Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota. Wonderful! So Minnesota has deployed a large-scale working version of Maxwell's daemon, then? Or perhaps they've merely come up with a scheme to make generating power with coal in ND and then selling to MN less cost effective (which admittedly is perverting the free market to achieve a common good).
Even with paper, readback suffers when you space the data too close together. You are correct though, the inverse relationship between higher speed and lower cost is also a factor when evaluating data storage, and for some applications a pen a paper are the optimal solution.
Might sell; will probably be too pricey to be successful. I have one question: with a touchscreen on each side, how does it keep from scratching one screen up while you are using the other? Also, although I'm sure an eInk display is a big win in terms of power consumption, I'm still not convinced it is that much more readable than a color LCD. Resolution is good, contrast not so much... maybe I'm just bothered by the slow page update time.
Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability and capacity. Sure, you can increase the capacity using existing hardware, but that makes it just that more unlikely that the disk will read back without errors on a different player. I already have a problem with DVDs written by a computer tracking on my DVD player, this would only make it worse. The increase in capacity ain't worth the decrease in reliability.
My fear is that when the tables turn, as they invariably will, and Steinem's lie is exposed, it will be twisted to argue that women have a propensity to lie and their testimony should never be believed without corroborating proof from a man. While such turnabout generalization might be fair play, it would not be justice. I think your fears are unwarranted. Our Sheriff's department appears to already be moving to a system where regardless of who calls them, they physically inspect both parties in a domestic violence dispute. If one of them shows visible signs of being beaten, and the other doesn't, they simply arrest the one that doesn't look beaten up -- even if they are the original complainant. If neither one shows visible signs of violence, they simply advise you to work it out. Not sure what they do if both appear equally beat up, but they do advise one or the other party to GET OUT and cool off.
Now, your fears of false rape reports doing a real disservice to all those that have truly been assaulted may be justified. In both situations, they need to drop any bias in evaluating the he said/she said pissing contests (hard to do when it's a good looking woman and you're a horny male cop) and just look at the objective physical evidence.
Further more, in 30% of cases it is the woman, not the man committing violence, and women do more damage because they are far more likely to enlist the use of a weapon (in African-Americans closer to 50% of the time it is the woman). As a man who has never been violent, of course I am offended by this notion that violence is something committed by men against women and children. Violence is something that people do to people -- it is never acceptable. Your first and best defense is the get the hell out of that relationship at the first sign of abuse. Law enforcement simply cannot be depended upon to defend you -- they would rather not deal with domestic violence at all.
Sugar, on the other hand, can be made into explosives, thus it should be banned from airplanes. Hope you like your coffee/tea unsweetened! Wait... am I giving the TSA ideas?
iSlate needs to have all the functionality of the iTouch for games, mp3s, and videos, plus function as a good large print eBook reader. The population is aging; baby boomers don't have the eyesight they once had. Sure, it's a niche squeezed between smartphones with smaller displays and notebooks/netbooks without touch screens, but if they can get the price point below $500 they could sell well as a viable eBook reader. Don't most people like to be able to listen to music while they read? The only way to make up for the inconvenience of being harder to lug around is to combine the functionality of every device you may want in a single device -- it beats the heck out of lugging around a separate cell phone, mp3/video player, PDA, GPS, eBook reader and notebook. (Granted, most smart phones already combine the first 4).
Netbooks sold despite being junk because they were dirt cheap. Tablets aren't going to sell unless they have a price point competitive with a $300 netbook or eBook reader. The $1000 price point being tossed around for the iSlate is silly when one could get a decent Macbook for that much.
That's one honey of a problem. You'd bee in real trouble if you tried in. Sweet that they actually caught this before it resulted in a sticky situation. Will Winnie the Pooh now be employed as a luggage screener?
Doom always appeared to draw textures with much lower resolution while you were moving, and only display the full texture when you stopped and looked directly at an object, as a way of speeding up rendering. This gave the appearance of "motion blur" without a lot of additional processing required.
My previous position was as a consultant at FEI. There were several other people on the project, but I was the only one who consistently fixed defects quickly. One day the project manager (who had it in for me anyway) came into my cubicle after the status meeting and said "You've completed everything defect assigned to you? Good... you're off the project! Go home immediately." The other contractor, who had several dozen pending defects he hadn't touched in months, remained there for another year. When your manager is trying to drag the project out as long as possible because he knows HE will be let go as soon as it is completed, then being extremely productive can actually be damaging to your career.
If you struggle with math, I would definitely take the discrete structures class, not the second class. 3D Vector Calculus (e.g. Maxwell's equations) was one of the toughest subjects I've ever taken, and guess what -- I've never used it since! Set theory, on the other hand, is used constantly in CS; in fact, boolean algebra is just a subset of set theory, and I believe Relational Databases are built on top of set theory.
Gee... this really makes me wonder how the families of victims of OTHER mass murderers get compensated for their losses... due they sue the gun, baseball bat, and automobile manufacturers? How much compensation did the families of each of the Columbine students receive from the school district, which was "clearly" responsible for their deaths?
My mother managed to smuggle a pen knife on board an airplane in her makeup case. My sister had a knife on the OUTSIDE of her backpack; the supervisor made the screener run the backpack through twice because the screener didn't see it the first time! You try looking at thousands of x-rays a day and see how well you pay attention. Human monitors are inherently fallible; our best bet is automated chemical-sniffing technology that can easily be trained to look for new forms of explosives.
Those who sacrifice the virginity of their asses for security deserve neither security nor the virginity of their asses. I've had my first prostate exam... my ass is no longer "virgin" anyway... Heck of a paraphrase of Ben Franklin, though.
South Korea, China, Brazil, parts of Europe, and Japan have been watching television on their phones for free since 2005 which hasn't improved their driving at all!
Honestly, if you're stupid enough to sign up for a dating website for beautiful people using your own, un-photoshopped picture instead of one culled from an online fashion magazine, can you really complain if you get rejected?
Curses, my plan to sign up using a fictional perfect persona then gradually morph myself into the fat, bald little bastard I really am has been foiled!
Not modern history! Now, what was that about the new Burj Dubai/Burj Khalifa tower opening again? Do you think Mr. Khalifa is maybe compensating for something?
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Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota. Wonderful! So Minnesota has deployed a large-scale working version of Maxwell's daemon, then? Or perhaps they've merely come up with a scheme to make generating power with coal in ND and then selling to MN less cost effective (which admittedly is perverting the free market to achieve a common good).
Even with paper, readback suffers when you space the data too close together. You are correct though, the inverse relationship between higher speed and lower cost is also a factor when evaluating data storage, and for some applications a pen a paper are the optimal solution.
Might sell; will probably be too pricey to be successful. I have one question: with a touchscreen on each side, how does it keep from scratching one screen up while you are using the other? Also, although I'm sure an eInk display is a big win in terms of power consumption, I'm still not convinced it is that much more readable than a color LCD. Resolution is good, contrast not so much... maybe I'm just bothered by the slow page update time.
It not only duped the top tools, it also duped the software that those big tools were running as well!
Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability and capacity. Sure, you can increase the capacity using existing hardware, but that makes it just that more unlikely that the disk will read back without errors on a different player. I already have a problem with DVDs written by a computer tracking on my DVD player, this would only make it worse. The increase in capacity ain't worth the decrease in reliability.
My fear is that when the tables turn, as they invariably will, and Steinem's lie is exposed, it will be twisted to argue that women have a propensity to lie and their testimony should never be believed without corroborating proof from a man. While such turnabout generalization might be fair play, it would not be justice. I think your fears are unwarranted. Our Sheriff's department appears to already be moving to a system where regardless of who calls them, they physically inspect both parties in a domestic violence dispute. If one of them shows visible signs of being beaten, and the other doesn't, they simply arrest the one that doesn't look beaten up -- even if they are the original complainant. If neither one shows visible signs of violence, they simply advise you to work it out. Not sure what they do if both appear equally beat up, but they do advise one or the other party to GET OUT and cool off.
Now, your fears of false rape reports doing a real disservice to all those that have truly been assaulted may be justified. In both situations, they need to drop any bias in evaluating the he said/she said pissing contests (hard to do when it's a good looking woman and you're a horny male cop) and just look at the objective physical evidence.
No, it's WC3, or Wankers Creating Crufty Crap. W3C would be the World Wide Web Consortium, an altogether different group.
Further more, in 30% of cases it is the woman, not the man committing violence, and women do more damage because they are far more likely to enlist the use of a weapon (in African-Americans closer to 50% of the time it is the woman). As a man who has never been violent, of course I am offended by this notion that violence is something committed by men against women and children. Violence is something that people do to people -- it is never acceptable. Your first and best defense is the get the hell out of that relationship at the first sign of abuse. Law enforcement simply cannot be depended upon to defend you -- they would rather not deal with domestic violence at all.
Sugar, on the other hand, can be made into explosives, thus it should be banned from airplanes. Hope you like your coffee/tea unsweetened! Wait... am I giving the TSA ideas?
iSlate needs to have all the functionality of the iTouch for games, mp3s, and videos, plus function as a good large print eBook reader. The population is aging; baby boomers don't have the eyesight they once had. Sure, it's a niche squeezed between smartphones with smaller displays and notebooks/netbooks without touch screens, but if they can get the price point below $500 they could sell well as a viable eBook reader. Don't most people like to be able to listen to music while they read? The only way to make up for the inconvenience of being harder to lug around is to combine the functionality of every device you may want in a single device -- it beats the heck out of lugging around a separate cell phone, mp3/video player, PDA, GPS, eBook reader and notebook. (Granted, most smart phones already combine the first 4).
Netbooks sold despite being junk because they were dirt cheap. Tablets aren't going to sell unless they have a price point competitive with a $300 netbook or eBook reader. The $1000 price point being tossed around for the iSlate is silly when one could get a decent Macbook for that much.
That's one honey of a problem. You'd bee in real trouble if you tried in. Sweet that they actually caught this before it resulted in a sticky situation. Will Winnie the Pooh now be employed as a luggage screener?
Completely unenforceable, and every failed relationship is going to be seen as "psychological abuse".
I have a hard time bringing babes back to my place, but that's mostly because my wife usually scares them off.
Doom always appeared to draw textures with much lower resolution while you were moving, and only display the full texture when you stopped and looked directly at an object, as a way of speeding up rendering. This gave the appearance of "motion blur" without a lot of additional processing required.
My previous position was as a consultant at FEI. There were several other people on the project, but I was the only one who consistently fixed defects quickly. One day the project manager (who had it in for me anyway) came into my cubicle after the status meeting and said "You've completed everything defect assigned to you? Good... you're off the project! Go home immediately." The other contractor, who had several dozen pending defects he hadn't touched in months, remained there for another year. When your manager is trying to drag the project out as long as possible because he knows HE will be let go as soon as it is completed, then being extremely productive can actually be damaging to your career.
If you struggle with math, I would definitely take the discrete structures class, not the second class. 3D Vector Calculus (e.g. Maxwell's equations) was one of the toughest subjects I've ever taken, and guess what -- I've never used it since! Set theory, on the other hand, is used constantly in CS; in fact, boolean algebra is just a subset of set theory, and I believe Relational Databases are built on top of set theory.
Gee... this really makes me wonder how the families of victims of OTHER mass murderers get compensated for their losses... due they sue the gun, baseball bat, and automobile manufacturers? How much compensation did the families of each of the Columbine students receive from the school district, which was "clearly" responsible for their deaths?
My mother managed to smuggle a pen knife on board an airplane in her makeup case. My sister had a knife on the OUTSIDE of her backpack; the supervisor made the screener run the backpack through twice because the screener didn't see it the first time! You try looking at thousands of x-rays a day and see how well you pay attention. Human monitors are inherently fallible; our best bet is automated chemical-sniffing technology that can easily be trained to look for new forms of explosives.
Those who sacrifice the virginity of their asses for security deserve neither security nor the virginity of their asses. I've had my first prostate exam... my ass is no longer "virgin" anyway... Heck of a paraphrase of Ben Franklin, though.
What are the chances of any of these guys bringing a real live girl back to their "capsule"?
South Korea, China, Brazil, parts of Europe, and Japan have been watching television on their phones for free since 2005 which hasn't improved their driving at all!
Easy for you to say... if I hang one from mine, people will be stepping on it all the time... ouch!
Honestly, if you're stupid enough to sign up for a dating website for beautiful people using your own, un-photoshopped picture instead of one culled from an online fashion magazine, can you really complain if you get rejected?
Curses, my plan to sign up using a fictional perfect persona then gradually morph myself into the fat, bald little bastard I really am has been foiled!
Not modern history! Now, what was that about the new Burj Dubai/Burj Khalifa tower opening again? Do you think Mr. Khalifa is maybe compensating for something?