That sounds like a wonderful idea! If submitter starts now, they can get in a couple revisions of the release of liability forms drafted up, while researching how to root/jailbreak at least half a dozen of the most common devices and gathering the requisite software.
It's a fun idea, but not something I'd want to put into the hands of a bunch of 15-16 year olds when there's a distinct chance that some of them will brick their devices, and when irate parents may go after him to fix their kids' mistakes.
This spin speed is half a million times faster than a domestic washing machine
Similarly, I could say "30 is 10 times more than 3". The summary didn't claim that the sphere in question spun 500krpm faster than a washing machine, but 500k times faster, which is another claim entirely (i.e. that a washing machine spins at about 1200rpm).
I'm in Blizzard's back yard (working for a different company, though). As a software engineer with a CS bachelor's, I was hired straight out of college at over $70k. I'm no crazy prodigy; I just ran into a company that hadn't hired new grads in a long time, and I guess they had unrealistically generous pay expectations. So, I know that it's not impossible. Looking at my friends and the jobs they landed in though, it's also nowhere near common to start off at that kind of pay. Honestly, I was expecting to start around 55-60k, in my area.
As of three years ago when I was taking some classes there, my closest community college was $37.50 per unit (and the year before, had been $30.00 per unit). Apparently, it's currently $46 per unit. $900 for a 4-unit class is closer to the amount that I paid at a State school, about 5 years ago. I don't know where you live, but it sounds like you're being ripped off.
GOG is the only e-tailor where you really BUY games.
That's not strictly true. Desura itself is DRM-agnostic (they don't impose their own DRM, although game makers are free to sell their games with it). Humble Indie Bundle sells games DRM-free (although they don't have regular availability of specific titles). Indie Royale works similarly to HIB. ShinyLoot sells DRM-free games (although they allow one-time key authentication). That being said, GOG is an incredible site, and they most assuredly have my business!
If I want to know something, there's a good chance that I can learn it on the internet. It used to be that I had to go to a library to find information, sort through a card catalog for books that sound like they'd fit what I'm looking for, and actually do some serious research. Now? Pull up a search engine, and there's a good chance that I'll have the information I'm looking for in a matter of seconds.
"Thousands of years" ago, information was restricted by the practicality of reproducing it. That is, someone actually had to write out the scroll. Literacy wasn't common for most of the populace. Some 600 years ago, reproducing books became more practical, with the advent of movable type. It made more sense to have a more-educated populace. The Internet is another iteration on the ease of disseminating information. It makes finding information easier than books did before it. That being said, it's just another tool on the educational toolbelt.
Basically, you can't compare education millenia ago with education centuries ago. As the Internet leaves its infancy, you won't be able to compare learning and education a few decades from now to education a couple decades ago. The Internet allows so much higher ease of access to so much more information that a sensible comparison is difficult to make.
I've got a 4G iPod that works perfectly well for the only thing it does (music). Rockbox works, and so do the various open-source programs that can transfer music to its default OS. Now, my 1st-gen iPod Touch has a much smaller percentage of its original capabilities available. Apple doesn't allow versions of apps that support older devices to remain on the market, apparently. I'm stuck with the software that's already on the thing, and whatever will work from the unofficial app stores.
If someone makes a post that seems to be making a false-equivalence between two situations, then they aren't even challenging anyone's "ideals", they're just introducing confusion for no good reason. Anthropogenic climate change and climate change through natural processes (like Earth's orbital wobble) aren't mutually exclusive, and any argument that says that they are is either disingenuous or badly confused about the claims being made. If you take the former to be true (and I do), then "shut up" is the correct response to the trolling attempt.
We have a simple shorthand for "monstrous dictator that everyone will recognize." It's silly not to use that shorthand when it's convenient, and Godwin's law doesn't really apply if you're just using Hitler as a placeholder for a malevolent ruler.
a person who cannot construct a thought without referencing Hitler is seriously deficient.
I'd argue that anyone who immediately eschews tools that are available to them based on the opinions of someone on the Internet is "seriously deficient". I can couch my meaning in more obscure references...but why bother? Doing unnecessary work is counter-productive.
I'll stick with someone else's answer: If you're relying on plastic-bottle-lights somewhere light Minnesota, you've probably got some more pressing problems to deal with than how to decrease the insulation of your home by putting windows and sunlights all over.
The fact that you can pick places where the invention won't work doesn't diminish how useful it can be in the places where it does.
Plastic bottles are often stretchy enough to accomodate that. There could be a problem of the bottles are embedded in something like a corrugated metal roof, but if they're in something softer, it may not be a big deal.
True, it's room temperature in most of the world (if a couple degrees cooler than I prefer). To a lot of Slashdot's readers, it's below freezing. The temperature scale in use should have been clear, based on context.
What steam storage? The article seemed to say that air would be forced through skis at the bottom of the pods by an air compressor and thrust would be provided by magnets.
I think it's more likely that they mean that religion hasn't had a sufficiently-retardant effect on our development to keep us in the trees, which is a much more easily-supported assertion.
Well, the time required, for one. The image bed is essentially a scanner. Higher resolution means a slower scan. Second, even at low qualities, my experience is that a lot of the time, scanning at "low quality" settings will still give you better results than using an analog copier anyhow. Scanning at lower quality is just a tradeoff of quality for speed, with speed being optimized for.
No, "free" in this context usually means copyrighted and protected under a license like the GPL (or something similar). The "free" that the FSF endorses is actually more restrictive than public domain, with the objective of forcing developers to share their improvements on the code.
Because keeping around a decent performing PC precludes using it with your overpriced speaker system, and $2000 every 2 years is "required" to keep up with console stats. Right.
You can build a decent PC for under $1000. You can keep it butter-smooth on new games for $300 every couple years for a GPU upgrade, and an additional amount every 5 years or so for a CPU/mobo upgrade.
On a separate note, I still can't get over your quote on your TV setup, though. I couldn't imagine $10k being remotely worth it, to me. Then again, I'm happy with my $800 TV and $200 speakers. To each their own.
A USB port on a computer generally supplies 500mA of power. A wall wart is likely to supply double that amount or more. If your phone is draining its battery faster than the external power supply is charging it, the predictable thing happens.
The issue is that generally, something might be possible in the lab but impractical or tooexpensive to scale to commercial production levels. So, instead of a 100x performance increase, they might be able to use the information to give us a 10x performance increase, over the course of years of iterative development.
They are fairly common. It's a way of attaching information about some form of post, identifying a category for the post, a list of related terms, etc. It makes it easier for someone else to find that information when they do a search for it later. Tagging someone on Facebook is an example. It makes it possible to add that picture to a list of "Pictures that Bob is in". One of the tags on this article is "tagging". That means that I can search Slashdot for "tagging", and this article will be one of the results. The idea of a tag is tied into the "semantic web". This is the idea that you ought to be able to read a blog post and click a tag at the bottom to find other blog posts that have been tagged with the same word, so you can continue reading things related to the tag that you clicked. One of the challenges is that there isn't a standard way to specify a tag. Should I call something "#LongMultiWordTag", "#long-multi-word-tag", "long_multi-word_tag", or some other variation? I just went to the Comic-Con convention in San Diego. Should I tag my posts #CCISD, #ComicCon, SDCC2013, or what? Some of the other posts have been harsh. Honestly though, if you've spent much time online in the last decade or so, it's been increasingly difficult *not* to be in constant contact with tags. You may as well have been asking what a "link" is, circa 10 years ago.
Well, I was supposed to have typing classes in both the high schools I went to, but I managed to skirt around that requirement. In 10th grade (in 1999), I took elective classes in QBasic and Visual Basic programming the first semester, and then C++ programming in the second. Beyond that, I helped found a computer club....although, that quickly degenerated into a "play Starcraft after school" club, which was much more popular. When I was there, they had mostly phased out their ancient 386 machines and moved to some 166MHz Pentium II's. By 2000, I was in a different school, which had a number of computers open for student use, but no programming or computer science courses.
The first school was a DoDEA school in Germany. The second was a public high school in a fairly well off neighborhood in southern California.
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That sounds like a wonderful idea! If submitter starts now, they can get in a couple revisions of the release of liability forms drafted up, while researching how to root/jailbreak at least half a dozen of the most common devices and gathering the requisite software.
It's a fun idea, but not something I'd want to put into the hands of a bunch of 15-16 year olds when there's a distinct chance that some of them will brick their devices, and when irate parents may go after him to fix their kids' mistakes.
This spin speed is half a million times faster than a domestic washing machine
Similarly, I could say "30 is 10 times more than 3". The summary didn't claim that the sphere in question spun 500krpm faster than a washing machine, but 500k times faster, which is another claim entirely (i.e. that a washing machine spins at about 1200rpm).
I'm in Blizzard's back yard (working for a different company, though). As a software engineer with a CS bachelor's, I was hired straight out of college at over $70k. I'm no crazy prodigy; I just ran into a company that hadn't hired new grads in a long time, and I guess they had unrealistically generous pay expectations. So, I know that it's not impossible. Looking at my friends and the jobs they landed in though, it's also nowhere near common to start off at that kind of pay. Honestly, I was expecting to start around 55-60k, in my area.
As of three years ago when I was taking some classes there, my closest community college was $37.50 per unit (and the year before, had been $30.00 per unit). Apparently, it's currently $46 per unit. $900 for a 4-unit class is closer to the amount that I paid at a State school, about 5 years ago. I don't know where you live, but it sounds like you're being ripped off.
GOG is the only e-tailor where you really BUY games.
That's not strictly true. Desura itself is DRM-agnostic (they don't impose their own DRM, although game makers are free to sell their games with it). Humble Indie Bundle sells games DRM-free (although they don't have regular availability of specific titles). Indie Royale works similarly to HIB. ShinyLoot sells DRM-free games (although they allow one-time key authentication).
That being said, GOG is an incredible site, and they most assuredly have my business!
If I want to know something, there's a good chance that I can learn it on the internet. It used to be that I had to go to a library to find information, sort through a card catalog for books that sound like they'd fit what I'm looking for, and actually do some serious research. Now? Pull up a search engine, and there's a good chance that I'll have the information I'm looking for in a matter of seconds.
"Thousands of years" ago, information was restricted by the practicality of reproducing it. That is, someone actually had to write out the scroll. Literacy wasn't common for most of the populace. Some 600 years ago, reproducing books became more practical, with the advent of movable type. It made more sense to have a more-educated populace. The Internet is another iteration on the ease of disseminating information. It makes finding information easier than books did before it. That being said, it's just another tool on the educational toolbelt.
Basically, you can't compare education millenia ago with education centuries ago. As the Internet leaves its infancy, you won't be able to compare learning and education a few decades from now to education a couple decades ago. The Internet allows so much higher ease of access to so much more information that a sensible comparison is difficult to make.
I've got a 4G iPod that works perfectly well for the only thing it does (music). Rockbox works, and so do the various open-source programs that can transfer music to its default OS. Now, my 1st-gen iPod Touch has a much smaller percentage of its original capabilities available. Apple doesn't allow versions of apps that support older devices to remain on the market, apparently. I'm stuck with the software that's already on the thing, and whatever will work from the unofficial app stores.
If someone makes a post that seems to be making a false-equivalence between two situations, then they aren't even challenging anyone's "ideals", they're just introducing confusion for no good reason. Anthropogenic climate change and climate change through natural processes (like Earth's orbital wobble) aren't mutually exclusive, and any argument that says that they are is either disingenuous or badly confused about the claims being made. If you take the former to be true (and I do), then "shut up" is the correct response to the trolling attempt.
a person who cannot construct a thought without referencing Hitler is seriously deficient.
I'd argue that anyone who immediately eschews tools that are available to them based on the opinions of someone on the Internet is "seriously deficient". I can couch my meaning in more obscure references...but why bother? Doing unnecessary work is counter-productive.
To each their own. I do watch documentaries, but sometimes an escape into fiction is pleasant, and Breaking Bad is some very well-written fiction.
I'll stick with someone else's answer: If you're relying on plastic-bottle-lights somewhere light Minnesota, you've probably got some more pressing problems to deal with than how to decrease the insulation of your home by putting windows and sunlights all over.
The fact that you can pick places where the invention won't work doesn't diminish how useful it can be in the places where it does.
Plastic bottles are often stretchy enough to accomodate that. There could be a problem of the bottles are embedded in something like a corrugated metal roof, but if they're in something softer, it may not be a big deal.
True, it's room temperature in most of the world (if a couple degrees cooler than I prefer). To a lot of Slashdot's readers, it's below freezing. The temperature scale in use should have been clear, based on context.
What steam storage? The article seemed to say that air would be forced through skis at the bottom of the pods by an air compressor and thrust would be provided by magnets.
I think it's more likely that they mean that religion hasn't had a sufficiently-retardant effect on our development to keep us in the trees, which is a much more easily-supported assertion.
Well, the time required, for one. The image bed is essentially a scanner. Higher resolution means a slower scan. Second, even at low qualities, my experience is that a lot of the time, scanning at "low quality" settings will still give you better results than using an analog copier anyhow. Scanning at lower quality is just a tradeoff of quality for speed, with speed being optimized for.
Nice.
No, "free" in this context usually means copyrighted and protected under a license like the GPL (or something similar). The "free" that the FSF endorses is actually more restrictive than public domain, with the objective of forcing developers to share their improvements on the code.
Because keeping around a decent performing PC precludes using it with your overpriced speaker system, and $2000 every 2 years is "required" to keep up with console stats. Right.
You can build a decent PC for under $1000. You can keep it butter-smooth on new games for $300 every couple years for a GPU upgrade, and an additional amount every 5 years or so for a CPU/mobo upgrade.
On a separate note, I still can't get over your quote on your TV setup, though. I couldn't imagine $10k being remotely worth it, to me. Then again, I'm happy with my $800 TV and $200 speakers. To each their own.
That would be the time (7pm), not the year.
Who said anything about a smartphone? The Nexus 7 is a tablet. Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't 4-core phones.
The primary (theoretical) benefit wouldn't be for servicing the needs of the OS, but for providing more performance for demanding applications.
A USB port on a computer generally supplies 500mA of power. A wall wart is likely to supply double that amount or more. If your phone is draining its battery faster than the external power supply is charging it, the predictable thing happens.
The issue is that generally, something might be possible in the lab but impractical or tooexpensive to scale to commercial production levels. So, instead of a 100x performance increase, they might be able to use the information to give us a 10x performance increase, over the course of years of iterative development.
They are fairly common. It's a way of attaching information about some form of post, identifying a category for the post, a list of related terms, etc. It makes it easier for someone else to find that information when they do a search for it later.
Tagging someone on Facebook is an example. It makes it possible to add that picture to a list of "Pictures that Bob is in". One of the tags on this article is "tagging". That means that I can search Slashdot for "tagging", and this article will be one of the results.
The idea of a tag is tied into the "semantic web". This is the idea that you ought to be able to read a blog post and click a tag at the bottom to find other blog posts that have been tagged with the same word, so you can continue reading things related to the tag that you clicked.
One of the challenges is that there isn't a standard way to specify a tag. Should I call something "#LongMultiWordTag", "#long-multi-word-tag", "long_multi-word_tag", or some other variation? I just went to the Comic-Con convention in San Diego. Should I tag my posts #CCISD, #ComicCon, SDCC2013, or what?
Some of the other posts have been harsh. Honestly though, if you've spent much time online in the last decade or so, it's been increasingly difficult *not* to be in constant contact with tags. You may as well have been asking what a "link" is, circa 10 years ago.
Well, I was supposed to have typing classes in both the high schools I went to, but I managed to skirt around that requirement. In 10th grade (in 1999), I took elective classes in QBasic and Visual Basic programming the first semester, and then C++ programming in the second. Beyond that, I helped found a computer club....although, that quickly degenerated into a "play Starcraft after school" club, which was much more popular. When I was there, they had mostly phased out their ancient 386 machines and moved to some 166MHz Pentium II's. By 2000, I was in a different school, which had a number of computers open for student use, but no programming or computer science courses.
The first school was a DoDEA school in Germany. The second was a public high school in a fairly well off neighborhood in southern California.