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This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!
Assuming that you are being serious and not simply being snarky, the article isn't late. Well, at least not for the US audience.
You see, if you look up the release dates for Into Darkness, you will see that the movie was released in Europe first and had a later release here in the US. It was released in the UK on the 9th and was released here in the US yesterday.
No doubt, the 2009 Trek reboot was rollicking good action fun with a bit of insider snark thrown in. What I've never understood, though, is how Spock managed to turn out so differently - clearly the "new" Spock has little control over his emotions, and apparently, little desire to control them. It was always that tension that made the half-breed human more human than the real humans in some circumstances.
Anyway, it seems Spock's lust handily outstrips his logic, and we're left with the most improbably romance in history. (In the immortal words of the Trek take-off Galaxy Quest (which may well be the best "StarTrek" movie yet), "That's just *wrong*...)
My thought is that that we will see a story arc where Spock is highly emotional (now), experiences Pon Farr for the first time where something bad happens, this pushes him to fully embrace logic, then he gradually realizes that there has to be a balance. My guess, having yet to watch Into Darkness, it that we will see this over several movies.
ah, on nuclear power:
The science of nuclear power is settled: it works.
the technology and implementation by engineers, managers, contractors and other people on the other hand is an entirely different matter
The implementation works too. The two most recent meltdowns involved a horribly designed and outdated plant (Chernobyl) and a plant hit by both an earthquake and a Tsunami at the same time (Fukushima). Either we have been lucky or the implementation works too.
Granted, Fukushima would have been less of a disaster had the culture been one where problems were reported early and help asked for early. Also, the industry is still grappling with risk levels (i.e. the size of a Tsunami to plan for).
Higher voltage? I thought it was just higher current.
No it could actually be higher voltage, 5V (or 5.25) compared to 4.8 or something like that.
Nah, it's higher current (AMPs). Both you computer USB port and the iPad USB charger put out 5V. If it's higher than that, it can blow out circuits etc. I've had enough experience to say that the wrong voltage kills
From the USB Wiki, a device (plugged into a computer) may draw a maximum of 5 unit loads (500 mA) from a port in USB 2.0; 6 (900 mA) in USB 3.0. The charger, however, puts out about 2.1 AMPs.
Exactly. A quick look at his little history (especially with Yahoo a few years back) shows that he's only in it to score some meat from a dying company while the victim is still breathing. Notice that he doesn't really go after healthy, growing companies - only those which show signs of being in serious trouble.
I suspect that if you work for a larger company? A perfect indicator of your corp being in deep kimchi would be the presence of Carl Icahn's active attempts at your company's financials... it's like seeing the Angel of Death, only he's going after the board of directors.
This happened at the company that I work for. The company had some serious business issues that drove our stock down. We would have recovered but Icahn came in, worked to get members on the BOD, and sold us off to another company. In our case, it actually worked out well as the company that purchased us badly needed diversification and kept most employees on and the division intact.
Two pieces of advice: 1. If Icahn comes calling for your company, buy up as much stock as possible, especially if you have an ESPP program. 2. Make sure your resume is up to date as your company will be sold.
I was wondering why Monsanto didnt sue the elevator instead.
Because the elevator was selling a legal product. To extend your car analogy, the cars were not stolen.
Then the farmer planted the seeds, thus "copying" the formerly legal goods. Back to the car analogy, this is like buying a Chevy from a dealer, and then copying and selling the copies. It all makes sense in the weird realm of IP law.
It's closer to the way copyright works with movies. The grain elevator had a used DVD and sold it to the farmer (feed grain). This was allowed by law (license). The farmer then took the DVD and made many copies (planted the grain) and sold them for a profit. This was the illegal part. The Farmer was perfectly within his rights to watch the DVD (i.e. feed the grain to the cows), but as soon as he made copies (i.e. planted the grain) he broke the law (grain license).
My thought is what we need is open source grain... (grin)
Not too familiar with rail yards or switching in general, are you?
Actually, I am. Neither technology solves the last mile problem, though...
It's called a "train".
Nah, trains are old-school, hard-wired, and are limited to following a single track to a place miles from where you are ultimately going (unless you live/work next to a train stop).
Personally, I would prefer an IFF system.... Can I get missiles with that?
Between Tablets, eReaders, and smart phones why would anyone want a crippled Chromebook laptop?
My thought is that most people who are in the market now for a Laptop are looking for something more capable to do work, etc. For everything else they are using tablets or smart phones.
to find programmers who like contests.
...and who have time to participate in contests
Apple has more cash on hand than the federal government.
That is a fairly low bar, I have more cash on hand than the federal government as I don't run a deficit.
No... In reality you don't have more cash than the government, because you are the government. People forget that anything that is done by the government is done in their names, whether they like it or not. So that deficit... yeah, it's your deficit too... Maybe if more people understood this we would have better government.
I don't want a touch screen. How about saving the touch screen and making a $150 laptop?
Ignoring that the Android OS has advantages when using a touchscreen. I think you need to look for your saving elsewhere. We live in Bazarro world where my (relevantly) expensive low resolution and DPI touchless laptop cost's more than my relatively *cheap* touchsceen high DPI tablet. The bought a whole tablet yesterday for $100. I'd be surprised if the keyboard would cost $50.
I agree. However, the reason for the Laptop being more expensive has to do with the hardware requirements to run an OS that is capable of more than just content delivery. Most content creation requires more flexibility than a current Tablet can offer.
- Memory: Tablet only needs 1Gb to 2Gb for the OS. Laptop needs at least 4Gb.
- Storage: Tablet only needs 16Gb of cheap flash memory. Laptop has a 256Gb SSD or a 500Gb hard drive.
- Keyboard: Tablet has a virtual keyboard. Laptop has a physical keyboard and touchpad.
- CPU: Tablet has a lower end CPU. Laptop has a Intel i5 or i7 CPU, which is MUCH more powerful (most laptops now have two CPUs, a low power one and a high end one)
- Networking: Tablet has WiFi, Bluetooth. Laptop has Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth. Higher end tablets have Cell service, but not the $200 models.
- USB: Most Tablets require add-on for USB. Laptop has multiple built-in USB 3.0 ports.
- Display: Tablet has touchscreen, IPS HD display, HDMI. Laptop has mid-range display, HDMI.
- Sound: Tablet has low end sound and speakers. Laptop has higher end sound chipset and speakers.
The point is that Tablets have lower-end everything except for the display in comparison to a Laptop. This allows tablets to have a lower price point. I do agree that if a tablet can have an HD IPS display, there is no reason why laptops can't. The laptops that do have HD displays cost $300 to $400 more. The laptop manufacturers use the higher end displays as a way to increase margins.
My younger sister was assigned to read Fahrenheit 451 for one of her classes. I read through it because I had never been assigned it and was curious about the storyline. Personally, I thought it sucked compared to many of the more advanced Sci-Fi stories exploring the human condition that I was reading at the time.
She had to write a report on the meaning of the book. I pointed out to her that the writer's forward actually said that he wrote the book because he was tired of his editors screwing with his book manuscripts and deliberately or accidentally changing the meaning of his books. So she wrote her report and got a poor grade because it wasn't what the teacher either expected or believed, despite the fact that it was there in black and white for all to see.
Most teachers interpret Fahrenheit 451 as being about deliberate censorship. Bradbury, a few years before he died, interpreted his own work to reflect a society where there is more interest in entertainment and less and less interest in reading, so books get condensed to the point where the meaning is lost and society grows to despise books.
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/
The point is that English departments have been interpreting books for years and have taught their "official" interpretation to students with no flexibility for students to come up with their own unique meaning. In my opinion, it's this institutional method to reading that makes it a chore. What makes reading fun is the ability to approach the material on your own and develop your own interpretations. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen because it makes it harder to grade...
So where does that lead us to? A device which watches us all, which sends much of that data to central services provided by Google, where that data will most likely be stored and can most likely be accessed by law enforcement agencies.
Google Glass is the best example why we need Free Software on those device, otherwise it will become a privacy nightmare. If we don't draw the line here, just think how future prostetics will be. Do you really want some company to decide what your brain implant will be able to do?
Google glasses is the best example why we will need privacy jammers. Without access to the cloud, Google Glasses become next to useless. Of course, cell phone jamming is currently illegal.
Lets see:
It's an app.
It use electronic device.
It should be here. Just because it's not the first one is irrelevant.
Really? Then explain to me why we don't we see articles about every iteration of email clients on mobile devices? By your reasoning they are apps and use an electronic device so they should be news on Slashdot. They just aren't new, news, or interesting and would turn Slashdot into a pure advertisement platform.
" This is enough for me."
as it turns out,l you aren't the only person in the world.
You should probably think upon that a little bit.
Oh, really... Just because you don't agree with me is no reason to get snide... I do happen to know that I am not the only one on earth and that everyone has different needs. But there are existing products. We don't need another slashvertisement to highlight yet another one.
Perhaps you are just in the wrong place, this is supposed to be NEWS for Nerds, not Advertisements R US.
I'm definitely not in Omaha!