Not to mention that the battery idea allowed the studio to put a very prominent Duracell product placement right at one of the biggest "climactic realization" moments of the movie.
If reaching interstellar space and was the original goal, they could have flown in a direction perpendicular to the principal orbital plane of the solar system. We would have achieved the goal almost immediately.
I got the same alert four times in the last 24 hours, several hours apart. And I was just in a night class with 100 other people, and four separate times during the class somebody's phone (including mine, once) started blaring the alert at max volume. My phone was on vibrate. One person couldn't figure out how to silence their phone, and ended up running out of the room with phone still blaring. After 3 seconds, if you don't silence it, the phone starts reading the alert text at maximum volume too (using TTS). I have an HTC One, which has incredibly loud speakers, so this is not cool. Of course, Amber Alerts are now disabled on my phone, which reminds me of the stupidity of Windows User Account Control popups -- people click on them just to get them to go away, so they lose their value. Incidentally, Presidential Alerts may not be disabled on Android. I just hope the US President never has a good reason to ring every phone in the nation at full volume.
So who knows if they're stored in the clear or not. Probably not, Google is moving to encrypt all data on all services at rest and in flight. But this feature is actually really useful. If your phone has previously connected to your Wifi router at home and you buy a Nexus 7, it will connect to the router without you having to enter a password. For devices like the Nexus Q and Google Glass, this is a killer feature.
Average programmers being forced to write parallel code scares me more than anything else. "The multicore dilemma is actually a substantially worse problem than generally understood: we are headed not just for an era of proportionately slower software, but significantly buggier software, as the human inability to write good parallel code is combined with the widespread need to use available CPU resources and the substantial increase in the number of scientists with no CS background having to write code to get their job done." --The multicore dilemma (in the big data era) is worse than you think
I say go for it without certification. "100% ARM compatible" is a joke now, given the large number of different, mutually-slightly-incompatible ARM architectures made by ARM and ARM licensees.
A few thousand years from now, archaeologists will make the same observations about collections of quaint crude programming languages (the ones we use today) that they find in "digital caves"...
I always wondered with fines imposed by the FTC, ITC, FDA etc. -- where does the money go? Is there any incentive for govt regulatory bodies to make sure they hit a quota of fines each year so they can keep up with their budget?
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Not to mention that the battery idea allowed the studio to put a very prominent Duracell product placement right at one of the biggest "climactic realization" moments of the movie.
Pun intended.
Finally, a good way to deal with people key-scratching your car.
This is proof that the flooding was an inside job.
If reaching interstellar space and was the original goal, they could have flown in a direction perpendicular to the principal orbital plane of the solar system. We would have achieved the goal almost immediately.
NOW there is life on Mars.
90 bytes was the only unused space they had left in the wiretap-enable command packet.
I got the same alert four times in the last 24 hours, several hours apart. And I was just in a night class with 100 other people, and four separate times during the class somebody's phone (including mine, once) started blaring the alert at max volume. My phone was on vibrate. One person couldn't figure out how to silence their phone, and ended up running out of the room with phone still blaring. After 3 seconds, if you don't silence it, the phone starts reading the alert text at maximum volume too (using TTS). I have an HTC One, which has incredibly loud speakers, so this is not cool. Of course, Amber Alerts are now disabled on my phone, which reminds me of the stupidity of Windows User Account Control popups -- people click on them just to get them to go away, so they lose their value. Incidentally, Presidential Alerts may not be disabled on Android. I just hope the US President never has a good reason to ring every phone in the nation at full volume.
So who knows if they're stored in the clear or not. Probably not, Google is moving to encrypt all data on all services at rest and in flight. But this feature is actually really useful. If your phone has previously connected to your Wifi router at home and you buy a Nexus 7, it will connect to the router without you having to enter a password. For devices like the Nexus Q and Google Glass, this is a killer feature.
He was using MotoBlur, so... duh?
Average programmers being forced to write parallel code scares me more than anything else. "The multicore dilemma is actually a substantially worse problem than generally understood: we are headed not just for an era of proportionately slower software, but significantly buggier software, as the human inability to write good parallel code is combined with the widespread need to use available CPU resources and the substantial increase in the number of scientists with no CS background having to write code to get their job done." --The multicore dilemma (in the big data era) is worse than you think
I say go for it without certification. "100% ARM compatible" is a joke now, given the large number of different, mutually-slightly-incompatible ARM architectures made by ARM and ARM licensees.
My corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines: If a title has "could" in it, you can replace it with "probably won't".
This is obviously the work of sharks trained by the US government.
+ It's also a very bad idea to put propellers at neck height.
This is a terrible design. Do they not know that the V-22 Osprey is called the Widowmaker?
Update: these two guys were also photographed after the bombing, standing next to a police van, with their backpacks still on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hahatango/8653970482/sizes/o/in/set-72157633252445135/ So at least those weren't the same backpacks that exploded.
Sanity restored: We are not ready to simulate the brain
Ghosts With S*** Jobs. It's quite a brilliant movie.
A few thousand years from now, archaeologists will make the same observations about collections of quaint crude programming languages (the ones we use today) that they find in "digital caves"...
So now the *good* guys will no longer track you. I don't get the logic.
Good luck reading it for less than several thousand dollars. And I thought my textbooks were expensive.
I always wondered with fines imposed by the FTC, ITC, FDA etc. -- where does the money go? Is there any incentive for govt regulatory bodies to make sure they hit a quota of fines each year so they can keep up with their budget?
We are not alone
I read elsewhere that they can't block tethering apps, but they can continue charging for tethering.