The androidcentral.com article talks about the "Best" Android phones according to a made-up criterion, not about how well they sell: Android Central's Top 10 Android Phones Report ranks the popularity of the best Android Phones over the past 30 days as determined by our proprietary algorithm which compiles data from across the AC community and beyond.
The other two links are indeed taken from the same list, as they coincide (as they should). But the blendblogger.com article is from September 5, and, even worse, the metacafe video was added on August 16. That's way too premature to call the list of top-whatevers of 2011, making me wonder if someone misquoted the original source (which neither link cites), and these people are just repeating the error like parrots.
Also, the lists mention the HTC EVO 3D as the top selling Android phone. But it was released on June 24, or only 53 days before the metacafe video was posted, and already jumpet to the top of the list... I guess it sold much more than the iPhone 4S!
[...] if you look at both of the videos you linked to, Neither of them have any visible label to indicate where the product gets shipped to. This is a pretty good indication that they did not arrive just in that brown box, as none of the carriers will ship packages without a destination label.
That's because neither of the two videos show the underside of the box (why would they?). You can see it in other reviews like this one, starting at 1:28. You can also see a glimpse of the label on the underside in this photo.
It seems that Amazon is sometimes sending the Fire in an outer box (like the one you linked to, but note that in the same package there was a "carrying case included, that's kinda nice") and sometimes directly in the very well designed "frustration free" packaging that unfortunately is clearly labeled as "Kindle Fire". I guess it depends on the shipping method.
One example of the bare-bones packaging is here ("this is how it's delivered to your doorstep"), another here ("this thing just arrived at my doorstep"). Most unboxing reviews don't show the external packaging, but since they don't explicitly say that that's how it arrived it is unclear if they simply took the "frustration free" packaging out of it before they started recording (though that partially defeats the purpose of an "unboxing").
There are also several product reviews on Amazon complaining about the label on the packaging. One example here, another here. It seems that if you click "This is a gift" your package obviously will not say Kindle on the outside, but the problem is usually not spoiled surprises but thieves, and most people normally don't click that option unless the item is... you know... a gift!
Putting the product name on the package is what 99.99% of all products sold to consumers do. [...] It may let thieves know exactly what they are stealing, but then so does every other product package, so complaining about it is stupid.
Not true. Let me explain: one thing is the packaging of the product itself and a different thing is the packaging in which the product is mailed/FedExed/whatever to you.
When you buy an iPad online from Amazon, they grab the cute little box that says "iPad" and has an iPad photo on it and put it inside a larger, brown, generic box that says "Amazon". Is it an iPad? Is it a book? A cheap toy? I don't know, I just know it came from Amazon. The same is true if you buy the iPad from Apple or from other online retailers. In some cases the brown box doesn't even have a logo on it: you have to read the addressing label to know who sent the box. And frequently those brown boxes are ridiculously bigger than the product box they contain, the extra space filled with packaging material.
But if you buy a Kindle Fire from Amazon... everyone who sees the package just knows it's holding a Kindle Fire.
Always things like lung, brain, prostate, liver, colon, rectum and other important parts. Why not cancer of the pinky ??
Because your pinky is essentially just bone, muscle, and skin, with a little fat. So when people get cancers originating in their pinkies, they get lumped up with the rest of cancers of the bones, muscles, skin, and (more rarely) adipose tissue.
CarrierIQ on iOS has no ability to monitor text input.
Um, how exactly do we know this? Because someone at Apple said so?
Apple? No, not Apple. It was Chpwn, the same hacker who found the Carrier IQ software on iOS in the first place.
From his blog post, linked to in TFA (emphasis his, not mine):
Importantly, it does not appear the daemon has any access or communication with the UI layer, where text entry is done. I am reasonably sure it has no access to typed text, web history, passwords, browsing history, or text messages, and as such is not sending any of this data remotely.
Do you think that you'll never be able to afford a robot of your own that isn't a toy? Well, if you can get [...]
Cool. Clearly these "three-legged robots (that) aren't much larger than the 3.4-volt button cell batteries that power them, and move by vibrating across smooth, flat surfaces" are very useful if you are "studying robotic swarming behavior" and I bet people can come with several other fields where these mini-robots could be of practical use.
But then, most of us would be able to come up with several experiments which would make practical use of any of the many robots that are currently sold as toys. And some of those experiments would without any doubt be commendable research projects.
Unfortunately most of us do not work in those areas of research where the Kilobots (or any other commercially available, reasonably priced robot) are applicable. For 99.9% of the people, Kilobots are nothing more than FREAKING TOYS!!
Anywho, $60 to $100 is brazenly aggressive from what's normally expected from Apple.
Not really. $60 off the iPad 2 is quite aggressive when compared to the only previous Black Friday sale after the original iPad was announced: last year, the discount for iPads was $41.
But it's deffinitely not the first time that Apple offers discounts of $100 for Macs: it happened at least last year (see previous link) and on 2009, 2006, and 2004.
Cool, thanks! But... that's not the same article. TFA is: "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics" by Casey, Fellows, Geiger, and Stellatos. The PDF Google links is "The Impact of Full Disk Encryption on Digital Forensics" (note the very small difference in title), by only Casey and Stellatos. Also, the outline of TFA is nothing like the outline of the PDF.
My guess is that the PDF linked by Google is a very early draft of The real FA, and that it morphed considerably before being accepted for publication.
Slicer (http://www.slicer.org, open source) does the same and more than Osirix(mac) on pc/linux.
No. First, Slicer runs on Macs also. Second, Slicer does a lot of awesome things that OsiriX isn't even expected to do. With that I agree. But third and most importantly: For the type of job OsiriX is intended to do, i.e., the fast, accurate and user-friendly visualization of 2D and 3D medical images (CT, PET, SPECT, MRI), Slicer is a very poor choice.
These are two very different tools for different uses. A smart researcher will have both kinds of tools at hand and use each one for what it does best.
If you want a free (though I thin not Open Source) program that does the same as OsiriX on Linux (and Windows and Mac), search for VolView. Unfortunately, even though it is made by KitWare, the company that develops the VTK and ITK libraries that do most of OsiriX's magic, VolView's performance is subpar and its user-friendliness is shockingly lacking.
If it's not a relevant TECHNOLOGY or related story, post that shit somewhere else.
You've got it wrong. This isn't a tech news site. This is News for nerds, stuff that matters.
You see mostly tech news here, because most nerds are mostly interested in technology. But most nerds are also interested in other topics, you know, "stuff that matters". Thus you frequently find articles on other topics highlighted here. That's the case now, and has always been the case in Slashdot. (And I've been here since way before I opened my account, shortly after the site opened).
Yeah, even the 2011 Airs are pretty loud. This is the cost of doing business with Apple. As far back as I an remember, Apple products + aluminum = massive heat.
Mmmmm... no.
What you are saying applies somewhat to my old laptop, a PowerBook G4 (from 2003). IF I had it running something processor intensive for a long time, it would eventually get quite hot, at least hot enough to be uncomfortable on my thighs.
Two years ago I got a 2009 15" unibody MacBook Pro. Under normal usage it barely gets warm at all. I can run very processor intensive tasks for literally hours, and sure it will get much warmer, but not really hot. And in those cases the fans will spin up, but they are almost inaudible.
I don't understand the hype - Android had awesome voice actions before iPhone did.
Actually, no. Apple introduced Voice Control with the iPhone 3GS in June, 2009.. Android had some incipient voice commands capabilities since the beginning, but they were only marginally useful since Donut in September, 2009, and only became really useful (to the point of and surpassing the old iPhone's Voice Control capabilities) with Froyo.
With regards to your question... the federal government does not mandate automobile insurance for drivers on the interstates. The federal government mandates compliance with state laws on the interstates, and not all states require automobile insurance (just proof of assets equal to state liability minimums, such as Wisconsin.)
In submitting a thesis or dissertation to Stanford, the Author grants The Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford) the non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, display and transmit Author's thesis or dissertation, including any supplemental materials (the Work), . . . to sub-license others to do the same,and to preserve and protect the Work . . ..
The copyright to a thesis belongs to the student, according to the University's General Rules. As a condition of being awarded the degree, however, the student grants the University the non-exclusive right "to retain, use and distribute a limited number of copies of the thesis, together with the right to require its publication for archival use."
So the copyright is yours but you are required to share some of those rights with the institution.
In general what I have seen is that if you used any money from them (grants, research assistantship, use of labs/equipment), the universities want the copyrights. If you did it all by yourself, you keep it. So it seems that you can typically only keep the copyright for some social science projects or purely theoretical stuff like that as it is close to impossible to carry out an applied scientific or engineering project without any help from the institution.
(...) In general, students may retain ownership of thesis copyrights when the only form of support is (a) teaching assistantships (the duties of which do not include research activities) and (b) NSF and NIH traineeships and fellowships (although the trainee or fellow may be required to grant certain publishing rights to NSF or NIH). (...)
Not sure where you guys are from that teachers make $30k-$40k but here in NJ the range is more like $50k-$70k.
Nope. For New Jersey: Starting salary for teachers, $38,408. Average salary, $58,156. And do note that NJ has the third highest starting salary and the fourth highest average salary among all states. Though the $30k-$40k range does seem to be somewhat low, it is far closer to reality than your $50k-$70k range.
About half of the book was devoted to debugging, and it is my personal surmise that the book was originally entitled "How to Debug Macintosh Software" and that the publishers made him change it.
I didn't know about Knaster's book, but looking it up on Amazon is see that at least the second and third editions (1988 and 1992) were subtitled "The Debugging Reference for the Macintosh", so your comment may be spot on.
Gosh! For a few seconds I got a dyslexia attack and thought that the Church of the LDS was now falling in line with the tele-evangelists.
Furthermore, it didn't seem so surprising to me that "patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain," even turn to religion. Only the next sentence clued me in.
The WTO did a presentation on this very subject several years ago.
Mmmmmm... you do know that that video is part of this documentary, no?
Well, read the synopsis or the storyline (emphasis mine):
Storyline A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. [...]
The WTO experimented with the McDung, Re-burger, and File-O-Feces sandwiches years ago!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379593/
From your link (emphasis mine):
Storyline A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. [...]
Slashdot Mirror
The same company they're suing for imitating (in their eyes) the same product they're going to make in the new factory? Strange bedfellows indeed.
True but it's a mistake that's not so hard to make.
Fascinating.
The androidcentral.com article talks about the "Best" Android phones according to a made-up criterion, not about how well they sell: Android Central's Top 10 Android Phones Report ranks the popularity of the best Android Phones over the past 30 days as determined by our proprietary algorithm which compiles data from across the AC community and beyond.
The other two links are indeed taken from the same list, as they coincide (as they should). But the blendblogger.com article is from September 5, and, even worse, the metacafe video was added on August 16. That's way too premature to call the list of top-whatevers of 2011, making me wonder if someone misquoted the original source (which neither link cites), and these people are just repeating the error like parrots.
Also, the lists mention the HTC EVO 3D as the top selling Android phone. But it was released on June 24, or only 53 days before the metacafe video was posted, and already jumpet to the top of the list... I guess it sold much more than the iPhone 4S!
[...] if you look at both of the videos you linked to, Neither of them have any visible label to indicate where the product gets shipped to. This is a pretty good indication that they did not arrive just in that brown box, as none of the carriers will ship packages without a destination label.
That's because neither of the two videos show the underside of the box (why would they?). You can see it in other reviews like this one, starting at 1:28. You can also see a glimpse of the label on the underside in this photo.
It seems that Amazon is sometimes sending the Fire in an outer box (like the one you linked to, but note that in the same package there was a "carrying case included, that's kinda nice") and sometimes directly in the very well designed "frustration free" packaging that unfortunately is clearly labeled as "Kindle Fire". I guess it depends on the shipping method.
One example of the bare-bones packaging is here ("this is how it's delivered to your doorstep"), another here ("this thing just arrived at my doorstep"). Most unboxing reviews don't show the external packaging, but since they don't explicitly say that that's how it arrived it is unclear if they simply took the "frustration free" packaging out of it before they started recording (though that partially defeats the purpose of an "unboxing").
There are also several product reviews on Amazon complaining about the label on the packaging. One example here, another here. It seems that if you click "This is a gift" your package obviously will not say Kindle on the outside, but the problem is usually not spoiled surprises but thieves, and most people normally don't click that option unless the item is... you know... a gift!
Putting the product name on the package is what 99.99% of all products sold to consumers do. [...] It may let thieves know exactly what they are stealing, but then so does every other product package, so complaining about it is stupid.
Not true. Let me explain: one thing is the packaging of the product itself and a different thing is the packaging in which the product is mailed/FedExed/whatever to you.
When you buy an iPad online from Amazon, they grab the cute little box that says "iPad" and has an iPad photo on it and put it inside a larger, brown, generic box that says "Amazon". Is it an iPad? Is it a book? A cheap toy? I don't know, I just know it came from Amazon. The same is true if you buy the iPad from Apple or from other online retailers. In some cases the brown box doesn't even have a logo on it: you have to read the addressing label to know who sent the box. And frequently those brown boxes are ridiculously bigger than the product box they contain, the extra space filled with packaging material.
But if you buy a Kindle Fire from Amazon... everyone who sees the package just knows it's holding a Kindle Fire.
Always things like lung, brain, prostate, liver, colon, rectum and other important parts. Why not cancer of the pinky ??
Because your pinky is essentially just bone, muscle, and skin, with a little fat. So when people get cancers originating in their pinkies, they get lumped up with the rest of cancers of the bones, muscles, skin, and (more rarely) adipose tissue.
CarrierIQ on iOS has no ability to monitor text input.
Um, how exactly do we know this? Because someone at Apple said so?
Apple? No, not Apple. It was Chpwn, the same hacker who found the Carrier IQ software on iOS in the first place.
From his blog post, linked to in TFA (emphasis his, not mine):
Importantly, it does not appear the daemon has any access or communication with the UI layer, where text entry is done. I am reasonably sure it has no access to typed text, web history, passwords, browsing history, or text messages, and as such is not sending any of this data remotely.
TFS says:
Cool. Clearly these "three-legged robots (that) aren't much larger than the 3.4-volt button cell batteries that power them, and move by vibrating across smooth, flat surfaces" are very useful if you are "studying robotic swarming behavior" and I bet people can come with several other fields where these mini-robots could be of practical use.
But then, most of us would be able to come up with several experiments which would make practical use of any of the many robots that are currently sold as toys. And some of those experiments would without any doubt be commendable research projects.
Unfortunately most of us do not work in those areas of research where the Kilobots (or any other commercially available, reasonably priced robot) are applicable. For 99.9% of the people, Kilobots are nothing more than FREAKING TOYS!!
Anywho, $60 to $100 is brazenly aggressive from what's normally expected from Apple.
Not really. $60 off the iPad 2 is quite aggressive when compared to the only previous Black Friday sale after the original iPad was announced: last year, the discount for iPads was $41.
But it's deffinitely not the first time that Apple offers discounts of $100 for Macs: it happened at least last year (see previous link) and on 2009, 2006, and 2004.
Cool, thanks! But... that's not the same article. TFA is: "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics" by Casey, Fellows, Geiger, and Stellatos. The PDF Google links is "The Impact of Full Disk Encryption on Digital Forensics" (note the very small difference in title), by only Casey and Stellatos. Also, the outline of TFA is nothing like the outline of the PDF.
My guess is that the PDF linked by Google is a very early draft of The real FA, and that it morphed considerably before being accepted for publication.
Slicer (http://www.slicer.org, open source) does the same and more than Osirix(mac) on pc/linux.
No. First, Slicer runs on Macs also. Second, Slicer does a lot of awesome things that OsiriX isn't even expected to do. With that I agree. But third and most importantly: For the type of job OsiriX is intended to do, i.e., the fast, accurate and user-friendly visualization of 2D and 3D medical images (CT, PET, SPECT, MRI), Slicer is a very poor choice.
These are two very different tools for different uses. A smart researcher will have both kinds of tools at hand and use each one for what it does best.
If you want a free (though I thin not Open Source) program that does the same as OsiriX on Linux (and Windows and Mac), search for VolView. Unfortunately, even though it is made by KitWare, the company that develops the VTK and ITK libraries that do most of OsiriX's magic, VolView's performance is subpar and its user-friendliness is shockingly lacking.
Yeah, I read that also, and only realized my mistake when I read your second reply.
If it's not a relevant TECHNOLOGY or related story, post that shit somewhere else.
You've got it wrong. This isn't a tech news site. This is News for nerds, stuff that matters.
You see mostly tech news here, because most nerds are mostly interested in technology. But most nerds are also interested in other topics, you know, "stuff that matters". Thus you frequently find articles on other topics highlighted here. That's the case now, and has always been the case in Slashdot. (And I've been here since way before I opened my account, shortly after the site opened).
Yeah, even the 2011 Airs are pretty loud. This is the cost of doing business with Apple. As far back as I an remember, Apple products + aluminum = massive heat.
Mmmmm... no.
What you are saying applies somewhat to my old laptop, a PowerBook G4 (from 2003). IF I had it running something processor intensive for a long time, it would eventually get quite hot, at least hot enough to be uncomfortable on my thighs.
Two years ago I got a 2009 15" unibody MacBook Pro. Under normal usage it barely gets warm at all. I can run very processor intensive tasks for literally hours, and sure it will get much warmer, but not really hot. And in those cases the fans will spin up, but they are almost inaudible.
I don't understand the hype - Android had awesome voice actions before iPhone did.
Actually, no. Apple introduced Voice Control with the iPhone 3GS in June, 2009.. Android had some incipient voice commands capabilities since the beginning, but they were only marginally useful since Donut in September, 2009, and only became really useful (to the point of and surpassing the old iPhone's Voice Control capabilities) with Froyo.
With regards to your question... the federal government does not mandate automobile insurance for drivers on the interstates. The federal government mandates compliance with state laws on the interstates, and not all states require automobile insurance (just proof of assets equal to state liability minimums, such as Wisconsin.)
Ah, you mean because of this?
Well, I have bad news for you. The laws changed last year. The current information provided by the state government reflects that. More details on page 4 of this PDF.
Those are hits 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of googling "wisconsin auto insurance laws" (without quotes).
Are you often caught arguing without the facts?
Not really. Are you? Mmmmhhhhmmmm....
Oh, and the second university I checked said something similar:
In submitting a thesis or dissertation to Stanford, the Author grants The Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford) the non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, display and transmit Author's thesis or dissertation, including any supplemental materials (the Work), . . . to sub-license others to do the same,and to preserve and protect the Work . . . .
Now, you are right in that public institutions frequently have rules along these lines:
The copyright to a thesis belongs to the student, according to the University's General Rules. As a condition of being awarded the degree, however, the student grants the University the non-exclusive right "to retain, use and distribute a limited number of copies of the thesis, together with the right to require its publication for archival use."
So the copyright is yours but you are required to share some of those rights with the institution.
In general what I have seen is that if you used any money from them (grants, research assistantship, use of labs/equipment), the universities want the copyrights. If you did it all by yourself, you keep it. So it seems that you can typically only keep the copyright for some social science projects or purely theoretical stuff like that as it is close to impossible to carry out an applied scientific or engineering project without any help from the institution.
Well, the first university I checked said this:
(...) In general, students may retain ownership of thesis copyrights when the only form of support is (a) teaching assistantships (the duties of which do not include research activities) and (b) NSF and NIH traineeships and fellowships (although the trainee or fellow may be required to grant certain publishing rights to NSF or NIH). (...)
Not sure where you guys are from that teachers make $30k-$40k but here in NJ the range is more like $50k-$70k.
Nope. For New Jersey: Starting salary for teachers, $38,408. Average salary, $58,156. And do note that NJ has the third highest starting salary and the fourth highest average salary among all states. Though the $30k-$40k range does seem to be somewhat low, it is far closer to reality than your $50k-$70k range.
A truly useful international standard (wake up, US!) would be YYYY-MM-DD
Why *would*? That's already a useful international standard, namely ISO 860.
I think you mean ISO 8601.
About half of the book was devoted to debugging, and it is my personal surmise that the book was originally entitled "How to Debug Macintosh Software" and that the publishers made him change it.
I didn't know about Knaster's book, but looking it up on Amazon is see that at least the second and third editions (1988 and 1992) were subtitled "The Debugging Reference for the Macintosh", so your comment may be spot on.
Hurt: 1. to cause bodily injury to; injure. 2. to cause bodily pain to or in. [...]
You are assuming definition #2. They are using definition #1, which does not imply pain.
Gosh! For a few seconds I got a dyslexia attack and thought that the Church of the LDS was now falling in line with the tele-evangelists.
Furthermore, it didn't seem so surprising to me that "patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain," even turn to religion. Only the next sentence clued me in.
It's not a troll -- it's just old news.
The WTO did a presentation on this very subject several years ago.
Mmmmmm... you do know that that video is part of this documentary, no?
Well, read the synopsis or the storyline (emphasis mine):
Storyline
A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. [...]
YHBT. HAND!
The WTO experimented with the McDung, Re-burger, and File-O-Feces sandwiches years ago!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379593/
From your link (emphasis mine):
Storyline
A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. [...]