The new study, which was completed in December, looked at crashes (and not just at those involving cellphones) in those four places and found no decrease in accidents, despite the bans’ having reduced the use of hand-held cellphones 41 to 76 percent.
Sounds like a typo or vagueness there, though I'm not sure if it should be "from 76 to 41 percent," or "by 41 to 76 percent."
For anyone who watched the Video Games Live trailer on their website and are curious: The first song is from Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, was composed my Tim Larkin, and is called Gallery Theme. The second song is from Myst IV: Revelation, was composed by Jack Wall, and is called Main Theme. The third song is from Myst III: Exile, was composed by Jack Wall, and is called Main Theme.
I've played all the Myst games a few times, and I have each of those songs on my MP3 player.
"100% Accuracy" implies a positional error of zero meters (to infinite decimal places), which is obviously not what they're talking about.
By physical, and not mathematical, definition, wouldn't 100% accuracy mean a positional error of 1 Planck length, instead of infinitely approaching zero meters?
Wow, that is some light grey text. The color of the date between the title and the main text is #999999, or 60% white (with 0% white being black). That text is more white than black, on a white background. The main text of the article isn't as bad, with the color #666666, or 40% white. But still, that is really uncomfortable to read, especially if you have a display with small pixels. The 11px font size and normal font weight doesn't help.
Has anyone else noticed the trend for news sites to make their text whiter and whiter, while maintaining a pure white background? I'm not a web designer, but as a user, this is getting really annoying.
Oh, and strangely enough, the title of the article is actually the same exact color as the main text: #666666.
Might this prompt someone at Google to make an installable file system driver for Windows for EXT4? Right now, there is none, because of differing inode sizes and some extra features over EXT2 that EXT4 demands I think.
That sounds like your ISP is throttling your connection... what provider do you have?
Road Runner of Maine from Time Warner Cable is the one that does that. Not very consistent at it, either. Usually it's just 5 minutes after that it lasts, but it can occasionally go up to a half hour.
Perhaps those who aren't using 250GB a month should start sharing more porn! Darn leechers!
I'm sorry, but I can only upload at 30 KiB/s before my torrent uploading starts to severely degrade my Internet connection on every computer and application on the network (sometimes for more than a half hour after I stop), in terms of packet loss, ping time, download speed, and upload speed on other applications. If I were to leave that going all the time (which would increase my electricity bill for keeping the computer on), I would only upload 75.2 GiB per month.
BTW, I have noticed this limit on more than a couple residential broadband connections of 10 Mb or less, cable and DSL alike. Has anyone else?
It wouldn't be unprecedented, as the Internet has places like SnapFiles and CNET for multiple operating system verified-OK application download hosting.
, and presumably the spammers are using Hotmail in particular because they've managed to find an easy way to break into hotmail accounts in particular, and don't have the scripts written or whatever to break into yahoo, gmail, or other accounts.
Another situation that wasn't considered: Maybe the spammers did use phishing attacks to get into the Hotmail accounts, and could just as easily get in other web mail accounts. But, if the spammers found an easy way to automate the setting and altering of auto-replies in Hotmail but not in other web mail accounts, then they would probably only set auto-replies on Hotmail accounts.
.' But are we likely to see Google open their search engine, advertising or the famous back-end system?
No, actually, we aren't. The email says so, in the fourth paragraph under Open Technology > Open Source:
While we are committed to opening the code for our developer tools, not all Google products are open source. Our goal is to keep the Internet open, which promotes choice and competition and keeps users and developers from getting locked in. In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users. The search and advertising markets are already highly competitive with very low switching costs, so users and advertisers already have plenty of choice and are not locked in. Not to mention the fact that opening up these systems would allow people to "game" our algorithms to manipulate search and ads quality rankings, reducing our quality for everyone.
And, to keep things in perspective, I'm just a biologist. It could be that all natural phenomena follow that sort of pattern, like the mass of celestial objects, the surface areas of land masses, the percent cloud cover at each point on Earth, etc. The basic idea of power laws -- lots of small versions of a thing, only a few big ones, and a smooth distribution between -- seems inherently universal to my small brain.
Yeah, it is observed in non-biological systems, too. Interesting to note that power laws help explain why Benford's law exists.
Set up a reoccuring transfer at your bank's website.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a bank transfer in the US. I wish there was. There are wire transfers, which cost $15-$25 on each end and require lots of proof of identity. Maybe if the UK does get rid of checks, the US banking system and regulations will start on the same path.
Disregarding how stupid it is to give someone a blank check,
Sorry, it was a reference to a movie, Blank Check.
Do you guys really not have direct bank transfers?
In the US, we don't have bank transfers, we have wire transfers. They cost $15-$25 on each end per transfer, and requires much proof of identity. I am jealous of your system, now.
With your system, can you give people money by only knowing their name, like you can with checks? I have to look up the spelling of my landlord's name every month in the school directory when I write my check (though I could set my bank to snail mail a printed check automatically every month). Do you need to know more than that, like the recipient's bank account number?
Every month, I pay my landlord (a professor; I'm his only tenant) with a check. I wonder what system would replace that, that would be significantly different from checks, but that my landlord could accept?
Also, what if I run over someone's bicycle, and I want to give him a blank check to pay for it? Or, more realistically, what if I need to pay an individual that I have only just met more money than I have in cash? What system could replace that that would be significantly different from checks?
I guess it could be done, but it might take some creativity.
The new printer you bought came with "demo" ink cartridges that are nearly empty, compared with full ones. You didn't get a bargain.
I think by saying he got "spare ink", he meant that he got the new printer plus replacement ink for less than the replacement ink for the old printer would have cost. Or, maybe he was just saying that the spare ink for the new printer costs less than the spare ink for the old printer.
I've seen this pretty frequently for the past 5 years. After log on (automatic or manual), the screen is powered but black, save for a regular cursor that can be moved around. Ctrl+Alt+Del and other keyboard and special key shortcuts do nothing. It's usually been because some malware or antivirus corrupted some component of Windows. Sometimes removing the malware in safe mode has worked (if the black screen wasn't occurring there), sometimes a repair install was necessary. Rarely has a reformat been needed when it's still doing the black screen thing.
But if you walk on the right and the hinge is on the right the handle will be towards the centre, ie, closer to your left hand.
That's bad for the initial push on the door, true, but for the rest of the swing and holding the door open as you pass through, it's best to have the hinge on your strong hand side.
Because everybody in north America drives on the wrong side of the road, you just don't know it yet.
Actually, I think the right side of the road is the correct way. Here's why: In America at least, when walking down busy hallways, people generally walk on the right, because they drive on the right. I assume this carries over to other countries that drive on the left.
Now, which is better, walking on the right side of the hallway, or the left side? Consider the end of the hallway, where there are double doors that are closed, but both are unlocked. Each door's hinge is, of course on the outside. If you're walking on the right, the hinge is on your right. If you're walking on the left, the hinge is on the left.
I say, independent of whether your door swings towards you or away from you, it is better to have the hinge on the right. This is because a majority of people are right handed. If you are right handed and only allow your right hand to touch the door, it is easier to open a door away from you or towards you if the hinge is on your right.
Took me a while to see the Hitchhiker reference.
Very interesting, though, that 0x2A is SUB r8 r/m8 in the x86 instruction set. Isn't a Turing difference machine just subtraction with two read/write heads and a linear medium?
So, I checked out my state quickly, and noticed that my university was listed, for a grant I'd heard about a couple months ago. However, the link to my university's home page was incorrect; it was to a domain that wasn't even registered.
So I used the easily found feedback form to quickly point it out, figuring I'd forget about it later today and never find out or really care if the link was fixed. 18 minutes later I got an email thanking me and saying they'd fix it today. Then 4 minutes later I got another email from a different person saying it was fixed. I refreshed the page, and the link was good.
I know this is one, small incident. But I think it's evidence of a highly responsive, competent, and organized team (technical or support, I'm not sure). I think this indicates that if the upper people and committees allow for it, this web site can do Good Things.
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So hand-held phone use has reduced in these areas. How much?
Here's another article on the same study: Results of Study on Cellphone Use Surprise Researchers - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com It says
The new study, which was completed in December, looked at crashes (and not just at those involving cellphones) in those four places and found no decrease in accidents, despite the bans’ having reduced the use of hand-held cellphones 41 to 76 percent.
Sounds like a typo or vagueness there, though I'm not sure if it should be "from 76 to 41 percent," or "by 41 to 76 percent."
For anyone who watched the Video Games Live trailer on their website and are curious: The first song is from Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, was composed my Tim Larkin, and is called Gallery Theme. The second song is from Myst IV: Revelation, was composed by Jack Wall, and is called Main Theme. The third song is from Myst III: Exile, was composed by Jack Wall, and is called Main Theme.
I've played all the Myst games a few times, and I have each of those songs on my MP3 player.
"100% Accuracy" implies a positional error of zero meters (to infinite decimal places), which is obviously not what they're talking about.
By physical, and not mathematical, definition, wouldn't 100% accuracy mean a positional error of 1 Planck length, instead of infinitely approaching zero meters?
Wow, that is some light grey text. The color of the date between the title and the main text is #999999, or 60% white (with 0% white being black). That text is more white than black, on a white background. The main text of the article isn't as bad, with the color #666666, or 40% white. But still, that is really uncomfortable to read, especially if you have a display with small pixels. The 11px font size and normal font weight doesn't help.
Has anyone else noticed the trend for news sites to make their text whiter and whiter, while maintaining a pure white background? I'm not a web designer, but as a user, this is getting really annoying.
Oh, and strangely enough, the title of the article is actually the same exact color as the main text: #666666.
Might this prompt someone at Google to make an installable file system driver for Windows for EXT4? Right now, there is none, because of differing inode sizes and some extra features over EXT2 that EXT4 demands I think.
That sounds like your ISP is throttling your connection... what provider do you have?
Road Runner of Maine from Time Warner Cable is the one that does that. Not very consistent at it, either. Usually it's just 5 minutes after that it lasts, but it can occasionally go up to a half hour.
YouTube - Austin Powers 2 -Penile rocket-
Perhaps those who aren't using 250GB a month should start sharing more porn! Darn leechers!
I'm sorry, but I can only upload at 30 KiB/s before my torrent uploading starts to severely degrade my Internet connection on every computer and application on the network (sometimes for more than a half hour after I stop), in terms of packet loss, ping time, download speed, and upload speed on other applications. If I were to leave that going all the time (which would increase my electricity bill for keeping the computer on), I would only upload 75.2 GiB per month.
BTW, I have noticed this limit on more than a couple residential broadband connections of 10 Mb or less, cable and DSL alike. Has anyone else?
It wouldn't be unprecedented, as the Internet has places like SnapFiles and CNET for multiple operating system verified-OK application download hosting.
.' Translation: instead of you paying Best Buy to delete trialware from your new PC,
I thought the Best Buy optimization thing only removed the shortcut icons to the trialware, and didn't actually uninstall or delete any of it?
Hey look, it's a comic strip that's related: Sheldon Comic Strip: Daily Webcomic by Dave Kellett
, and presumably the spammers are using Hotmail in particular because they've managed to find an easy way to break into hotmail accounts in particular, and don't have the scripts written or whatever to break into yahoo, gmail, or other accounts.
Another situation that wasn't considered: Maybe the spammers did use phishing attacks to get into the Hotmail accounts, and could just as easily get in other web mail accounts. But, if the spammers found an easy way to automate the setting and altering of auto-replies in Hotmail but not in other web mail accounts, then they would probably only set auto-replies on Hotmail accounts.
.' But are we likely to see Google open their search engine, advertising or the famous back-end system?
No, actually, we aren't. The email says so, in the fourth paragraph under Open Technology > Open Source:
While we are committed to opening the code for our developer tools, not all Google products are open source. Our goal is to keep the Internet open, which promotes choice and competition and keeps users and developers from getting locked in. In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users. The search and advertising markets are already highly competitive with very low switching costs, so users and advertisers already have plenty of choice and are not locked in. Not to mention the fact that opening up these systems would allow people to "game" our algorithms to manipulate search and ads quality rankings, reducing our quality for everyone.
And, to keep things in perspective, I'm just a biologist. It could be that all natural phenomena follow that sort of pattern, like the mass of celestial objects, the surface areas of land masses, the percent cloud cover at each point on Earth, etc. The basic idea of power laws -- lots of small versions of a thing, only a few big ones, and a smooth distribution between -- seems inherently universal to my small brain.
Yeah, it is observed in non-biological systems, too. Interesting to note that power laws help explain why Benford's law exists.
Set up a reoccuring transfer at your bank's website.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a bank transfer in the US. I wish there was. There are wire transfers, which cost $15-$25 on each end and require lots of proof of identity. Maybe if the UK does get rid of checks, the US banking system and regulations will start on the same path.
Disregarding how stupid it is to give someone a blank check,
Sorry, it was a reference to a movie, Blank Check.
Do you guys really not have direct bank transfers?
In the US, we don't have bank transfers, we have wire transfers. They cost $15-$25 on each end per transfer, and requires much proof of identity. I am jealous of your system, now.
With your system, can you give people money by only knowing their name, like you can with checks? I have to look up the spelling of my landlord's name every month in the school directory when I write my check (though I could set my bank to snail mail a printed check automatically every month). Do you need to know more than that, like the recipient's bank account number?
Every month, I pay my landlord (a professor; I'm his only tenant) with a check. I wonder what system would replace that, that would be significantly different from checks, but that my landlord could accept?
Also, what if I run over someone's bicycle, and I want to give him a blank check to pay for it? Or, more realistically, what if I need to pay an individual that I have only just met more money than I have in cash? What system could replace that that would be significantly different from checks?
I guess it could be done, but it might take some creativity.
Inflation would need to be nearly 10% for Hollywood to not have higher inflation adjusted revenues this year than last year.
And we've had deflation since March. The highest inflation rate since 2008 has been 5.6%.
Current Inflation
The new printer you bought came with "demo" ink cartridges that are nearly empty, compared with full ones. You didn't get a bargain.
I think by saying he got "spare ink", he meant that he got the new printer plus replacement ink for less than the replacement ink for the old printer would have cost. Or, maybe he was just saying that the spare ink for the new printer costs less than the spare ink for the old printer.
November 25 was a Wednesday. You're like my professors. All of them. I swear, they do this every time.
Anyway, the article says it was November 10, which was a Tuesday.
I've seen this pretty frequently for the past 5 years. After log on (automatic or manual), the screen is powered but black, save for a regular cursor that can be moved around. Ctrl+Alt+Del and other keyboard and special key shortcuts do nothing. It's usually been because some malware or antivirus corrupted some component of Windows. Sometimes removing the malware in safe mode has worked (if the black screen wasn't occurring there), sometimes a repair install was necessary. Rarely has a reformat been needed when it's still doing the black screen thing.
But if you walk on the right and the hinge is on the right the handle will be towards the centre, ie, closer to your left hand.
That's bad for the initial push on the door, true, but for the rest of the swing and holding the door open as you pass through, it's best to have the hinge on your strong hand side.
Because everybody in north America drives on the wrong side of the road, you just don't know it yet.
Actually, I think the right side of the road is the correct way. Here's why: In America at least, when walking down busy hallways, people generally walk on the right, because they drive on the right. I assume this carries over to other countries that drive on the left.
Now, which is better, walking on the right side of the hallway, or the left side? Consider the end of the hallway, where there are double doors that are closed, but both are unlocked. Each door's hinge is, of course on the outside. If you're walking on the right, the hinge is on your right. If you're walking on the left, the hinge is on the left.
I say, independent of whether your door swings towards you or away from you, it is better to have the hinge on the right. This is because a majority of people are right handed. If you are right handed and only allow your right hand to touch the door, it is easier to open a door away from you or towards you if the hinge is on your right.
0x2A
Took me a while to see the Hitchhiker reference.
Very interesting, though, that 0x2A is SUB r8 r/m8 in the x86 instruction set. Isn't a Turing difference machine just subtraction with two read/write heads and a linear medium?
So, I checked out my state quickly, and noticed that my university was listed, for a grant I'd heard about a couple months ago. However, the link to my university's home page was incorrect; it was to a domain that wasn't even registered.
So I used the easily found feedback form to quickly point it out, figuring I'd forget about it later today and never find out or really care if the link was fixed. 18 minutes later I got an email thanking me and saying they'd fix it today. Then 4 minutes later I got another email from a different person saying it was fixed. I refreshed the page, and the link was good.
I know this is one, small incident. But I think it's evidence of a highly responsive, competent, and organized team (technical or support, I'm not sure). I think this indicates that if the upper people and committees allow for it, this web site can do Good Things.