There are well documented ways to go to jail for hot meals and the cot. Throw a brick through the store window, or eat in an expensive restaurant without money to pay for the meal, or steal an umbrella or pretend to be publicly intoxicated, or harass a woman, or as a measure of last resort, loiter.
What the world is coming to now a days, lasers and aircraft.
Being a government agency, with its well known tendency to mandate things, they might be inspired by this RFC and decide to mandate everyone to set the snark bit in all their postings.
The new theory points to the possibility of predicting imminent earthquakes by triangulating the position of rocks under pressure by searching for the magnetic pulses they produce (although significantly more work needs to be done to characterize the process before then)."
But that will only find certain types of igneous rocks formed underwater peroxy bonds under pressure. Not all rocks under pressure. Still if this type of rock is prevalent enough in a region, it could be useful.
Also geologists have been calculating rocks under stress using so many methods and observation. The problem is the slippage and failure occur unpredictably. The stress can be estimated. The strain may be observed. At least the surface strain. But the ultimate (or failing) strength of the rock layers is largely unknown.
Actually this theory says the number of things that could terrify you is disappearing fast. So instead of being comforted by this fact, they are being terrified of running out of things that could terrify them. Universe does seem to be weirder than what you can imagine, indeed!
Forget Toy Story, and other pixar stuff. The 3D rendering has made real impact for the fans of the Superstar. It means the Superstar has become immortal. His latest release has Rajnikant rendered by 3D software. Hollywood touches up its actors and actresses on the sly and pretends it does not do it. Kollywood shows the way, unabashed 3D rendering, quite openly, flagrantly! It says, "OK OK our Superstar is an ageing balding fella. But look! he is young and spritely dancing with the twentysomething all thanks to 3D rendering".
Free, unencumbered license for "non commercial use"? Makes no difference, they already have it all boot legged.
Grease monkeys 100,000: (job description: oil and lubricate all the joints of the robots)
Robot minders: 75,000 : (job: When the robot repeated runs into the wall while making a beeping sound, turn it around and press the restart button)
Charge nurses: 65,000: Find the robots that have run out charge while trying to navigate their way back to charging stations and replace the limp-home battery with fresh fully charged ones.
The modern-day method of rolling software updates is great--for software.
Sez you, pal. Microsoft Word 2008, 2010, 2000, Server 2008, Windows98, ME... Model year works great for Microsoft. In fact I heard this model year is going to be good. I heard they are adding more chrome on the menu buttons, a brand new aqua green windows, and wait for it, twelve. inch. fins. yes, you heard it right, 12 inch fins on all models.
Back in the days, freshman Econ 101, my prof used the term "Morgan Goods" to classify the goods and services that defy the price vs demand curve. Normally demand goes down when price goes up, but for a small class of goods raising prices, mostly luxury goods in some price bands, increases the demand. May be we should rename it "Tesla Goods"
( I am not able to find that definition using google. Both words are common and have multiple meanings and SEO folks have messed up the page rank. Pretty soon Google will be useless.)
There are two techniques, in fact. The older one involves tickling the mosquitoes till they laugh out aloud, and they plunge a tiny syringe in and extract the saliva. Good thing is, we can reuse the mosquito, bad thing is, when the mosquitoes are rolling on the floor laughing it is difficult to plunge the syringe in.
The second technique involves showing them mildly amusing videos and when they smile, it is easier to slip through the syringe and extract the saliva.
Presently people think one has to drive all the way or ride public transport all the way. That is why the solutions are unsatisfactory to most people. Trains are incredibly efficient in carrying payload, they are very good for longer distances without stopping. A gallon of fuel for some 450 ton-mile of pay load. The additional cost of carrying both the passenger and his/her battery car/motor cycle is not too much.
Rethink rail transportation. Design small battery powered motor cycles, one or two riders, with some 30 or 40 miles range, with some moderate protection against rain. Drive it some 5 or 10 miles to the train station and board the train with the motor cycle. Train serves only the main trunk route, with stations spaced 5 miles apart. Get off the station and ride the last few miles to work. Such a solution will be very attractive lots of commuters.
Such an urban mass commute transit has the potential to slowly create inter city train services for such small personal vehicles and their riders. At some point it could grow into a national transportation network of trains bearing 80 to 90% of journeys. The first 5% and last 5% of the journey will be done on personal vehicles. For longer distance inter-city journeys, the savings on tolls, wear & tear, gasoline, car rental at the destination, avoiding motel stays along the way etc will make it quite cost effective to pay for taking a small personal vehicle on a train. It will be quite attractive to lots of people. There will always be people who need or want a full sized pick up truck. But all those people who are currently driving econoboxes, they will happily switch to lower range low cost personal battery vehicle, if their long distance travel need could be met.
It does not make sense. ChromeOS is shipping with some pretty low spec, not even the 1920x1080 screen, low end processor, without touch screen, mass storage as little as 16 GB. The more recent ones do not even have Ethernet port or VGI output. Just wi-fi and HDMI out that is all. The Slatebook calls for a full HD, 14 inch screen. Possibly multitouch screen because Android spec calls for a touch screen.
May be the ChromeOS spec is more stringent, but not on the hardware side. May be ChromeOS prevents HP from loading it up with crapware and nagware. Android might allow HP to insinuate itself in the Apps and marketplace more deeply. The HP bean counters would see it as "value" and "potential revenue stream". What the PHBs never realize is, if enough people do not buy that device the revenue stream will be as dry as a wadi in the Sahara.
I don't know why people conflate it with net neutrality, internet etc. To me it looks like a simple case of truth in labeling, truth in advertisement laws.
If a restaurant advertises all-you-can-eat buffet, it must be all-you-can-eat. It can't say, "oh! no! every one is eating steaks and no one is eating my wilted lettuce, so they steak vendor must pay me money!". Comcast promised a certain bandwidth and unlimited content. It should simply deliver it. Or it should change the terms and meter the connection and charge by the gigabite of delivered content. It can't sell "unlimited" internet on one hand, and bellyache, bitch and moan when some customers actually take full advantage of the contract. We should go after Comcast using these old time tested laws and FTC.
Netflix and other content providers have nothing to do with it. It is a simple contract dispute between comcast customers and comcast.
That large wheel that can allow two hands grip it completely to steer the car is very old fashioned. For the current crop of young drivers just coming in, they will learn it so much faster if we replace the steering wheels with this. They have already accumulated thousands of hours of experience long before they hit driver-ed class. This electric steering will help us get there faster.
Steve Ballmer is going to push for change in the shape of the ball. It should not be a sphere, but more like a chair or something. Something easier to throw.
I wonder how many people are reading that journal in printed in paper and mailed to subscribers form. And how many are streaming it? When would the journal Environmental Research Letters switch to pure electronic delivery to be friendly to the environment?
It exists it is called iPad or its android clones.
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An E-reader with all those features exist, they are iPad variants, and they generally suck big time. Usually the battery time.
My big beef with kindles and nooks are:
1 The graphs and tables are presented very poorly. They don't scale well, don't have the clarity of the printed book even when you zoom.
2. Not vendor neutral. Have to go through Amazon, and I cringe in aiding and abetting the monopolist. Free wireless delivery via mobile networks is so smooth and convenient
3. Difficult to switch back and forth between a graphic, table or figure and the reading location. Don't want to create a bookmark every time.
The information and the explanation is great in that link. But why that hideous background and formatting reminiscent of geo cities? All it lacks is the blinking font.
Some challenges are stuff they want to do but are not able to. But there are other challenges about stuff they might be able to do, but they should not do. Like inadvertently creating a small black hole that swallows up the Earth. Europe? that is OK, no big loss. But the whole Earth? nah. That is not done.
Very true. The way the term originated, if an attack is mounted today it would be 180 day attack. N day attack originally meant the number of days it took for someone to exploit a vulnerability after it was known. But when you are shooting for funny....
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What the world is coming to now a days, lasers and aircraft.
Being a government agency, with its well known tendency to mandate things, they might be inspired by this RFC and decide to mandate everyone to set the snark bit in all their postings.
The new theory points to the possibility of predicting imminent earthquakes by triangulating the position of rocks under pressure by searching for the magnetic pulses they produce (although significantly more work needs to be done to characterize the process before then)."
But that will only find certain types of igneous rocks formed underwater peroxy bonds under pressure. Not all rocks under pressure. Still if this type of rock is prevalent enough in a region, it could be useful.
Also geologists have been calculating rocks under stress using so many methods and observation. The problem is the slippage and failure occur unpredictably. The stress can be estimated. The strain may be observed. At least the surface strain. But the ultimate (or failing) strength of the rock layers is largely unknown.
Actually this theory says the number of things that could terrify you is disappearing fast. So instead of being comforted by this fact, they are being terrified of running out of things that could terrify them. Universe does seem to be weirder than what you can imagine, indeed!
Free, unencumbered license for "non commercial use"? Makes no difference, they already have it all boot legged.
Robot minders: 75,000 : (job: When the robot repeated runs into the wall while making a beeping sound, turn it around and press the restart button)
Charge nurses: 65,000: Find the robots that have run out charge while trying to navigate their way back to charging stations and replace the limp-home battery with fresh fully charged ones.
The modern-day method of rolling software updates is great--for software.
Sez you, pal. Microsoft Word 2008, 2010, 2000, Server 2008, Windows98, ME... Model year works great for Microsoft. In fact I heard this model year is going to be good. I heard they are adding more chrome on the menu buttons, a brand new aqua green windows, and wait for it, twelve. inch. fins. yes, you heard it right, 12 inch fins on all models.
( I am not able to find that definition using google. Both words are common and have multiple meanings and SEO folks have messed up the page rank. Pretty soon Google will be useless.)
Looks like when Google bought Motorola it also inherited the madcap team that conceived the irridium project.
The second technique involves showing them mildly amusing videos and when they smile, it is easier to slip through the syringe and extract the saliva.
Rethink rail transportation. Design small battery powered motor cycles, one or two riders, with some 30 or 40 miles range, with some moderate protection against rain. Drive it some 5 or 10 miles to the train station and board the train with the motor cycle. Train serves only the main trunk route, with stations spaced 5 miles apart. Get off the station and ride the last few miles to work. Such a solution will be very attractive lots of commuters.
Such an urban mass commute transit has the potential to slowly create inter city train services for such small personal vehicles and their riders. At some point it could grow into a national transportation network of trains bearing 80 to 90% of journeys. The first 5% and last 5% of the journey will be done on personal vehicles. For longer distance inter-city journeys, the savings on tolls, wear & tear, gasoline, car rental at the destination, avoiding motel stays along the way etc will make it quite cost effective to pay for taking a small personal vehicle on a train. It will be quite attractive to lots of people. There will always be people who need or want a full sized pick up truck. But all those people who are currently driving econoboxes, they will happily switch to lower range low cost personal battery vehicle, if their long distance travel need could be met.
Example: the asshole renting a 2 BR apt at 19th and Valencia for $10,500 a month.
Please not the definite article the. May be Ralph Spoilsport is talking about a very specific person renting a 2BR in 19th @ Valancia.
May be the ChromeOS spec is more stringent, but not on the hardware side. May be ChromeOS prevents HP from loading it up with crapware and nagware. Android might allow HP to insinuate itself in the Apps and marketplace more deeply. The HP bean counters would see it as "value" and "potential revenue stream". What the PHBs never realize is, if enough people do not buy that device the revenue stream will be as dry as a wadi in the Sahara.
If a restaurant advertises all-you-can-eat buffet, it must be all-you-can-eat. It can't say, "oh! no! every one is eating steaks and no one is eating my wilted lettuce, so they steak vendor must pay me money!". Comcast promised a certain bandwidth and unlimited content. It should simply deliver it. Or it should change the terms and meter the connection and charge by the gigabite of delivered content. It can't sell "unlimited" internet on one hand, and bellyache, bitch and moan when some customers actually take full advantage of the contract. We should go after Comcast using these old time tested laws and FTC.
Netflix and other content providers have nothing to do with it. It is a simple contract dispute between comcast customers and comcast.
Fixing the no-hot-link issue. This is the device.
That large wheel that can allow two hands grip it completely to steer the car is very old fashioned. For the current crop of young drivers just coming in, they will learn it so much faster if we replace the steering wheels with this. They have already accumulated thousands of hours of experience long before they hit driver-ed class. This electric steering will help us get there faster.
Steve Ballmer is going to push for change in the shape of the ball. It should not be a sphere, but more like a chair or something. Something easier to throw.
I wonder how many people are reading that journal in printed in paper and mailed to subscribers form. And how many are streaming it? When would the journal Environmental Research Letters switch to pure electronic delivery to be friendly to the environment?
My big beef with kindles and nooks are:
1 The graphs and tables are presented very poorly. They don't scale well, don't have the clarity of the printed book even when you zoom.
2. Not vendor neutral. Have to go through Amazon, and I cringe in aiding and abetting the monopolist. Free wireless delivery via mobile networks is so smooth and convenient
3. Difficult to switch back and forth between a graphic, table or figure and the reading location. Don't want to create a bookmark every time.
The information and the explanation is great in that link. But why that hideous background and formatting reminiscent of geo cities? All it lacks is the blinking font.
Cancel the appointment with Dr Otto Didact, M D, University of Wikipedia.
Some challenges are stuff they want to do but are not able to. But there are other challenges about stuff they might be able to do, but they should not do. Like inadvertently creating a small black hole that swallows up the Earth. Europe? that is OK, no big loss. But the whole Earth? nah. That is not done.
What exactly does Google sell?
You.
Very true. The way the term originated, if an attack is mounted today it would be 180 day attack. N day attack originally meant the number of days it took for someone to exploit a vulnerability after it was known. But when you are shooting for funny ....
According to the timeline it is a -180 day.