Tozzle on the apple store was a hit with my daughter at 1 and 2, possibly a lot bit basic for a 3 year old but try it out. If nothing else she will master it in a couple of weeks and move on to something else.
Apart from that my almost 4 yo is onto Angry Birds!
My guess, this will be another scheme where the network driver on the client has to respond to congestion control/back-off style requests from the AP, staying off the air for a (random?) amount of time. The AP will just be slightly more sophisticated about who it tells to back-off. Even NTP has this feature.
> Nobody remembers that there was 300 years between Newton and Einstein, and that people 300 years ago were just as smart and just as capable as people today,
And less distracted by slashdot, facebook, twitter and other interweb stuff that detracts from serious thought
1st Decade: The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins by Dr Suess
2nd Decade: Dune by Frank Herbert
3rd Decade: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
4th Decade: To be determined..
"It's true enough that a properly encoded Ogg file (or MP3, or AAC file) will be indistinguishable from the original at a moderate bitrate."
Rubbish. Any lossy format but particularly mp3 sounds GRUESOME to anyone with a trained ear. And untrained ears can certainly tell the difference once it's pointed out, usually on a good system. If you want to know how to get 11:1 compression ratio on a pseudorandom source like sound, it's simple - they throw away most of the information,particularly spatial information in the upper frequency ranges. You can't "hear" some of those frequencies, but you can certainly perceive when they are absent. I personally cannot stand mp3s and never use them. FLAC all the way.
A definite bias in the comments towards supporting academics.
My views, based on firsthand experience, are the opposite. Firstly universities are places where the fruitless, unproductive and unrealistic go to wallow in low-demand jobs. Most academics have little experience of the private sector and are not even aware of this concept of personal productivity (yes even in Economics departments!).
However universities ARE a massive and sometimes useful pyramid scheme where you take a bunch of students, incline them towards doing Phds, employ most of them, and hope that a handful of them earn your university some respect, and even that one or two may win a Nobel or and bring actual prestige. This is the real cycle of the university business - promote itself, buy in productive academics, publish more (not better) papers, grow funding, get more students, review rankings and repeat.
Good "science" (not an all encompassing term for the areas of research at universities) is as rare as good government.
A thorough de-weeding once in a while can only be a good thing, and a handy wake up call for those that remain. Good riddance. No one any good will be losing their jobs - not a one.
Climbers who visit the Himalaya annually are constantly adding to their series of slides showing the decline in ice conditions on Himalayan peaks over the last 20 years. This is particularly noticeable on 6000m peaks. Google for Mera or Island peak for example.
By my own experience the same is true of New Zealand. Once upon a time you could climb there in January February - no longer. The ice is slushy, downright muddy over most of the glaciers and the crevassing is constant.
The loudnesswar has killed virtually anything on a digital medium, resulting in a worse quality masters./quote>
Easily fixed - don't listen to modern music.
Reasons I can surmise:
1 no decryption operation required on server
2 the data can stay encrypted in transit
1+2 = more security than on-disk encryption
Have thought this so many times. If only Wolfram would turn his mind to economics rather than Grand Unified Theory which he is apparently now working on, I think it would bear a lot more fruit a lot more quickly.
A nut? That's hilarious, Wolfram is probably the smartest man alive. Like Da Vinci and others his legacy won't be truly appreciated for centuries.
Read NKS and if that doesn't give you some concept of his abilities, well, I don't think anything will convince you.
Internet Rage is so last decade.
In my view internet use in general has matured a great deal, where unlike a kid who's suddenly learnt a new swear word and must say it to everyone everywhere, people show remarkable restraint considering the relative (kinda) anonymity of the internet.
Yes, the internet has become an extension of society itself, rather than a novelty activity for scruffy foul-mouthed juveniles. Even teenagers seem to consider it bad form to flame, rage or troll (slashdottersyou are a special case.. because you are SO damn witty when you do it).
As such this article is over 10 years too late.
Absolutely right. Couldn't believe the laughable security system when it came out. Has anyone else converted all their dropbox folders to truecrypt volumes?
Slashdot Mirror
Now I don't need to turn it on manually.
This has been the idea from the beginning.
That is all
So I should first negotiate to keep the rights (and by that I assume copyright?) to any existing work when I move jobs?
Tozzle on the apple store was a hit with my daughter at 1 and 2, possibly a lot bit basic for a 3 year old but try it out. If nothing else she will master it in a couple of weeks and move on to something else. Apart from that my almost 4 yo is onto Angry Birds!
The old USA continues to get scarier and scarier
My guess, this will be another scheme where the network driver on the client has to respond to congestion control/back-off style requests from the AP, staying off the air for a (random?) amount of time. The AP will just be slightly more sophisticated about who it tells to back-off. Even NTP has this feature.
> Nobody remembers that there was 300 years between Newton and Einstein, and that people 300 years ago were just as smart and just as capable as people today, And less distracted by slashdot, facebook, twitter and other interweb stuff that detracts from serious thought
If you can't code, you're probably a Windows admin.
1st Decade: The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins by Dr Suess
2nd Decade: Dune by Frank Herbert
3rd Decade: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
4th Decade: To be determined..
No single position is best. Movement is required.
85-90 is ok, but 90-100? Why that would have been.. outrageous! Criminal!
"It's true enough that a properly encoded Ogg file (or MP3, or AAC file) will be indistinguishable from the original at a moderate bitrate." Rubbish. Any lossy format but particularly mp3 sounds GRUESOME to anyone with a trained ear. And untrained ears can certainly tell the difference once it's pointed out, usually on a good system. If you want to know how to get 11:1 compression ratio on a pseudorandom source like sound, it's simple - they throw away most of the information ,particularly spatial information in the upper frequency ranges. You can't "hear" some of those frequencies, but you can certainly perceive when they are absent. I personally cannot stand mp3s and never use them. FLAC all the way.
A definite bias in the comments towards supporting academics. My views, based on firsthand experience, are the opposite. Firstly universities are places where the fruitless, unproductive and unrealistic go to wallow in low-demand jobs. Most academics have little experience of the private sector and are not even aware of this concept of personal productivity (yes even in Economics departments!). However universities ARE a massive and sometimes useful pyramid scheme where you take a bunch of students, incline them towards doing Phds, employ most of them, and hope that a handful of them earn your university some respect, and even that one or two may win a Nobel or and bring actual prestige. This is the real cycle of the university business - promote itself, buy in productive academics, publish more (not better) papers, grow funding, get more students, review rankings and repeat. Good "science" (not an all encompassing term for the areas of research at universities) is as rare as good government. A thorough de-weeding once in a while can only be a good thing, and a handy wake up call for those that remain. Good riddance. No one any good will be losing their jobs - not a one.
I spent some time trying to find them myself in the Wollomi. Bloody awesome national park - apart from the dog packs.
..but it's always been at least 90% stupid
The world got stupider my friend, hadn't you noticed?
A bloke round here found a tree MILLIONS of years old and it was still ALIVE. http://www.wollemipine.com/aboutwp.php
Climbers who visit the Himalaya annually are constantly adding to their series of slides showing the decline in ice conditions on Himalayan peaks over the last 20 years. This is particularly noticeable on 6000m peaks. Google for Mera or Island peak for example. By my own experience the same is true of New Zealand. Once upon a time you could climb there in January February - no longer. The ice is slushy, downright muddy over most of the glaciers and the crevassing is constant.
The loudnesswar has killed virtually anything on a digital medium, resulting in a worse quality masters. /quote>
Easily fixed - don't listen to modern music.
Reasons I can surmise:
1 no decryption operation required on server
2 the data can stay encrypted in transit
1+2 = more security than on-disk encryption
Have thought this so many times. If only Wolfram would turn his mind to economics rather than Grand Unified Theory which he is apparently now working on, I think it would bear a lot more fruit a lot more quickly.
A nut? That's hilarious, Wolfram is probably the smartest man alive. Like Da Vinci and others his legacy won't be truly appreciated for centuries. Read NKS and if that doesn't give you some concept of his abilities, well, I don't think anything will convince you.
Internet Rage is so last decade. In my view internet use in general has matured a great deal, where unlike a kid who's suddenly learnt a new swear word and must say it to everyone everywhere, people show remarkable restraint considering the relative (kinda) anonymity of the internet. Yes, the internet has become an extension of society itself, rather than a novelty activity for scruffy foul-mouthed juveniles. Even teenagers seem to consider it bad form to flame, rage or troll (slashdottersyou are a special case.. because you are SO damn witty when you do it). As such this article is over 10 years too late.
Absolutely right. Couldn't believe the laughable security system when it came out. Has anyone else converted all their dropbox folders to truecrypt volumes?