If the Dow loses 15% of its value we don't have to figure out where to hide all the lost dollars. Lose 15% of the human population and you either have to find lots of grave space or learn to live with the stench.
This has been a strong belief amongst geeks for a very long time, if you were around the culture (or visiting Slashdot) during the dot com era you know it was worse then. In summary: I can program a computer to do rocket science, therefore I can do rocket science.
Flip through RMS's writing to see the scope of subjects he was compelled to expound upon and know that before he turned against the hivemind geeks lapped up every single essay like a cat does milk. Dude, if he is smart enough to write The Cathedral and the Bazaar he must be smart enough to tell us how to bang our girlfriends.
So Slashdot taking this guy's suggestion seriously shouldn't be a surprise at all. We have a software development model that more or less works, we like it a lot anyway, so lets apply it in doublecoats to every unrelated aspect of our lives. Lets not worry that it can be and has been perverted to ratify the will of one small group over that of everyone else. Lets not worry that as a whole the model produces ridiculous levels of inefficiency that economies dealing in tangible raw materials aren't going to be able to stand. Lets not worry that it is a fucking software development model, no more no less.
So lets develop government like we do software so we can each choose from 140 different ones like we do Linux distros. Meanwhile, the actual government (we'll call it MS for this example) will continue to find ways to get me to continue to rely on it in some small way, which means it'll have to keep finding new and inventive ways to get me to pay its MS tax. Or maybe it won't have to think up new ways because it has the market cornered on rifles.
When I sought insurance for my motorcycle (Ducati 999) I found several places that would not insure that model at any price and several that would but only at a high deductible and premium because the 999 was on some kind of list as being too racy or the like. My State Farm agent cared only about the replacement cost and the engine displacement.
The discussion gets circular at some point, they are working for control because they think that will get them more money.
A buzzphrase that may or may not still be vocalized by executives is 'data driven decisions'. In practice a good many decision are still made according to gut feelings, or very thin data, or totally invented data. In part this is because getting good data is hard to do and even harder to find clear meaning in.
Here at Slashdot you have a demographic that should be more math oriented than most and yet you have people, this thread is a good example, writing about the financial and legal consequences of the Wal-Mart Corporation running or not running DRM servers. This is without a day's legal education in their lives and with no more financial experience than balancing their own checkbook. And with no clear actual numbers on which to base any of their conclusions.
So just like the above Slashdotters, music execs went with their gut feelings. They expected digital formats to work like every other format in the entire history of their business model. I don't blame them. All of the non-DRM music stores coming online seems to suggest their minds are changing. If these stores make for the music industry I'm sure DRM for music will be mostly abandoned.
most non SUV vehicles are not built to be capable of simply transferring power from one wheel to another
Actually the problem is that they are capable of transferring power. Vehicles without limited slip differentials will send most of their power to the wheel with the least traction. This is why these vehicles can have one wheel spin while the other 3 have plenty of traction, and they end up stuck. Traction control does not help because it usually works by braking a spinning wheel rather than 'sending power' anywhere.
Limited slip differentials will allow only some limited amount of power to go to a spinning wheel while the other one on the axle still gets enough to move the vehicle.
You typically see locking differentials on serious off road vehicles.
The only thing I've found that comes close to producing publication quality data graphics in Origin, but I've looked mostly for 1 package that could everything. More often than not I can do everything necessary in Origin but I still sometimes need to make changes in Illustrator.
there are some things that anyone with physical access to your iPhone MAY be able to recover.
You'll no doubt be shocked to learn that even though you might empty your Recycle Bin there are some thing that anyone with physical access to your computer MAY be able to recover.
(the word may is in all caps for the imbeciles reading, and because some of us are unable to detect when we are being patronizing)
I always keep all of the communication apps I have running on a different desktop from than the actual work I am doing. And turn off all automatic beeping and rectangle blitting to the active desktop. That lets me prioritize messages rather than someone else.
I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean. Optical image stabilization in cameras (or in lenses, where it belongs) does not put more light on the sensor. Describing its capabilities in terms of f stops is just to convey how much slower the shutter can cycle while maintaining focus. The rule being the slowest shutter speed a typical person can handhold is the reciprocal of the actual focal length.
Mirage is nearly everywhere nearly all the time, and we use it to dope wind along the course of fire. The angle indicates wind speed and direction is a clue to wind direction. We are also aware that changes in sun intensity and direction affect the shooter's impression of where the target is located...bullets strike lower in bright light relative to where your eye thinks they will.
Anyway, a lot of the posts here lead me to believe people think DARPA needs to know exact temperature for this to work. I don't think so, since mirage is wind dependent as well, and there is no way to know that with much accuracy.
I doubt we all have enough critical thinking skills to grant us immunity form this kind of thing or the tactic would not be so popular. It is fun to think of Slashdot as a community of exclusively high end thinkers, but that is quite a ways from the truth.
Despite that I much prefer this kind of bias to the paid-for-but-not-admitted-to stories. At least we can assume overly dramatic write ups get through because the editors don't really want to take the time to edit them. With the paid stories the editors are taking an active role in the deception.
I have found this to be less the case with Linux than any other OS. Linux distros tend to be very good with backward hardware support so it is usually very easy to upgrade your existing hardware to the newest distro version.
With Ubuntu upgrades, even to beta releases if you set your prefences to allow them, happen as easily as any other update. I've heard of some people having problems after upgrades but I don't believe they are very widespread. Compares with Windows upgrades I've done Ubuntu is better at preserving my setup and adding less stupidity I don't want. After a Windows upgrade it is always an adventure to navigate the through the various roadblocks they've hidden the screen resolution changing utility behind. I typically have to find it first off because my video drivers never survive the upgrade and it reverts to 640x480.
I mostly use Macs and since I'm not allergic to buying new machines the upgrade cycle is pretty simple. When I want to make old hardware useful I tend to go with Linux though.
I found I was lacking only 1 app, a ballistic computer. Everything else I wanted I could get from the App Store. Pandora was particularly nice.
But I ended up reverting back to jailbroken 1.1.4, not because I couldn't wait for 2.0 to be broken, but because 2.0 destroyed half the reason I liked the iPhone in the first place: it UI is faster and snappier than any other smartphone I've used. I tried turning off Location Services, thinking that was the problem, but it helped very little.
With 1.1.4 I open my Contacts list and can immediately scroll around. With 2.0 the list opens fine but it is locked in place for a few seconds, no matter how furiously I slid my finger. The same is true of changing screens when the phone is up. And the time it takes to open Settings. And Maps.
I hope this isn't the case with a 3G iPhone because there really are no other options and I'll go back to a dumbphone when this one dies.
My last MOS in the USMC was 8541. I carried that into combat so I know about following projectiles to their target and seeing the results. Prior to that I was an 0311 on a squad of guys where, if we got into any kind of firefight, there was not really time to notice the outcome of firing on a target, or if it was your fire or the guy next to you, that made hits.
There were major differences between the training I received for each MOS. At 8541 school (and in the run up to being selected for it) a lot of time was spent on psych evaluations to be sure everyone was mentally prepared for the job. In Basic there was less 'evaluation' and more 'instruction'....if that makes sense. 8541s are also kept pretty busy, if you are observing a target you are directed to constantly makes notes and observe conditions, tasks partially intended to keep the mind focused on something other than the human qualities of the target.
This drone pilot problem is probably a mostly unforeseen consequence of changing the way the USAF fights. If it reaches the point where shrinks have to be called in in the aftermath, the training and selection needs to be reworked.
Sweet or not, judging from the replies already here I'd say that if Slashdot starts posting photographs with each story the site will turn into half Flickbookbucket and half/b/ in short order.
I found them way too easy to trigger and very distracting when you were in the middle of doing something else
This is a problem Adobe Lightroom suffers from as well.
I think it is a good idea poorly implemented. In Lightroom the menus can be tacked in place so they don't close, but they can't be tacked closed so they don't open when the mouse moves over them.
More than likely, but I doubt he was given any strong anabolics. No deca injections or similar.
Even so, anabolics and test aren't huge advantages for cyclists, regardless of what the Floyd Landis controversy led everyone to believe. Drugs that increase VOmax or hold off lactose would be more effective. There some advantages in long races like the Tour, for recovery purposes, but there are better drugs for even that purpose.
they make competition between people who use them and people who don't, one sided, boring and unfair.
Not necessarily. Consider that most of Lance Armstrong's competitors were caught doping, Lance was not, yet no one could beat him. He plays a team sport but there were plenty of one on one battles.
Steroids don't make anyone superhuman. If you have good genetics and talent and are dedicated and have a good coach and a good trainer, maybe steriods will give you a small edge over another person with the same all-of-the-above, but you aren't going to leave him in your dust.
When you sign up for utilities you typically agree to allow utility workers access to your meter and any other utility owned equipment on your property. This typically extends to their subcontractors, for instance the REMC I get my electricity from sent me a notice that someone will be by to trim my trees away from their power lines. It is an offer I cannot refuse because I've already agreed to it.
For tax assessors, DPW, and most other city workers, it is in your building permit.
For others, like the railroad and the water company and any pipelines you have running under you, you'll find variances of a certain distance detailed either in your zoning or your building permit or your deed, depending.
I can point you specifically to 130 IAC 4-1-5 in the Indiana Code. The New York Port Authority has something similar that reaches farther. Maryland does. Ohio. I'd list other states but it has been a while since I traveled around the US for photography.
Here is picture of the signs you'll find around New York, courtesy of the Port Authority. I know from first hand experience that it is enforced.
Which of course explains the denial surrounding the project to raise sea levels so all warfighting has to occur underwater. Discovered by meddling climatologists, the entire plan was put into jeapordy, so a massive media campaign was mounted to discredit them.
Slashdot Mirror
Logistics?
If the Dow loses 15% of its value we don't have to figure out where to hide all the lost dollars. Lose 15% of the human population and you either have to find lots of grave space or learn to live with the stench.
This has been a strong belief amongst geeks for a very long time, if you were around the culture (or visiting Slashdot) during the dot com era you know it was worse then. In summary: I can program a computer to do rocket science, therefore I can do rocket science.
Flip through RMS's writing to see the scope of subjects he was compelled to expound upon and know that before he turned against the hivemind geeks lapped up every single essay like a cat does milk. Dude, if he is smart enough to write The Cathedral and the Bazaar he must be smart enough to tell us how to bang our girlfriends.
So Slashdot taking this guy's suggestion seriously shouldn't be a surprise at all. We have a software development model that more or less works, we like it a lot anyway, so lets apply it in doublecoats to every unrelated aspect of our lives. Lets not worry that it can be and has been perverted to ratify the will of one small group over that of everyone else. Lets not worry that as a whole the model produces ridiculous levels of inefficiency that economies dealing in tangible raw materials aren't going to be able to stand. Lets not worry that it is a fucking software development model, no more no less.
So lets develop government like we do software so we can each choose from 140 different ones like we do Linux distros. Meanwhile, the actual government (we'll call it MS for this example) will continue to find ways to get me to continue to rely on it in some small way, which means it'll have to keep finding new and inventive ways to get me to pay its MS tax. Or maybe it won't have to think up new ways because it has the market cornered on rifles.
I think it varies by insurer.
When I sought insurance for my motorcycle (Ducati 999) I found several places that would not insure that model at any price and several that would but only at a high deductible and premium because the 999 was on some kind of list as being too racy or the like. My State Farm agent cared only about the replacement cost and the engine displacement.
The discussion gets circular at some point, they are working for control because they think that will get them more money.
A buzzphrase that may or may not still be vocalized by executives is 'data driven decisions'. In practice a good many decision are still made according to gut feelings, or very thin data, or totally invented data. In part this is because getting good data is hard to do and even harder to find clear meaning in.
Here at Slashdot you have a demographic that should be more math oriented than most and yet you have people, this thread is a good example, writing about the financial and legal consequences of the Wal-Mart Corporation running or not running DRM servers. This is without a day's legal education in their lives and with no more financial experience than balancing their own checkbook. And with no clear actual numbers on which to base any of their conclusions.
So just like the above Slashdotters, music execs went with their gut feelings. They expected digital formats to work like every other format in the entire history of their business model. I don't blame them. All of the non-DRM music stores coming online seems to suggest their minds are changing. If these stores make for the music industry I'm sure DRM for music will be mostly abandoned.
Slashdot, as per the usual.
most non SUV vehicles are not built to be capable of simply transferring power from one wheel to another
Actually the problem is that they are capable of transferring power. Vehicles without limited slip differentials will send most of their power to the wheel with the least traction. This is why these vehicles can have one wheel spin while the other 3 have plenty of traction, and they end up stuck. Traction control does not help because it usually works by braking a spinning wheel rather than 'sending power' anywhere.
Limited slip differentials will allow only some limited amount of power to go to a spinning wheel while the other one on the axle still gets enough to move the vehicle.
You typically see locking differentials on serious off road vehicles.
Natalee Holloway
Excellent troll....Fuck Natalee Holloway.
What do you consider a 'real' graphing package?
The only thing I've found that comes close to producing publication quality data graphics in Origin, but I've looked mostly for 1 package that could everything. More often than not I can do everything necessary in Origin but I still sometimes need to make changes in Illustrator.
From what I've seen they can be beaten with OLED panels, but those aren't yet available in the necessary size.
there are some things that anyone with physical access to your iPhone MAY be able to recover.
You'll no doubt be shocked to learn that even though you might empty your Recycle Bin there are some thing that anyone with physical access to your computer MAY be able to recover.
(the word may is in all caps for the imbeciles reading, and because some of us are unable to detect when we are being patronizing)
And other humans just in general.
I always keep all of the communication apps I have running on a different desktop from than the actual work I am doing. And turn off all automatic beeping and rectangle blitting to the active desktop. That lets me prioritize messages rather than someone else.
just 4 stops worth (16x more light to sensor)
I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean. Optical image stabilization in cameras (or in lenses, where it belongs) does not put more light on the sensor. Describing its capabilities in terms of f stops is just to convey how much slower the shutter can cycle while maintaining focus. The rule being the slowest shutter speed a typical person can handhold is the reciprocal of the actual focal length.
A scope that presents 1 image per second would not be useful for shooting. Neither would more magnification would not improve sniper effectiveness.
Long range shooter reporting in.
Mirage is nearly everywhere nearly all the time, and we use it to dope wind along the course of fire. The angle indicates wind speed and direction is a clue to wind direction. We are also aware that changes in sun intensity and direction affect the shooter's impression of where the target is located...bullets strike lower in bright light relative to where your eye thinks they will.
Anyway, a lot of the posts here lead me to believe people think DARPA needs to know exact temperature for this to work. I don't think so, since mirage is wind dependent as well, and there is no way to know that with much accuracy.
I doubt we all have enough critical thinking skills to grant us immunity form this kind of thing or the tactic would not be so popular. It is fun to think of Slashdot as a community of exclusively high end thinkers, but that is quite a ways from the truth.
Despite that I much prefer this kind of bias to the paid-for-but-not-admitted-to stories. At least we can assume overly dramatic write ups get through because the editors don't really want to take the time to edit them. With the paid stories the editors are taking an active role in the deception.
I have found this to be less the case with Linux than any other OS. Linux distros tend to be very good with backward hardware support so it is usually very easy to upgrade your existing hardware to the newest distro version.
With Ubuntu upgrades, even to beta releases if you set your prefences to allow them, happen as easily as any other update. I've heard of some people having problems after upgrades but I don't believe they are very widespread. Compares with Windows upgrades I've done Ubuntu is better at preserving my setup and adding less stupidity I don't want. After a Windows upgrade it is always an adventure to navigate the through the various roadblocks they've hidden the screen resolution changing utility behind. I typically have to find it first off because my video drivers never survive the upgrade and it reverts to 640x480.
I mostly use Macs and since I'm not allergic to buying new machines the upgrade cycle is pretty simple. When I want to make old hardware useful I tend to go with Linux though.
I found I was lacking only 1 app, a ballistic computer. Everything else I wanted I could get from the App Store. Pandora was particularly nice.
But I ended up reverting back to jailbroken 1.1.4, not because I couldn't wait for 2.0 to be broken, but because 2.0 destroyed half the reason I liked the iPhone in the first place: it UI is faster and snappier than any other smartphone I've used. I tried turning off Location Services, thinking that was the problem, but it helped very little.
With 1.1.4 I open my Contacts list and can immediately scroll around. With 2.0 the list opens fine but it is locked in place for a few seconds, no matter how furiously I slid my finger. The same is true of changing screens when the phone is up. And the time it takes to open Settings. And Maps.
I hope this isn't the case with a 3G iPhone because there really are no other options and I'll go back to a dumbphone when this one dies.
My last MOS in the USMC was 8541. I carried that into combat so I know about following projectiles to their target and seeing the results. Prior to that I was an 0311 on a squad of guys where, if we got into any kind of firefight, there was not really time to notice the outcome of firing on a target, or if it was your fire or the guy next to you, that made hits.
There were major differences between the training I received for each MOS. At 8541 school (and in the run up to being selected for it) a lot of time was spent on psych evaluations to be sure everyone was mentally prepared for the job. In Basic there was less 'evaluation' and more 'instruction'....if that makes sense. 8541s are also kept pretty busy, if you are observing a target you are directed to constantly makes notes and observe conditions, tasks partially intended to keep the mind focused on something other than the human qualities of the target.
This drone pilot problem is probably a mostly unforeseen consequence of changing the way the USAF fights. If it reaches the point where shrinks have to be called in in the aftermath, the training and selection needs to be reworked.
Sweet or not, judging from the replies already here I'd say that if Slashdot starts posting photographs with each story the site will turn into half Flickbookbucket and half /b/ in short order.
I found them way too easy to trigger and very distracting when you were in the middle of doing something else
This is a problem Adobe Lightroom suffers from as well.
I think it is a good idea poorly implemented. In Lightroom the menus can be tacked in place so they don't close, but they can't be tacked closed so they don't open when the mouse moves over them.
More than likely, but I doubt he was given any strong anabolics. No deca injections or similar.
Even so, anabolics and test aren't huge advantages for cyclists, regardless of what the Floyd Landis controversy led everyone to believe. Drugs that increase VOmax or hold off lactose would be more effective. There some advantages in long races like the Tour, for recovery purposes, but there are better drugs for even that purpose.
they make competition between people who use them and people who don't, one sided, boring and unfair.
Not necessarily. Consider that most of Lance Armstrong's competitors were caught doping, Lance was not, yet no one could beat him. He plays a team sport but there were plenty of one on one battles.
Steroids don't make anyone superhuman. If you have good genetics and talent and are dedicated and have a good coach and a good trainer, maybe steriods will give you a small edge over another person with the same all-of-the-above, but you aren't going to leave him in your dust.
When you sign up for utilities you typically agree to allow utility workers access to your meter and any other utility owned equipment on your property. This typically extends to their subcontractors, for instance the REMC I get my electricity from sent me a notice that someone will be by to trim my trees away from their power lines. It is an offer I cannot refuse because I've already agreed to it.
For tax assessors, DPW, and most other city workers, it is in your building permit.
For others, like the railroad and the water company and any pipelines you have running under you, you'll find variances of a certain distance detailed either in your zoning or your building permit or your deed, depending.
No.
I can point you specifically to 130 IAC 4-1-5 in the Indiana Code. The New York Port Authority has something similar that reaches farther. Maryland does. Ohio. I'd list other states but it has been a while since I traveled around the US for photography.
Here is picture of the signs you'll find around New York, courtesy of the Port Authority. I know from first hand experience that it is enforced.
Which of course explains the denial surrounding the project to raise sea levels so all warfighting has to occur underwater. Discovered by meddling climatologists, the entire plan was put into jeapordy, so a massive media campaign was mounted to discredit them.
I'm suprised you've not heard about it.