For me, the sleeve posed no problems. It was tight, but not overly so. It may have to do with humidity levels or temperatures too.
The tape was one of those patterned-adhesive jobs, but the glue was too strong. The first 10mm started to peel up and give an embossed pattern, much like those "WARRANTY VOID" patterns. The underlying black pasteboard failed, though, so the rest of the tape length was just pulling up the top layer of pasteboard.
Similarly, the ends of the USB cable had tiny transparent plastic protectors that would not come off easily. Apple protectors usually slid off much easier.
That said, the unboxing for me was just fine. It's a slick device and I'm enjoying it.
The initial call for questions included a factoid that I had somehow missed in all the other layman summaries: "He is careful to note that while the researchers '[believe] that this new particle, with a mass 125 times that of a proton, is the famous Higgs boson,' they 'need to study that new particle more deeply in the next months to be conclusive on that.' "
I'm totally not familiar with the details here. For some reason I was expecting that the boson would be a much smaller thing, in the same scale as quarks or even strings, and that other particles including the proton would owe their structures to this. If the Higgs "explains" mass, to me that implies it is responsible for mass. How would you explain the mass of other massive particles like the proton? Or is comparing it to a proton not really accurate?
So if Google took over the "pole position" hardware release with the Nexus 7, and they also release the Jelly Bean source code, does that mean that they're going to be the cleanest, easiest platform to hack?
I'm a bit worried now that I see that some of the media features won't be available on non-US devices; not because I'm overseas, but because that usually means the MAFIAA has some control over the hardware. I really want the little tablet, to replace my aging Nook Color. If it turns out there are bootloader lockin games being played, I'll be pretty much done with Android.
"It could place providers in the position of requiring warrants for all law enforcement requests."
Exactly how it should be. The entire point of requiring a warrant, is to provide checks and ballances to the system.
I wear as much tinfoil as the next guy, but not all law enforcement requests are criminal investigations. Do you really want the cops to have to wake up a judge at 3am when your teenage daughter has gone missing after complaining about a stalker?
Sorry, for years and years I've seen GNU trying to out-innovate by copying and predictably rebranding the other guy's stuff. Not more but less. Not YACC but bison. (And I say this as a GNOME desktop fan, though I spit on Unity like all the other GNOME desktop fans.) For over a decade, the GNOME naming battles has been K versus G. So when I saw that there was a GNOME version of Kinect, I just assumed that out of pure habit it would be called Ginect.
(how are you supposed to know if you should accept a new hosts public key, anyway?)
Seriously? If you don't know enough about what's going on with the machine at the other end to make that decision... that's the whole bloody point of the warning!
Just because you use SSH doesn't mean you administer the machine.
I get a cheap ISP, it offers shell access to help me set up my scripts or website. I usually access it through the hostname I've attached with my DNS record: ssh shell.mydomain.com One day, they do some load balancing or something, and they shift my account to a different box. To me, it doesn't matter if they do that, but they don't exactly send out emails on each occasion. It has happened roughly three times a year for me. Every time I get the fingerprint-changed warning, it would be nice to have some confidence in it without resorting to the telephone. I can check whether the traceroute still goes to my ISP. I don't enter my password, I have already set up the account to trust my desktop's public key. Does the fact that they have my old SSH authorized_key file really mean there's no man-in-the-middle? (No.) At what point do I shrug and trust the new machine, vs calling up the ISP to get some info on the latest fingerprint change?
I love exploring timelines. Nearly thirty years ago, I wanted to implement a general timeline visualization tool like this. I've dabbled now and then but not gotten serious about it. Finding Best Tag Sets for Timeline Browsing
That said, I think a key feature will be to offer timelines on different continua. Fiction is one reason: A timeline of Frank Herbert's Dune universe or Tolkien's LotR Middle Earth should not be matched to our objective understanding of Earth's history. Another reason is an exemplar of a generic time sequence. There is a whole chapter in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears (I think) which describes, nanosecond by nanosecond, the stages of a thermonuclear explosion. Being able to relate such generic sequences is useful, even if they aren't pinned to a specific historical mark on the greater timeline of years.
On a hunch I searched for "chrome crashes -bumper -rollbar" and only get 4,600,000 as the result count. Then I searched for plain old "chrome crashes" and got 5,600,000. I know that Google search results depends somewhat on the browsing history of the individual, but these are an order of magnitude lower than your results.
There is nothing in our constitution that creates- or gives special rights to political parties.
I go farther. If anything, membership in a political party is a hobby outside the scope of your job. Anything and everything you do for the benefit of your hobby playmates (your party) is essentially stealing from your employer (the people). Congressfolk often forget that they represent the interests of everyone in their state or district, not just everyone in the winning party, not even just the voters or citizens.
Due to the right of association, I can't actually make a case for banning the political party memberships, but I strongly feel that every single Senate or House rule that mentions political party caucuses should be stricken, and new rules drawn up that are fair to all of the constituency. Every gerrymandering trick needs to be replaced with neutrally optimized answers as soon as practical.
You mean like that "walled garden" known as Android that has the same user options to only install from the Android market or to allow "Other sources"?
In the minds of many technically-savvy users, there is a huge distinction between a general purpose computer, and media consumption devices like phones and tablets. In the minds of corporations like Apple, eroding those distinctions helps them sell more media consumption devices and more media to be consumed. There will always be more technically-UNsavvy users than savvy, so they're just following the market. However, that leaves a lot of us out in the cold.
This is basically impossible, or will have horrible artifacts.
The current crop of movies with 2D-to-3D conversions still took significant human and artistic effort to achieve, even though the results are mediocre. For a given frame, for every pixel in 2D, SOMETHING has to decide how far away the subject depicted must be. That is, it has to INVENT the third dimensional value. Then this value is used to calculate two new 2D frame with parallax involved.
There's no computational way to achieve this INVENTION of the depth value with an arbitrary photograph, though. Any computational model will have big gaps in its ability. With enough computing power, you can perhaps identify visual markers in neighboring frames (say, the corner of a lampshade), solve for where the camera position must be relative to the markers, then use the depth of the solved markers to base all the other pixels (say, the lampshade versus the drapes). But that (1) takes significant solver time now, (2) requires a lot of hand-adjustments to discard inappropriate markers that upset the solver process with bad results, and (3) won't find anywhere near enough quality markers across the whole frame in fast-moving action scenes to fill in the rest of the data.
Some people get ill with the best 3D out there, others get ill as the quality of the 3D information degrades. The inconsistent results of any realtime method would likely be epilepsy- and nausea-inducing in a matter of seconds.
Copying is not theft. Jefferson said "he who lights a taper from me, receives light without darkening me."
But destruction of your only copy IS theft. "He who snuffs my own taper while it's sitting on the shelf where I intentionally left it for access later DOES darken me."
Sure, some people use cloud storage as a way to transfer files from point A to point B, ending up with three copies: A's, cloud's, and B's. But many people use cloud storage for... you know... storage. Archives. Record-keeping. Zero copies at home, one archive copy in the cloud. This is a real danger of cloud services, and governmental shuttering of sites is only one way that a cloud can fail.
I find this idea quite nice. Encourage people to have some fun while programming (boring stuff).
If writing code is the boring part of your career, why did you train yourself and get into that line of work? Most people I know who write code, because they want to write code, they feel best when given the opportunity between meetings to write code. The best developers I know tend to go home after their job, and sit down to their hobby projects where they... write code.
This morning on NPR's Marketplace Morning Report, there was a footnote similar to a few other mass media articles I've seen. They pointed out that if necessary, you could use Google's "cached copy" of a site like Wikipedia, if you are otherwise blocked by the SOPA front page. It's like a digital scab on the picket line.
Then it struck me: isn't this advice a sort of inducement to piracy, and therefore a strong statement about SOPA's odious nature? If a site blocks its own publication of data, say, Sony/EMG/WarnerBros takes down its own webpage, isn't relying on a third party copy to get that content without their authorization just another form of "stealing" in their eyes? Wikipedia content is under some copyleft premise, but I don't think that changes the point: there are times that everyday reasonable activities can be construed as piracy in ways that a law or a technology can never adequately distinguish.
It IS in production, it just hasn't come out of the production pipeline yet. The working beta boards (with a hand-applied last-minute fix) are being auctioned off, proceeds for the charity recipients for which Raspberry Pi was created: making classroom computing happen.
I will be happy to buy a bunch when they're available too, but let's watch the development. As for Tesla, did you buy the Roadster, seeing as how it's been available in showrooms for some time now?
I know that the military likes imposing names like Falcon or Comanche, but anyone else notice that one of the End Times predictors is a plague of cicadas (locusts) flying in from parts unknown?
I really liked the MagSafe(tm) concept when Apple first came out with it, but Apple has been such a fucking prick about the damned things. They don't offer any significant range of options to use the plug, and they actively stymie all attempts of the marketplace to fill that void. Want a piggy-back battery to supply power to the laptop? Apple doesn't make one. Want to tie in with a docking station? Apple doesn't make one. At first, when asked about third party adoption of the plugs, they were "oh, well, I guess they'll start coming out any time now." Then it was "oh, well, guess nobody's trying to license them." Then when manufacturers tried to license them, they were refused. So one manufacturer decided to eat the waste and rely on the doctrine of First Sale. They BOUGHT Apple(tm) adapters, chopped off the white wallwart transformer, and soldered the MagSafe(tm) pigtail to their own battery packs, and they were still attacked by Apple's lawyers. WTF, Apple. People have varying needs to make use of your products. Step up to offer the solution, or get out of the way.
Actually, I think you mean that DRM never affects the pirates. You're mistaking affect (to have a changing influence) vs effect (to have a causal influence). In truth, DRM probably does effect piracy, in that DRM is a major contributing reason that plain old people decide to "become a pirate" and apply cracks their purchased products.
Helicopters take a LOT of practice before you become proficient in flying them and it takes your full attention to flying, not sight-seeing. Also just as importantly, they can only fly for about five to ten minutes before needing to come down to refuel or swap batteries.
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For me, the sleeve posed no problems. It was tight, but not overly so. It may have to do with humidity levels or temperatures too.
The tape was one of those patterned-adhesive jobs, but the glue was too strong. The first 10mm started to peel up and give an embossed pattern, much like those "WARRANTY VOID" patterns. The underlying black pasteboard failed, though, so the rest of the tape length was just pulling up the top layer of pasteboard.
Similarly, the ends of the USB cable had tiny transparent plastic protectors that would not come off easily. Apple protectors usually slid off much easier.
That said, the unboxing for me was just fine. It's a slick device and I'm enjoying it.
The initial call for questions included a factoid that I had somehow missed in all the other layman summaries: "He is careful to note that while the researchers '[believe] that this new particle, with a mass 125 times that of a proton, is the famous Higgs boson,' they 'need to study that new particle more deeply in the next months to be conclusive on that.' "
I'm totally not familiar with the details here. For some reason I was expecting that the boson would be a much smaller thing, in the same scale as quarks or even strings, and that other particles including the proton would owe their structures to this. If the Higgs "explains" mass, to me that implies it is responsible for mass. How would you explain the mass of other massive particles like the proton? Or is comparing it to a proton not really accurate?
So if Google took over the "pole position" hardware release with the Nexus 7, and they also release the Jelly Bean source code, does that mean that they're going to be the cleanest, easiest platform to hack?
I'm a bit worried now that I see that some of the media features won't be available on non-US devices; not because I'm overseas, but because that usually means the MAFIAA has some control over the hardware. I really want the little tablet, to replace my aging Nook Color. If it turns out there are bootloader lockin games being played, I'll be pretty much done with Android.
At the rate that Raspberry Pi units are being made and shipped, this may very well be the first RPi that arrives on this side of the pond.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept, I feel for the group that has designed the thing, I have just been frustrated at the lack of availability.
I wear as much tinfoil as the next guy, but not all law enforcement requests are criminal investigations. Do you really want the cops to have to wake up a judge at 3am when your teenage daughter has gone missing after complaining about a stalker?
Not Ginect?
Sorry, for years and years I've seen GNU trying to out-innovate by copying and predictably rebranding the other guy's stuff. Not more but less. Not YACC but bison. (And I say this as a GNOME desktop fan, though I spit on Unity like all the other GNOME desktop fans.) For over a decade, the GNOME naming battles has been K versus G. So when I saw that there was a GNOME version of Kinect, I just assumed that out of pure habit it would be called Ginect.
Just because you use SSH doesn't mean you administer the machine.
I get a cheap ISP, it offers shell access to help me set up my scripts or website. I usually access it through the hostname I've attached with my DNS record: ssh shell.mydomain.com One day, they do some load balancing or something, and they shift my account to a different box. To me, it doesn't matter if they do that, but they don't exactly send out emails on each occasion. It has happened roughly three times a year for me. Every time I get the fingerprint-changed warning, it would be nice to have some confidence in it without resorting to the telephone. I can check whether the traceroute still goes to my ISP. I don't enter my password, I have already set up the account to trust my desktop's public key. Does the fact that they have my old SSH authorized_key file really mean there's no man-in-the-middle? (No.) At what point do I shrug and trust the new machine, vs calling up the ISP to get some info on the latest fingerprint change?
I love exploring timelines. Nearly thirty years ago, I wanted to implement a general timeline visualization tool like this. I've dabbled now and then but not gotten serious about it. Finding Best Tag Sets for Timeline Browsing
That said, I think a key feature will be to offer timelines on different continua. Fiction is one reason: A timeline of Frank Herbert's Dune universe or Tolkien's LotR Middle Earth should not be matched to our objective understanding of Earth's history. Another reason is an exemplar of a generic time sequence. There is a whole chapter in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears (I think) which describes, nanosecond by nanosecond, the stages of a thermonuclear explosion. Being able to relate such generic sequences is useful, even if they aren't pinned to a specific historical mark on the greater timeline of years.
At the resolution range discussed, it was basically saying 'Retina Display(tm)' without the (tm) overhead. How refreshing.
After some eyebrow knitting, my best guess is "Systems on a Chip"? Eschew obfuscation, expand jargon abbreviations.
Do you have extra zeros there?
On a hunch I searched for "chrome crashes -bumper -rollbar" and only get 4,600,000 as the result count. Then I searched for plain old "chrome crashes" and got 5,600,000. I know that Google search results depends somewhat on the browsing history of the individual, but these are an order of magnitude lower than your results.
I go farther. If anything, membership in a political party is a hobby outside the scope of your job. Anything and everything you do for the benefit of your hobby playmates (your party) is essentially stealing from your employer (the people). Congressfolk often forget that they represent the interests of everyone in their state or district, not just everyone in the winning party, not even just the voters or citizens.
Due to the right of association, I can't actually make a case for banning the political party memberships, but I strongly feel that every single Senate or House rule that mentions political party caucuses should be stricken, and new rules drawn up that are fair to all of the constituency. Every gerrymandering trick needs to be replaced with neutrally optimized answers as soon as practical.
In the minds of many technically-savvy users, there is a huge distinction between a general purpose computer, and media consumption devices like phones and tablets. In the minds of corporations like Apple, eroding those distinctions helps them sell more media consumption devices and more media to be consumed. There will always be more technically-UNsavvy users than savvy, so they're just following the market. However, that leaves a lot of us out in the cold.
This is basically impossible, or will have horrible artifacts.
The current crop of movies with 2D-to-3D conversions still took significant human and artistic effort to achieve, even though the results are mediocre. For a given frame, for every pixel in 2D, SOMETHING has to decide how far away the subject depicted must be. That is, it has to INVENT the third dimensional value. Then this value is used to calculate two new 2D frame with parallax involved.
There's no computational way to achieve this INVENTION of the depth value with an arbitrary photograph, though. Any computational model will have big gaps in its ability. With enough computing power, you can perhaps identify visual markers in neighboring frames (say, the corner of a lampshade), solve for where the camera position must be relative to the markers, then use the depth of the solved markers to base all the other pixels (say, the lampshade versus the drapes). But that (1) takes significant solver time now, (2) requires a lot of hand-adjustments to discard inappropriate markers that upset the solver process with bad results, and (3) won't find anywhere near enough quality markers across the whole frame in fast-moving action scenes to fill in the rest of the data.
Some people get ill with the best 3D out there, others get ill as the quality of the 3D information degrades. The inconsistent results of any realtime method would likely be epilepsy- and nausea-inducing in a matter of seconds.
Copying is not theft. Jefferson said "he who lights a taper from me, receives light without darkening me."
But destruction of your only copy IS theft. "He who snuffs my own taper while it's sitting on the shelf where I intentionally left it for access later DOES darken me."
Sure, some people use cloud storage as a way to transfer files from point A to point B, ending up with three copies: A's, cloud's, and B's. But many people use cloud storage for... you know... storage. Archives. Record-keeping. Zero copies at home, one archive copy in the cloud. This is a real danger of cloud services, and governmental shuttering of sites is only one way that a cloud can fail.
If writing code is the boring part of your career, why did you train yourself and get into that line of work? Most people I know who write code, because they want to write code, they feel best when given the opportunity between meetings to write code. The best developers I know tend to go home after their job, and sit down to their hobby projects where they... write code.
This morning on NPR's Marketplace Morning Report, there was a footnote similar to a few other mass media articles I've seen. They pointed out that if necessary, you could use Google's "cached copy" of a site like Wikipedia, if you are otherwise blocked by the SOPA front page. It's like a digital scab on the picket line.
Then it struck me: isn't this advice a sort of inducement to piracy, and therefore a strong statement about SOPA's odious nature? If a site blocks its own publication of data, say, Sony/EMG/WarnerBros takes down its own webpage, isn't relying on a third party copy to get that content without their authorization just another form of "stealing" in their eyes? Wikipedia content is under some copyleft premise, but I don't think that changes the point: there are times that everyday reasonable activities can be construed as piracy in ways that a law or a technology can never adequately distinguish.
It IS in production, it just hasn't come out of the production pipeline yet. The working beta boards (with a hand-applied last-minute fix) are being auctioned off, proceeds for the charity recipients for which Raspberry Pi was created: making classroom computing happen.
I will be happy to buy a bunch when they're available too, but let's watch the development. As for Tesla, did you buy the Roadster, seeing as how it's been available in showrooms for some time now?
My salary has not quite recovered up to 1998 levels yet.
I know that the military likes imposing names like Falcon or Comanche, but anyone else notice that one of the End Times predictors is a plague of cicadas (locusts) flying in from parts unknown?
A laptop is only good for a couple hours away from the power adapter. If the laptop goes in a carrying case, the power adapter goes in the case too.
A phone, even a thirsty smart phone, can last a day or two. People walk away from their power adapter for significant periods of time.
I'll repeat a post I wrote on this previously.
I teleported home one night/ With Ron and Sid and Meg./ Ron stole Meggie's heart away/ And I got Sidney's leg.
Take me apart, take me apart, what a way to roam./ But if you have to take me apart to get me there, I'd rather stay at home.
--Douglas Adams
Actually, I think you mean that DRM never affects the pirates. You're mistaking affect (to have a changing influence) vs effect (to have a causal influence). In truth, DRM probably does effect piracy, in that DRM is a major contributing reason that plain old people decide to "become a pirate" and apply cracks their purchased products.
Helicopters take a LOT of practice before you become proficient in flying them and it takes your full attention to flying, not sight-seeing. Also just as importantly, they can only fly for about five to ten minutes before needing to come down to refuel or swap batteries.