When I read this I thought about a bunch of friends of mine that are going to watch whatever they'll release.
They're smart & educated (in the trivial, scientific meaning), but when another movie will be out, they'll take out their wallets so fast that the friction with their trousers will set them on fire.
These are the same people that feel happy when Amazon is so kind to make them a personal, tailored[*], just-'cause-it's-you offer for buying all the Star Trek movies in blueray for just something-ninetynine.
Any speculation about the quality of the movies, the subject and so on is futile, to some extent: there's so much inertia behind the franchise that we are debating about that +/- 3% of fluctuation around the monolitic huge number of people that will watch it.
...or approximations of it.
For this kind of simulations, there are are tools that are better, where "better" means more accurate, reliable and reproducible.
Finite elements, for example, is one of them.
Everything else is just horse manure covered with M&M's.
Not sure about the "anecdotal" excuse.
It doesn't mean (necessarily) a preference over shooting darker skin tones, but at least they seem to spend much, much more time looking at them, at least in NY.
I mean, even accounting for some +/-% of uncertainty, 87% is a freaking big chunk.
I'm not convinced, and re-compiling the kernel seems like an extreme example to me.
The point would be that users who don't know how the FFT works shouldn't be able to use Instagram (oh, boy, if I wish so...).
The reality is that people use tons of complex algorithms every day without knowing it not because they are easy, but because they've been made easy for them and/or implemented in a transparent manner. Pretty much none of Gmail users even know what HTTPS stands for, but everybody started using it when Google decided it was going to be on by default.
My point is that even if PGP is more complex of HTTPS, it could be made easier and much more transparent than it is now.
I still feel a bit of sore, so I'll chip in the discussion.
Few months ago I read several good reviews about the Zboxes as HTPC, so I bought one, together with 4Gb of RAM and a 160Gb SSD. The GPU was a ION and no, there were no chances to have a decent XBMC experience nor playing 720i videos (1080p? don't even think about it) without having very unpleasant "hiccups" here and there in the playback. Forget about any online streaming with more than 360p resolution (average YouTube videos were enough to put the thing on its knees). No, desktop effects were not on the way (i.e. barebone XFCE). It shouldn't have been a surprise, since it was sporting a crappy Atom D525 processor 1.8GHz, and I blame myself for having bought the positive reviews despite the terrible hardware specs.
After two frustrating weeks of tweaking trying to squeeze more juice out of it (Xorg.conf, VDPAU, Nvidia drivers...), I've sent it back and with pretty much the same amount of money, I've tried one of the cheap solutions I've found on the XBCM forum. I got a i3@3.1GHz machine that's able to run smoothly Black Mesa, SteelStorm and TF2.
The box slashvertized here has a Celeron 847 instead of the Atom, but CPU performances are equally poor, so don't even think about games (or at least nothing more complex than Gchess).
The rather trivial moral of the story is that if you want a powerful machine you should buy one, and not waste your time with toy computers. Be wise with your money and never look back.
Wait, do this means that instead of inefficient gigantic companies, you are suggesting that in US it would be better to have smaller ones that are able to: 1) cover a smaller area but provide better products, 2) and do some real competition and not the fake one that's in place now?
By the way, I like the implicit humor in the "Europeans don't know geography" punchline.
I can tell you that in several of places here in SD, the cameras went "bananas" a long time ago.
There's an infamous one right next to where I work that is flashing almost at random even with green lights. If you are unluckily driving there at night or dusk, you get the flash facing you that goes medieval with your retina... you just have to remember where the wheel was turned and Don't Panic(C).
An engineer friend said these cameras had problems and needed to be re-calibrated very often due to their lack of adaptation to light and weather changes... you know, 'cause of the crazy and unpredictable the weather of SoCal, you know?
The student compiles the following lists:
List of all achievements accomplished by US companies, universities, etc..
List of achievements obtained under direction, with direct involvement, or based on ideas of 'foreign' scientists/technicians.
The student calculates the intersection between these two lists and discuss the result. Extra points will be given for detailed analysis of contributions of foreigners (i.e. von Brown, Einstein, Fermi) to the outcome of WWII and the following US scientific program.
Bonus: the student provides the link to the discussion on Slashdot about the consistent reduction of patents filled in US during the strict immigration policies of the Bush administration.
Notes:
- these are only two papers that made it into the public media in recent times
- it is a very conservative estimation to assume that each one of them involved the work of tens of peoples
- it is also safe to assume that there are many others that are still "pushing the boundaries of Knowledge" on the matter but are not enough "media-chewable" so they never reach the notoriously sloppy AC's attention
Well, from a human perspective, you're probably right, but from a from a brain chemical perspective, you're totally off:
Negative Reinforcement >> Positive Reinforcement
Unfortunately, pretty much all animals you see around evolved with this very same paradigm. If Linux goal was to avoid this problem to show up again, his way was the most effective.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it was a reference to an old advertise Apple made when Windows was hitting the market, teasing them for their DOS heritage, indeed.
At least it didn't get modded "redundant":)
It is the common Linux empasse: tons of features hidden behind complex command (and features are the very last things Linux lacks....)
A pretty obvious solution to come out of it could be that for a GUI-related feature, i.e. X, or any other graphic code, to be considered as such, must have a... (now, mod this redundant)... GUI available to use it. Obviously? Well, not very much so, if we still need to cheer this kind of news as... news.
Don't get me wrong, I consider this new tool extremely useful, but it basically builds on top of xrandr, a respectable piece of code dating back to way too many years ago. By the way, if they would add some extra info on screen when switching between modes, I would consider it simply perfect.
At least for Medicine and Biology, there is PLOS ONE, an open source journal, online-only, with peer review and Creative Commons license.
Despite being fairly new, it has already gained a more than respectable impact factor of 4.092 (2011) and it's getting more and more momentum (although it aims to go against the "obsession of the impact factor").
As expected, initial reactions were pretty cold, especially from traditional publishers, but after its successful approach, several similar OpenAccess initiatives followed (yes, even from those traditional publishers like Nature Publishing Group they were 'teasing' directly with their launch campaign a-la-Apple VS IBM).
Being an electronic-only journal, they don't impose any limits to the length of an article, nor the number of figures and (as silly as it sounds) you don't have to pay any extra money for having your figures in color, as with many other journals.
In my opinion, their main achievement was to proof that their business model works and that traditional publishers are not the only viable option.
If 386 is now "stable" (read: dead) hardware, then it's a smart move to suspend its support in the newly developed code
Fine for me if it means that the next SATA 10 Tbit 265 colors network card is not going to have drivers for the kernel as it is today.
I agree with the other several comments pointing at the not-so-well hidden slashvertising. The person in the interview is the Chief Marketing Office of a company. He's been a programmer, sure, but now his job has only marginally to do with programming.
That being said, people here are losing sight of the fact that it is a parent's job to raise and educate their own children. The government is there as an assistance to the parents - absolutely not as a usurper.
It's a complex subject, but your argument is a slippery slope, if you ask me.
What if parents teach their kids things that are detrimental, false or illegal, or give them bad examples, like: "drugs are good", "$COLOR people are not human beings" "vaccination is bad", "evolution is false", or "kissing rattlesnakes is not dangerous"?
Actually, this last one is a more appropriate than I initially thought, since the guy died in the same way his father did.
Now, one thing is the right to be allowed to believe whatever you want, another is to force it to someone that doesn't have enough critical thinking and without giving him/her a choice.
Slashdot Mirror
anyone with physical access can peek...
pretty much everything he wants/like.
'Nuff said...
No, actually, Obligatory XKCD Citation(TM)
When I read this I thought about a bunch of friends of mine that are going to watch whatever they'll release.
...on their movie history on Amazon Instant
They're smart & educated (in the trivial, scientific meaning), but when another movie will be out, they'll take out their wallets so fast that the friction with their trousers will set them on fire.
These are the same people that feel happy when Amazon is so kind to make them a personal, tailored[*], just-'cause-it's-you offer for buying all the Star Trek movies in blueray for just something-ninetynine.
Any speculation about the quality of the movies, the subject and so on is futile, to some extent: there's so much inertia behind the franchise that we are debating about that +/- 3% of fluctuation around the monolitic huge number of people that will watch it.
No matter what.
[*]
...or approximations of it. For this kind of simulations, there are are tools that are better, where "better" means more accurate, reliable and reproducible. Finite elements, for example, is one of them. Everything else is just horse manure covered with M&M's.
Not sure about the "anecdotal" excuse.
It doesn't mean (necessarily) a preference over shooting darker skin tones, but at least they seem to spend much, much more time looking at them, at least in NY.
I mean, even accounting for some +/-% of uncertainty, 87% is a freaking big chunk.
Please tell us why you deleted your account: "Google Reader, that's why".
I'm not convinced, and re-compiling the kernel seems like an extreme example to me.
The point would be that users who don't know how the FFT works shouldn't be able to use Instagram (oh, boy, if I wish so...).
The reality is that people use tons of complex algorithms every day without knowing it not because they are easy, but because they've been made easy for them and/or implemented in a transparent manner. Pretty much none of Gmail users even know what HTTPS stands for, but everybody started using it when Google decided it was going to be on by default.
My point is that even if PGP is more complex of HTTPS, it could be made easier and much more transparent than it is now.
I got a i3@3.1GHz machine that's able to run smoothly Black Mesa, SteelStorm and TF2.
I forgot to mention an interesting aspect: I have enough spare power to watch Netflix using XP in a VirtualBox machine
I still feel a bit of sore, so I'll chip in the discussion.
Few months ago I read several good reviews about the Zboxes as HTPC, so I bought one, together with 4Gb of RAM and a 160Gb SSD. The GPU was a ION and no, there were no chances to have a decent XBMC experience nor playing 720i videos (1080p? don't even think about it) without having very unpleasant "hiccups" here and there in the playback. Forget about any online streaming with more than 360p resolution (average YouTube videos were enough to put the thing on its knees). No, desktop effects were not on the way (i.e. barebone XFCE). It shouldn't have been a surprise, since it was sporting a crappy Atom D525 processor 1.8GHz, and I blame myself for having bought the positive reviews despite the terrible hardware specs.
After two frustrating weeks of tweaking trying to squeeze more juice out of it (Xorg.conf, VDPAU, Nvidia drivers...), I've sent it back and with pretty much the same amount of money, I've tried one of the cheap solutions I've found on the XBCM forum.
I got a i3@3.1GHz machine that's able to run smoothly Black Mesa, SteelStorm and TF2.
The box slashvertized here has a Celeron 847 instead of the Atom, but CPU performances are equally poor, so don't even think about games (or at least nothing more complex than Gchess).
The rather trivial moral of the story is that if you want a powerful machine you should buy one, and not waste your time with toy computers.
Be wise with your money and never look back.
Wait, do this means that instead of inefficient gigantic companies, you are suggesting that in US it would be better to have smaller ones that are able to: 1) cover a smaller area but provide better products, 2) and do some real competition and not the fake one that's in place now?
By the way, I like the implicit humor in the "Europeans don't know geography" punchline.
I can tell you that in several of places here in SD, the cameras went "bananas" a long time ago.
There's an infamous one right next to where I work that is flashing almost at random even with green lights. If you are unluckily driving there at night or dusk, you get the flash facing you that goes medieval with your retina... you just have to remember where the wheel was turned and Don't Panic(C).
An engineer friend said these cameras had problems and needed to be re-calibrated very often due to their lack of adaptation to light and weather changes... you know, 'cause of the crazy and unpredictable the weather of SoCal, you know?
Do we get a discount if we use the SLSHDT code wien purchasing the product?
The student compiles the following lists:
List of all achievements accomplished by US companies, universities, etc..
List of achievements obtained under direction, with direct involvement, or based on ideas of 'foreign' scientists/technicians.
The student calculates the intersection between these two lists and discuss the result. Extra points will be given for detailed analysis of contributions of foreigners (i.e. von Brown, Einstein, Fermi) to the outcome of WWII and the following US scientific program.
Bonus: the student provides the link to the discussion on Slashdot about the consistent reduction of patents filled in US during the strict immigration policies of the Bush administration.
Name two.
1. Martinovich I., Perito, D., et al.
2. House, P., Greger, B.
Notes:
- these are only two papers that made it into the public media in recent times
- it is a very conservative estimation to assume that each one of them involved the work of tens of peoples
- it is also safe to assume that there are many others that are still "pushing the boundaries of Knowledge" on the matter but are not enough "media-chewable" so they never reach the notoriously sloppy AC's attention
...and they were worth the Nobel Price for the invention!
Well, from a human perspective, you're probably right, but from a from a brain chemical perspective, you're totally off:
Negative Reinforcement >> Positive Reinforcement
Unfortunately, pretty much all animals you see around evolved with this very same paradigm. If Linux goal was to avoid this problem to show up again, his way was the most effective.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it was a reference to an old advertise Apple made when Windows was hitting the market, teasing them for their DOS heritage, indeed. :)
At least it didn't get modded "redundant"
It is the common Linux empasse: tons of features hidden behind complex command (and features are the very last things Linux lacks....)
A pretty obvious solution to come out of it could be that for a GUI-related feature, i.e. X, or any other graphic code, to be considered as such, must have a... (now, mod this redundant)... GUI available to use it.
Obviously? Well, not very much so, if we still need to cheer this kind of news as... news.
Don't get me wrong, I consider this new tool extremely useful, but it basically builds on top of xrandr, a respectable piece of code dating back to way too many years ago.
By the way, if they would add some extra info on screen when switching between modes, I would consider it simply perfect.
Not hard to "crack" a code if you have access to the relevant code book
Basically:
IDKFA
IDDQD
At least for Medicine and Biology, there is PLOS ONE, an open source journal, online-only, with peer review and Creative Commons license.
Despite being fairly new, it has already gained a more than respectable impact factor of 4.092 (2011) and it's getting more and more momentum (although it aims to go against the "obsession of the impact factor").
As expected, initial reactions were pretty cold, especially from traditional publishers, but after its successful approach, several similar OpenAccess initiatives followed (yes, even from those traditional publishers like Nature Publishing Group they were 'teasing' directly with their launch campaign a-la-Apple VS IBM).
Being an electronic-only journal, they don't impose any limits to the length of an article, nor the number of figures and (as silly as it sounds) you don't have to pay any extra money for having your figures in color, as with many other journals.
In my opinion, their main achievement was to proof that their business model works and that traditional publishers are not the only viable option.
Source:Wikipedia
If 386 is now "stable" (read: dead) hardware, then it's a smart move to suspend its support in the newly developed code Fine for me if it means that the next SATA 10 Tbit 265 colors network card is not going to have drivers for the kernel as it is today.
I agree with the other several comments pointing at the not-so-well hidden slashvertising.
The person in the interview is the Chief Marketing Office of a company.
He's been a programmer, sure, but now his job has only marginally to do with programming.
That being said, people here are losing sight of the fact that it is a parent's job to raise and educate their own children. The government is there as an assistance to the parents - absolutely not as a usurper.
It's a complex subject, but your argument is a slippery slope, if you ask me.
What if parents teach their kids things that are detrimental, false or illegal, or give them bad examples, like: "drugs are good", "$COLOR people are not human beings" "vaccination is bad", "evolution is false", or "kissing rattlesnakes is not dangerous"?
Actually, this last one is a more appropriate than I initially thought, since the guy died in the same way his father did.
Now, one thing is the right to be allowed to believe whatever you want, another is to force it to someone that doesn't have enough critical thinking and without giving him/her a choice.
Please, no. I can't believe we're that low... [picture the last face of Switch in Matrix]
It all depends if it is a much faster major release turnover or a incredibly slower Tuesday patch.
Well, since you were asking.... ...
1) 16 bit ALU in Minecraft
2) 3D printing of Minecraft models
3)
4) 3D profit