Man, that blurb couldn't have been more paranoid-delusional if Oliver Stone directed it. Where do you get the idea that Google really wanted to "rescue" Yahoo? A solid company buys a failing company because the benefits and assets out-value the price.
Reference frames don't travel with respect to themselves. By definition.
However, you could say that we're that much closer/farther from Vega, or in a different season in our Solar orbit, or in a different timezone, etc. Or the Earth's core has counterspun in relation to its own crust. Or tectonic shifts have occurred.
Just assume the car is locked onto a specific reference frame, such as a given latitude/longitude relative to the Earth's axis of rotation and the nearest large mass: the Earth's crust under the car. And pass the popcorn, it's a movie for chri'sakes.
Wow, the things with more customer value (such as applicability, damage, quality, and return policy), will sell at a higher price. Gee, who would have guessed that?
[tinfoil] Sure, and adding signatures to all routers couldn't possibly be trying to make Thomas Paine roll over in his grave, now, could it? [/tinfoil]
But even that's wrong. There's no reason for Best Buy to know your address. They know the creditor's address, and the creditor has certified the transaction. If there's a problem with the funds, that's between the creditor and you. Best Buy is out of that loop.
Well, besides the obvious "buy the box" revenue, how else can Google make money on it? [tinfoil] Always consider every router as a man-in-the-middle. Suddenly, every http: you visit will "help target your ads." One National Security Letter later, and every mailto: and http: and irc: and torrent: that you visit will "enable investigations into conspiracy models."[/tinfoil]
I am not particularly concerned with the general idea of a non-removable battery. I know that by removing the extra two walls internally, they fit a bit more charge-storing mass inside the slim case. I know that the life span of this new material is able to hold more Amp-hours, which is welcome.
What concerns me is the "stays plugged in" case. Many people with this class of laptop leave the thing plugged in most of the time, but need the ability to untether just often enough to go on the road. I have had bad luck with batteries in the past, even with the best "smart charge" electronics, where the battery loses its peak capacity if it's left plugged into the DC wallwart 98% of the time. I don't discover the problem, of course, until just when I open the laptop in the airport, waiting for my departure flight.
Stop trying to tie up the line.
The passenger should switch to flying.
Instead, he rails for justice.
They're not going to give right of way.
This is just a signal of things to come.
This thing is done, let's spike it.
I'd have to say that the most interesting "product" that I've seen this year is an electronics microcontroller platform called Arduino. It started pre-2008, but it has shot up in popularity and had a writeup in Wired this year. The board is open source (blueprints and source code are Creative Commons), and people are making a wide range of alternative form factors with special features.
FYI, the Meridian 59 server-side architecture was a single machine serving the whole "world." It did not attempt to scale to multiple machines at all. If any avatars were in the same "room" as yours, even if invisible, then your client knew about it. The entire world state was in one file, which was rewritten (and garbage-collected) every N minutes. It was incredibly simple and simplistic. But it was 3D.
I'll speak as an agnostic, but one trying to find common ground with you.
Which Creation is more amazing, one which needs constant meddling to achieve the desired behavior like a child managing his toy cars on their pitiful tracks, or one which was designed in a moment of time and works autonomously by a very simple set of rules and yet develops endlessly into more and more intricate creatures and behaviors and thoughts?
If the Bible were divinely inspired, then surely the verse about "a day to Him is an eon to us" applies to the Seven Days theory as well. By that reckoning, it took billions of our years to cross His Five Days (Big Bang, Stars and Planets, Seas and Plants, Clear Atmosphere, and Complex Animals), we are currently in Day Six (the Day of Man), and we await Day Seven (Extinction) as described in Revelation.
In my last contract, I worked a VR lab with lots of toys. I have tried everything from $60 to $40,000 head mounted displays. In case you're wondering, the $60 option is an NTSC TV fed into a dimly lit monoscopic visor, while for $40,000 you get an amazing 1280x1024 digital LCD stereoscopic per eye at 90Hz. Nowhere in that range is a device that you can wear to use a GUI or a CLI interface for more than about 40 minutes. Even if your eyeball's diopter requirements are calibrated very carefully, even if your visual acuity is excellent, even if the contrast is good and the font sizes are large and beautiful, you will just not be well-served by reading text on a near-range display for more time than that.
It may be cute in the movies, but there are no options for head mounted displays that will do what you want to do, essentially live in the visor.
Putting passwords in your web browser isn't just like hiding your house keys under the doormat, it's like taping the keys of your house to the front door.
I don't keep full passwords on paper, nor do I use one of those password vault devices. Using truly random characters just means I have to write it down in full somewhere. I do have a text file that gives me *just* enough info that my mind can recall the password. For example, I might write "B`" and I recall that means "b1ZZare`" or I might use "W.P" to remember "To1.st0y". I know the rules I use to spell or punctuate words. I use different sorts of passwords for different tiers of security, from web forum, web merchant, web banking, private data, estate data, etc.
One, a "programmer" is not a developer. Two, as a programmer, you might take home $50/hr, but do you think the manager is paying for your health, unemployment, life, computer, furniture, electricity, backups, network, phones, roof and walls out of their own pocket? This is what a manager calls "total loaded cost." A "programmer" costs the company $80-$120/hr. A true developer, who knows more about full product cycle planning and execution than just some clever Objective C hacks, costs the company $150-$200/hr.
After discussing the implementation of Virtual Reality systems with many, many non-programmers, I have come to the conclusion that the fastest way to truly grok the difference between a million and a billion is to watch a computer try to render something complicated. Because we've been living in a 2D world, and 2D graphics performance has been making steady gains over everyone's computer-using lifetime, just don't understand how problems can scale or fail to scale. Put another way, the advances in 2D have tracked with Moore's Law, but 3D is a completely different exponent. Until you really give a computer a problem that scales faster than 2D, many people just assume computers will handle any level of complexity. Watching a computer choke on something their own mind comprehends easily is the humbling moment.
IBM also published complete hardware designs. The closed components were the BIOS and the OS (which was Microsoft's, not IBM's).
The BIOS was copyrighted, but not what I would call "closed." They were as open as the hardware designs. I had the source code to the BIOS (printed along with the rest in an IBM three-ring binder) in 1981, the year it was released.
WHY, in this age of "Global Warming will DESTROY the Earth" are they wasting money and effort on a way to get rid of contrails... something that is keeping us just a little bit cooler?
Drop the solar input on a farm by a couple of degrees, and the crops don't grow as profitably. It's the same for wind power-- some downwind agriculture fear that if turbines take energy out of normal wind patterns, their farms output will be upset measurably. Remember, Global Warming is not about short-term local conditions but about overall year-round global averages. Some areas will be colder, some areas will be hotter, and chaotic conditions will be stronger. Contrails affect local areas and should be more sum-zero.
However, as an aerospace company kind of guy, I don't think carrying heavy megawatt microwave emitters up to 36000ft and then burning MORE fuel to power them is going to be the answer to contrails.
You really don't need anything so clean and nice as a full-scene checkerboard, to calculate a lot of lens details. Two or three moderate-length manmade straight lines that are at different angles should be enough. Like two edges of a table, a tall building, etc. That should be enough to give you the general curvature coefficients, which in turn would be pretty close to giving the right field of view. I don't think you'd be able to tell Sigma from Canon from Nikkor from Leica from Tokina from Zeiss glass.
As even the cellphones are producing 3 megapixel images now, very few people need to be passing full-resolution originals around. If you scale the image down to a screen-usable 1 megapixel image, there's not going to be a lot of bayer mosaicking information still available.
Slashdot Mirror
(f) A black fly in your Chardonnay?
Man, that blurb couldn't have been more paranoid-delusional if Oliver Stone directed it. Where do you get the idea that Google really wanted to "rescue" Yahoo? A solid company buys a failing company because the benefits and assets out-value the price.
Reference frames don't travel with respect to themselves. By definition.
However, you could say that we're that much closer/farther from Vega, or in a different season in our Solar orbit, or in a different timezone, etc. Or the Earth's core has counterspun in relation to its own crust. Or tectonic shifts have occurred.
Just assume the car is locked onto a specific reference frame, such as a given latitude/longitude relative to the Earth's axis of rotation and the nearest large mass: the Earth's crust under the car. And pass the popcorn, it's a movie for chri'sakes.
Wow, the things with more customer value (such as applicability, damage, quality, and return policy), will sell at a higher price. Gee, who would have guessed that?
[tinfoil] Sure, and adding signatures to all routers couldn't possibly be trying to make Thomas Paine roll over in his grave, now, could it? [/tinfoil]
But even that's wrong. There's no reason for Best Buy to know your address. They know the creditor's address, and the creditor has certified the transaction. If there's a problem with the funds, that's between the creditor and you. Best Buy is out of that loop.
So she uses ReiserFS?
Well, besides the obvious "buy the box" revenue, how else can Google make money on it? [tinfoil] Always consider every router as a man-in-the-middle. Suddenly, every http: you visit will "help target your ads." One National Security Letter later, and every mailto: and http: and irc: and torrent: that you visit will "enable investigations into conspiracy models."[/tinfoil]
With a mission name like Phobos-Grunt, I was immediately tempted to add the 'leathergoddesses' tag. Now if only I could find my "T remover" device.
I am not particularly concerned with the general idea of a non-removable battery. I know that by removing the extra two walls internally, they fit a bit more charge-storing mass inside the slim case. I know that the life span of this new material is able to hold more Amp-hours, which is welcome.
What concerns me is the "stays plugged in" case. Many people with this class of laptop leave the thing plugged in most of the time, but need the ability to untether just often enough to go on the road. I have had bad luck with batteries in the past, even with the best "smart charge" electronics, where the battery loses its peak capacity if it's left plugged into the DC wallwart 98% of the time. I don't discover the problem, of course, until just when I open the laptop in the airport, waiting for my departure flight.
Stop trying to tie up the line.
The passenger should switch to flying.
Instead, he rails for justice.
They're not going to give right of way.
This is just a signal of things to come.
This thing is done, let's spike it.
I'd have to say that the most interesting "product" that I've seen this year is an electronics microcontroller platform called Arduino. It started pre-2008, but it has shot up in popularity and had a writeup in Wired this year. The board is open source (blueprints and source code are Creative Commons), and people are making a wide range of alternative form factors with special features.
FYI, the Meridian 59 server-side architecture was a single machine serving the whole "world." It did not attempt to scale to multiple machines at all. If any avatars were in the same "room" as yours, even if invisible, then your client knew about it. The entire world state was in one file, which was rewritten (and garbage-collected) every N minutes. It was incredibly simple and simplistic. But it was 3D.
I'll speak as an agnostic, but one trying to find common ground with you. Which Creation is more amazing, one which needs constant meddling to achieve the desired behavior like a child managing his toy cars on their pitiful tracks, or one which was designed in a moment of time and works autonomously by a very simple set of rules and yet develops endlessly into more and more intricate creatures and behaviors and thoughts? If the Bible were divinely inspired, then surely the verse about "a day to Him is an eon to us" applies to the Seven Days theory as well. By that reckoning, it took billions of our years to cross His Five Days (Big Bang, Stars and Planets, Seas and Plants, Clear Atmosphere, and Complex Animals), we are currently in Day Six (the Day of Man), and we await Day Seven (Extinction) as described in Revelation.
In my last contract, I worked a VR lab with lots of toys. I have tried everything from $60 to $40,000 head mounted displays. In case you're wondering, the $60 option is an NTSC TV fed into a dimly lit monoscopic visor, while for $40,000 you get an amazing 1280x1024 digital LCD stereoscopic per eye at 90Hz. Nowhere in that range is a device that you can wear to use a GUI or a CLI interface for more than about 40 minutes. Even if your eyeball's diopter requirements are calibrated very carefully, even if your visual acuity is excellent, even if the contrast is good and the font sizes are large and beautiful, you will just not be well-served by reading text on a near-range display for more time than that.
It may be cute in the movies, but there are no options for head mounted displays that will do what you want to do, essentially live in the visor.
Putting passwords in your web browser isn't just like hiding your house keys under the doormat, it's like taping the keys of your house to the front door.
I don't keep full passwords on paper, nor do I use one of those password vault devices. Using truly random characters just means I have to write it down in full somewhere. I do have a text file that gives me *just* enough info that my mind can recall the password. For example, I might write "B`" and I recall that means "b1ZZare`" or I might use "W.P" to remember "To1.st0y". I know the rules I use to spell or punctuate words. I use different sorts of passwords for different tiers of security, from web forum, web merchant, web banking, private data, estate data, etc.
Can you guys just baguette already?!
One, a "programmer" is not a developer. Two, as a programmer, you might take home $50/hr, but do you think the manager is paying for your health, unemployment, life, computer, furniture, electricity, backups, network, phones, roof and walls out of their own pocket? This is what a manager calls "total loaded cost." A "programmer" costs the company $80-$120/hr. A true developer, who knows more about full product cycle planning and execution than just some clever Objective C hacks, costs the company $150-$200/hr.
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After discussing the implementation of Virtual Reality systems with many, many non-programmers, I have come to the conclusion that the fastest way to truly grok the difference between a million and a billion is to watch a computer try to render something complicated. Because we've been living in a 2D world, and 2D graphics performance has been making steady gains over everyone's computer-using lifetime, just don't understand how problems can scale or fail to scale. Put another way, the advances in 2D have tracked with Moore's Law, but 3D is a completely different exponent. Until you really give a computer a problem that scales faster than 2D, many people just assume computers will handle any level of complexity. Watching a computer choke on something their own mind comprehends easily is the humbling moment.
IBM also published complete hardware designs. The closed components were the BIOS and the OS (which was Microsoft's, not IBM's).
The BIOS was copyrighted, but not what I would call "closed." They were as open as the hardware designs. I had the source code to the BIOS (printed along with the rest in an IBM three-ring binder) in 1981, the year it was released.
WHY, in this age of "Global Warming will DESTROY the Earth" are they wasting money and effort on a way to get rid of contrails... something that is keeping us just a little bit cooler?
Drop the solar input on a farm by a couple of degrees, and the crops don't grow as profitably. It's the same for wind power-- some downwind agriculture fear that if turbines take energy out of normal wind patterns, their farms output will be upset measurably. Remember, Global Warming is not about short-term local conditions but about overall year-round global averages. Some areas will be colder, some areas will be hotter, and chaotic conditions will be stronger. Contrails affect local areas and should be more sum-zero.
However, as an aerospace company kind of guy, I don't think carrying heavy megawatt microwave emitters up to 36000ft and then burning MORE fuel to power them is going to be the answer to contrails.
You really don't need anything so clean and nice as a full-scene checkerboard, to calculate a lot of lens details. Two or three moderate-length manmade straight lines that are at different angles should be enough. Like two edges of a table, a tall building, etc. That should be enough to give you the general curvature coefficients, which in turn would be pretty close to giving the right field of view. I don't think you'd be able to tell Sigma from Canon from Nikkor from Leica from Tokina from Zeiss glass.
As even the cellphones are producing 3 megapixel images now, very few people need to be passing full-resolution originals around. If you scale the image down to a screen-usable 1 megapixel image, there's not going to be a lot of bayer mosaicking information still available.