Why couldn't they nudge it out of orbit instead? Send it off to roam deep space? That would make a far more romantic end, rather than being designated space junk and dumped into the ocean.
I love my iPhone4, was completely happy with my iPhone 3G... but I am desparately underwhelmed by my iPad2. First, it doesn't bounce and costs nearly $600 to get repaired. Second, it is pretty useless if you have an iPhone and decent laptop.
Why dont any of these tablets have handles? Seriously... I have a tablet and would just love something on the back or side to attached something a bit more grippy than flat smooth plastic. I've already lost one due to a slippery dry hand on a cool day.
I would imagine posting anything like a puzzle on slashdot would attract attention and get solved fairly quickly, whether it is for 4 year olds or at the other extreme and devilishly difficult. Those of us who like to solve puzzles do so because we enjoy solving puzzles, not for the prospect of cake.
Sleepy English towns and villages can be like this, more so in Scotland and Wales - it's not just people with plastic boxes that raise eyebrows. Just not being local can be enough. On a recent excursion I became centre of attention in the local pub for no other reason than it was my first time there. American Warewolf in London? It is all true (except for the warewolf bit).
Doesn't this give us a steer towards a short-term fix? Not my area, but if the doomsayers are right, and evidence suggests they may well be, then we could offset warming with some floating mirrors or something. Or get kids around the world to fly tinfoil kites. Or just pump some more dust up there. I realise this is not the solution but it is a genuine question.
I hope this catches on more generally - I am currently sick of the amount of paper that academia churns through. Books, photocopies, papers, it is endless. It kind of feels like we are moving in the right direction...
Who would spend R&D resources just to have others duplicate the finished
product with no investment? Patents ensure that creators will have time to
recoup costs.
OMG! How on earth did the human race survive for millenia before patents? You're so right, without patents nobody would ever invent anything and we'd all still be living in damp caves arguing about who was going to be the dumbass to pay the development costs of inventing fire...
They would take out their sword and chop their bloody heads off! Things were so much simpler in those days.
No - it is about reasonable expectations for privacy. To some extent we cannot expect absolute privacy with our neighbours, but we should expect that wholesale corporate intrusions to privacy are scorned upon. Could I, for example, point a higjhly sensitive microphone at someone's house, from a public street, and record their conversation? You could say that unencreypted data is public, but you could also argue that doing so violates the interlocutors expectations of privacy.
While this sounds impressive, some of us would like to have something on our desktop that is capable of, perhaps, a petaflop or two. Undoubtedly, genomics research would gain massively but there are a lot more reseachers out there, I am sure, whose work would benefit from easier and daily access to such out of the box resources. Getting supercomputing resources to the masses would seem like a worthy goal, rather than just hitting exaflop headlines.
Slashfag symes says people should (be forced to?) give work away. Get's modded Insightful +4.
Some of you dumbfucks even said that Netflix should give their service away and were modded high. You people should get out more to get more of a handle on reality.
Some funders insist that data is made available to other researchers once the funded project is complete, or at least they should have a very good reason why not. Why shouldn't publicly funded research be available to those who funded it, data, papers and all?
I think more than anything, this demonstrates why sharing data openly is such a good thing. Sure, not great news for those at Fermi Lab, but if scientists generally (especially those in the behavioural sciences...) were encouraged (or forced?) to allow others free access to their data then I'm sure a few surprising claims might be rewritten and a few interesting blips otherwise missed might be found.
I guess the worry is that they'd be able to work out what the small change was, or worse inadvertantly blow themselves up and take a few unsuspecting neighbours. Plus humour is a nice way of countering the lonely disenfranchised basement dwelling types who might be attracted to this sort of thing.
Call me daft, by all means, but for some reason I am incredulous that critical systems should be vulnerable to cyber attack. It just feels like something went very wrong at the design stage to allow this to happen. But then I'm not a developer...
With Buffett and a few others pitching in to help the Gates Foundation I hardly think the Foundation is reliant on MS. Also, I would hardly think Gates would be interesting in "saving" what is still a very profitable organisation - he's much more into pushing boundaries.
It is not just about replacing the retina - you have to learn to see and this involves higher cortical function. If you have gone without site for a very long time then learning to see isn't neccessarily that easy and can cause considerable distress and disorientation. Sure, for those who have seen and lost sight for a short period of time then lets hope this works out. But it isn't the solution to everyone's problems.
Call me a cynic but I'm sure they'll come out with a statement something along the lines of internet freedom, digital rights, and open communication is a great idea so long as it is our sort of internet freedom, digital rights, and open communication and those of our sponsors.
I would imagine that the first rule is not to become embroiled in tawdry affairs that might embarrass you should they become public knowledge, especially if you are married.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but all it needs is a push, no finese needed... surely there must be a cheap way of pushing it? A bomb for example?
Oh, pity. We couild start a collection? What about these sling-shots they manage in the movies?
Why couldn't they nudge it out of orbit instead? Send it off to roam deep space? That would make a far more romantic end, rather than being designated space junk and dumped into the ocean.
It is not a blame game, it is a survival game that we must all buy into or ultimately, as a species, perish.
I love my iPhone4, was completely happy with my iPhone 3G... but I am desparately underwhelmed by my iPad2. First, it doesn't bounce and costs nearly $600 to get repaired. Second, it is pretty useless if you have an iPhone and decent laptop.
You know gmail allows imap and pop access as well?
Why dont any of these tablets have handles? Seriously... I have a tablet and would just love something on the back or side to attached something a bit more grippy than flat smooth plastic. I've already lost one due to a slippery dry hand on a cool day.
I would imagine posting anything like a puzzle on slashdot would attract attention and get solved fairly quickly, whether it is for 4 year olds or at the other extreme and devilishly difficult. Those of us who like to solve puzzles do so because we enjoy solving puzzles, not for the prospect of cake.
Sleepy English towns and villages can be like this, more so in Scotland and Wales - it's not just people with plastic boxes that raise eyebrows. Just not being local can be enough. On a recent excursion I became centre of attention in the local pub for no other reason than it was my first time there. American Warewolf in London? It is all true (except for the warewolf bit).
Doesn't this give us a steer towards a short-term fix? Not my area, but if the doomsayers are right, and evidence suggests they may well be, then we could offset warming with some floating mirrors or something. Or get kids around the world to fly tinfoil kites. Or just pump some more dust up there. I realise this is not the solution but it is a genuine question.
I hope this catches on more generally - I am currently sick of the amount of paper that academia churns through. Books, photocopies, papers, it is endless. It kind of feels like we are moving in the right direction...
OMG! How on earth did the human race survive for millenia before patents?
You're so right, without patents nobody would ever invent anything and we'd all still be living in damp caves arguing about who was going to be the dumbass to pay the development costs of inventing fire...
They would take out their sword and chop their bloody heads off! Things were so much simpler in those days.
No - it is about reasonable expectations for privacy. To some extent we cannot expect absolute privacy with our neighbours, but we should expect that wholesale corporate intrusions to privacy are scorned upon. Could I, for example, point a higjhly sensitive microphone at someone's house, from a public street, and record their conversation? You could say that unencreypted data is public, but you could also argue that doing so violates the interlocutors expectations of privacy.
Story is Zuckerberg's coffee machine started flashing "You're coffee is GeoHot"
While this sounds impressive, some of us would like to have something on our desktop that is capable of, perhaps, a petaflop or two. Undoubtedly, genomics research would gain massively but there are a lot more reseachers out there, I am sure, whose work would benefit from easier and daily access to such out of the box resources. Getting supercomputing resources to the masses would seem like a worthy goal, rather than just hitting exaflop headlines.
Slashfag symes says people should (be forced to?) give work away. Get's modded Insightful +4.
Some of you dumbfucks even said that Netflix should give their service away and were modded high. You people should get out more to get more of a handle on reality.
Some funders insist that data is made available to other researchers once the funded project is complete, or at least they should have a very good reason why not. Why shouldn't publicly funded research be available to those who funded it, data, papers and all?
I think more than anything, this demonstrates why sharing data openly is such a good thing. Sure, not great news for those at Fermi Lab, but if scientists generally (especially those in the behavioural sciences...) were encouraged (or forced?) to allow others free access to their data then I'm sure a few surprising claims might be rewritten and a few interesting blips otherwise missed might be found.
I was kind of expecting to see 31415926 up there... But then I guess IT folks can get thier needs fulfilled in other ways
No mod points, so wanted to say thanks!
I guess the worry is that they'd be able to work out what the small change was, or worse inadvertantly blow themselves up and take a few unsuspecting neighbours. Plus humour is a nice way of countering the lonely disenfranchised basement dwelling types who might be attracted to this sort of thing.
Call me daft, by all means, but for some reason I am incredulous that critical systems should be vulnerable to cyber attack. It just feels like something went very wrong at the design stage to allow this to happen. But then I'm not a developer...
With Buffett and a few others pitching in to help the Gates Foundation I hardly think the Foundation is reliant on MS. Also, I would hardly think Gates would be interesting in "saving" what is still a very profitable organisation - he's much more into pushing boundaries.
It is not just about replacing the retina - you have to learn to see and this involves higher cortical function. If you have gone without site for a very long time then learning to see isn't neccessarily that easy and can cause considerable distress and disorientation. Sure, for those who have seen and lost sight for a short period of time then lets hope this works out. But it isn't the solution to everyone's problems.
Call me a cynic but I'm sure they'll come out with a statement something along the lines of internet freedom, digital rights, and open communication is a great idea so long as it is our sort of internet freedom, digital rights, and open communication and those of our sponsors.
I would imagine that the first rule is not to become embroiled in tawdry affairs that might embarrass you should they become public knowledge, especially if you are married.