert but don't you typically not take low tech replicas of old ships sailing in a hurricane?
When they set sail, this storm wasn't expected to be anywhere near them. It was expected to trash Cuba and Haiti, then wander off west into empty ocean.
It wasn't until Thursday that the forecast showed it headed for New Jersey.
HP offers a 27" 2560x1440 monitor for "only" $750.
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Verizon and Sprint use different frequency bands, as does just about everyone else.
LTE is scattered all the fuck over the spectrum. There's 8 bands in use just in the USA.
If you can keep your cool, when you've snapped a great takedown pick and a mall-cop demands something of you, politely decline.
Actually, they CAN (in BC and Ontario, at least) legally tell you to stop taking pictures and/or leave the property. Failing to do so "as soon as practicable" then becomes trespassing and they can have you arrested.
They cannot make you delete the pictures you've already taken nor can they detain you nor can they search or seize anything.
Wrong province. BC's law is broadly similar though.
http://ambientlight.ca/laws/the-laws/provincial-law/british-columbia/trespass-act/
They can tell him to stop photographing and/or leave the property. If he doesn't do so "as soon as practicable after receiving the direction", then it's trespassing and they can call the police and have him arrested. They ARE NOT allowed to seize his property nor order him to delete any pictures already taken.
Yeah, and that "super hit phone" has exactly zero competition that runs the same OS, unlike Android, where you've got lots of options running the same OS and do come with removable batteries and expandable storage.
For phones you have Fido, Virgin etc entering the market.
Hah. Fido, Virgin, and Koodo are wholly owned by Rogers, Bell, and Telus respectively.
It's nothing but a shell game to create the illusion of competition.
The problem with using a commodity OS is that you do not get much, if any, slack when you start doing stupid things. HTC's stupid things were locking bootloaders, getting rid of replaceable batteries, and getting rid of microSD slots.
This resulted in everyone knowledgeable, who previously recommended HTC devices to everyone, dropping them like a bad habit and instead recommending Samsung.
That and dont they have locked bootloaders?
Yes, though there's an official method available to unlock it for most devices.
They were doing fine selling Android last year.
Then they got the brilliant idea that people don't want replaceable batteries or expandable storage and created the One line around that.
Now, if Windows somehow tried to prevent you from downloading/installing an alternate browser, I would understand, but that's just not the case.
Which is somewhat what they did in preventing OEMs from bundling alternative browsers, which is what got them sued.
"Grey area" nothing.
Article 1, section 4 explicitly says Congress can override state regulations regarding elections.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [sic] Senators.
So, I can see a legal argument that the Feds can only dictate the admission of election observers in places under Federal jurisdiction. Places like Washington, DC, overseas military bases and embassies, etc.
After all, the elections are called and run by the States and their delegated authorities.
Nope. See Article 1, Section 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [sic] Senators.
This bug is only 10 days old. It's rather unlikely this has percolated down to anything important, much less Android, which still runs 3.0.31 from May.
Yes they have far right members, but also many socially liberal members because the core goal overlaps with people of many different philosophical backgrounds.
Yes, and I see lots of the former and none of the latter actually in office.
Note that Wind's data isn't quite fully unlimited. Their "data fair use" policy kicks in at 5GB (10GB with the $10/month premium data) and may throttle you to 256k/128k, and if you keep pushing it, down to a sub-dial-up 32k/16k.
Not sure if they actually utilize that throttling option regularly or not, but even if they do, they're still better than anyone else's data plans except Sasktel's 10GB-then-drop-priority method.
It also makes a great drinking game.
Only if you're using small beer or something.
From context, it appears to be a media sharing website for images and now, 3d objects.
Not quite. MediaGoblin is a free open source software suite developed by the GNU project for creating your own media sharing site.
That would work great if practically every city in the country wasn't built around the assumption that everyone can drive.
What necessary number crunching?
It gets nothing real done. It just gives you some fake money.
No, it is not just "you get some money".
The number crunching is to log transactions in the block chain in a tamper-proof manner. Someone who wanted to forge or alter a transaction in the past would need to redo all the number crunching from that point forward to the current block, which would be highly impractical.
You could do a lottery to assign bitcoins, have the same outcome and save everyone a ton of real money and time.
No, because mining is what makes the system run. Mining is nothing more or less than recording and verifying transactions. The block subsidy simply encourages people to do the necessary number crunching and doubles as the method of initially distributing the coins.
1. No. The complexity is dynamic. It adjusts based on the total power of the network so that on average, 1 block is found every 10 minutes. If fewer people are mining, the difficulty will drop to maintain that rate.
2. The mechanism for that is that every 210k blocks, the reward for finding the block (currently 50BTC) is cut in half. This will happen for the first time (dropping from 50 to 25) sometime around the end of November.
3. That depends on what you're using for the calculations. Using a CPU stopped being profitable long ago, unless your power is free, but even then unless you have a company worth of computers, you're not going to get much out of it. A good GPU, like something recent from ATI, is slightly profitable, depending on your electrical rates. FPGA based mining equipment is far more power efficient and should remain profitable for quite some time, but isn't cheap.
4. Mining will always be needed, as that's what makes the whole system run. Without mining, transactions aren't recorded into the blockchain. The difference is that the method of paying the miners for their work shifts from creating coins from whole cloth to being paid by the people sending transactions around.