Safety is not as correlated to size as you might think. I hit a car parked on an interstate freeway and walked away with mere scratches and soreness after my Smart Fortwo went spinning like a theme park teacup ride. Now every time I drive me 2nd Smart, I see big sheet-metal cars (most of the cars out there) as deathtraps. Next time you see a bad accident, note the crumpled sheet-metal. I am very glad to have a car without that.
Virgin Mobile ZTE Peel is a Mifi-like device with a value proposition that's hard to beat for lower-end users (500 MB for $20 for one month) and the device is like $30 IIRC. Perfect for Waze or Google Maps or e-mail checking or light web. Not good if you watch videos or skype or download podcasts. Sold with iPod touch original gen in mind but actually works as a universal wifi gateway. Plus it's non-contract. Coverage map is Sprint's- they don't do their own.
These devices are sold at Radio Shack and Best Buy in the SF Bay Area- I don't know about other states.
Wifi Cafe Finder is a cheap Android app that finds many of these for you without requiring internet access. Works for me even when one phone (Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept) is in "Airplane Mode" or on a phone with no SIM (LG Optimus T).
Using humans to rank or select is not exactly old.
What distanced Google over purely statistical keyword search engines like Altavista was actually the use the human ranking implicit in the human-created URL links between pages[1]: the application of citation analysis[2] to the web.
>... > There is no "competing theory", just Darwin's. There are those of us that believed that it the selection of traits was deterministic, and then there are... creationists. >...
Well, actually, the prevailing view is that mutation is random (i.e. not deterministic) and that where there is no selection pressure there is random drift of traits among populations (especially isolated ones) until selection pressure changes (catastrophe, overpopulation, new kinds of competitors or predators).
Before referencing Wikipedia, it's good to grok version control.
Before saying something like "read it quick before it get's edited", visit the history, e.g....
I sent this story to slashdot, and I'm not a marketer nor do I have any relationship with the product. In fact, I started my submission (which was editted, see other comment above) with something like "in a blatant plug for some kind of profiling product..."
Slashdot has editors. I know this, because the stuff below "nil0lab writes..." is heavily editted from what I actually submitted! In fact, I started my actual submission with something like "in a shameless plug for some code analysis product..."
I guess they never read the Neal Stephenson novel in which Our Hero disconnects watches gets his feedback via the keyboard blinkies and the computer screen is totally dedicated to confusing the onlookers.
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Safety is not as correlated to size as you might think. I hit a car parked on an interstate freeway and walked away with mere scratches and soreness after my Smart Fortwo went spinning like a theme park teacup ride. Now every time I drive me 2nd Smart, I see big sheet-metal cars (most of the cars out there) as deathtraps. Next time you see a bad accident, note the crumpled sheet-metal. I am very glad to have a car without that.
incredible. cite sources please.
oop- it's called "Free Wifi Cafe Spots".
"free wifi cafe spots" is the correct name.
Virgin Mobile ZTE Peel is a Mifi-like device with a value proposition that's hard to beat for lower-end users (500 MB for $20 for one month) and the device is like $30 IIRC. Perfect for Waze or Google Maps or e-mail checking or light web. Not good if you watch videos or skype or download podcasts. Sold with iPod touch original gen in mind but actually works as a universal wifi gateway. Plus it's non-contract. Coverage map is Sprint's- they don't do their own.
These devices are sold at Radio Shack and Best Buy in the SF Bay Area- I don't know about other states.
Wifi Cafe Finder is a cheap Android app that finds many of these for you without requiring internet access. Works for me even when one phone (Virgin Mobile Samsung Intercept) is in "Airplane Mode" or on a phone with no SIM (LG Optimus T).
http://slashdot.org/story/03/07/13/1557256/dont-be-a-sharecropper
Get some deodorant.
You think the intent is to gather evidence to take to court? For this rev of the executive branch? Seriously?
Good for -40 to +85C
http://www.ampro.com/Products/RuffSystem/
Want other vendors? Just check out the Embedded Systems Conference, which happens several times a year
Using humans to rank or select is not exactly old.
:-P
What distanced Google over purely statistical keyword search engines like Altavista was actually the use the human ranking implicit in the human-created URL links between pages[1]: the application of citation analysis[2] to the web.
Oooh, look, it's been invented again! Hooray!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_analysis
Please resell them on that other auction site. There still is one, isn't there?
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> There is no "competing theory", just Darwin's. There are those of us that believed that it the selection of traits was deterministic, and then there are
>...
Well, actually, the prevailing view is that mutation is random (i.e. not deterministic) and that where there is no selection pressure there is random drift of traits among populations (especially isolated ones) until selection pressure changes (catastrophe, overpopulation, new kinds of competitors or predators).
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychological_operations&action=history
Yup. Bad summary. Not mine. Even if they did add "nil0lab writes..." at the top.
Sorry dude. I worded it kind of over the top in the hopes it would attract attention and be accepted. It worked.
I sent this story to slashdot, and I'm not a marketer nor do I have any
relationship with the product. In fact, I started my submission (which
was editted, see other comment above) with something like "in a blatant
plug for some kind of profiling product..."
Slashdot has editors. I know this, because the stuff below "nil0lab writes..." is heavily editted from what I actually submitted! In fact, I started my actual submission with something like "in a shameless plug for some code analysis product..."
... In the end, it's really up to the end-user to weed out bad information. ...
A lot of the wikipedia's success is because it's a lot easier to revert or delete than to create.
And because there are more people who want it to be right than want it to be wrong.
Perhaps we should change our charity of choice.
Seriously, I hate articles like this that tar us all with the same brush.
"Ooh look the liberals are fighting- I guess you just better trust Big Republican Daddy Government to do what's right for you."
y'all gon troll me, aint'ya?
I just want a laptop with a good screen.
Right now I use a four-year-old Dell Inspiron i8600 with WUXGA.
I'm salivating over a Core 2 with VT-x.
But Dell only offers the vanilla models with Ubuntu.
Yes I could install Ubuntu myself. But I'd really not pay the Monoposoft tax again.
Forrest Gump is running things? That explains a lot.
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I guess they never read the Neal Stephenson novel in which Our Hero disconnects watches gets his feedback via the keyboard blinkies and the computer screen is totally dedicated to confusing the onlookers.