Seconded. And here's a link for the OP: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/ Also, I've heard that the new release is due out next month. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster. If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed.
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
The problem is that a large fraction are incapable of using a gun in such a situation. For them, the idea of even pointing a weapon at another human being is unthinkable. If you want to rob a bank, then it's a simple matter of choosing a time when the majority of people at a bank will fall into that demographic. Alternatively, simply take someone hostage. Nobody wants to have someone else's blood on their hands.
They're included with Ubuntu, which suggests they have music that nerds/geeks like. Given that, it's not surprising that they cater to more obscure tastes.
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
Yes a common reaction of overzealous highschool teachers
The easiest (though certainly not the most elegant) way to get this to work is to have both drives formatted as NTFS then set 'D:' to mount to C:\Program Files (you can do this via Disk Management in the MMC)
Comparing the students makes perfect sense when you think about the competition present throughout life. At the high school level, that competition is who gets into which uni (or another tertiary learning institude. e.g. TAFE. I live in Victoria, Australia and this is how we do it: each gets assigned a 'study score' for each subject, which is a mark from a normal distribution for that subject (u = 30, o = 7). The only way to fail VCE as a whole is to not do enough units or to fail English. Schools assign S/N (pass/fail) marks for assessment tasks, and failing everything is the only way to actually fail a unit (although I think there's a also an attendance requirement). Almost no one fails VCE outright. However, the resulting grades tend to give a very clear image of where you stand, especially if you understand the statistics (all of the math courses at VCE level cover the requisite statistics for this). A study score of 40 is regarded highly, and a 50 means an award from the state government. The study scores are then weighted [based on some statistical comparison of study scores to gauge difficulty] and summed to give an aggregate, which is then use order every one and assign them a % rank called an ENTER (that is rounded to the nearest 0.05). e.g. an ENTER of 95.05 means that you were in the top 4.95% of the state in terms of your aggregate. When unis choose students, they will typically set some prerequisites (must get a study score greater than 25 for X), then choose the students with the highest ENTER. The lower part of these students, which often have very similar ENTERs, are compared based on highly they scored in subjects relevant to the course. What this means is that almost everyone passes, but there's a clear and objective measurement of how well you did compared to everyone else. The only downside is that if the exam for a subject is too easy (i.e. has a high mean), then while the average students are unaffected, it becomes extremely difficult to get higher study scores since the only distinguishing factor at that level is how many mistakes are made. Conversely, if one takes a hard subject, then getting a high study score becomes easy since there is a lot of leeway at the top and losing a few marks doesn't matter very much. The problem with setting objective, qualitative criteria such as 'has acquired the skill' is that it's too easy to manipulate the definition of acquired - this is the problem America is having right now. The VCE system lets students fail individual subjects if they are of no relevance to their course, while making it very clear how one performed compared to everyone else. While it is true that some skills can be learnt by anyone, how well they apply them will vary. e.g.any (healthy) person can run, not everyone can run equally fast. Most people can learn basic calculus, not everyone can answer all the questions correctly in the given time. Most people can remember some basic historical facts, not everyone can explain clearly and concisely what effect event X had or Y occurred.
There will always be some students who aren't suited to university. Using a statistical mark to create competition for places at well known universities is the easiest way to put the best and brightest in the most competitive/difficult fields while letting the less academic students go on to study a trade or something similar. Instead of being told, 'you cannot do uni because you fail', we get 'You have mark X. These are the courses you can (probably) get into:...', where courses includes various trades and non-academic occupations.
Meh, a tablet that was just a laptop without a hinge and with an on-screen keyboard that can be minimised when not in use would suit me. Especially if it had plenty of usb, sd and micro-sd slots.And wirelessness.
And if it ran gnu/linux.
Here you go, and with ARM for good measure. The current specs are actually outdated, a new model is due out this month.
I've spent a week writing a program in C++/Qt for my N900, and I totally agree that the libraries are awesome. That said, it would be nice if you could udr C#/Qt - that would be the best of both worlds.
There's no way in hell Apple would agree to license the Magsafe connector - it gives them a competitive advantage and let's them sell specialized cables for their hardware. However, it may be possible to create a similar connector using loopholes in the patent
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second connectors each comprise a corresponding element to align the first and second connectors in one orientation.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second connectors each comprise two axes of symmetry such that the first and second connectors couple together in only two orientations relative to one another.
If multiple orientations are permissible (e.g. a square/circular adapter) this might work around it.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first contact comprises a metallic pin biased relative to the first face by a spring.
Easy enough, don't use a spring.
N.B. I don't know anything about patent law, so it's entirely possible that there are some major errors in my interpretation of the patent.
Imposing a word limit would force them to remove exceptions, such as self-defense (murder) and fair use (copyright). And do you really want statutes to resemble twitter posts? Prohibiting abbreviations would make some parts of the law quite painful to read as well, and would also be ineffective as the norm is to use a simple, 1 word term (e.g. officer) and then define its meaning at the beginning of the act (e.g. police officer or member of law enforcement, or as defined by the Police Powers Act 1900) Your idea of condensing all legislation down into a single book is incredibly naive. Law has many similarities to programming - can you imagine the issues associated with limiting the no. of lines of code that a program's source may consist of, while still requiring the same functionality? Comments would be the first thing to go, and the equivalent of comments in legislation are extremely important to their interpretation. Similarly, even if all legislation were compressed down to a single book, this book would: a) be incomplete, as in any common law system precedent (i.e. past court cases) are of equal importance to legislation, and b) be incomprehensible - the average person is as capable of understanding laws as they are of understanding C++, and because of the nature of the content involved they will not be able to do so without education on how to do so. Even when written in plain English, there are many legal tools that define how phrases are to be interpreted. e.g. Ejusdem generis Trying to limit the quantity of legislation is a poor way to go about your aim, which I presume is to restrict the power of the government. A far better way to do this is to explicitly limit what the government can legislate on. For example:
51 Legislative powers of the Parliament The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:
(i) trade and commerce with other countries...
-s51 of the Australian Constitution In our case though this is of little significance practically as the states have unlimited legislative power (i.e. they can make laws about whatever they want).
Ultimately, the best way to keep stupid laws of the books is to keep stupid politicians out of parliament. This is largely dependent on keeping stupid people from voting, and consequently rather difficult to achieve.
They'll probably just use Codes. i.e. massive laws that contain everything about an entire field. Then they'll only need to amend the code to add a new piece of legislation. Requiring a 50% approval vote from the actual population would probably be effective, provided that it was optional to avoid voter fatigue.
Read Brave New World. It describes this situation perfectly - where the population is being subdued by pleasure. Huxley's solution was to ship off all the scientists to an island - who wants to start packing?
That's true for now, but it won't be once they start rolling out the NBN. From what I've heard, they'll be setting up a modem in some fixed location (e.g. by the power meter) and use cat5 for the last 10m or so. What worries me about this is if it's just a simple modem, then a lot of people are going to be plugging their computers in directly without a firewall.
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M = micro
So I guess that makes this a TASER, right?
Depends on your definition of attractive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that.
Seconded. And here's a link for the OP: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/
Also, I've heard that the new release is due out next month. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster. .
If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
A five-year-old girl could beat up Steve Jobs.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/9/
**Sniff** I remember when HP was a well respected company and its equipment was built like a tank
These days, the packaging is built like a tank's.
The problem is that a large fraction are incapable of using a gun in such a situation. For them, the idea of even pointing a weapon at another human being is unthinkable. If you want to rob a bank, then it's a simple matter of choosing a time when the majority of people at a bank will fall into that demographic.
Alternatively, simply take someone hostage. Nobody wants to have someone else's blood on their hands.
Technical solution: virtual machine
They're included with Ubuntu, which suggests they have music that nerds/geeks like. Given that, it's not surprising that they cater to more obscure tastes.
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
Yes a common reaction of overzealous highschool teachers
Exactly which high school did you go to?
The easiest (though certainly not the most elegant) way to get this to work is to have both drives formatted as NTFS then set 'D:' to mount to C:\Program Files (you can do this via Disk Management in the MMC)
Comparing the students makes perfect sense when you think about the competition present throughout life. At the high school level, that competition is who gets into which uni (or another tertiary learning institude. e.g. TAFE. I live in Victoria, Australia and this is how we do it: each gets assigned a 'study score' for each subject, which is a mark from a normal distribution for that subject (u = 30, o = 7). The only way to fail VCE as a whole is to not do enough units or to fail English. Schools assign S/N (pass/fail) marks for assessment tasks, and failing everything is the only way to actually fail a unit (although I think there's a also an attendance requirement). Almost no one fails VCE outright. ...', where courses includes various trades and non-academic occupations.
However, the resulting grades tend to give a very clear image of where you stand, especially if you understand the statistics (all of the math courses at VCE level cover the requisite statistics for this). A study score of 40 is regarded highly, and a 50 means an award from the state government.
The study scores are then weighted [based on some statistical comparison of study scores to gauge difficulty] and summed to give an aggregate, which is then use order every one and assign them a % rank called an ENTER (that is rounded to the nearest 0.05). e.g. an ENTER of 95.05 means that you were in the top 4.95% of the state in terms of your aggregate.
When unis choose students, they will typically set some prerequisites (must get a study score greater than 25 for X), then choose the students with the highest ENTER. The lower part of these students, which often have very similar ENTERs, are compared based on highly they scored in subjects relevant to the course.
What this means is that almost everyone passes, but there's a clear and objective measurement of how well you did compared to everyone else. The only downside is that if the exam for a subject is too easy (i.e. has a high mean), then while the average students are unaffected, it becomes extremely difficult to get higher study scores since the only distinguishing factor at that level is how many mistakes are made. Conversely, if one takes a hard subject, then getting a high study score becomes easy since there is a lot of leeway at the top and losing a few marks doesn't matter very much.
The problem with setting objective, qualitative criteria such as 'has acquired the skill' is that it's too easy to manipulate the definition of acquired - this is the problem America is having right now. The VCE system lets students fail individual subjects if they are of no relevance to their course, while making it very clear how one performed compared to everyone else. While it is true that some skills can be learnt by anyone, how well they apply them will vary. e.g.any (healthy) person can run, not everyone can run equally fast. Most people can learn basic calculus, not everyone can answer all the questions correctly in the given time. Most people can remember some basic historical facts, not everyone can explain clearly and concisely what effect event X had or Y occurred.
There will always be some students who aren't suited to university. Using a statistical mark to create competition for places at well known universities is the easiest way to put the best and brightest in the most competitive/difficult fields while letting the less academic students go on to study a trade or something similar. Instead of being told, 'you cannot do uni because you fail', we get 'You have mark X. These are the courses you can (probably) get into:
They're called 'visual novels', which is a little more appropriate, and many/most of them use nudity sparingly.
Meh, a tablet that was just a laptop without a hinge and with an on-screen keyboard that can be minimised when not in use would suit me. Especially if it had plenty of usb, sd and micro-sd slots.And wirelessness.
And if it ran gnu/linux.
Here you go, and with ARM for good measure.
The current specs are actually outdated, a new model is due out this month.
For those who can't read Japanese:
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/ghostshell/cyborg.htm
but it has zero ability to measure something like social intelligence, the ability to manipulate people
The term you are looking for is EQ/EI
I've spent a week writing a program in C++/Qt for my N900, and I totally agree that the libraries are awesome. That said, it would be nice if you could udr C#/Qt - that would be the best of both worlds.
There's no way in hell Apple would agree to license the Magsafe connector - it gives them a competitive advantage and let's them sell specialized cables for their hardware.
However, it may be possible to create a similar connector using loopholes in the patent
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second connectors each comprise a corresponding element to align the first and second connectors in one orientation.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second connectors each comprise two axes of symmetry such that the first and second connectors couple together in only two orientations relative to one another.
If multiple orientations are permissible (e.g. a square/circular adapter) this might work around it.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first contact comprises a metallic pin biased relative to the first face by a spring.
Easy enough, don't use a spring.
N.B. I don't know anything about patent law, so it's entirely possible that there are some major errors in my interpretation of the patent.
Imposing a word limit would force them to remove exceptions, such as self-defense (murder) and fair use (copyright). And do you really want statutes to resemble twitter posts?
Prohibiting abbreviations would make some parts of the law quite painful to read as well, and would also be ineffective as the norm is to use a simple, 1 word term (e.g. officer) and then define its meaning at the beginning of the act (e.g. police officer or member of law enforcement, or as defined by the Police Powers Act 1900)
Your idea of condensing all legislation down into a single book is incredibly naive. Law has many similarities to programming - can you imagine the issues associated with limiting the no. of lines of code that a program's source may consist of, while still requiring the same functionality? Comments would be the first thing to go, and the equivalent of comments in legislation are extremely important to their interpretation. Similarly, even if all legislation were compressed down to a single book, this book would:
a) be incomplete, as in any common law system precedent (i.e. past court cases) are of equal importance to legislation, and
b) be incomprehensible - the average person is as capable of understanding laws as they are of understanding C++, and because of the nature of the content involved they will not be able to do so without education on how to do so. Even when written in plain English, there are many legal tools that define how phrases are to be interpreted. e.g. Ejusdem generis
Trying to limit the quantity of legislation is a poor way to go about your aim, which I presume is to restrict the power of the government. A far better way to do this is to explicitly limit what the government can legislate on. For example:
51 Legislative powers of the Parliament ...
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to
make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the
Commonwealth with respect to:
(i) trade and commerce with other countries
-s51 of the Australian Constitution
In our case though this is of little significance practically as the states have unlimited legislative power (i.e. they can make laws about whatever they want).
Ultimately, the best way to keep stupid laws of the books is to keep stupid politicians out of parliament. This is largely dependent on keeping stupid people from voting, and consequently rather difficult to achieve.
They'll probably just use Codes. i.e. massive laws that contain everything about an entire field. Then they'll only need to amend the code to add a new piece of legislation.
Requiring a 50% approval vote from the actual population would probably be effective, provided that it was optional to avoid voter fatigue.
Unfortunately, science is typically a male-dominated field...
If you had told me at the beginning of this post that the best solution was to simply role your own filesystem, I would have laughed.
Read Brave New World. It describes this situation perfectly - where the population is being subdued by pleasure. Huxley's solution was to ship off all the scientists to an island - who wants to start packing?
I thought this put it quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bLQD7IhW88
That's true for now, but it won't be once they start rolling out the NBN. From what I've heard, they'll be setting up a modem in some fixed location (e.g. by the power meter) and use cat5 for the last 10m or so. What worries me about this is if it's just a simple modem, then a lot of people are going to be plugging their computers in directly without a firewall.
I agree.
Now it’s all you can eat for $29.95. They’ve lost their margin
Citation needed. The cheapest unlimited plan I know of (and I mean true unlimited, not shaped after you hit X GB) is TPG's $75/month