So has there been any serious discussion about the fact that the screen is held to the body of the phone by a single strut? My inclination is to say that it looks flimsy, and while i'd be interested in the functions of the phone, i'd be afraid to do things like cradle the phone.
It may not be an issue if it is designed well.
I don't think I'd trust Nokia to do that, though. Last year my wife bought a Nokia 9300 and on that one the charging contact has already failed. And that contact at least looks more securely fastened than that hinge. Nokia claims it can't be repaired, and they don't sell external chargers for the battery. Basically a dead phone. Luckily I've gotten a third party external charger somewhere else, so it's not completely useless. But I'm not buying another Nokia any time soon. (Although I guess all companies are more or less the same.)
And security. Abuse, by crack dot com, was written in Lisp. It also had a local privilege elevation security bug
I don't know that much about the game, so your point may be valid, but it looks to me that the bug was in that relatively unused language called C++ which was used for the game engine. (The exploit in particular mentiones buffer overflows, which are relatively more common in C++ than lisp.)
This has the unfortunate possibilty of becoming a well spread misconception. While the external entity code that you will write for modifications and additions (or total reconstruction) of the game will be in Lisp, the game engine was written in C++. There is also a small amount of 80x86 assembly in the DOS version.
Here is the wc (word count) output on the source code.
Lisp code: 5374 16377 142220 total C++ code: 67904 185889 1717174 total Asm code: (negligible)
You seem to have some misconceptions about evolution:
mutations tend towards lethal effects on the organism. The probability that this complex, functionally interdependent and self-repairing set of molecules could have risen by chance without lethal mutations is so exceedingly small that it must be accepted on faith and not on fact.
Yes, most mutations have bad effects. Yes, many are lethal. Yes, the probability that humans (and other animals today) have risen without mutations are zero. In fact we know for sure that lethal mutations happens all the time. Of course, such mutations have a tendency to
die out and thus be removed from the gene pool. What we have now is the result of more than a
billion years of experiments where good mutations are kept and passed on to the following generations while the bad ones either struggle on for a while before being outcompeted by the good genes, or simpy never get the chance if the gene carrier is stillborn.
A mutation that would cause females to produce only daughters will initially double in every generation and quickly swamp out the ability for sexual reproducers to find mates. Yet this has not happened.
Apart from the fact that it's the male that supplies a Y or X chomosome, this is a self-regulating system. As the females that only produce daughters starts to skew the
ratio of male/females, the remaining females who produce males becomes more likely to pass on
their genes through their male children thus negating the spread of the daughter-only
gene.
The two sexes of every species had to evolve compatibly at exactly the same time, find each other and mate. All of the advanced mechanisms for sexual reproduction had to be in place without ever being used. Therefore, if the two sexes of every species did not evolve at exactly the same time, one or the other or both (if they could not find each other) had to maintain a means of reproduction sexually and asexually. Extinction is the only alternative.
Say what? It sounds like you believe eg. humans evolved asexually as two different species (males and females) until they one day found each other and started mating. That is not how
it happened. Sexual reproduction evolved back in a world ihabitated by micro-organisms and the
males/females individuals of course evolved in parallell. Any mutation that causes the individual to be unable to mate will only stay around for one generation as it can't be passed on.
We do not know how life originated, that is true. That does not mean we should just discard what we do know about lifes origin and how it is evolving.
I wish I could say I remember but I am probably imagining reading people talkinga bout quad core processors eventually. Could that be the next step in the march forward?
Uh, Sun have a 8-core cpu for sale right now. See their t1000/t2000 servers.
But pressing the up button to catch the empty elevator on the way up
reduces the efficiency of the elevators since it now has to make an
extra stop. Which makes more people push the up button, etc. In the end
all the elevators stop on every floor on the way up and on the way down
instead of going straight up to the top and thus increasing the overall
wait by 100%
I hear you. But you would not believe how absurd some things that truly are patentable seem when you first look at them. You think, "How could this possibly be new and different?" The fact is, especially in the mechanical world, most of the mechanical ways of making structures have already been done. But when you put old ideas together in new ways to achieve something new, often as not, that can be patentable. Hell, I'm on a patent for a DUST COVER ( http://tinyurl.com/8eh7l ) - a simple rubber plug for fiber optic ports. It's all in the way you word your patent.
You say that as if you're proud of it. That somehow your ability to describe a "simple rubber plug" in a specific way transformes the idea of the "simple rubber plug" into something valuable. You know what, it is still a "simple rubber plug".
Caterers on movie credits, patents for rubber plugs. Just serving the food and making sure your cable isn't clogged with dust before reaching the customer isn't good enough anymore?
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I remember asking a socialist friend why a government owned media outlet would publish counter-culture works and small-time art/literature since there was no proven audience and it was all based on tax funds to produce it (thus an obligation to not be wasteful in publishing art). She couldn't give an honest answer. I think here we see the clear superiority of the free market.
Because it is based on tax funds, and thus has an obligation to produce a wide range of works, not just what is commecially viable. (Kind of like building power and telephone lines to small remote villages, and not just dense population centers.)
It's a huge drain on the IT department and it constantly happens. Also, after 3 unsuccessful attemps at getting in the financial software, you're locked out. You have to call a completely different person that the usual IT guys to get the specialist for PeopleSoft to fix the screw up.
And they give you a new password over the phone with a reminder to change it once you log in, right? Locking of accounts is the best way of training the admins to respond to social engineering in my opinion.
And two passwords? You're lucky. I've got about 10 passwords where I work. And that is without counting the machines I'm hired to administer... (Even the phone voicemail has a 6 digit pin that needs to be changed every 3 months!)
Bose tends to market their products using technobabble that impresses the mainstream consumer, but is absolutely ludicrous to anyone with a modicum of knowledge of acoustics.
As opposed to "audoiphile" marketers using sciencebabble that impresses the audiophile consumer, but is absolutely ludicrous to anyone with a modicum of knowledge of physics.
You seemed to he under the impression that Iraq was stalling and uncooperative until the war started. According to Blix he got more and more cooperative, and I thought I might clear up some misunderstandings. I didn't argue anything so no need to be defensive.
As for binding resolutions, and legalities: It was a 8 week diplomatic effort to get that resolution in place. In particular around the phrases "serious consequences"/"all neccessary means". France (and Russia I think) did not want a resolution that would automatically lead to military action. And the resolution would never have passed if the resolution had explicitly stated that (Ok, guessing here, but that was my impression, in any case it was not explicitly stated.) Saying that a resolution that wouldn't have passed had it authorized an attack were binding the UN to attack seems dubious to me. The majority of the security council and an overwhelming majority of the general assembly seemed to agree with that view. (The general assembly even passed resolution 1361 which among other things calls on: [UN members and candidate states] "to refrain from any action detrimental to the authority and role of the United Nations and to exclude any use of force outside the international legal framework and without an explicit decision of the United Nations Security Council.")
As for casualties/human rights/etc: If there is one good thing about modern warfare, it is that the number of casualties and general mayhem is small compared to just 60 years ago.
Had Saddam not played with the weapons inspectors (and they did repeatedly say he was not co-operating, even as they were asking for more time to complete the inspections) and simply let them wander around freely in his palaces, and we invaded ANYWAY, THEN the invasion would have been illeagl under interational law. However, up until we invaded, he didnt allow unhampered inspections.
From Blix' last report 7. March (emphasis added):
It is obvious that, while the numerous initiatives, which are now taken by the Iraqi side with a view to resolving some long-standing open disarmament issues, can be seen as "active", or even "proactive", these initiatives 3-4 months into the new resolution cannot be said to constitute "immediate" cooperation. Nor do they necessarily cover all areas of relevance. They are nevertheless welcome and UNMOVIC is responding to them in the hope of solving presently unresolved disarmament issues.
From a recent interview in Guardian (Stronger wording but backed up by the quote above.):
Asked if this final report amounted to the compelling evidence that Lord Goldsmith considered crucial, Mr Blix said: "One cannot say so. There were infractions, you can say. In March, they (the Iraqis) cooperated like hell. They were pro-active. In December and January, no. That is why I gave a critical account on January 27. In February, it was more balanced."
[snip]
Mr Blix said last night: "The things found were all small things. We found dozens of munitions for chemical weapons. They were empty and in a site declared. In relation to Samoud that went beyond 150 kilometres, they (the US and Britain) said it was beyond the permitted limit but I did not feel particularly indignant about that."
I don't know what kind of Powerbook you have, but I'm using my Powerbook every day in Singapore and without AC, the fan turn on almost as soon as I try do anything, and kick in high gear if I stress the cpu. With AC, the fan is a lot quiter, and rarely go into overdrive.
Sorry about the link.
How did you get that price? I just went to http:www.apple.com/store and clicked the G5 Xserve link. Cheapest dual Xserve was quoted as $3.999 for me. I guess you started with the Cluster node at $2.999?
Ex-Soviet Russia is famous for *not* managing its nuclear waste (hundreds of nuclear submarines slowly rotting away in Barents Sea, pissing off Finns and Swedes)
Which is a bit funny since neither Finland nor Sweden has a coastline along the Barents Sea.
Put all your data (encrypted) on a 5TB thumbdrive with tenth generation bluetooth. Automatically sync to your home storage (For backup purposes) the moment you walk through your front door.
Implant it under the skin if you're afraid to forget it somewhere.
This is a US only problem, it's not affecting the rest of us.
It's spreading. Didn't Australia end up "aligning" their copyright/patent laws with the US? In Singapore it was done as part of free trade agreements. It's hard to say no to such a big market as the US.
Another thought is that they use the brusters angle somehow. If the light is polarised, it would appear brightest (or dimmest, depending on which way is polarised) at exactly 34 degrees to the plate. (For glass that is anyway).
I don't know anything about brusters, but from
http://www.anders-kern.de/presse/pr_holoscreen_en. html:
All projectors with a digital keystone correction of 34 minimum are suitable for projection with the A+K HoloScreen.
What a strange review -- first they give us a nice photo comparing the new screen in an iPod to the standard LCD... but the standard iPod example is turned off. There's nothing on the screen we can compare with.
And as one of the comments pointed out, the display show the playing symbol, but the timing of the track is at 0:00 on two different shots even though the progress bar is 1/3 of the way across?
But no, further down they discuss the eBook reader example. "This ebook looked great, and really shows off the power of the digital paper. Alas, I had to keep pressing the contrast button to refresh the image. Perhaps the technology is not as far along as the company suggested."
This is strange too, I thought one of the selling points for this technology is that the display should be static for weeks even if the power goes out?
countersteering doesnt affect the bike much at 10mph
I can't even balance on a (practically) stationary bike unless I'm countersteering. (Steering the contact patch left if I want to tilt right)
If you want math, search for Fajans and bike steering. He claims gyroscopic forces are minimal though. Countersteering works by other means like steering geometry, gravity and centrifugal forces.
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I would have thought that removing the selection process would increase the amount of genetic changes instead of decreasing it.
Bah, I just stop eating and let the body get rid of whatever it doesn't like and calm down a bit. Usually means fasting for a day or so.
I don't think the kids dying of diahrrea/dehydration has the same kind of diahrrea as I (or we) tend to get, though.
So has there been any serious discussion about the fact that the screen is held to the body of the phone by a single strut? My inclination is to say that it looks flimsy, and while i'd be interested in the functions of the phone, i'd be afraid to do things like cradle the phone.
It may not be an issue if it is designed well.
I don't think I'd trust Nokia to do that, though. Last year my wife bought a Nokia 9300 and on that one the charging contact has already failed. And that contact at least looks more securely fastened than that hinge. Nokia claims it can't be repaired, and they don't sell external chargers for the battery. Basically a dead phone. Luckily I've gotten a third party external charger somewhere else, so it's not completely useless. But I'm not buying another Nokia any time soon. (Although I guess all companies are more or less the same.)
I don't know that much about the game, so your point may be valid, but it looks to me that the bug was in that relatively unused language called C++ which was used for the game engine. (The exploit in particular mentiones buffer overflows, which are relatively more common in C++ than lisp.)
From the faq on http://abuse.resourcez.com/:
You seem to have some misconceptions about evolution:
mutations tend towards lethal effects on the organism. The probability that this complex, functionally interdependent and self-repairing set of molecules could have risen by chance without lethal mutations is so exceedingly small that it must be accepted on faith and not on fact.Yes, most mutations have bad effects. Yes, many are lethal. Yes, the probability that humans (and other animals today) have risen without mutations are zero. In fact we know for sure that lethal mutations happens all the time. Of course, such mutations have a tendency to die out and thus be removed from the gene pool. What we have now is the result of more than a billion years of experiments where good mutations are kept and passed on to the following generations while the bad ones either struggle on for a while before being outcompeted by the good genes, or simpy never get the chance if the gene carrier is stillborn.
A mutation that would cause females to produce only daughters will initially double in every generation and quickly swamp out the ability for sexual reproducers to find mates. Yet this has not happened.Apart from the fact that it's the male that supplies a Y or X chomosome, this is a self-regulating system. As the females that only produce daughters starts to skew the ratio of male/females, the remaining females who produce males becomes more likely to pass on their genes through their male children thus negating the spread of the daughter-only gene.
The two sexes of every species had to evolve compatibly at exactly the same time, find each other and mate. All of the advanced mechanisms for sexual reproduction had to be in place without ever being used. Therefore, if the two sexes of every species did not evolve at exactly the same time, one or the other or both (if they could not find each other) had to maintain a means of reproduction sexually and asexually. Extinction is the only alternative.Say what? It sounds like you believe eg. humans evolved asexually as two different species (males and females) until they one day found each other and started mating. That is not how it happened. Sexual reproduction evolved back in a world ihabitated by micro-organisms and the males/females individuals of course evolved in parallell. Any mutation that causes the individual to be unable to mate will only stay around for one generation as it can't be passed on.
We do not know how life originated, that is true. That does not mean we should just discard what we do know about lifes origin and how it is evolving.
Uh, Sun have a 8-core cpu for sale right now. See their t1000/t2000 servers.
But pressing the up button to catch the empty elevator on the way up reduces the efficiency of the elevators since it now has to make an extra stop. Which makes more people push the up button, etc. In the end all the elevators stop on every floor on the way up and on the way down instead of going straight up to the top and thus increasing the overall wait by 100%
You say that as if you're proud of it. That somehow your ability to describe a "simple rubber plug" in a specific way transformes the idea of the "simple rubber plug" into something valuable. You know what, it is still a "simple rubber plug".
Caterers on movie credits, patents for rubber plugs. Just serving the food and making sure your cable isn't clogged with dust before reaching the customer isn't good enough anymore?
30 ways to falsify evolution:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
I remember asking a socialist friend why a government owned media outlet would publish counter-culture works and small-time art/literature since there was no proven audience and it was all based on tax funds to produce it (thus an obligation to not be wasteful in publishing art). She couldn't give an honest answer. I think here we see the clear superiority of the free market.
Because it is based on tax funds, and thus has an obligation to produce a wide range of works, not just what is commecially viable. (Kind of like building power and telephone lines to small remote villages, and not just dense population centers.)
It's a huge drain on the IT department and it constantly happens. Also, after 3 unsuccessful attemps at getting in the financial software, you're locked out. You have to call a completely different person that the usual IT guys to get the specialist for PeopleSoft to fix the screw up.
And they give you a new password over the phone with a reminder to change it once you log in, right? Locking of accounts is the best way of training the admins to respond to social engineering in my opinion.
And two passwords? You're lucky. I've got about 10 passwords where I work. And that is without counting the machines I'm hired to administer... (Even the phone voicemail has a 6 digit pin that needs to be changed every 3 months!)
Bose tends to market their products using technobabble that impresses the mainstream consumer, but is absolutely ludicrous to anyone with a modicum of knowledge of acoustics.
As opposed to "audoiphile" marketers using sciencebabble that impresses the audiophile consumer, but is absolutely ludicrous to anyone with a modicum of knowledge of physics.
You seemed to he under the impression that Iraq was stalling and uncooperative until the war started. According to Blix he got more and more cooperative, and I thought I might clear up some misunderstandings. I didn't argue anything so no need to be defensive.
As for binding resolutions, and legalities: It was a 8 week diplomatic effort to get that resolution in place. In particular around the phrases "serious consequences"/"all neccessary means". France (and Russia I think) did not want a resolution that would automatically lead to military action. And the resolution would never have passed if the resolution had explicitly stated that (Ok, guessing here, but that was my impression, in any case it was not explicitly stated.) Saying that a resolution that wouldn't have passed had it authorized an attack were binding the UN to attack seems dubious to me. The majority of the security council and an overwhelming majority of the general assembly seemed to agree with that view. (The general assembly even passed resolution 1361 which among other things calls on: [UN members and candidate states] "to refrain from any action detrimental to the authority and role of the United Nations and to exclude any use of force outside the international legal framework and without an explicit decision of the United Nations Security Council.")
As for casualties/human rights/etc: If there is one good thing about modern warfare, it is that the number of casualties and general mayhem is small compared to just 60 years ago.
Had Saddam not played with the weapons inspectors (and they did repeatedly say he was not co-operating, even as they were asking for more time to complete the inspections) and simply let them wander around freely in his palaces, and we invaded ANYWAY, THEN the invasion would have been illeagl under interational law. However, up until we invaded, he didnt allow unhampered inspections.
From Blix' last report 7. March (emphasis added):
It is obvious that, while the numerous initiatives, which are now taken by the Iraqi side with a view to resolving some long-standing open disarmament issues, can be seen as "active", or even "proactive", these initiatives 3-4 months into the new resolution cannot be said to constitute "immediate" cooperation. Nor do they necessarily cover all areas of relevance. They are nevertheless welcome and UNMOVIC is responding to them in the hope of solving presently unresolved disarmament issues.
From a recent interview in Guardian (Stronger wording but backed up by the quote above.):
Asked if this final report amounted to the compelling evidence that Lord Goldsmith considered crucial, Mr Blix said: "One cannot say so. There were infractions, you can say. In March, they (the Iraqis) cooperated like hell. They were pro-active. In December and January, no. That is why I gave a critical account on January 27. In February, it was more balanced."
[snip]
Mr Blix said last night: "The things found were all small things. We found dozens of munitions for chemical weapons. They were empty and in a site declared. In relation to Samoud that went beyond 150 kilometres, they (the US and Britain) said it was beyond the permitted limit but I did not feel particularly indignant about that."
I don't know what kind of Powerbook you have, but I'm using my Powerbook every day in Singapore and without AC, the fan turn on almost as soon as I try do anything, and kick in high gear if I stress the cpu. With AC, the fan is a lot quiter, and rarely go into overdrive.
Sorry about the link.
How did you get that price? I just went to http:www.apple.com/store and clicked the G5 Xserve link. Cheapest dual Xserve was quoted as $3.999 for me. I guess you started with the Cluster node at $2.999?
But how about a Sun opeteron box?= SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=111394
A ppleStore.woa/70902/wo/Oo1dIs4kylfo25YF33W1KKyrgua /0.0.11.1.0.6.15.0.3.1.3.0.3.1.6.1.1.0
Sun v20z: 2x Opteron 248, 2GB Ram, 1x73GB disk, $3000: http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process
G5 Xserve: 2x G5 2.3Ghz, 1GB Ram, 1x 80GB disk, $4000: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
Which is a bit funny since neither Finland nor Sweden has a coastline along the Barents Sea.
Implant it under the skin if you're afraid to forget it somewhere.
It's spreading. Didn't Australia end up "aligning" their copyright/patent laws with the US? In Singapore it was done as part of free trade agreements. It's hard to say no to such a big market as the US.
I don't know anything about brusters, but from http://www.anders-kern.de/presse/pr_holoscreen_en. html:
All projectors with a digital keystone correction of 34 minimum are suitable for projection with the A+K HoloScreen.
Judging by the leftmost column, this is now the most popular article in their home entertainment section...
And as one of the comments pointed out, the display show the playing symbol, but the timing of the track is at 0:00 on two different shots even though the progress bar is 1/3 of the way across?
But no, further down they discuss the eBook reader example. "This ebook looked great, and really shows off the power of the digital paper. Alas, I had to keep pressing the contrast button to refresh the image. Perhaps the technology is not as far along as the company suggested."
This is strange too, I thought one of the selling points for this technology is that the display should be static for weeks even if the power goes out?
countersteering doesnt affect the bike much at 10mph
I can't even balance on a (practically) stationary bike unless I'm countersteering. (Steering the contact patch left if I want to tilt right)
If you want math, search for Fajans and bike steering. He claims gyroscopic forces are minimal though. Countersteering works by other means like steering geometry, gravity and centrifugal forces.
Just like a bike, a smoothly driven uni wheel gives you lateral stability at speed (due to gyroscopic force).
/ bicycles.html
Except that it's not the gyroscopic force that gives a bike lateral stability. It's the geometry of the fork. (Lean a bike to the left and the front wheel points to the left.)
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching