That's a bit unclear. They didn't claim that you can run a phone for 2700 hours. You still have to recharge the fuel cell every few hours like a battery. They are saying that's how long the same fuel-cell can be used without severe charge deterioration. In other words, you wouldn't have to replace the fuel cell as often as you have to replace rechargeable batteries that have lost too much of their capacity for recharging. It's a an improvement, but not as large as it seems at first glance.
Nooooooo. Console games ported to PC results in the most horrid interfaces that hardly let you use/configure/customize the keyboard commands properly at all.
Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm.
Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down
are forever.
You would think the slashdot crowd would be refreshed by a company doing a public disclosure of changes like this.
I don't see what is refreshing about it.:) This seems like a well-known PR tactic. Release bad news about your product preemptively so that not only do you scoop any other sources of information but you get to spin the message your own way and get people used to the idea.
Celibacy gives the priests more time to devote proselytizing the religion - rather than wasting their time and effort on a family. It was an effective strategy for growth of the religion. Much like the strategy of encouraging procreation and forbidding contraception grows the religion (because kids are much easier to indoctrinate). The religions with effective strategies for growth are the ones that are still around and dominating today. You could say that these strategies have evolved since the religions that did not practice them died out.:)
Speaking as the alleged "young whippersnapper", you evidently didn't look at my uid.:) (and I only got the account reluctantly after a long while to be able to filter the growing nonsense posts)
I'm not a complete "ageist". Our job involves learning and using new technologies and if you refuse to do that you should be doing something else - regardless of your age.
I'm surprised your employer wasn't the one telling you to leave. It sounds to me like a very simple case of an ornery old-timer not wanting to learn new technology - which is pretty absurd in this industry.
I accepted the BB when they were given out and I only configured one particular e-mail alias to send mail to it - the one used by our system monitoring software. So I am notified when critical infrastructure goes down and can even ssh from the BB to our systems if needed but I don't read my normal work e-mail on it.
It's not weird if you paid any attention at all. There was even an article here a couple weeks ago on/. about Obama saying he would vote for this bill although he supports getting rid of the retroactive immunity amendment or filibustering it.
And McCain abstaining so as not to be accused of standing by a position so he can claim whatever he wants later that will get him more votes is really not weird, either.:)
Senior sysadmins certainly should be able to program. Programmers only have to debug their own code, sysadmins have to debug everyone's code.:D But seriously, to properly debug problems you have to be able to work at all layers of abstraction, from hardware up to the application level; just sitting at one level of installing, applying updates, and rebooting to "fix" problems does not a sysadmin make.
Job titles in our industry have always been a bit hazy, though. Perhaps the confusion arises because of a distinction some people make between a system administrator and an MIS or IT person? I wouldn't call the guy helping the sales droids with their windows machines a sysadmin - even though a sysadmin is capable of that of course. The sysadmin is the person running the critical infrastructure of the company such as firewalls, routers and web/file/mail/dns/cvs/development/testing/production servers.
"With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Dr. Steven Weinberg
I recall a lot of folks were annoyed during the last olympics because the BBC blocked access to their online video streams to American IP address blocks because of NBC legal threats/licensing junk.
(It helps a bit to point out to them that debuggers/tracers are not just for finding bugs, and they can be used on other people's software too, including closed-source vendor software).
It baffles me that you would have to point that out to a sysadmin. As a half programmer/half sysadmin myself, the primary distinction I've always seen between them is that as a programmer I only have to debug my own code but as a sysadmin I have to debug everyone else's, too.:)
The biggest issue and omission in both of these pieces is that this "cloud" of data does not represent "truth" (as the scientist may seek), but rather a summation or averaging of the "perception of truth" as seen by the individual authors.
Thanks for the logical explanation. That phrase, "identify yourself" sounded like it had bureaucratic implications to me. Some people cry "racism" so much it's getting close to crying "wolf."
The stranger part of the story to me is a native american from D.C. using words like "lass" and "stinkeye".;)
You say, "the kind that can't get out of jury duty" like as if that is a bad thing. I don't want representatives that are willing to lie to avoid civil obligations.
They actually have an overall negative growth rate ( -0.139% (2008 est.) ) and even if they didn't it certainly wouldn't contradict the fact that it is a very homogeneous place.
Japanese 98.5%, Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.6%
Good point. But he gave the name of the school and signed his name, so it seems pretty easy to disprove if he was a clever troll. He is also "one of us". His story resonated with me because I was the similar kid who rich assholes - yes Salek Brodsky, that means you! - tried to cheat off of on A.P. exams and the like.
Not just back then, but up until this very year. He did a special on HBO a few months ago and he was dropping a lot of references to the internet - and not in the mangled intarweb-gootube type of a way, but like an informed user.
This single particle collision versus group collision reminds me of something... oh yeah:
Well, I can't argue against evolution because of your solid reasoning and evidence so I'll arbitrarily split it up into micro- and macro- evolution and agree that you are right about micro- but use the phrase "we don't know" a lot about macro-evolution because it is a bit harder to observe.
I can't wait for augmented information processing. This reminds me of projects like Peep that take advantage of our natural ability to parallelize sound processing in our mind by representing status information that way because vision is more restricted in focus.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a bit unclear. They didn't claim that you can run a phone for 2700 hours. You still have to recharge the fuel cell every few hours like a battery. They are saying that's how long the same fuel-cell can be used without severe charge deterioration. In other words, you wouldn't have to replace the fuel cell as often as you have to replace rechargeable batteries that have lost too much of their capacity for recharging. It's a an improvement, but not as large as it seems at first glance.
Nooooooo. Console games ported to PC results in the most horrid interfaces that hardly let you use/configure/customize the keyboard commands properly at all.
Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever.
You would think the slashdot crowd would be refreshed by a company doing a public disclosure of changes like this.
:) This seems like a well-known PR tactic. Release bad news about your product preemptively so that not only do you scoop any other sources of information but you get to spin the message your own way and get people used to the idea.
I don't see what is refreshing about it.
Celibacy gives the priests more time to devote proselytizing the religion - rather than wasting their time and effort on a family. It was an effective strategy for growth of the religion. Much like the strategy of encouraging procreation and forbidding contraception grows the religion (because kids are much easier to indoctrinate). The religions with effective strategies for growth are the ones that are still around and dominating today. You could say that these strategies have evolved since the religions that did not practice them died out. :)
Speaking as the alleged "young whippersnapper", you evidently didn't look at my uid. :) (and I only got the account reluctantly after a long while to be able to filter the growing nonsense posts)
I'm not a complete "ageist". Our job involves learning and using new technologies and if you refuse to do that you should be doing something else - regardless of your age.
I'm surprised your employer wasn't the one telling you to leave. It sounds to me like a very simple case of an ornery old-timer not wanting to learn new technology - which is pretty absurd in this industry.
I accepted the BB when they were given out and I only configured one particular e-mail alias to send mail to it - the one used by our system monitoring software. So I am notified when critical infrastructure goes down and can even ssh from the BB to our systems if needed but I don't read my normal work e-mail on it.
It's not weird if you paid any attention at all. There was even an article here a couple weeks ago on /. about Obama saying he would vote for this bill although he supports getting rid of the retroactive immunity amendment or filibustering it.
:)
And McCain abstaining so as not to be accused of standing by a position so he can claim whatever he wants later that will get him more votes is really not weird, either.
Hah, well said. I was thinking the same thing about this guy being such a snob. Maybe he is the author of ones of those blogs he is plugging. :)
Senior sysadmins certainly should be able to program. Programmers only have to debug their own code, sysadmins have to debug everyone's code. :D But seriously, to properly debug problems you have to be able to work at all layers of abstraction, from hardware up to the application level; just sitting at one level of installing, applying updates, and rebooting to "fix" problems does not a sysadmin make.
Job titles in our industry have always been a bit hazy, though. Perhaps the confusion arises because of a distinction some people make between a system administrator and an MIS or IT person? I wouldn't call the guy helping the sales droids with their windows machines a sysadmin - even though a sysadmin is capable of that of course. The sysadmin is the person running the critical infrastructure of the company such as firewalls, routers and web/file/mail/dns/cvs/development/testing/production servers.
I thought "taser" was just another name for "cattle prod". :)
"With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -- Dr. Steven Weinberg
I recall a lot of folks were annoyed during the last olympics because the BBC blocked access to their online video streams to American IP address blocks because of NBC legal threats/licensing junk.
(It helps a bit to point out to them that debuggers/tracers are not just for finding bugs, and they can be used on other people's software too, including closed-source vendor software).
:)
It baffles me that you would have to point that out to a sysadmin. As a half programmer/half sysadmin myself, the primary distinction I've always seen between them is that as a programmer I only have to debug my own code but as a sysadmin I have to debug everyone else's, too.
That's how NASA estimates orbital trajectories, too - since we have yet to solve the N-body problem in an efficient way. :)
The biggest issue and omission in both of these pieces is that this "cloud" of data does not represent "truth" (as the scientist may seek), but rather a summation or averaging of the "perception of truth" as seen by the individual authors.
:)
I didn't realize we were discussing wikipedia.
Thanks for the logical explanation. That phrase, "identify yourself" sounded like it had bureaucratic implications to me. Some people cry "racism" so much it's getting close to crying "wolf."
;)
The stranger part of the story to me is a native american from D.C. using words like "lass" and "stinkeye".
Scandinavia, reindeer, terrorism, crossing borders. That reminds me of the alleged attempt to give anthrax in sugar lumps to reindeer that were pulling British supplies across Norway in World War I. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E6D7113CF936A15755C0A96E958260
You say, "the kind that can't get out of jury duty" like as if that is a bad thing. I don't want representatives that are willing to lie to avoid civil obligations.
Good point. But he gave the name of the school and signed his name, so it seems pretty easy to disprove if he was a clever troll. He is also "one of us". His story resonated with me because I was the similar kid who rich assholes - yes Salek Brodsky, that means you! - tried to cheat off of on A.P. exams and the like.
Not just back then, but up until this very year. He did a special on HBO a few months ago and he was dropping a lot of references to the internet - and not in the mangled intarweb-gootube type of a way, but like an informed user.
same high-school as me
I love it when people's silly assumptions are proven completely wrong.
I can't wait for augmented information processing. This reminds me of projects like Peep that take advantage of our natural ability to parallelize sound processing in our mind by representing status information that way because vision is more restricted in focus.