Time to move to the Equinix data center at 350 E. Cermak. That place is like a frickin' military bunker. That's where the real men in the Chicago area have their servers.
Surreptitiously switching a contract just prior to signing it does not make the changes valid - if you can show that you reasonably thought you were signing a document with different terms and that the counter party changed them without notice (i.e. show an email trail to a judge), those changes to the contract may very well be voided. That's why when negotiating over a contract, explicitly redlining changes isn't just the sporting thing to do, it's a good idea for all parties involved.
In answer to your question: yes, not "widely" but they are used, the quality and consistency isn't good enough and the experience isn't in general seamless yet with a single phone number and auto-switching between VoIP mode and cell mode, yes one has - by TruPhone, who haven't released it yet since they are still working on a GUI for it
A) yes, with the help of four other people I certainly have picked up somebody who didn't want to be picked up and transported them against their will. This is not easy, but if you have numbers on your side, it's not as hard as you make it out to be.
B) I have done martial arts training. I am well aware of how to inflict pain on somebody. Those techniques have a lower fatality rate than Tasers (I realize this has been argued on both sides, but that's my opinion).
C) Police are supposed to be trained professionals. I'm sorry if they have a "hard" job, but that's part of the deal.
Explain how you could tell he continued to "resist" (i.e. physically)? I didn't see any evidence of that. I just heard him asking why they were arresting him. If he was physically assaulting the police and they were unable to subdue him (which I find hard to believe with that many basically on top of him) then I could understand using the Taser. But I didn't see that in the video.
This has been solved by one of the third party apps, called something like "NoEDGE" that has already come out. It gives you a handy quick switch to activate and deactivate EDGE.
A lot of the other complaints I see have also already been addressed by third party native apps (no iChat? There are already some nice AIM clients out there, in active development).
Now if Apple would just support a real SDK and get out of their absurd mentality, we'd get even better, more well-supported third party apps. Nobody I know is buying an iphone just to use the built-in apps. Every early adopter type I know who bought one has jailbreaked it and is running third party apps. Apple, get a clue.
Also, cut and paste would be nice and really needs Apple to develop it. And IMAP IDLE built in to MobileMail.app (though I think there'll be a good solution for IDLE soon enough if Apple doesn't come out with it).
Well, if their Apple PCs came with the "experience" of not being able to install 3rd party apps, they wouldn't sell very many of them, now would they? People are speaking loud and clear - they don't like the experience Apple is providing, but they like the platform (cell phone with wifi, great OS, and multitouch screen). The iPhone is basically a useless device out of the box. I only bought it because with two clicks I can get a sweet installer that lets me put tons of cool third party apps being actively developed now on my phone in a matter of seconds.
I want a platform with my experience. I don't want an experience so crippled it's useless.
He might have deserved to be removed from the room, and I can see subduing and dragging him out if he resists. But Tasering a guy who you've already got pinned on the ground? Cops are supposed to just cuff his arms behind his back and drag him out. That's what they're trained to do. A Taser is supposed to be used to subdue a subject who represents an actual threat to the police or others around him. A guy pinned on the ground by 5 or 6 cops who is yelling because he believes he's being arrested without cause doesn't represent an actual threat, just an annoyance.
They should have dragged him off, at most, and let a judge sort it out later. Or just let him finish his damned annoying question - Kerry or the audience would have eventually cut him off. This could have been handled without using a potentially dangerous weapon on a college student.
This sounds like some serious breathless bullshit to me.
There have been quite a few different methods of quantum computing developed that take advantage of several types of quantum processes in nature. I worked on bulk-spin-resonance QC as a research assistant at MIT.
To the best of my knowledge, every method so far developed runs into coherence and noise limitations that make it very difficult to scale them up. It's usually not too hard to build a 3- or 4- qubit quantum computer, but scaling up the size seems to itself have an exponential characteristic to the problem. Basically, it's very hard to build a practical quantum computer that works on the scale necessary to factor even modest sized numbers. The engineering challenges to make any of these methods at all practical are bafflingly hard - the underlying science and math are pretty straightforward on the other hand, and the algorithms are undoubtedly cool as hell.
I understand these days the interesting work is on trapped-ion approaches and semi-conductor approaches.
Anyway, Shor's algorithm has been around for years. The theory behind QCs is fairly well understood, the experimental difficulties are huge.
Basically, unless this represents a real breakthrough, i.e. a technique that is not just scalable in theory but can be demonstrated practically to be linearly more difficult to scale up the number of qubits, then it's not a breakthrough that anybody needs to worry about yet.
Without seeing this article's full text though, it's hard to really know, but I gather optical approaches have been tried before and haven't gotten any further than anybody else has.
Did they both not spend years of their life working on making a GPLed UNIX-clone? If Stallman can't find common ground with that guy, how the hell does he have a chance at relating to the rest of humanity and winning them over to his way of thinking?
Let's see, they both worked for years to get a GPLed UNIX available for the x86 platform. The lady down the street probably never had that as a goal. There probably were only a few people in the world who shared that goal for many, many years.
These days, I suppose Stallman has definitely decided that his real goal is to convert everybody to his way of thinking - meanwhile, Linus seems to be happy with building a great UNIX-ish platform that is open and free for everybody. So in that sense, they clearly don't seem to have the same primary goal any more.
The point is that rather than shitting all over people who ought to be your allies, one should find common ground with them. If you want to shit on somebody, don't shit on the guy who completed your free UNIX-clone OS and then wonder why 85% of the community thinks you are spewing sour grapes everywhere you go.
There is tons of common ground here that could help Stallman win people over. The reason he fails to win any but the most socially inept people over is that his approach is itself so utterly socially inept.
Maybe if Stallman weren't such an intolerable dork who jumps all over people for not being zealots, people would give him more credit.
For example, his need to say shit like this: > Stallman: The fact that Torvalds says "open source" instead of "free software" shows where he is coming from.
Jesus, what a douchebag. He could say something like "Linus is a great guy, who developed a really successful piece of Free Software and helped popularize the GPL. We don't always see eye-to-eye on our ideology, but I know we both have the same goals at heart."
If he learned to not be a dick and social misfit, and not take swipes at everybody who isn't himself all the time, and try to attention and credit hog like a whore, maybe he'd get a bigger share of credit for the achievements that he did legitimately have a part in.
All I want is a Treo that isn't 2 inches thick, has wifi support, and a web browsing experience that's not straight out of 2001 (i.e. opens PDFs easily, supports video and audio content transparently, and supports at least basic dynamic HTML stuff).
They have had 6 or 7 years now and haven't made an ounce of progress with the PalmOS platform. I guess there is supposedly a native PDF viewer now which I could dredge up and set up on my Treo 650. I've never had any luck with video content, and generally find browsing with Blazer to be a miserable, frustrating experience.
What keeps me on Treo is Chattermail, which is the best mobile email app I've seen on any platform, and the fact that it's a platform with tons of third party app support so you can find something to do anything. And not a kludgy piece of shit like Windows Mobile.
If, for example, one could make the case that the OOXML vote would have gone the other direction, with the more corrupt countries voting against it (a case we have no a priori reason to discard), then the use of a 1-tailed test is inappropriate here.
Oh come on now. We don't have any a priori reason to discard that case?
And who would have the resources and interest to pay people off to vote against it?
I don't really care, but I'd prefer something Linux based. Or other Unixy OS. The core scarcely matters, the innovation isn't in making a kernel that runs on a moderately limited handheld device, it's in a user interface, applications and email/web browsing experience that is compelling, powerful and usable. You know, like Apple did with the iPhone, only not have it be a closed platform with shitty email support.
Congratulations on your straw man, Anonymous Coward! Every word you said had nothing to do with anything I said. All I said was that the guy I was replying to was a lying pussy for suggesting that Nazis using tattoos on people was a lie. And he is.
As for you, you are just a fucking moron. I'm definitely not a rabid anything - I have seen the tattoos and they are factually indisputable, that's all. Furthermore, I don't know any Holocaust survivors who made that a cause of their existence - most of them just wanted to live their lives after World War II like normal people. Like the women who lose a son in Iraq and make that their self-righteous cause of their existence, they are a vast minority.
The rest of your post is a rant against a straw man with zero relationship to me.
All you have done, sir, is shown that your brains are made of porridge and feces.
Resources behind the Treo line? The Treo 600 was a brilliant product in its day, but all they've done in the 7 years or so since is basically bugfix and do new plastic moldings. And come out with a line of me-too Windows Mobile devices.
If that's all the resources they have they are screwed. The whole point of dumping the Folio is to focus on their new OS.
The whole problem is that this company was nearly destroyed by splitting off the OS division into PalmSource. The hardware division is worthless without a great OS to back it up.
The iPhone sucks in a zillion ways, but it's got a great OS running on a limited piece of hardware. And it can't even do shit out of the box, you have to hack it to even make it moderately useful. Still demolishing the Treo in the market.
That's pathetic. Palm needs a new OS. Palm OS is looking so long in the tooth it's ridiculous.
Holy shit, am I sick of hearing ISPs whine about people using their precious bandwidth. People are subscribing and paying for their internet service *because* they want want to use bandwidth. If they don't like it, then they should stop selling unlimited use packages. Or better yet, get out of the business, since warez and porn are the fuel that led to the growth of the internet and you wouldn't want to be transmitting all those yucky bits.
And if they are going to be the net police, then they need to be forced to disclose that in their ToS. And in any case, a protocol can't be inherently illegal. People transmit illegal content by FTP, NNTP, HTTP, various IM protocols, and P2P protocols. Hell, what percentage of binary content in Usenet newsgroups is legal? I wouldn't be surprised if it was lower than the percentage of legal torrent content.
I increasingly see Bittorrent used to transmit legal content. Large game patches, Linux distros, and the like are all being Torrented these days.
What, you dispute the factuality of this? I don't care if I'm being trolled, but have you ever seen somebody with a Nazi concentration camp tattoo? I have. If you'd care to face one of those people and tell them that this is something people are force-fed on TV and in school, then you'd have a sack. But instead you post it AC on Slashdot. Good little nazi-loving pussy.
So in your country, public officials who arrest people unlawfully based on zero evidence often come along and issue apologies for doing so and are chastised by their supervisors? And they never continue to abuse their power and authority afterwards?
Sorry, I call bullshit. I was just in France three weeks ago for my friend's wedding (she lives there now and has for several years) and she must have told me about a half dozen civil servant/low-level bureaucrats who abused their authority, lied to her because they were too lazy or annoyed to do their jobs, and generally exhibited the same sort of low-level power abuse bullshit behavior you see in this sort of person the world over. They never apologized when they were called out on their bluff and forced to do their jobs properly, no, they just made excuses and blamed the victim.
Face it, small minded people in unimportant jobs blessed by local governments often abuse their authority the world over. These people don't apologize, because they weren't making a mistake in the first place. Having a legal system that empowers citizens to issue a smack down in return is a necessary check and balance.
There is nothing US specific about this. We do have a problem of excess tortiousness here in the US, which definitely impacts private industry, the health care profession and other sectors of society. But I don't believe that local cops refuse to apologize because they realized they made a mistake but are afraid to admit it for fear of being sued (this does happen with doctors, for example). No, unfortunately too many cops are small minded shits who get off on their little power trips, plain and simple.
You can watch it full screen on your computer streamed from the site, actually. The quality is not fantastic, and I agree that many people would rather choose option C. I've been known to as well. Hell, I pay for HBO, and still sometimes download HD-captured versions of the same HBO shows I can watch for free on on-demand. Why? My On Demand service from RCN is *terrible* - so unreliable, grainy in quality, etc. And becuase I have a Tivo instead of RCN's set top box in my living room, I'd have to watch the damned show in my bedroom.
So I actually pirate shows so I can watch them on my AppleTV in my living room, when I want to, the way I want to, that I legally already have the right to watch.
Please, make this world less crazy, not more. The more control NBC tries to exert, the more people will just turn their back on the legal options.
A) What do you mean, what's wrong with the guy? Maybe you misunderstood, he wasn't making a "swap" of a car for an iPhone, he was taking advantage of the situation to get $30,000 worth of press and goodwill with the tech geek community. Maybe he'll hire the kid in a couple years when he's out of college. Getting the unlocked iPhone was just a bonus. Fuck, if I were Steve Jobs, I'd have given the kid a car and a job.
B) Windows Mobile sucks so horridly, I'd never touch it again.
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Time to move to the Equinix data center at 350 E. Cermak. That place is like a frickin' military bunker. That's where the real men in the Chicago area have their servers.
Surreptitiously switching a contract just prior to signing it does not make the changes valid - if you can show that you reasonably thought you were signing a document with different terms and that the counter party changed them without notice (i.e. show an email trail to a judge), those changes to the contract may very well be voided. That's why when negotiating over a contract, explicitly redlining changes isn't just the sporting thing to do, it's a good idea for all parties involved.
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In answer to your question: yes, not "widely" but they are used, the quality and consistency isn't good enough and the experience isn't in general seamless yet with a single phone number and auto-switching between VoIP mode and cell mode, yes one has - by TruPhone, who haven't released it yet since they are still working on a GUI for it
A) yes, with the help of four other people I certainly have picked up somebody who didn't want to be picked up and transported them against their will. This is not easy, but if you have numbers on your side, it's not as hard as you make it out to be.
B) I have done martial arts training. I am well aware of how to inflict pain on somebody. Those techniques have a lower fatality rate than Tasers (I realize this has been argued on both sides, but that's my opinion).
C) Police are supposed to be trained professionals. I'm sorry if they have a "hard" job, but that's part of the deal.
Explain how you could tell he continued to "resist" (i.e. physically)? I didn't see any evidence of that. I just heard him asking why they were arresting him. If he was physically assaulting the police and they were unable to subdue him (which I find hard to believe with that many basically on top of him) then I could understand using the Taser. But I didn't see that in the video.
This has been solved by one of the third party apps, called something like "NoEDGE" that has already come out. It gives you a handy quick switch to activate and deactivate EDGE.
A lot of the other complaints I see have also already been addressed by third party native apps (no iChat? There are already some nice AIM clients out there, in active development).
Now if Apple would just support a real SDK and get out of their absurd mentality, we'd get even better, more well-supported third party apps. Nobody I know is buying an iphone just to use the built-in apps. Every early adopter type I know who bought one has jailbreaked it and is running third party apps. Apple, get a clue.
Also, cut and paste would be nice and really needs Apple to develop it. And IMAP IDLE built in to MobileMail.app (though I think there'll be a good solution for IDLE soon enough if Apple doesn't come out with it).
Well, if their Apple PCs came with the "experience" of not being able to install 3rd party apps, they wouldn't sell very many of them, now would they? People are speaking loud and clear - they don't like the experience Apple is providing, but they like the platform (cell phone with wifi, great OS, and multitouch screen). The iPhone is basically a useless device out of the box. I only bought it because with two clicks I can get a sweet installer that lets me put tons of cool third party apps being actively developed now on my phone in a matter of seconds.
I want a platform with my experience. I don't want an experience so crippled it's useless.
He might have deserved to be removed from the room, and I can see subduing and dragging him out if he resists. But Tasering a guy who you've already got pinned on the ground? Cops are supposed to just cuff his arms behind his back and drag him out. That's what they're trained to do. A Taser is supposed to be used to subdue a subject who represents an actual threat to the police or others around him. A guy pinned on the ground by 5 or 6 cops who is yelling because he believes he's being arrested without cause doesn't represent an actual threat, just an annoyance.
They should have dragged him off, at most, and let a judge sort it out later. Or just let him finish his damned annoying question - Kerry or the audience would have eventually cut him off. This could have been handled without using a potentially dangerous weapon on a college student.
I think the cops involved should be fired.
This sounds like some serious breathless bullshit to me.
There have been quite a few different methods of quantum computing developed that take advantage of several types of quantum processes in nature. I worked on bulk-spin-resonance QC as a research assistant at MIT.
To the best of my knowledge, every method so far developed runs into coherence and noise limitations that make it very difficult to scale them up. It's usually not too hard to build a 3- or 4- qubit quantum computer, but scaling up the size seems to itself have an exponential characteristic to the problem. Basically, it's very hard to build a practical quantum computer that works on the scale necessary to factor even modest sized numbers. The engineering challenges to make any of these methods at all practical are bafflingly hard - the underlying science and math are pretty straightforward on the other hand, and the algorithms are undoubtedly cool as hell.
I understand these days the interesting work is on trapped-ion approaches and semi-conductor approaches.
Anyway, Shor's algorithm has been around for years. The theory behind QCs is fairly well understood, the experimental difficulties are huge.
Basically, unless this represents a real breakthrough, i.e. a technique that is not just scalable in theory but can be demonstrated practically to be linearly more difficult to scale up the number of qubits, then it's not a breakthrough that anybody needs to worry about yet.
Without seeing this article's full text though, it's hard to really know, but I gather optical approaches have been tried before and haven't gotten any further than anybody else has.
Did they both not spend years of their life working on making a GPLed UNIX-clone? If Stallman can't find common ground with that guy, how the hell does he have a chance at relating to the rest of humanity and winning them over to his way of thinking?
Let's see, they both worked for years to get a GPLed UNIX available for the x86 platform. The lady down the street probably never had that as a goal. There probably were only a few people in the world who shared that goal for many, many years.
These days, I suppose Stallman has definitely decided that his real goal is to convert everybody to his way of thinking - meanwhile, Linus seems to be happy with building a great UNIX-ish platform that is open and free for everybody. So in that sense, they clearly don't seem to have the same primary goal any more.
The point is that rather than shitting all over people who ought to be your allies, one should find common ground with them. If you want to shit on somebody, don't shit on the guy who completed your free UNIX-clone OS and then wonder why 85% of the community thinks you are spewing sour grapes everywhere you go.
There is tons of common ground here that could help Stallman win people over. The reason he fails to win any but the most socially inept people over is that his approach is itself so utterly socially inept.
Maybe if Stallman weren't such an intolerable dork who jumps all over people for not being zealots, people would give him more credit.
For example, his need to say shit like this:
> Stallman: The fact that Torvalds says "open source" instead of "free software" shows where he is coming from.
Jesus, what a douchebag. He could say something like "Linus is a great guy, who developed a really successful piece of Free Software and helped popularize the GPL. We don't always see eye-to-eye on our ideology, but I know we both have the same goals at heart."
If he learned to not be a dick and social misfit, and not take swipes at everybody who isn't himself all the time, and try to attention and credit hog like a whore, maybe he'd get a bigger share of credit for the achievements that he did legitimately have a part in.
Seriously, I have a hankering to short Amazon stock after seeing how shitty their implementation of the Mechanical Turk concept is.
All I want is a Treo that isn't 2 inches thick, has wifi support, and a web browsing experience that's not straight out of 2001 (i.e. opens PDFs easily, supports video and audio content transparently, and supports at least basic dynamic HTML stuff).
They have had 6 or 7 years now and haven't made an ounce of progress with the PalmOS platform. I guess there is supposedly a native PDF viewer now which I could dredge up and set up on my Treo 650. I've never had any luck with video content, and generally find browsing with Blazer to be a miserable, frustrating experience.
What keeps me on Treo is Chattermail, which is the best mobile email app I've seen on any platform, and the fact that it's a platform with tons of third party app support so you can find something to do anything. And not a kludgy piece of shit like Windows Mobile.
If, for example, one could make the case that the OOXML vote would have gone the other direction, with the more corrupt countries voting against it (a case we have no a priori reason to discard), then the use of a 1-tailed test is inappropriate here.
Oh come on now. We don't have any a priori reason to discard that case?
And who would have the resources and interest to pay people off to vote against it?
I don't really care, but I'd prefer something Linux based. Or other Unixy OS. The core scarcely matters, the innovation isn't in making a kernel that runs on a moderately limited handheld device, it's in a user interface, applications and email/web browsing experience that is compelling, powerful and usable. You know, like Apple did with the iPhone, only not have it be a closed platform with shitty email support.
Congratulations on your straw man, Anonymous Coward! Every word you said had nothing to do with anything I said. All I said was that the guy I was replying to was a lying pussy for suggesting that Nazis using tattoos on people was a lie. And he is.
As for you, you are just a fucking moron. I'm definitely not a rabid anything - I have seen the tattoos and they are factually indisputable, that's all. Furthermore, I don't know any Holocaust survivors who made that a cause of their existence - most of them just wanted to live their lives after World War II like normal people. Like the women who lose a son in Iraq and make that their self-righteous cause of their existence, they are a vast minority.
The rest of your post is a rant against a straw man with zero relationship to me.
All you have done, sir, is shown that your brains are made of porridge and feces.
Resources behind the Treo line? The Treo 600 was a brilliant product in its day, but all they've done in the 7 years or so since is basically bugfix and do new plastic moldings. And come out with a line of me-too Windows Mobile devices.
If that's all the resources they have they are screwed. The whole point of dumping the Folio is to focus on their new OS.
The whole problem is that this company was nearly destroyed by splitting off the OS division into PalmSource. The hardware division is worthless without a great OS to back it up.
The iPhone sucks in a zillion ways, but it's got a great OS running on a limited piece of hardware. And it can't even do shit out of the box, you have to hack it to even make it moderately useful. Still demolishing the Treo in the market.
That's pathetic. Palm needs a new OS. Palm OS is looking so long in the tooth it's ridiculous.
Holy shit, am I sick of hearing ISPs whine about people using their precious bandwidth. People are subscribing and paying for their internet service *because* they want want to use bandwidth. If they don't like it, then they should stop selling unlimited use packages. Or better yet, get out of the business, since warez and porn are the fuel that led to the growth of the internet and you wouldn't want to be transmitting all those yucky bits.
And if they are going to be the net police, then they need to be forced to disclose that in their ToS. And in any case, a protocol can't be inherently illegal. People transmit illegal content by FTP, NNTP, HTTP, various IM protocols, and P2P protocols. Hell, what percentage of binary content in Usenet newsgroups is legal? I wouldn't be surprised if it was lower than the percentage of legal torrent content.
I increasingly see Bittorrent used to transmit legal content. Large game patches, Linux distros, and the like are all being Torrented these days.
Just looking at that declaration makes me want to claw my eyes out. Bad C++ is almost (but not quite) as bad as Perl.
What, you dispute the factuality of this? I don't care if I'm being trolled, but have you ever seen somebody with a Nazi concentration camp tattoo? I have. If you'd care to face one of those people and tell them that this is something people are force-fed on TV and in school, then you'd have a sack. But instead you post it AC on Slashdot. Good little nazi-loving pussy.
So in your country, public officials who arrest people unlawfully based on zero evidence often come along and issue apologies for doing so and are chastised by their supervisors? And they never continue to abuse their power and authority afterwards?
Sorry, I call bullshit. I was just in France three weeks ago for my friend's wedding (she lives there now and has for several years) and she must have told me about a half dozen civil servant/low-level bureaucrats who abused their authority, lied to her because they were too lazy or annoyed to do their jobs, and generally exhibited the same sort of low-level power abuse bullshit behavior you see in this sort of person the world over. They never apologized when they were called out on their bluff and forced to do their jobs properly, no, they just made excuses and blamed the victim.
Face it, small minded people in unimportant jobs blessed by local governments often abuse their authority the world over. These people don't apologize, because they weren't making a mistake in the first place. Having a legal system that empowers citizens to issue a smack down in return is a necessary check and balance.
There is nothing US specific about this. We do have a problem of excess tortiousness here in the US, which definitely impacts private industry, the health care profession and other sectors of society. But I don't believe that local cops refuse to apologize because they realized they made a mistake but are afraid to admit it for fear of being sued (this does happen with doctors, for example). No, unfortunately too many cops are small minded shits who get off on their little power trips, plain and simple.
You can watch it full screen on your computer streamed from the site, actually. The quality is not fantastic, and I agree that many people would rather choose option C. I've been known to as well. Hell, I pay for HBO, and still sometimes download HD-captured versions of the same HBO shows I can watch for free on on-demand. Why? My On Demand service from RCN is *terrible* - so unreliable, grainy in quality, etc. And becuase I have a Tivo instead of RCN's set top box in my living room, I'd have to watch the damned show in my bedroom.
So I actually pirate shows so I can watch them on my AppleTV in my living room, when I want to, the way I want to, that I legally already have the right to watch.
Please, make this world less crazy, not more. The more control NBC tries to exert, the more people will just turn their back on the legal options.
A) What do you mean, what's wrong with the guy? Maybe you misunderstood, he wasn't making a "swap" of a car for an iPhone, he was taking advantage of the situation to get $30,000 worth of press and goodwill with the tech geek community. Maybe he'll hire the kid in a couple years when he's out of college. Getting the unlocked iPhone was just a bonus. Fuck, if I were Steve Jobs, I'd have given the kid a car and a job.
B) Windows Mobile sucks so horridly, I'd never touch it again.