The intended meaning is the same as "infinite" - which is not "beyond comprehension" but "beyond practicality". If I only have to buy two sets of batteries for my devices (one for use, the other sit on the charger for swapping) for life, that's infinite for all practical purposes. Maybe these batteries won't become heirlooms. But if their price is merely 10-20 times the cost of regular batteries, it's close enough.
Wireless for hardware where wireless make sense is one thing. Wireless for everything? Not so much. There is a place for wireless keyboard/mouse. But for the large majority of use cases I see, it doesn't. Why should you use a wireless keyboard/mouse on a desktop computer? I've hooked mine up to a USB hub, I have sufficient distance between me and my computer (it's in a different room from my monitor/keyboard/mouse). Most people don't keep their computer so far away. A friend hooked his computer up to his TV, and then put his keyboard/mouse on the table in front of his couch. Their cat would attack cables draped that long, and they'd trip on them, so that's fine. But for normal desktop use, or even hooking up to a laptop, usually wired is sufficient.
Add to that cost of batteries - both economic and ecological - and I'm having a hard time understanding this wireless craze in this area.
Tablets, smartphones, these I understand. Their use cases are small and portable, so needing a wire is counterproductive. Using a laptop over wireless, again, I understand that bit (but if you're going to set it up with a bigger keyboard/mouse, you're not using it on your lap anymore, the wire for the peripherals is unlikely to be a barrier to use).
Wireless sound? I'm iffy on that. If it's broadcast sound (e.g., radio), even if it's just broadcast in your own house (central location to all parts of the house), that's one thing. But the surround sound system for your entertainment system? Not so much. The speakers still need power, they still need to be close to a power supply, and all of those power converters will merely increase inefficiencies. And it's not that hard, generally speaking, to string some speaker wire under baseboards and such.
Smart meters? They already have a wired connection back to the control center: the power lines themselves. They should be using ethernet-over-power protocols to send back their information. This would have the added benefit of not requiring anyone to go wardriving to get within range of the transmitter to collect the data Google-style. There's no good reason for them to pollute the spectrum.
As you probably can tell, my house is wired. Wireless is reserved for my laptop, tablet, and baby monitor. Smart meters should not interfere with that as far as I'm concerned.
Personal preference. Just like pretty much any other animal, really. Chocolate-covered grasshoppers anyone? One person's delicacy is another person's pet.
That's not to be taken to imply irrational (i.e., extinction) hunting is okay. But if you can successfully breed polar bears in captivity for slaughter as many do for cattle, chickens, etc., I don't see why not.
Which is why you do this with your cousin's truck.
So, what, that's any truck with SC plates other than your own? You may want to provide a bit more help and also exclude anyone you live with, including your wife, parents, kids, etc.
Actually, at exactly the speed of light, the formula explodes into "undefined." We simply don't know what it means. The universe may decide that this actually means "negligible" energy required to move from c to c+1.
:-P
(Regardless of pedantry, right before c it explodes to "infinite" where "infinite" is the practical definition: more than we can overcome. For example, using sunlight as if the wave front was perfectly straight / photons were perfectly parallel when doing the slit experiment. It's not really infinitely far away, but it's far enough to be counted as such.)
I had to completely disable the n support on my 2.4GHz band just to get my ASUS android table to connect. Which I thought was nuts. To be fair, I haven't tried again since upgrading from Android 3.0 to 3.1 and then 3.2.
I left the 5GHz band on (obviously n) for my laptop to use. Not much in the way of interference that way, but for the likelihood of collision, it's somewhat of a waste.
I don't think anyone argues that copyright should be "cut off" at the creator's death. Merely that it should be a static number of years, period. (We don't want someone killing Britney Spears just to get her latest hit put in the public domain. At least, not for that reason.) I could also handle a copyright that started at time of first publishing (as "trade secret" laws would likely handle the before-publication part), which would still give those who owned the new Cash albums a reasonable time to generate profit from the creation.
Which one? I count 8 "Darth Vader"s and one "Lord Vader". Doesn't look like a problem currently, though there may have been more at one time and these are just the ones that haven't had any complaints lodged against them so far.
Um, yeah. I'm holding a gun to your head and ask you to give me your wallet. So, if you do, it's not robbery, it's a gift? Similarly, if your employer makes your life a living hell and you quit, you can't sue for wrongful dismissal? Both of these have "no" as the answer. Same with your scenario. If a mall guard (using threatened authority, whether an actual weapon is present or not) confiscates your camera, and s/he has no legal right to do so (let's face it, it's unlikely they do), it's theft.
If they merely copy your SD card and return the SD card to you, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement. (Woops, wrong argument.)
Memory ability? You sure? In high school, I had to stop taking biology because it was too much memorisation. Memorising Shakespeare passages was difficult. And yet I was still near the top of my class in an academic-oriented high school. University was another story - when the minimum high-school average to apply for Engineering is 75%, and the actual cut-off is much higher than that, you know you're competing some of the top people in the area. Still, memorisation for some things is key, and I never could do that. And I still graduated.
I suspect that your ADD played a bigger role than inability to memorise.
That said, I applaud the school district for wanting to improve grades. But the method they chose was on the lower end of stupid, IMNSHO.
Base is probably the biggest pig. But it's somewhat understandable: more databases have a good JDBC interface than probably anything else. And it's more cross-platform - if you can get the Sybase JDBC type 4 driver on your Mac or Linux box, you can talk to that MS SQL server. Or getting the DB2 JDBC type 4 driver on a Mac. You can't get the MS SQL ODBC driver for Linux, I suspect. And you can't get the DB2 ODBC driver for Mac. (Okay, that last bit is not entirely true anymore, but was for a long time.) Thus, if Base uses Java to interface with the databases, it stands a pretty reasonable chance of just working with most db's.
Before we had kids, my wife could watch a movie or TV show (Law & Order, for example) where kids get hurt or killed and enjoy the justice meted out near the end. Now? One girl and two boys later, even if that violence happens off-screen, to a kid she knows is really an actor and thus not really being hurt, she can often tear up.
You're a moron. Parents who don't empathise with kids, even those not their own, have the genetic problem, not the ones who do think about the children.
Literally, it means "struggle." (The "holy" part may be implied, I'm not sure.) Not war. Of course, like most words in most languages, it can take on an extended meaning in context.
A Christian going on a retreat, or an alcoholic going to AA meetings, or a drug-addict going to treatment would all be going through "Jihad". And, depending on context, they could all be holy struggles, completely fitting the term. If someone was going through AA meetings or drug addiction treatment for Allah instead of just for themself, it'd be a holy struggle.
My car has a range of x km, based on a full charge. I need to travel.4x km and back today. The grid took off the top 20% of my battery. Do I make it all the way back into my driveway?
Planning road trips, even if the trip is only downtown and back, gets trickier when you don't know how much energy (range) you have before you climb in to the vehicle. Other trips, of course, are going to be moot - getting to the local grocery store and back is unlikely to be a significant issue.
When we drive a 350km-each-way trip to visit my grandmother, we know exactly where we need to fill on gas. We can plan how long we'll be in the vehicle before mandatory stoppages. We can load up on gas the day before the trip and know how much will be in the tank when we depart the next day.
If the power companies want to shave their peaks, they should provide the power storage. And batteries may or may not be the most effective ways to do that.
I read somewhere recently a quote that, IIRC, was from Churchill. It was something about avoiding war, but if you must fight, fight with severity, for that is the most humane. I think that applies here. Though it sounds incredibly cruel, if people are not dying in your war, there will be no incentive for either side to stop.
Of course, Gadhafi, Hussein, Stalin, and similar madmen are somewhat of a counter example in that they don't give up no matter how many of their side are killed. Yet Japan in WWII is an example of the ruthless severity (nuclear bombs) causing an immediate and complete cessation of any attempts to create war.
Even modern times with Gadhafi and Hussein, the invasion of Iraq was much more severe than the Libyan rebels, thus the shorter amount of time to cause the government to capitulate. (Getting the rest of the population to stop fighting, much harder... we'll see how Libya does without the outside intervention.)
Anyway, the point is that robot vs robot is war by proxy. Without the violence, the bloodshed, the impetus to end the war just won't be the same. They'll drag on for longer and longer, and resolution will be even less certain than it is today. I'm not sure that's necessarily such a good thing.
Do you leave your doors unlocked? Why not just leave your doors open and use the law to handle these sorts of things?
Simple: you put up rudimentary security to dissuade opportunists (the vast majority of low-level criminals, in my estimation), and even the more seasoned criminals who look for value for difficulty. If you have more security than value, you'll be skipped. If you have more value than security, you'll be targeted. Eventually.
By limiting police resources to only situations where value is more than security can reasonably provide for, we reduce overall effects of crime.
That said, this is a "who watches the watchers" type of scenario. Who ensures the security firms are themselves secure? It looks like we're going through some sort of Darwinian clean-up of this space. Too bad there will be innocents involved - people fooled by the incorrect certificates.
Enclosures grabbing any variable in scope and keeping them around is a major pain.
I've been doing perl now for a while (~10 years or so). And closures grabbing any variable in scope (that is actually mentioned inside the closure) is a godsend. I can't imagine another way. That sounds like a feature, not a pain. (As to your other points, I don't do JS/ECMAscript, so I can't speak to them.)
I don't fall from large distances, thus I don't see how parachutes will help me.
I live in Canuckia, so the flu vaccination is embedded in my taxes whether I use it or not. I don't get paid hourly, so if I'm sick for three days, I'm still paid. So no financial risk nor reward. It's now whether I regard the effort to get the vaccine and the side effects (sore arm at a minimum, most likely no more than a bad night's sleep) to be worth it. I don't think I've ever actually had a flu (many colds, but the flu vaccine won't help there, of course), nor do I personally know anyone who has. I don't work in an office, I work from home, and have for 9 years now. My exposure is incredibly small (though with my eldest going to school next week it'll grow considerably - from her to us, not the other way around). The benefits just aren't there.
A friend of mine back in high school could do logarithms in his head. Quickly. But he screwed up basic addition. This is about as close as I'm going to get to that type of genius, I suppose.
No vaccination is 100% effective. As I'm sure no parachute is. Or other life saving device. It doesn't mean you don't take it when offered the chance.
Yes, with my parachute, I've not had a single fatal fall yet. Some would argue that falling off my chair laughing at idiots on the internet doesn't count as a fall, but I can't refuse a life saving device!
<removing tongue from cheek>
Note that we don't normally bother with the yearly flu vaccine, on advice from our physician: he basically said the prediction is wrong so often that there was basically no benefit (chances of getting the disease drops by less than 50% from an already small number) unless we were already in poor health (where the severity of the flu would make any drop in likelihood of getting it worth it). All other vaccines are current, as far as I'm aware.
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The intended meaning is the same as "infinite" - which is not "beyond comprehension" but "beyond practicality". If I only have to buy two sets of batteries for my devices (one for use, the other sit on the charger for swapping) for life, that's infinite for all practical purposes. Maybe these batteries won't become heirlooms. But if their price is merely 10-20 times the cost of regular batteries, it's close enough.
Wireless for hardware where wireless make sense is one thing. Wireless for everything? Not so much. There is a place for wireless keyboard/mouse. But for the large majority of use cases I see, it doesn't. Why should you use a wireless keyboard/mouse on a desktop computer? I've hooked mine up to a USB hub, I have sufficient distance between me and my computer (it's in a different room from my monitor/keyboard/mouse). Most people don't keep their computer so far away. A friend hooked his computer up to his TV, and then put his keyboard/mouse on the table in front of his couch. Their cat would attack cables draped that long, and they'd trip on them, so that's fine. But for normal desktop use, or even hooking up to a laptop, usually wired is sufficient.
Add to that cost of batteries - both economic and ecological - and I'm having a hard time understanding this wireless craze in this area.
Tablets, smartphones, these I understand. Their use cases are small and portable, so needing a wire is counterproductive. Using a laptop over wireless, again, I understand that bit (but if you're going to set it up with a bigger keyboard/mouse, you're not using it on your lap anymore, the wire for the peripherals is unlikely to be a barrier to use).
Wireless sound? I'm iffy on that. If it's broadcast sound (e.g., radio), even if it's just broadcast in your own house (central location to all parts of the house), that's one thing. But the surround sound system for your entertainment system? Not so much. The speakers still need power, they still need to be close to a power supply, and all of those power converters will merely increase inefficiencies. And it's not that hard, generally speaking, to string some speaker wire under baseboards and such.
Smart meters? They already have a wired connection back to the control center: the power lines themselves. They should be using ethernet-over-power protocols to send back their information. This would have the added benefit of not requiring anyone to go wardriving to get within range of the transmitter to collect the data Google-style. There's no good reason for them to pollute the spectrum.
As you probably can tell, my house is wired. Wireless is reserved for my laptop, tablet, and baby monitor. Smart meters should not interfere with that as far as I'm concerned.
Personal preference. Just like pretty much any other animal, really. Chocolate-covered grasshoppers anyone? One person's delicacy is another person's pet.
That's not to be taken to imply irrational (i.e., extinction) hunting is okay. But if you can successfully breed polar bears in captivity for slaughter as many do for cattle, chickens, etc., I don't see why not.
Which is why you do this with your cousin's truck.
So, what, that's any truck with SC plates other than your own? You may want to provide a bit more help and also exclude anyone you live with, including your wife, parents, kids, etc.
Actually, at exactly the speed of light, the formula explodes into "undefined." We simply don't know what it means. The universe may decide that this actually means "negligible" energy required to move from c to c+1.
:-P
(Regardless of pedantry, right before c it explodes to "infinite" where "infinite" is the practical definition: more than we can overcome. For example, using sunlight as if the wave front was perfectly straight / photons were perfectly parallel when doing the slit experiment. It's not really infinitely far away, but it's far enough to be counted as such.)
I had to completely disable the n support on my 2.4GHz band just to get my ASUS android table to connect. Which I thought was nuts. To be fair, I haven't tried again since upgrading from Android 3.0 to 3.1 and then 3.2.
I left the 5GHz band on (obviously n) for my laptop to use. Not much in the way of interference that way, but for the likelihood of collision, it's somewhat of a waste.
As far as I can tell, all high-level crooks (anywhere in the world, in any "subject" -- whether politicians, bankers, etc) are educated quite well.
See? Even in unethical modes of employment, a bachelor's degree is important! :-)
I don't think anyone argues that copyright should be "cut off" at the creator's death. Merely that it should be a static number of years, period. (We don't want someone killing Britney Spears just to get her latest hit put in the public domain. At least, not for that reason.) I could also handle a copyright that started at time of first publishing (as "trade secret" laws would likely handle the before-publication part), which would still give those who owned the new Cash albums a reasonable time to generate profit from the creation.
Which one? I count 8 "Darth Vader"s and one "Lord Vader". Doesn't look like a problem currently, though there may have been more at one time and these are just the ones that haven't had any complaints lodged against them so far.
Um, yeah. I'm holding a gun to your head and ask you to give me your wallet. So, if you do, it's not robbery, it's a gift? Similarly, if your employer makes your life a living hell and you quit, you can't sue for wrongful dismissal? Both of these have "no" as the answer. Same with your scenario. If a mall guard (using threatened authority, whether an actual weapon is present or not) confiscates your camera, and s/he has no legal right to do so (let's face it, it's unlikely they do), it's theft.
If they merely copy your SD card and return the SD card to you, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement. (Woops, wrong argument.)
Memory ability? You sure? In high school, I had to stop taking biology because it was too much memorisation. Memorising Shakespeare passages was difficult. And yet I was still near the top of my class in an academic-oriented high school. University was another story - when the minimum high-school average to apply for Engineering is 75%, and the actual cut-off is much higher than that, you know you're competing some of the top people in the area. Still, memorisation for some things is key, and I never could do that. And I still graduated.
I suspect that your ADD played a bigger role than inability to memorise.
That said, I applaud the school district for wanting to improve grades. But the method they chose was on the lower end of stupid, IMNSHO.
Base is probably the biggest pig. But it's somewhat understandable: more databases have a good JDBC interface than probably anything else. And it's more cross-platform - if you can get the Sybase JDBC type 4 driver on your Mac or Linux box, you can talk to that MS SQL server. Or getting the DB2 JDBC type 4 driver on a Mac. You can't get the MS SQL ODBC driver for Linux, I suspect. And you can't get the DB2 ODBC driver for Mac. (Okay, that last bit is not entirely true anymore, but was for a long time.) Thus, if Base uses Java to interface with the databases, it stands a pretty reasonable chance of just working with most db's.
Before we had kids, my wife could watch a movie or TV show (Law & Order, for example) where kids get hurt or killed and enjoy the justice meted out near the end. Now? One girl and two boys later, even if that violence happens off-screen, to a kid she knows is really an actor and thus not really being hurt, she can often tear up.
You're a moron. Parents who don't empathise with kids, even those not their own, have the genetic problem, not the ones who do think about the children.
What's that "Jihad" word mean, again?
Literally, it means "struggle." (The "holy" part may be implied, I'm not sure.) Not war. Of course, like most words in most languages, it can take on an extended meaning in context.
A Christian going on a retreat, or an alcoholic going to AA meetings, or a drug-addict going to treatment would all be going through "Jihad". And, depending on context, they could all be holy struggles, completely fitting the term. If someone was going through AA meetings or drug addiction treatment for Allah instead of just for themself, it'd be a holy struggle.
Whew, that's hot stuff. What's in it?
Tomatoes.
Ow, someone should put a warning on the label!
My car has a range of x km, based on a full charge. I need to travel .4x km and back today. The grid took off the top 20% of my battery. Do I make it all the way back into my driveway?
Planning road trips, even if the trip is only downtown and back, gets trickier when you don't know how much energy (range) you have before you climb in to the vehicle. Other trips, of course, are going to be moot - getting to the local grocery store and back is unlikely to be a significant issue.
When we drive a 350km-each-way trip to visit my grandmother, we know exactly where we need to fill on gas. We can plan how long we'll be in the vehicle before mandatory stoppages. We can load up on gas the day before the trip and know how much will be in the tank when we depart the next day.
If the power companies want to shave their peaks, they should provide the power storage. And batteries may or may not be the most effective ways to do that.
Consensus != universal fact. Consensus == our best understanding of universal fact. There's a difference. Real science is always open to upending.
I read somewhere recently a quote that, IIRC, was from Churchill. It was something about avoiding war, but if you must fight, fight with severity, for that is the most humane. I think that applies here. Though it sounds incredibly cruel, if people are not dying in your war, there will be no incentive for either side to stop.
Of course, Gadhafi, Hussein, Stalin, and similar madmen are somewhat of a counter example in that they don't give up no matter how many of their side are killed. Yet Japan in WWII is an example of the ruthless severity (nuclear bombs) causing an immediate and complete cessation of any attempts to create war.
Even modern times with Gadhafi and Hussein, the invasion of Iraq was much more severe than the Libyan rebels, thus the shorter amount of time to cause the government to capitulate. (Getting the rest of the population to stop fighting, much harder... we'll see how Libya does without the outside intervention.)
Anyway, the point is that robot vs robot is war by proxy. Without the violence, the bloodshed, the impetus to end the war just won't be the same. They'll drag on for longer and longer, and resolution will be even less certain than it is today. I'm not sure that's necessarily such a good thing.
Do you leave your doors unlocked? Why not just leave your doors open and use the law to handle these sorts of things?
Simple: you put up rudimentary security to dissuade opportunists (the vast majority of low-level criminals, in my estimation), and even the more seasoned criminals who look for value for difficulty. If you have more security than value, you'll be skipped. If you have more value than security, you'll be targeted. Eventually.
By limiting police resources to only situations where value is more than security can reasonably provide for, we reduce overall effects of crime.
That said, this is a "who watches the watchers" type of scenario. Who ensures the security firms are themselves secure? It looks like we're going through some sort of Darwinian clean-up of this space. Too bad there will be innocents involved - people fooled by the incorrect certificates.
There are a lot of not-sane admins out there. Some of them are our customers. *sigh*
Enclosures grabbing any variable in scope and keeping them around is a major pain.
I've been doing perl now for a while (~10 years or so). And closures grabbing any variable in scope (that is actually mentioned inside the closure) is a godsend. I can't imagine another way. That sounds like a feature, not a pain. (As to your other points, I don't do JS/ECMAscript, so I can't speak to them.)
My theory is that my bank account's low balance is one of them. Mind helping me test my theory?
I don't fall from large distances, thus I don't see how parachutes will help me.
I live in Canuckia, so the flu vaccination is embedded in my taxes whether I use it or not. I don't get paid hourly, so if I'm sick for three days, I'm still paid. So no financial risk nor reward. It's now whether I regard the effort to get the vaccine and the side effects (sore arm at a minimum, most likely no more than a bad night's sleep) to be worth it. I don't think I've ever actually had a flu (many colds, but the flu vaccine won't help there, of course), nor do I personally know anyone who has. I don't work in an office, I work from home, and have for 9 years now. My exposure is incredibly small (though with my eldest going to school next week it'll grow considerably - from her to us, not the other way around). The benefits just aren't there.
ayiyi. So simple I can't even do it. *Sigh*.
A friend of mine back in high school could do logarithms in his head. Quickly. But he screwed up basic addition. This is about as close as I'm going to get to that type of genius, I suppose.
No vaccination is 100% effective. As I'm sure no parachute is. Or other life saving device. It doesn't mean you don't take it when offered the chance.
Yes, with my parachute, I've not had a single fatal fall yet. Some would argue that falling off my chair laughing at idiots on the internet doesn't count as a fall, but I can't refuse a life saving device!
<removing tongue from cheek>
Note that we don't normally bother with the yearly flu vaccine, on advice from our physician: he basically said the prediction is wrong so often that there was basically no benefit (chances of getting the disease drops by less than 50% from an already small number) unless we were already in poor health (where the severity of the flu would make any drop in likelihood of getting it worth it). All other vaccines are current, as far as I'm aware.