If I determine that this area is more likely to have a crime and increase police presence, then the crime doesn't happen because there's too much "heat" then haven't I skewed my results?
Or do you intend to have the cops lay low so they can "catch them in the act" or at least catch them quicker "after the fact"?
I absolutely agree with this. I added a handful of useful folders to the "Libraries" in 7. When I moved to 8 + Classic Shell (wouldn't even have thought about it without that) I was befuddled by the lack of ability to add meaningful libraries. I was able to add a few, but show in so few places as to make that process useless.
I am of the opinion that your data should be central. You should double click your data file to launch the program to view it. Such as double clicking a doc file to open Word, rather than launching Word, then selecting File - Open, then browsing to your file and selecting it. Adding meaningful libraries that showed in Explorer and almost all dialog boxes made that process flow work well.
In 8 I made a shortcut in My Documents to my main data folder and have to click through it. The other data is under My Documents, so it's not too tough to get into from there. It's just annoying when features go away for what appears to be no reason.
3a. The inability to highlight and copy from an error pop-up is one of the most retarded things I run into. This was a problem in 95, it really needs someone to take an hour and fix it already. (This is made worse by URLs posted, but even if they weren't clickable being able to copy/paste it into a browser would take a lot of the pain away.)
I was wondering about that, because it's nearly impossible to run a mail host and not be able to read the mail. I believe it is impossible when the mail isn't encrypted end-to-end.
It would also be impossible to offer any kind of spam, junk, antivirus service if you couldn't read the mail.
Since Apple isn't providing mail service, and doesn't proxy everything through it, your iDevice is configured to talk to your mail host. So if Apple could read your email they'd have to be doing something very wrong indeed. So he's essentially saying the same thing as if Google said they couldn't read your work email. Well no s#!t Sherlock, you don't have access to it.
I'm not saying that to Tim Cook, but the way it was reported was stupid.
The Cosmos browser is intended to facilitate using SMS text messages, which often still get through in such circumstances.
But now that we're crowding SMS, people in need can't get those through either. Good going. This is a case of "Just because you can doesn't mean you should".
Having a text browser option is interesting, but if you can text, then why browse instead of texting? It seems inefficient. That said, IF (and that's a big if) people knew to go to some site to get information or updates and everybody could go to the site rather than individually texting the world - then that would be an improvement. While it would be nice to get people organized - and I wish you luck - it's like herding cats.
Everybody is busy busy busy in their own little world, no time to organize - just the way the people pulling the strings want it. Just had to put that sinister bit in there.
I was wondering if you could tell your virtual eyes to look like you're looking at her eyes while you're really looking lower than that. Something you can only get away with when wearing sunglasses in real life, and then the frames can get in the way. I'm putting too much effort into this.
Steam Community Market, Steam Wallet?
I've been using Steam for a while, but I don't know how to look at either of these things. I guess I'll have to poke around when I get home.
I just buy and play games. As far as I'm concerned it's a game launcher.
I remember a lawsuit a while back about being able to resell games, but didn't realize there was a "marketplace" to do that within steam. I knew there were coupons or promo codes, but didn't realize there was a wallet.
So I learned something new about a piece of software I use. Always cool.
And what the hell is a twitch chat? Sounds like it should be a first person shooter thing.
So apparently what we need to develop is a better landing leg configuration that doesn't care about a flat surface. Something like spider legs that could have a rough surface underneath, but with each leg bent differently so that the cargo body is level. Granted, on Earth's surface "level" means something, on a 4 kilometer comet that may be more difficult to determine.
I feel that legs could also absorb some impact from the landing as well. Think along the lines of bending your knees as you land from a jump.
I understand that there a plenty of complexities in getting your robotic spider overlord into space, but you've gotta admit it would look pretty bad-ass walking around on an ice comet. Making the joints tolerant of the temperatures might be another thing to worry about, but if we've got the wheel joints figured out it's probably not a big leap from there.
To build their machine, the researchers created a structure made of superconducting materials that contains 100 billion atoms engineered to act as a single “artificial atom.” They placed the artificial atom close to a superconducting wire containing photons.
By the rules of quantum mechanics, the photons on the wire inherit some of the properties of the artificial atom – in a sense linking them.
They use a lot of "artificially" in the article. And I like the big jump of "By the rules of quantum mechanics".
I didn't see anyone address the technical limitations of trying to disable texting while driving.
If the legislative arm forces me to install Text Nanny I will promptly root the device and uninstall it. Failing that I'll just factory reset the device. Unless the service provider won't accept my phone unless Text Nanny is installed on it, there's not much the gov't is going to do about that.
Slapping a 2 week suspension on my license doesn't physically stop me from driving, but it sure does raise the penalty if I'm caught doing it.
Of course, (I forget the term) the police "choosing" when to enforce the law is going to be a problem.
I was thinking having expanding shades for windows, or window overhangs. In the summer they would heat up, expand, and block the sun from directly entering the window - helping the inside stay cool. In the winter they wouldn't expand, allowing the sun to enter and keeping the inside warmer. Passive heating and cooling, if you will.
The Republicans will never let us stop using the imperial system.
As long as the Republicans are allowed to gerrymander their seats in Congress we won't be able to get rid of them.
Congress will never pass a gerrymandering law because they are the ones who would need to vote on it.
Therefore we will,unfortunately, never get rid of our egregious amount of BS.
What I would like to see:
Step 1: Stop gerrymandering
Step 2: Vote for someone with a clue
Step 3: Make speed limits and other products have both forms (imperial and metric)
Step 4: Phase out imperial
I'm fine with the process taking 40 or 50 years, but let's stop doing nothing.
... You've got large swaths of sunni's in europe supporting groups like isis. You've got a wide swath across other countries like the uae, saudi arabia and kuwait, including the ultra rich in countries like kuwait and the uae sending money to them. You've got people from all over this rock flocking to support them, and their actions, and their goals.
It's not dishonest, there's something fundamentally broken with many muslims when they're lining up to support a 7th century mentality.
That is exactly what's wrong with education around the world. Not enough people understand the history to know to not make the same mistakes. They can't foresee that allowing ISIS to take control is most likely going to lead to a dictatorship in the long run, and not good for anyone who just wants to live in peace. You don't generally take a country by force so you can rule it benignly.
Now on topic, no matter what religion you are keeping great works of art (the pyramids, the Parthenon, greek god statues, etc) of past religions should be seen as a good/worth cause. Reminding people of failed religions should lessen the likelihood of a resurgence or return to such ways (if you think your religion is so great and wish to take that view). That's not my view, but it's a view.
I have a problem with builder developing beach front property, selling it for a tidy profit, then 20 years down the line I have to pay for it when it's underwater and a disaster emergency is declared. Then insurance rates go up because of the billions of dollars lost. etc, etc
If you don't see that coming you haven't been on the Earth long enough or you've got your blinders on.
If you want to build on the coast that's fine, but call it a flood zone and get insured as such. I'd prefer you have enough sense to just not build there or build it up enough to handle a fair rise. A tidal wave is going to wreck your day either way.
Yea pretty much this.
The FBI gets involved because they have more clout overseas to get the perpetrator arrested. The organization hacked by itself doesn't have much. And the FBI has more potential access to NSA data to find the perp in the first place. The FBI regularly gets involved in wire fraud and bank related cases that cross borders. They have a cyber investigation division for this sort of thing.
Like Bill said though, grandma's $20,000 life savings whisked off to Nigeria isn't likely to raise their eyebrows however.
Every time I see one of these things I want to go look up the quote from 1984 where is says something along the lines of "we were always at war with Eurasia or Oceana". Over the years it has really become ridiculous. Even in the 80's when we sort of had peace we were fear mongering about Russia.
Over the past 15 years we've been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're not currently in Iraq, but just getting into that should have been foreseen as a bad idea. I don't think any country has had luck in a two front war.
I read the summary as "Senator says I own stock in wearable cameras. Cameras should be required." Which also means the price of wearable cameras will increase 10-fold the day after it passes.
There needs to be limits on the amount of BS that comes out of Washington. If they wanted to do it in a fair way they would need to set limits on the cost of such cameras. Such as "if cameras are obtainable under x dollars a piece you need to use them to get funding". That way costs don't go through the roof. Every time something is required the people are getting gouged for it.
"Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on."
What about when a comedian sets his mug on a stool while on stage? Using the stool as a table rather than a seat. Not that it's terribly important, but it's the sort of thing the human brain can handle, but might confuse a machine. There are also top load traditional toasters vs toaster ovens. Even things like under the counter microwaves might confuse a human at first (at least finding the microwave).
I guess I'm just pointing out that there are lots of variables, but that also justifies why he's starting the process of "just sucking things in" so it has a good breadth of knowledge/experience.
Apparently you company has a soul. Sadly, that is not the norm.
My first reaction to the summary (because, let's face it, I didn't read the article) was that "If you want better workers TRAIN THEM!" But why invest in your workforce when they can leave? Visa "hostages" are stuck with you.
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As far as the 8% being insignificant, if the 8% is cheap to gain then I view that as significant.
As for public data being collectively aggregated without permission - that's another story.
Hell, they should be handing out cell phones for free they use your data for so much nowadays.
If I determine that this area is more likely to have a crime and increase police presence, then the crime doesn't happen because there's too much "heat" then haven't I skewed my results?
Or do you intend to have the cops lay low so they can "catch them in the act" or at least catch them quicker "after the fact"?
They should use plastics, that stuff floats around out there for years.
I absolutely agree with this. I added a handful of useful folders to the "Libraries" in 7. When I moved to 8 + Classic Shell (wouldn't even have thought about it without that) I was befuddled by the lack of ability to add meaningful libraries. I was able to add a few, but show in so few places as to make that process useless.
I am of the opinion that your data should be central. You should double click your data file to launch the program to view it. Such as double clicking a doc file to open Word, rather than launching Word, then selecting File - Open, then browsing to your file and selecting it. Adding meaningful libraries that showed in Explorer and almost all dialog boxes made that process flow work well.
In 8 I made a shortcut in My Documents to my main data folder and have to click through it. The other data is under My Documents, so it's not too tough to get into from there. It's just annoying when features go away for what appears to be no reason.
3a. The inability to highlight and copy from an error pop-up is one of the most retarded things I run into. This was a problem in 95, it really needs someone to take an hour and fix it already. (This is made worse by URLs posted, but even if they weren't clickable being able to copy/paste it into a browser would take a lot of the pain away.)
I was wondering about that, because it's nearly impossible to run a mail host and not be able to read the mail. I believe it is impossible when the mail isn't encrypted end-to-end.
It would also be impossible to offer any kind of spam, junk, antivirus service if you couldn't read the mail.
Since Apple isn't providing mail service, and doesn't proxy everything through it, your iDevice is configured to talk to your mail host. So if Apple could read your email they'd have to be doing something very wrong indeed. So he's essentially saying the same thing as if Google said they couldn't read your work email. Well no s#!t Sherlock, you don't have access to it.
I'm not saying that to Tim Cook, but the way it was reported was stupid.
The Cosmos browser is intended to facilitate using SMS text messages, which often still get through in such circumstances.
But now that we're crowding SMS, people in need can't get those through either. Good going. This is a case of "Just because you can doesn't mean you should".
Having a text browser option is interesting, but if you can text, then why browse instead of texting? It seems inefficient. That said, IF (and that's a big if) people knew to go to some site to get information or updates and everybody could go to the site rather than individually texting the world - then that would be an improvement. While it would be nice to get people organized - and I wish you luck - it's like herding cats.
Everybody is busy busy busy in their own little world, no time to organize - just the way the people pulling the strings want it. Just had to put that sinister bit in there.
I was wondering if you could tell your virtual eyes to look like you're looking at her eyes while you're really looking lower than that. Something you can only get away with when wearing sunglasses in real life, and then the frames can get in the way.
I'm putting too much effort into this.
Steam Community Market, Steam Wallet?
I've been using Steam for a while, but I don't know how to look at either of these things. I guess I'll have to poke around when I get home.
I just buy and play games. As far as I'm concerned it's a game launcher.
I remember a lawsuit a while back about being able to resell games, but didn't realize there was a "marketplace" to do that within steam. I knew there were coupons or promo codes, but didn't realize there was a wallet.
So I learned something new about a piece of software I use. Always cool.
And what the hell is a twitch chat? Sounds like it should be a first person shooter thing.
So apparently what we need to develop is a better landing leg configuration that doesn't care about a flat surface. Something like spider legs that could have a rough surface underneath, but with each leg bent differently so that the cargo body is level. Granted, on Earth's surface "level" means something, on a 4 kilometer comet that may be more difficult to determine.
I feel that legs could also absorb some impact from the landing as well. Think along the lines of bending your knees as you land from a jump.
I understand that there a plenty of complexities in getting your robotic spider overlord into space, but you've gotta admit it would look pretty bad-ass walking around on an ice comet. Making the joints tolerant of the temperatures might be another thing to worry about, but if we've got the wheel joints figured out it's probably not a big leap from there.
From the article:
To build their machine, the researchers created a structure made of superconducting materials that contains 100 billion atoms engineered to act as a single “artificial atom.” They placed the artificial atom close to a superconducting wire containing photons. By the rules of quantum mechanics, the photons on the wire inherit some of the properties of the artificial atom – in a sense linking them.
They use a lot of "artificially" in the article. And I like the big jump of "By the rules of quantum mechanics".
I didn't see anyone address the technical limitations of trying to disable texting while driving.
If the legislative arm forces me to install Text Nanny I will promptly root the device and uninstall it. Failing that I'll just factory reset the device. Unless the service provider won't accept my phone unless Text Nanny is installed on it, there's not much the gov't is going to do about that.
Slapping a 2 week suspension on my license doesn't physically stop me from driving, but it sure does raise the penalty if I'm caught doing it.
Of course, (I forget the term) the police "choosing" when to enforce the law is going to be a problem.
I was thinking having expanding shades for windows, or window overhangs. In the summer they would heat up, expand, and block the sun from directly entering the window - helping the inside stay cool. In the winter they wouldn't expand, allowing the sun to enter and keeping the inside warmer. Passive heating and cooling, if you will.
The Republicans will never let us stop using the imperial system.
,unfortunately, never get rid of our egregious amount of BS.
As long as the Republicans are allowed to gerrymander their seats in Congress we won't be able to get rid of them.
Congress will never pass a gerrymandering law because they are the ones who would need to vote on it.
Therefore we will
What I would like to see:
Step 1: Stop gerrymandering
Step 2: Vote for someone with a clue
Step 3: Make speed limits and other products have both forms (imperial and metric)
Step 4: Phase out imperial
I'm fine with the process taking 40 or 50 years, but let's stop doing nothing.
... You've got large swaths of sunni's in europe supporting groups like isis. You've got a wide swath across other countries like the uae, saudi arabia and kuwait, including the ultra rich in countries like kuwait and the uae sending money to them. You've got people from all over this rock flocking to support them, and their actions, and their goals.
It's not dishonest, there's something fundamentally broken with many muslims when they're lining up to support a 7th century mentality.
That is exactly what's wrong with education around the world. Not enough people understand the history to know to not make the same mistakes. They can't foresee that allowing ISIS to take control is most likely going to lead to a dictatorship in the long run, and not good for anyone who just wants to live in peace. You don't generally take a country by force so you can rule it benignly.
Now on topic, no matter what religion you are keeping great works of art (the pyramids, the Parthenon, greek god statues, etc) of past religions should be seen as a good/worth cause. Reminding people of failed religions should lessen the likelihood of a resurgence or return to such ways (if you think your religion is so great and wish to take that view). That's not my view, but it's a view.
I have a problem with builder developing beach front property, selling it for a tidy profit, then 20 years down the line I have to pay for it when it's underwater and a disaster emergency is declared. Then insurance rates go up because of the billions of dollars lost. etc, etc
If you don't see that coming you haven't been on the Earth long enough or you've got your blinders on.
If you want to build on the coast that's fine, but call it a flood zone and get insured as such. I'd prefer you have enough sense to just not build there or build it up enough to handle a fair rise. A tidal wave is going to wreck your day either way.
This should have been in the summary.
We're changing the default rule set, but making these changes options so you can run a server without them.
Sounds like a win win to me. Nothing to bitch about here, move along.
The university kids do just want to do what they say [the study], and the government does have a shadowy agenda.
Did I clear that up? I'm not necessarily saying they do, but history would dictate that it's likely.
Yea pretty much this.
The FBI gets involved because they have more clout overseas to get the perpetrator arrested. The organization hacked by itself doesn't have much. And the FBI has more potential access to NSA data to find the perp in the first place. The FBI regularly gets involved in wire fraud and bank related cases that cross borders. They have a cyber investigation division for this sort of thing.
Like Bill said though, grandma's $20,000 life savings whisked off to Nigeria isn't likely to raise their eyebrows however.
Every time I see one of these things I want to go look up the quote from 1984 where is says something along the lines of "we were always at war with Eurasia or Oceana". Over the years it has really become ridiculous. Even in the 80's when we sort of had peace we were fear mongering about Russia. Over the past 15 years we've been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're not currently in Iraq, but just getting into that should have been foreseen as a bad idea. I don't think any country has had luck in a two front war.
I read the summary as "Senator says I own stock in wearable cameras. Cameras should be required." Which also means the price of wearable cameras will increase 10-fold the day after it passes.
There needs to be limits on the amount of BS that comes out of Washington. If they wanted to do it in a fair way they would need to set limits on the cost of such cameras. Such as "if cameras are obtainable under x dollars a piece you need to use them to get funding". That way costs don't go through the roof. Every time something is required the people are getting gouged for it.
+1 Insightful. True. True enough.
I always have mod points the day before I want to use them.
"Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on."
What about when a comedian sets his mug on a stool while on stage? Using the stool as a table rather than a seat.
Not that it's terribly important, but it's the sort of thing the human brain can handle, but might confuse a machine. There are also top load traditional toasters vs toaster ovens.
Even things like under the counter microwaves might confuse a human at first (at least finding the microwave).
I guess I'm just pointing out that there are lots of variables, but that also justifies why he's starting the process of "just sucking things in" so it has a good breadth of knowledge/experience.
"The news" would be far better if it had more facts, and focused less on trying to generate outrage.
FTFY
Apparently you company has a soul. Sadly, that is not the norm.
My first reaction to the summary (because, let's face it, I didn't read the article) was that "If you want better workers TRAIN THEM!" But why invest in your workforce when they can leave? Visa "hostages" are stuck with you.