"Mobile device" does not always mean "cell phone". There's a whole batch of devices that use IP communication - things like dynamic street signs, cameras, call boxes, remote sensors. Lots of stuff you see/interact with (or at least, get data from) use the mobile network and require IP communication. So don't automatically assume that this is saying "everyone has 7 cell phones", because if they meant "cell phones", they would say "cell phones". Instead, read it as "devices that use the mobile network" -- even if the devices themselves aren't really "mobile" per se.
timothy, I recall meeting you at CTY one summer, probably in 2000... heh.
One of the neat things that I recall about CTY was the relative level of independence you were given... yeah, you had to be places at certain times, and your whereabouts had to be accounted for, but you still had a lot of leeway, so there were opportunities to explore and interact outside the standard structure. Combine that with being around around other nerds, and it can be really rewarding for a kid at that age.
From TFA:
"Nationally renowned astronomer Bob Berman will host the four-hour spectacle with live audio narration starting at 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT. He will be joined by several guests throughout the show, including Duncan Copp, a presenter for BBC and National Geographic and director-producer of many astronomy films and TV shows including "In the Shadow of the Moon", an award-wining film about the Apollo astronauts."
This accident was stoppable at so many points in so many ways. The problem wasn't so much the reactor alone as the mindset together with the reactor.
This is the same thing that I keep telling the fearmongers who react to every mention of "nuclear energy" by saying "what about Chernobyl OMG". The RBMK reactor was basically designed by idiots who didn't give a shit about the concept of a "containment vessel". All of the "news articles" that keep flipping out about this are really making me sick. Yes, it was a tragedy; yes, the human consequences will last for a very, very, very long time. Yes, it's completely under-reported. I give you that. But these "journalists" really need to stop making completely unfounded comparisons, because they're just encouraging people to revert to being dumb, panicky animals, who can't actually apply the laws of physics and basic engineering principles.
But then again... if people in general were capable of feats of that magnitude, we'd solve a lot of problems. Ugh. Time to crawl back into my cave.
I don't think it's possible to communicate how slowly this runs on the (original) MyTouch3G. At least in my experience, it took 5-10 seconds for it to recognize that I had even started a word - when it finally did, it took another 5 seconds to trace it out.
Something is obviously wrong here, there can't be any way it's supposed to be this slow. As I'm not that enthralled with the idea, I don't have the inclination to figure it out, so whatever. Honestly, I've had problems with apps (and the OS in general) being non-responsive in the past, but this is a whole new level.
I don't know how it works exactly, but I assume it's similar to a public/private keypair given that they describe it as a cryptographic mechanism.
Given the author of the Python files in the SVN repo, this might not be a bad guess:
# post_election_audit.py
# Ronald L. Rivest
# October 4, 2009
#
# This Python program is for use with the Scantegrity II election system.
# See www.scantegrity.org for information on Scantegrity II.
...Cavtel (for some reason, the only DSL available in my office building, even though I can see the Verizon CO 1000 yards away from my window) does this same BS and it drives me nuts, I just changed the DNS servers returned by our DHCP box and voila.
Broken, and boneheaded, but solved with a small amount of work. Still, it's something I shouldn't have had to bother with, and the whole "breaking the Internet" thing is a problem -- they should no longer be able to classify themselves as an "Internet Service Provider" since they're not doing a reasonable job at it.
...or just pull up the music video on YouTube and "listen" to that. Although downright offensive to anyone who considers audio quality important, it seems that this is perfectly acceptable in most cases -- especially where the intent is just to share a song with someone else....but then again, in that light, it seems that YouTube is cast as a sort of viral music marketing -- which becomes a strange beastie, far beyond the proportions of this post (especially since this has already gone several levels OT with respect to the original post...)
I remember a Packard Bell Pentium 166 MMX (woah! serious business!) that had 2 USB ports. I had ABSOLUTELY NO EARTHLY IDEA what the flying fsck they were (likely because it shipped with Windows 95).
The next computer I had was an early Pentium III (Slot-I P3 repraSENT!) and it came with USB... speakers. USB F$CKING SPEAKERS. (Granted, they also had a 3.5mm plug for the audio connection, but you could control the volume and audio balance in software! Holy sh&t!) It was incredible at the time.
...and then it was 2000 and USB was everywhere, game over.
Yahoo? Wasn't that some page at Stanford?
(Disclaimer: I'm 24; I remember loading the original URL on a 2400bps modem; and yes, it was the hot thing back in the day.)
Yes, it's outrageous for them to do this with no real warning or 'gradual transfer' to the new format (and especially for them to not carry over the old data into the new format -- really? are you kidding me?) but I'm more intrigued by the backlash; in a social circle of my contemporaries, I can't think of anyone who is seriously concerned with Yahoo.
Whether or not you like the books comes down to personal preference; just because you find something 'unreadable' doesn't diminish its literary worth. I know there are fantasy writers out there who can craft some wonderful prose, but I seriously doubt that their works have anywhere near the historical and literary significance of anything Tolkien wrote.
I'm not trying to say you have to like them; rather, I maintain that they deserve a certain amount of respect for a variety of academic reasons.
Tolkien's works have links to far older bodies of literature, such as the Finnish epic Kalevala and Beowulf (he was often regarded as a leading expert on the latter.) Many of his writings are taken very seriously by those in the academic literary community; he had a lot to say about the 'fairy tale' as an important story-telling tool -- specifically his essay The Monsters and the Critics (more info).
There are serious undergraduate and graduate level literature classes on Tolkien, and his universe provides an interesting linguistic study as well. Granted, he started writing The Hobbit as a children's story, and it's not among the top tier of his work. However, the later trilogy became much more, and I daresay few literary professors would write it off as you are wont to do.
Furthermore, if you want anyone to take your viewpoint seriously, you do yourself a disservice by misspelling his name.
My apologies for the pedantry, as I'm not normally one to be the grammar police, but I just can't tolerate the sentence structure of this post. Let's try again:
"Researchers in the United States announced Tuesday that they have identified all 1,116 unique proteins found in human saliva glands. The discovery could usher in a wave of convenient, spit-based diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for a single drop of blood. Fred Hagen, a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who worked on the study, said that as many as 20 percent of the proteins found in saliva are also found in blood."
Not perfect, but much more readable, would you not agree?
(Coincidentally, the fortune at the bottom of the submit page reads, "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." I find that more than a little strange...)
'Barrow Gurney'... as in, "you'll have to take your [wheel]barrow out on a gurney because it's too small to fit down this road"?
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The structure of the silicon wafer is, in certain respects, similar to glass. The main difference is that "glass" (in the everyday sense) is an amorphous solid -- the atoms are basically jumbled together -- whereas the atoms in wafer silicon form a regular crystal lattice.
The upshot of this is that, with a little cleverness, it's easy to deposit a wide variety of different substances in a layer on top of an exposed wafer surface, and have them stick fairly well. And, depending on the characteristics of said substance, selectively removing it (via chemical etching or a more advanced process) isn't difficult, either. There are a number of technical concerns that must be addressed in order to integrate this into an existing fabrication process, but it's far from impossible (in fact, it's not even too difficult, it's just kind of expensive. But production volume makes up for that.)
You mean, just like the summer heat wave erases all the data on your CD/DVD-Rs? If you'd read more than the first paragraph, you might have seen this sentence:
"Chalcogenide is the same material utilized in re-writable optical media (such as CD-RW and DVD-RW)."...and a few lines down, this one:
"It is heated to a high temperature (over 600C), at which point the chalcogenide becomes a liquid."
If 600 degrees C is your definition of a typical summer heat wave, then I think this would be the least of your worries.
Woah, don't get me wrong. In my ideal world, the requirement would *still* be that an applicant submit the schematics of a proposed xmtr/rcvr, and subsequently, construct it themselves. I find articles such as http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/9708033.pdf very important. I'd go on, but it's quite late; please realize that I understand your sentiments.
The problem is, we (the ham radio community) are losing potential members to the compsci/IT field at an alarming rate. Simply put, as much as I wish the situation was different, the ham community can't afford to be that exclusive anymore. Although I'm too young to have experienced it properly, I still regret the passing of a previous age, in the same way that I miss the age before Windows was standard (even though I've only really known the days of DOS, win2.11, and later.)
(follow-up, since I forgot/. doesn't allow editing)
I don't think the comparisons to Endless September are really justified. The difference is that to get the higher classes, people still have to pass more complicated tests. If they don't enjoy, understand, and appreciate the hobby, what incentive is there for them to do this?
Sure, the ham world has it's share of inconsiderate jerks (I've encountered some of them on 2 meters myself) but ham radio is different than the internet in a number of important ways. First and foremost, commercial transactions are strictly forbidden.
Endless September resulted from the commercialization of the Internet: the root cause was that net access was being marketed to the general public. Computers were becoming cheaper and the average person was being told that they *needed* one of these machines. No such thing is happening here. Ham radio still requires a fair amount of technical expertise, and the motivation for getting a license has to come from within. The equipment is still expensive, and violation of the rules still carries FCC penalties. (Which is a good counter-argument, I just realized: AOLers and idiots on the internet aren't subject to FCC fines.)
Plus, without the commercialization, most people don't really appreciate ham radio enough to get into it themselves. Those that do (by and large) understand the rules and the reasons behind them, and if they don't, their day will come.
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The statement:
is NOT contradicted by EITHER *OR* BOTH of the following statements:
gb2logic and retry before considering yourself qualified to say "your information is just plain incorrect" again, kthx.
"Mobile device" does not always mean "cell phone". There's a whole batch of devices that use IP communication - things like dynamic street signs, cameras, call boxes, remote sensors. Lots of stuff you see/interact with (or at least, get data from) use the mobile network and require IP communication. So don't automatically assume that this is saying "everyone has 7 cell phones", because if they meant "cell phones", they would say "cell phones". Instead, read it as "devices that use the mobile network" -- even if the devices themselves aren't really "mobile" per se.
timothy, I recall meeting you at CTY one summer, probably in 2000... heh.
One of the neat things that I recall about CTY was the relative level of independence you were given... yeah, you had to be places at certain times, and your whereabouts had to be accounted for, but you still had a lot of leeway, so there were opportunities to explore and interact outside the standard structure. Combine that with being around around other nerds, and it can be really rewarding for a kid at that age.
...that someone's not being completely reactionary about this. Maybe it's Torchwood?
Arizona has an isolated power grid now?
Have you ever been to youtube? The chat is just like a concentrated version of the standard comment idiocy on that site.
From TFA: "Nationally renowned astronomer Bob Berman will host the four-hour spectacle with live audio narration starting at 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT. He will be joined by several guests throughout the show, including Duncan Copp, a presenter for BBC and National Geographic and director-producer of many astronomy films and TV shows including "In the Shadow of the Moon", an award-wining film about the Apollo astronauts."
This accident was stoppable at so many points in so many ways. The problem wasn't so much the reactor alone as the mindset together with the reactor.
This is the same thing that I keep telling the fearmongers who react to every mention of "nuclear energy" by saying "what about Chernobyl OMG". The RBMK reactor was basically designed by idiots who didn't give a shit about the concept of a "containment vessel". All of the "news articles" that keep flipping out about this are really making me sick. Yes, it was a tragedy; yes, the human consequences will last for a very, very, very long time. Yes, it's completely under-reported. I give you that. But these "journalists" really need to stop making completely unfounded comparisons, because they're just encouraging people to revert to being dumb, panicky animals, who can't actually apply the laws of physics and basic engineering principles.
But then again... if people in general were capable of feats of that magnitude, we'd solve a lot of problems. Ugh. Time to crawl back into my cave.
I don't think it's possible to communicate how slowly this runs on the (original) MyTouch3G. At least in my experience, it took 5-10 seconds for it to recognize that I had even started a word - when it finally did, it took another 5 seconds to trace it out. Something is obviously wrong here, there can't be any way it's supposed to be this slow. As I'm not that enthralled with the idea, I don't have the inclination to figure it out, so whatever. Honestly, I've had problems with apps (and the OS in general) being non-responsive in the past, but this is a whole new level.
Given the author of the Python files in the SVN repo, this might not be a bad guess:
...Cavtel (for some reason, the only DSL available in my office building, even though I can see the Verizon CO 1000 yards away from my window) does this same BS and it drives me nuts, I just changed the DNS servers returned by our DHCP box and voila.
Broken, and boneheaded, but solved with a small amount of work. Still, it's something I shouldn't have had to bother with, and the whole "breaking the Internet" thing is a problem -- they should no longer be able to classify themselves as an "Internet Service Provider" since they're not doing a reasonable job at it.
...or just pull up the music video on YouTube and "listen" to that. Although downright offensive to anyone who considers audio quality important, it seems that this is perfectly acceptable in most cases -- especially where the intent is just to share a song with someone else. ...but then again, in that light, it seems that YouTube is cast as a sort of viral music marketing -- which becomes a strange beastie, far beyond the proportions of this post (especially since this has already gone several levels OT with respect to the original post...)
I remember a Packard Bell Pentium 166 MMX (woah! serious business!) that had 2 USB ports. I had ABSOLUTELY NO EARTHLY IDEA what the flying fsck they were (likely because it shipped with Windows 95).
The next computer I had was an early Pentium III (Slot-I P3 repraSENT!) and it came with USB... speakers. USB F$CKING SPEAKERS. (Granted, they also had a 3.5mm plug for the audio connection, but you could control the volume and audio balance in software! Holy sh&t!) It was incredible at the time.
No one's mentioned They Might Be Giants' "Spiraling Shape" yet? What kind of Slashdot is this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byM95deNcdI
Yahoo? Wasn't that some page at Stanford? (Disclaimer: I'm 24; I remember loading the original URL on a 2400bps modem; and yes, it was the hot thing back in the day.) Yes, it's outrageous for them to do this with no real warning or 'gradual transfer' to the new format (and especially for them to not carry over the old data into the new format -- really? are you kidding me?) but I'm more intrigued by the backlash; in a social circle of my contemporaries, I can't think of anyone who is seriously concerned with Yahoo.
Whether or not you like the books comes down to personal preference; just because you find something 'unreadable' doesn't diminish its literary worth. I know there are fantasy writers out there who can craft some wonderful prose, but I seriously doubt that their works have anywhere near the historical and literary significance of anything Tolkien wrote. I'm not trying to say you have to like them; rather, I maintain that they deserve a certain amount of respect for a variety of academic reasons.
There are serious undergraduate and graduate level literature classes on Tolkien, and his universe provides an interesting linguistic study as well. Granted, he started writing The Hobbit as a children's story, and it's not among the top tier of his work. However, the later trilogy became much more, and I daresay few literary professors would write it off as you are wont to do.
Furthermore, if you want anyone to take your viewpoint seriously, you do yourself a disservice by misspelling his name.
"Researchers in the United States announced Tuesday that they have identified all 1,116 unique proteins found in human saliva glands. The discovery could usher in a wave of convenient, spit-based diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for a single drop of blood. Fred Hagen, a researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who worked on the study, said that as many as 20 percent of the proteins found in saliva are also found in blood."
Not perfect, but much more readable, would you not agree?
(Coincidentally, the fortune at the bottom of the submit page reads, "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." I find that more than a little strange...)
'Barrow Gurney'... as in, "you'll have to take your [wheel]barrow out on a gurney because it's too small to fit down this road"?
The structure of the silicon wafer is, in certain respects, similar to glass. The main difference is that "glass" (in the everyday sense) is an amorphous solid -- the atoms are basically jumbled together -- whereas the atoms in wafer silicon form a regular crystal lattice. The upshot of this is that, with a little cleverness, it's easy to deposit a wide variety of different substances in a layer on top of an exposed wafer surface, and have them stick fairly well. And, depending on the characteristics of said substance, selectively removing it (via chemical etching or a more advanced process) isn't difficult, either. There are a number of technical concerns that must be addressed in order to integrate this into an existing fabrication process, but it's far from impossible (in fact, it's not even too difficult, it's just kind of expensive. But production volume makes up for that.)
You mean, just like the summer heat wave erases all the data on your CD/DVD-Rs? If you'd read more than the first paragraph, you might have seen this sentence: "Chalcogenide is the same material utilized in re-writable optical media (such as CD-RW and DVD-RW)." ...and a few lines down, this one:
"It is heated to a high temperature (over 600C), at which point the chalcogenide becomes a liquid."
If 600 degrees C is your definition of a typical summer heat wave, then I think this would be the least of your worries.
Woah, don't get me wrong. In my ideal world, the requirement would *still* be that an applicant submit the schematics of a proposed xmtr/rcvr, and subsequently, construct it themselves. I find articles such as http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/9708033.pdf very important. I'd go on, but it's quite late; please realize that I understand your sentiments. The problem is, we (the ham radio community) are losing potential members to the compsci/IT field at an alarming rate. Simply put, as much as I wish the situation was different, the ham community can't afford to be that exclusive anymore. Although I'm too young to have experienced it properly, I still regret the passing of a previous age, in the same way that I miss the age before Windows was standard (even though I've only really known the days of DOS, win2.11, and later.)
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I don't think the comparisons to Endless September are really justified. The difference is that to get the higher classes, people still have to pass more complicated tests. If they don't enjoy, understand, and appreciate the hobby, what incentive is there for them to do this?
Sure, the ham world has it's share of inconsiderate jerks (I've encountered some of them on 2 meters myself) but ham radio is different than the internet in a number of important ways. First and foremost, commercial transactions are strictly forbidden.
Endless September resulted from the commercialization of the Internet: the root cause was that net access was being marketed to the general public. Computers were becoming cheaper and the average person was being told that they *needed* one of these machines. No such thing is happening here. Ham radio still requires a fair amount of technical expertise, and the motivation for getting a license has to come from within. The equipment is still expensive, and violation of the rules still carries FCC penalties. (Which is a good counter-argument, I just realized: AOLers and idiots on the internet aren't subject to FCC fines.)
Plus, without the commercialization, most people don't really appreciate ham radio enough to get into it themselves. Those that do (by and large) understand the rules and the reasons behind them, and if they don't, their day will come.
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