Actually, "degrees Kelvin" has been replaced by "kelvins" (note the lower case "k"), while the abbreviation remains an upper case "K". That makes "degrees Celsius" the only SI unit of measure with an upper case letter in its English name. Also, centigrade and the modern Celsius scale aren't just different names for the same thing; whereas the centigrade scale was based on the freezing and boiling points of water, 0.01 degrees Celsius is, by definition, the triple point of water, and one Celsius degree is 1/273.16 of the difference between the triple point and absolute zero.
The article mentions engineers and producers, with the latter getting offers about half as much as the former. Can someone explain the difference between these two jobs?
Nope, I gotta agree with the GP. If you'd listened to objective coverage of the ports deal, you'd know that:
1. The ports were already in the hands of a foreign company (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company). 2. Dubai and the UAE are US allies. The fact that a few criminals came from there does not change that. 3. The inspection of cargo will still be handled by US Customs and Border Protection. 4. Security will still be provided by the Coast Guard.
Now, Israel, on the other hand, has a history of spying on the US, including having their spies caught on US soil. I'm not familiar with Snort, but since it is computer security related, I think further investigation is probably warranted before this is allowed. Israel, while nominally a US ally, could potentially be a great threat.
I wouldn't call it paranoia; the Israelis have spied on the US many, many times. Comparing it to the port deal isn't really fair. I'd say this story is the usual Zionist paranoia. You know, because, the US government secretly wants to support Arabs and destroy Israel. (Sarcasm. There really are people who think that way, though.)
I've had this problem too. I just send the files named "TheProgram.rename_to_exe" or something like that. I also explain that it needs to be renamed before it will run because of gmail's filtering. I'll admit that it did catch me by surprise the first time, though.
Don't all extant viruses require hosts to replicate? How could viruses be the precursors to prokaryotes? If they existed before cells, wouldn't they, by definition, not be viruses?
No. Spyware, by definition is something that collects information about you and sends it without you knowing it. Filling out a form in a program that you deliberately ran and having that same program send that information somewhere is not spying. What would be the purpose of filling out such a survey (into which you entered your name), if not to be sent somewhere so you can receive political junk mail (or "analog spam", as I like to call it)?
Now, in my highschool government class (which was required for graduation), we had to take a "test" at the end that asked for our opinion on some key issues like welfare, taxes, and I forget what else. As I recall, this was to be sent elsewhere to be "evaluated". I always suspected that this information ended up on file with the state government so they could characterize everyone's political views. The difference is that the GOP software is optional.
Actually, blu-ray could be useful for non-HD content. For example, you could fit multiple seasons of a TV show on a single disk. I don't expect this to happen, though, because they can charge you more if you buy them separately. But from a technical standpoint, the higher storage of blu-ray is useful.
We've been hearing about these self-replicating, networked, tiny, flying robots for, what, at least ten years now. I've heard that they will be able to assemble themselves into any form to give us a Star Trek-like holodeck environment. Through their collective intelligence, they will become super-intelligent and demand the same rights as humans. They will eventually enslave us and blah, blah, blah. The fact is, we're so far away from having microbots, much less nanobots, that we shouldn't even be wasting our time worrying about them. I have no problem with research into similar technologies per se, but I don't think we should be letting science fiction writers dictate public policy.
"The real question is, why does Slashdot continue to accept every single one of his submissions when many of the readers see through the scam and whole-heartedly object to what he is doing?"
CmdrTaco addressed this in an article a couple months ago (as I recall). He mentioned that some people will submit multiple articles per day. Now if Mr. Piquapackofpickledpeppers is only getting between 4 and 10 submissions accepted each month, I doubt anywhere near all of his submissions are accepted. Taco also said that in many cases, posted stories are only submitted by one person, so they don't have more than one to choose from. It is in/.'s interest to give credit to the submitters to encourage them to keep submitting interesting articles. Without submitters,/. would not exist in its present form.
"Is this 'service' worth up to $647 a month?"
How much do you think Slashdot makes from advertising each month. I guarantee you it's more than 10 times that much. Now tell me what Slashdot does that that Piquachu guy doesn't. Would I be wrong in saying that you're a little bit jealous that his blog (I refuse to say "online journal") is generating a little money and yours isn't?
"Converting to any other format is going to cause a loss of quality. Even if you go to WAV or CD Audio, if you ever want to rip it back into some compressed format, you're going to lose quality."
I believe the GP understood your point entirely. It was that transcoding produces a loss of quality. He also made some good points about losing metadata. I'm not quite sure why your post was modded +5.
I imagine for most people, it's a cost issue. Why pay $45+/month for broadband when all you use the web for is news and email? I had a $10 dial-up connection for years that worked fine for everything except streaming video and downloading large files. I only got cable internet because I have roommates that are willing to split the cost now (grad student).
Graphics programmers are more likely to be familiar with procedural programming than functional programming because they need to have a lot of control over how the code executes. C is probably the most widely known programming language. New procedural languages are often described as having a C-like syntax to make it sound less intimidating, even if it's actually more similar to another language.
1. Their main revenue source these days seems to be from student loan refinance companies. 2. They allow bogus "professional training" companies to masquerade as employers. 3. They don't make it clear how much information others can learn about you (e.g., can a complete stranger find your name, address, phone number, etc.? Can your current employer see that you recently posted your resume?)
A good job website would work like this. Job seekers can post one or two resumes online for free. Employers can search all resumes for free. They can contact job seekers for a small fee. Job seekers should be able to choose which employers can see their contact info. Any "employer" offering job seekers anything other than a real job or internship should not be allowed to use the site. Predatory student loan refinancing companies should be completely excluded from the site.
I'd like to be able to turn it off so that I can use a web browser and, you know, do anything else on my computer. I noticed the large amount of memory firefox was using a while ago while I was doing some memory-hungry programming. It was annoying because I frequently had to close down my browser that I was using to view some API documentation.
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The fact of the matter is that Apple doesn't really care about people running OSX on a non-apple system. It's money in their pocket either way. What they want to avoid is having a bunch of white box manufacturers and Dell selling $400 PC's pre-installed with the OS. By making an honest effort to prevent install on non-apple platforms, they can prevent any sort of commercial competition on the hardware side.
I disagree. Companies like Dell could easily be prevented from selling computers with OSx86 pre-installed by the liscencing agreement. In fact, any company could be sued by Apple if it resells the OS in violation of the terms. Besides, if there is a crack out there, it would be trivial for a large computer manufacturer to use it to install it on all of their machines. The protections in the OS would work best at preventing the average computer user (not ueber-geeks, not grandmas) from installing OSx86 on a cheap PC. I think you give Apple too much credit in saying that they don't mind if the overage user installs OSx86 on his PC. After all, they make their money on over-priced hardware, not the software.
What if he's a physician with one of his patients in the hospital? Should he give up going to church (or any other activity that you deem incompatable with cell phones,) or should he put his patient's health in danger so as not to offend you? How about just not wearing you phone on your hip when you're sitting on a wooden bench in a quiet place?
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Apparently it's been fixed already, unless I'm missing some subtle detail.
Actually, "degrees Kelvin" has been replaced by "kelvins" (note the lower case "k"), while the abbreviation remains an upper case "K". That makes "degrees Celsius" the only SI unit of measure with an upper case letter in its English name. Also, centigrade and the modern Celsius scale aren't just different names for the same thing; whereas the centigrade scale was based on the freezing and boiling points of water, 0.01 degrees Celsius is, by definition, the triple point of water, and one Celsius degree is 1/273.16 of the difference between the triple point and absolute zero.
(Facts shamefully stolen from the Wikipedia article.)
Tell us, what's the going rate to advertise our sites in your /. posts? Do we have to pay more when you get modded up?
(Hint: people will continue to make fun of you until you put your link in the sig where it belongs.)
The animal is white and 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) long -- about the size of a salad plate.
The important question is, will there be enough room for a little dish of melted butter?
But why does a single Cell processor need six 120 mm fans?
The article mentions engineers and producers, with the latter getting offers about half as much as the former. Can someone explain the difference between these two jobs?
Nope, I gotta agree with the GP. If you'd listened to objective coverage of the ports deal, you'd know that:
1. The ports were already in the hands of a foreign company (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company).
2. Dubai and the UAE are US allies. The fact that a few criminals came from there does not change that.
3. The inspection of cargo will still be handled by US Customs and Border Protection.
4. Security will still be provided by the Coast Guard.
Now, Israel, on the other hand, has a history of spying on the US, including having their spies caught on US soil. I'm not familiar with Snort, but since it is computer security related, I think further investigation is probably warranted before this is allowed. Israel, while nominally a US ally, could potentially be a great threat.
I wouldn't call it paranoia; the Israelis have spied on the US many, many times. Comparing it to the port deal isn't really fair. I'd say this story is the usual Zionist paranoia. You know, because, the US government secretly wants to support Arabs and destroy Israel. (Sarcasm. There really are people who think that way, though.)
Boy, if I had mod points today, you'd definately be getting an "informative" mod. Yes, indeed.
I've had this problem too. I just send the files named "TheProgram.rename_to_exe" or something like that. I also explain that it needs to be renamed before it will run because of gmail's filtering. I'll admit that it did catch me by surprise the first time, though.
Ohio. Graduated in 1997.
Don't all extant viruses require hosts to replicate? How could viruses be the precursors to prokaryotes? If they existed before cells, wouldn't they, by definition, not be viruses?
Disclaimer: IANAMicrobiologist
No. Spyware, by definition is something that collects information about you and sends it without you knowing it. Filling out a form in a program that you deliberately ran and having that same program send that information somewhere is not spying. What would be the purpose of filling out such a survey (into which you entered your name), if not to be sent somewhere so you can receive political junk mail (or "analog spam", as I like to call it)?
Now, in my highschool government class (which was required for graduation), we had to take a "test" at the end that asked for our opinion on some key issues like welfare, taxes, and I forget what else. As I recall, this was to be sent elsewhere to be "evaluated". I always suspected that this information ended up on file with the state government so they could characterize everyone's political views. The difference is that the GOP software is optional.
If not... blu-ray offers you nothing.
Actually, blu-ray could be useful for non-HD content. For example, you could fit multiple seasons of a TV show on a single disk. I don't expect this to happen, though, because they can charge you more if you buy them separately. But from a technical standpoint, the higher storage of blu-ray is useful.
What's worse is that this tax will benefit Alanis Morissette.
We've been hearing about these self-replicating, networked, tiny, flying robots for, what, at least ten years now. I've heard that they will be able to assemble themselves into any form to give us a Star Trek-like holodeck environment. Through their collective intelligence, they will become super-intelligent and demand the same rights as humans. They will eventually enslave us and blah, blah, blah. The fact is, we're so far away from having microbots, much less nanobots, that we shouldn't even be wasting our time worrying about them. I have no problem with research into similar technologies per se, but I don't think we should be letting science fiction writers dictate public policy.
"The real question is, why does Slashdot continue to accept every single one of his submissions when many of the readers see through the scam and whole-heartedly object to what he is doing?"
/.'s interest to give credit to the submitters to encourage them to keep submitting interesting articles. Without submitters, /. would not exist in its present form.
CmdrTaco addressed this in an article a couple months ago (as I recall). He mentioned that some people will submit multiple articles per day. Now if Mr. Piquapackofpickledpeppers is only getting between 4 and 10 submissions accepted each month, I doubt anywhere near all of his submissions are accepted. Taco also said that in many cases, posted stories are only submitted by one person, so they don't have more than one to choose from. It is in
"Is this 'service' worth up to $647 a month?"
How much do you think Slashdot makes from advertising each month. I guarantee you it's more than 10 times that much. Now tell me what Slashdot does that that Piquachu guy doesn't. Would I be wrong in saying that you're a little bit jealous that his blog (I refuse to say "online journal") is generating a little money and yours isn't?
I believe the GP understood your point entirely. It was that transcoding produces a loss of quality. He also made some good points about losing metadata. I'm not quite sure why your post was modded +5.
...his wife if fucking Brilliant, too.
Sorry.
I imagine for most people, it's a cost issue. Why pay $45+/month for broadband when all you use the web for is news and email? I had a $10 dial-up connection for years that worked fine for everything except streaming video and downloading large files. I only got cable internet because I have roommates that are willing to split the cost now (grad student).
Graphics programmers are more likely to be familiar with procedural programming than functional programming because they need to have a lot of control over how the code executes. C is probably the most widely known programming language. New procedural languages are often described as having a C-like syntax to make it sound less intimidating, even if it's actually more similar to another language.
1. Their main revenue source these days seems to be from student loan refinance companies.
2. They allow bogus "professional training" companies to masquerade as employers.
3. They don't make it clear how much information others can learn about you (e.g., can a complete stranger find your name, address, phone number, etc.? Can your current employer see that you recently posted your resume?)
A good job website would work like this. Job seekers can post one or two resumes online for free. Employers can search all resumes for free. They can contact job seekers for a small fee. Job seekers should be able to choose which employers can see their contact info. Any "employer" offering job seekers anything other than a real job or internship should not be allowed to use the site. Predatory student loan refinancing companies should be completely excluded from the site.
I'd like to be able to turn it off so that I can use a web browser and, you know, do anything else on my computer. I noticed the large amount of memory firefox was using a while ago while I was doing some memory-hungry programming. It was annoying because I frequently had to close down my browser that I was using to view some API documentation.
The fact of the matter is that Apple doesn't really care about people running OSX on a non-apple system. It's money in their pocket either way. What they want to avoid is having a bunch of white box manufacturers and Dell selling $400 PC's pre-installed with the OS. By making an honest effort to prevent install on non-apple platforms, they can prevent any sort of commercial competition on the hardware side.
I disagree. Companies like Dell could easily be prevented from selling computers with OSx86 pre-installed by the liscencing agreement. In fact, any company could be sued by Apple if it resells the OS in violation of the terms. Besides, if there is a crack out there, it would be trivial for a large computer manufacturer to use it to install it on all of their machines. The protections in the OS would work best at preventing the average computer user (not ueber-geeks, not grandmas) from installing OSx86 on a cheap PC. I think you give Apple too much credit in saying that they don't mind if the overage user installs OSx86 on his PC. After all, they make their money on over-priced hardware, not the software.
What if he's a physician with one of his patients in the hospital? Should he give up going to church (or any other activity that you deem incompatable with cell phones,) or should he put his patient's health in danger so as not to offend you? How about just not wearing you phone on your hip when you're sitting on a wooden bench in a quiet place?