It's just an experiment that the iRobot corp was conducting, where they cross a Roomba with one of their military devices. Apparently this is related to Bill Gates' theories that hurricanes can be controlled with the proper application of technology. Dean Kamen was not not available for comment on speculation that it was related to a Death Star marketing tie-in for his Luke "Skywalker" prosthetic hand project.
The new printer you bought came with "demo" ink cartridges that are nearly empty, compared with full ones. You didn't get a bargain.
Personally, while I understand the business doctrine of "whatever the market will bear," I think it's time that Congress look into market collusion and racketeering. There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.
For those not in on the joke, see very early US television comedy, "The Honeymooners." Its characters were the original inspiration for the cartoon Flintstones, which might give you an indication of the age of this joke.
Congrats to the Inkscape team. I use it all the time for business and pleasure. I did join up with the developers of Inkscape for a month or two, so I could fix some layer-related bugs and get to know the internals a bit better. I drew this anime-fanart image, and made a script to make this video, while 0.47 was in the works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nshUvuOCHtw - it doesn't show but a tiny fraction of what Inkscape can do, but I found it fun to produce anyway.
I really think someone should bring back Public Service Announcement education (a la "Schoolhouse Rock") in a big way. Keep the lessons small and bite-sized, fit them into 30 second spots. Just keep banging away simple concepts that are aimed at middle-schoolers and adults who forgot all of that stuff. Using simple math to figure out gallons of paint required for a wall of a given size. Linking fuel purchased to pollution created in numbers. Explaining the difference between anecdotes versus statistical norms, like the recent breast-cancer-screening recommendations. Illustrating the kinds of technology Europe, Asia and the Americas had in 1400 AD or 1600 AD or 1800 AD. Heck, even just quoting and explaining each of the Constitutional Amendments during shows like "24 Hours" or "CSI" would have a profound impact in the long run.
No, Mac OS X is not targeted for x86, it is targeted for Apple hardware, and they have decided not to make machines that use the Intel Atom processor. Whether Intel wanted Atom to be 99.995% software compatible with other Intel processors used by Apple is irrelevant. Whether hackintosh users want to use Apple software on non-Apple hardware is irrelevant.
If Apple did this to be spiteful, they're within their rights to do so. If they did this because maintaining the difference in that 0.005% of the code that really does need to work differently for Atom vs non-Atom usage was a problem for them, that's also something that's up to them to decide.
Do not conflate the GPL with the public domain. If there is a copyright in force, it is not in the public domain. It is in the public's reach, and if they follow the rules of the license they can use it, but it is not in the public domain. The public domain is the forgotten side of the copyright bargain, that [i]for limited times[/i] the authors can impose rules on the use of their works. By the way, in most countries, one can simply declare that they grant their own works to the public domain, as a gift to mankind, rather than waiting the requisite half-eternity to allow the copyrights to expire.
I've owned a Garmin for well over a decade, and I've not seen one app on any phone that could match it for functionality. All the apps-on-phones will show you a map (usually network scraped from Google Maps or the like), but very few will have a single-key "Mark This Spot" (aka Man Overboard), or an easy Waypoint database, or easy Routing between waypoints, or measure useful things like Velocity Made Good (velocity towards target, not velocity in your current heading). There's a way to edit some of this in Google's "My Maps" Editor on the Android, and it's cool that it shows up in your PC without syncing, but it is cumbersome as hell. I've seen little support for logging tracks to a simple file format you can retrieve for analysis (like geotagging photos from non-phone cameras), because phones and phone apps don't like to support file systems. When GPS apps actually perform better than GPS units at common GPS tasks, then I'll be interested.
Agreed with the parent's comments. Reminds me of this sentiment:
Some things won't go away just by making them illegal. Some women will decide (perhaps against all advice of their family and church) to terminate... and when they do, they need access to safe medical care, not preaching, social damnation, and horrible injuries. If self-inflicted or unlawful medical procedures are all that's available, then that's what these women will use.
I know that you will be shocked to have received this notice,but let me explain.I am Mr.Officer MUGABE AKINSO TSUKWAME with the Nigerian National Police Force,Special Internet Fraud Task Force.Following a recent raid on the offices of Mr.OLOSEGUN OBASANJO,President of Nigeria,we have secured illicit funds in the amount of FOURTEEN MILLION (US$4,100,000.00).We are certain these funds are tied to illegal fraudulent activities including electronic mail fraud,fiduciary embezzlement,and blackmail.To ensure that this evidence is kept securely until the trial,due to the risk in the Nigerian Government,we are seeking your assistance in holding these funds in a bank in your country.Please provide the standard necessary information NAME,DOB,NAME OF MOTHER,NEXT OF KIN,BANK ACCT NUMBER,ROUTING NUMBER,PIN,ZIP CODE,FAVORITE COLOR,COLLEGE MASCOT,FINGERPRINT,NATIONAL ID SOCIAL NUMBER,MIDDLE INITIAL.May God shine upon your soul for helping Nigeria rid itself of corruption and fraud.
Signing a petition does not mean that you agree with the views of the petitioner, it just means that you agree that the issue should be brought to a wider vote to decide the matter. I've known plenty of people who would sign pretty much any referendum or initiative in the states that have that process. In their view, it just airs more discussion and opportunities for democracy.
I don't use Adobe products, period. But I can see why some people would get incensed at the GIMP and abandon it. A big part of it is the pace of development on the GIMP project, and another big part of it is the team.
The GIMP developers have, for the past dozen years at least, dismissed all suggestions that they are the de facto competitor to Adobe Photoshop. They are scratching their own itch, not scratching the itch that tens of thousands of graphic artists have, and if you want something in the GIMP, you better write it yourself. (No hint they'll accept your patch, either.) It's taken several years just to find competent developers who can get along with the GIMP project management and still work on CMYK or 16bpc or other important features. Those features are creeping along way beyond schedule, and just getting them onto the schedule took far too long.
I just got a bug-system notification the other day that said they're finally going to support write-protecting layers. Oh, wait, it just says they're laying the groundwork for a padlock icon on the layers menu, they'll get around to doing the actual write-denying behaviors "soon." I submitted that so many years ago that I've lost track.
Not counting nuances, the GIMP is still essentially feature-matched to Adobe Photoshop 5.5, a product that came out in the mid 90s. No wonder they don't want to accept the mantle of competitor.
I agree with all that you're saying, but I have also found a high number of managers who will simply ask me to explain verbally what I've already typed. I'm not talking about the "give me the executive summary" kind of brevity, but it's clearly a case of being too weak at everyday reading skills.
Hey, so this is like those cure-cancer protein folding things, or like the original find-an-alien-civilization SETI project, except where it's recruiting people to become cyber vigilantes with their spare computing cycles. Awesome! I want to get my computer infected just so my employer's favorite documents can be snagged AND my daughter's school project can be shredded AND I can be implicated in a giant DDoS zombienet counter-attack scandal too. Sign me up!
I love Legos, but let's face it - this apparatus could have been built out of many other things.
The researcher answers the question:
* Lego is available and accessible, moreso than developing tools or using ad hoc scavenged parts to make your own pegs
* Lego is machined to fairly high standards of consistency and clean geometry, which helps this particular study
For things where there's a clear "address bus" that consists of all possible permutations of a binary bit field, it makes sense to use the powers of two. The 2^10 kilo-, 2^20- mega, 2^30 giga- is just a convenience in terminology due to their approximate equivalence to 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, respectively; however, the bigger you go, obviously they diverge quite a bit.
For things addressed by a system of arbitrary track/cylinder numbers, say, 336 tracks or 1435 tracks, and arbitrary platter/head numbers, it's ridiculous to say that they should follow the "convenience" of the powers of two scheme.
So, how should flash drives be measured and marketed? While the components are physically based on an address bus, they present themselves to the host with sector numbers just like the spinning drives do. They can also reserve some "spare" cells in their internal mapping, for wear-leveling or error correction. I'd say they could easily make the case for marketing under SI/IEEE powers of ten.
In other news, the International Olympic Committee has filed a trademark infringement suit against IBM and God, showing that pentacine resembles the trademarked "interlocking five ring" design of the Olympic Games.
The only feature of Snow Leopard that looks at all interesting is the hanzi/kanji input on the trackpad. Probably hard to draw the twenty-stroke characters, unlike the five-stroke example screenshots. But since I rarely use my laptop OPEN (I run in clamshell mode to an external monitor most of the time), even that is not particularly useful to me.
I searched for the word "phone" throughout that linked article, and nowhere did it mention things like, oh, talking and listening and dialing. No "3G" or "GPRS" mentions either. The N810 and N800 and (N)700 Internet Tablet models look just like this, but WITH NO PHONE GUTS. A few screenshots look like they have phone features, but it really seems odd that a review/preview just doesn't even mention such obvious things. Maybe it's just Skype for all I know.
A lot of people bitch and complain at the cheesy dialogue, the goofball proper nouns like the Mon Calimari, the broad-strokes caracatures like Jar Jar, and the massive holes in logic. They rally with things like "geez, just hire a dialogue writer and it'd be so much better." Even Carrie Fisher had a hard time coming to grips with how bad the dialogue was.
However, these things are bad by design. Lucas wants it that way. Just as today's kids were not in the theaters for 1977 Star Wars, Carrie Fisher and crew were not in the theaters for the real inspiration: saturday matinee serial adventure movies of the 50s. Indiana Jones is cut out of the same cloth. Pump flashy moves and totally cornball bad-writing into the minds of bored kids, and rake in the ticket sales. These are third-rate comic books in celluloid form, with little more than a title and a short beer conversation for pre-production.
To pay homage and recapture the "magic" of those 1950s serials, Lucas has completely chosen to include a patchwork of nonsensical and patronizing elements. Bad accents equals bad people? Check. Steel-hearted women melt when the hero-boy forces a kiss on them? Check. Layer on a milquetoast political plotline that some people will take to be allegory for current affairs? Check.
Either that, or Lucas is a dipshit. Rolling in money, but somehow a moron nonetheless.
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Yeah, and while we're at it, NASA: "Orion" means exploding nukes under a blast plate, not providing a cushy crew cabin. :)
It's just an experiment that the iRobot corp was conducting, where they cross a Roomba with one of their military devices. Apparently this is related to Bill Gates' theories that hurricanes can be controlled with the proper application of technology. Dean Kamen was not not available for comment on speculation that it was related to a Death Star marketing tie-in for his Luke "Skywalker" prosthetic hand project.
The new printer you bought came with "demo" ink cartridges that are nearly empty, compared with full ones. You didn't get a bargain.
Personally, while I understand the business doctrine of "whatever the market will bear," I think it's time that Congress look into market collusion and racketeering. There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.
For those not in on the joke, see very early US television comedy, "The Honeymooners." Its characters were the original inspiration for the cartoon Flintstones, which might give you an indication of the age of this joke.
Congrats to the Inkscape team. I use it all the time for business and pleasure. I did join up with the developers of Inkscape for a month or two, so I could fix some layer-related bugs and get to know the internals a bit better. I drew this anime-fanart image, and made a script to make this video, while 0.47 was in the works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nshUvuOCHtw - it doesn't show but a tiny fraction of what Inkscape can do, but I found it fun to produce anyway.
I really think someone should bring back Public Service Announcement education (a la "Schoolhouse Rock") in a big way. Keep the lessons small and bite-sized, fit them into 30 second spots. Just keep banging away simple concepts that are aimed at middle-schoolers and adults who forgot all of that stuff. Using simple math to figure out gallons of paint required for a wall of a given size. Linking fuel purchased to pollution created in numbers. Explaining the difference between anecdotes versus statistical norms, like the recent breast-cancer-screening recommendations. Illustrating the kinds of technology Europe, Asia and the Americas had in 1400 AD or 1600 AD or 1800 AD. Heck, even just quoting and explaining each of the Constitutional Amendments during shows like "24 Hours" or "CSI" would have a profound impact in the long run.
No, Mac OS X is not targeted for x86, it is targeted for Apple hardware, and they have decided not to make machines that use the Intel Atom processor. Whether Intel wanted Atom to be 99.995% software compatible with other Intel processors used by Apple is irrelevant. Whether hackintosh users want to use Apple software on non-Apple hardware is irrelevant.
If Apple did this to be spiteful, they're within their rights to do so. If they did this because maintaining the difference in that 0.005% of the code that really does need to work differently for Atom vs non-Atom usage was a problem for them, that's also something that's up to them to decide.
Do not conflate the GPL with the public domain. If there is a copyright in force, it is not in the public domain. It is in the public's reach, and if they follow the rules of the license they can use it, but it is not in the public domain. The public domain is the forgotten side of the copyright bargain, that [i]for limited times[/i] the authors can impose rules on the use of their works. By the way, in most countries, one can simply declare that they grant their own works to the public domain, as a gift to mankind, rather than waiting the requisite half-eternity to allow the copyrights to expire.
Any RPGer knows that Prof. Stanovich is attempting to correlate INT scores with WIS scores.
Silly scientist. No bonus priest spells for you.
We don't need to guess who scored 3 for CHArisma.
Agreed.
I've owned a Garmin for well over a decade, and I've not seen one app on any phone that could match it for functionality. All the apps-on-phones will show you a map (usually network scraped from Google Maps or the like), but very few will have a single-key "Mark This Spot" (aka Man Overboard), or an easy Waypoint database, or easy Routing between waypoints, or measure useful things like Velocity Made Good (velocity towards target, not velocity in your current heading). There's a way to edit some of this in Google's "My Maps" Editor on the Android, and it's cool that it shows up in your PC without syncing, but it is cumbersome as hell. I've seen little support for logging tracks to a simple file format you can retrieve for analysis (like geotagging photos from non-phone cameras), because phones and phone apps don't like to support file systems. When GPS apps actually perform better than GPS units at common GPS tasks, then I'll be interested.
Some things won't go away just by making them illegal. Some women will decide (perhaps against all advice of their family and church) to terminate... and when they do, they need access to safe medical care, not preaching, social damnation, and horrible injuries. If self-inflicted or unlawful medical procedures are all that's available, then that's what these women will use.
I know that you will be shocked to have received this notice,but let me explain.I am Mr.Officer MUGABE AKINSO TSUKWAME with the Nigerian National Police Force,Special Internet Fraud Task Force.Following a recent raid on the offices of Mr.OLOSEGUN OBASANJO,President of Nigeria,we have secured illicit funds in the amount of FOURTEEN MILLION (US$4,100,000.00).We are certain these funds are tied to illegal fraudulent activities including electronic mail fraud,fiduciary embezzlement,and blackmail.To ensure that this evidence is kept securely until the trial,due to the risk in the Nigerian Government,we are seeking your assistance in holding these funds in a bank in your country.Please provide the standard necessary information NAME,DOB,NAME OF MOTHER,NEXT OF KIN,BANK ACCT NUMBER,ROUTING NUMBER,PIN,ZIP CODE,FAVORITE COLOR,COLLEGE MASCOT,FINGERPRINT,NATIONAL ID SOCIAL NUMBER,MIDDLE INITIAL.May God shine upon your soul for helping Nigeria rid itself of corruption and fraud.
Signing a petition does not mean that you agree with the views of the petitioner, it just means that you agree that the issue should be brought to a wider vote to decide the matter. I've known plenty of people who would sign pretty much any referendum or initiative in the states that have that process. In their view, it just airs more discussion and opportunities for democracy.
I'mma gonna let you finish but
It's like you stepped on a kitten, Atrox666.
trendiness of Carolingean Miniscule with it's clever serifs and ligatures
And five days of a scribe's time was wasted with the stray apostrophe or blot in the middle of the page.
Scenario:
* Kid has tiny routine temporary infection. It's resolved.
* Parent wants to insure kid, wife, self, against costs of broken arms, car accidents, heart attacks, etc.
* Insurance company goes on data mining expedition, sees tiny temporary infection in past, denies whole family coverage for all health issues.
Now do you see the fallacy in your argument?
I don't use Adobe products, period. But I can see why some people would get incensed at the GIMP and abandon it. A big part of it is the pace of development on the GIMP project, and another big part of it is the team.
The GIMP developers have, for the past dozen years at least, dismissed all suggestions that they are the de facto competitor to Adobe Photoshop. They are scratching their own itch, not scratching the itch that tens of thousands of graphic artists have, and if you want something in the GIMP, you better write it yourself. (No hint they'll accept your patch, either.) It's taken several years just to find competent developers who can get along with the GIMP project management and still work on CMYK or 16bpc or other important features. Those features are creeping along way beyond schedule, and just getting them onto the schedule took far too long.
I just got a bug-system notification the other day that said they're finally going to support write-protecting layers. Oh, wait, it just says they're laying the groundwork for a padlock icon on the layers menu, they'll get around to doing the actual write-denying behaviors "soon." I submitted that so many years ago that I've lost track.
Not counting nuances, the GIMP is still essentially feature-matched to Adobe Photoshop 5.5, a product that came out in the mid 90s. No wonder they don't want to accept the mantle of competitor.
I agree with all that you're saying, but I have also found a high number of managers who will simply ask me to explain verbally what I've already typed. I'm not talking about the "give me the executive summary" kind of brevity, but it's clearly a case of being too weak at everyday reading skills.
Hey, so this is like those cure-cancer protein folding things, or like the original find-an-alien-civilization SETI project, except where it's recruiting people to become cyber vigilantes with their spare computing cycles. Awesome! I want to get my computer infected just so my employer's favorite documents can be snagged AND my daughter's school project can be shredded AND I can be implicated in a giant DDoS zombienet counter-attack scandal too. Sign me up!
The researcher answers the question:
* Lego is available and accessible, moreso than developing tools or using ad hoc scavenged parts to make your own pegs
* Lego is machined to fairly high standards of consistency and clean geometry, which helps this particular study
For things where there's a clear "address bus" that consists of all possible permutations of a binary bit field, it makes sense to use the powers of two. The 2^10 kilo-, 2^20- mega, 2^30 giga- is just a convenience in terminology due to their approximate equivalence to 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, respectively; however, the bigger you go, obviously they diverge quite a bit.
For things addressed by a system of arbitrary track/cylinder numbers, say, 336 tracks or 1435 tracks, and arbitrary platter/head numbers, it's ridiculous to say that they should follow the "convenience" of the powers of two scheme.
So, how should flash drives be measured and marketed? While the components are physically based on an address bus, they present themselves to the host with sector numbers just like the spinning drives do. They can also reserve some "spare" cells in their internal mapping, for wear-leveling or error correction. I'd say they could easily make the case for marketing under SI/IEEE powers of ten.
In other news, the International Olympic Committee has filed a trademark infringement suit against IBM and God, showing that pentacine resembles the trademarked "interlocking five ring" design of the Olympic Games.
The only feature of Snow Leopard that looks at all interesting is the hanzi/kanji input on the trackpad. Probably hard to draw the twenty-stroke characters, unlike the five-stroke example screenshots. But since I rarely use my laptop OPEN (I run in clamshell mode to an external monitor most of the time), even that is not particularly useful to me.
I searched for the word "phone" throughout that linked article, and nowhere did it mention things like, oh, talking and listening and dialing. No "3G" or "GPRS" mentions either. The N810 and N800 and (N)700 Internet Tablet models look just like this, but WITH NO PHONE GUTS. A few screenshots look like they have phone features, but it really seems odd that a review/preview just doesn't even mention such obvious things. Maybe it's just Skype for all I know.
A lot of people bitch and complain at the cheesy dialogue, the goofball proper nouns like the Mon Calimari, the broad-strokes caracatures like Jar Jar, and the massive holes in logic. They rally with things like "geez, just hire a dialogue writer and it'd be so much better." Even Carrie Fisher had a hard time coming to grips with how bad the dialogue was.
However, these things are bad by design. Lucas wants it that way. Just as today's kids were not in the theaters for 1977 Star Wars, Carrie Fisher and crew were not in the theaters for the real inspiration: saturday matinee serial adventure movies of the 50s. Indiana Jones is cut out of the same cloth. Pump flashy moves and totally cornball bad-writing into the minds of bored kids, and rake in the ticket sales. These are third-rate comic books in celluloid form, with little more than a title and a short beer conversation for pre-production.
To pay homage and recapture the "magic" of those 1950s serials, Lucas has completely chosen to include a patchwork of nonsensical and patronizing elements. Bad accents equals bad people? Check. Steel-hearted women melt when the hero-boy forces a kiss on them? Check. Layer on a milquetoast political plotline that some people will take to be allegory for current affairs? Check.
Either that, or Lucas is a dipshit. Rolling in money, but somehow a moron nonetheless.