grannyg00se

Maybe there's a misleading comma there.

serial rapists and serial murderers is how I read it.

"The fact that they’re “so cheap to make,”  she added, means they will only have to reach 7.5 per cent efficiency before they will be commercially competitive with conventional energy sources such as coal-electric generation."

How does that make sense? If I have to cover my entire yard with this stuff to get a decent amount of power that doesn't compete well.

Putting personal files on an employer's computer is a bad idea. Why do such a thing?

You buy because you are expecting good news to be coming. Bad news comes instead. Your whole reason for being there is now gone because whatever good news comes isn't going to trump the bad news that is here now. You sell.

Or you buy because there is a crazy amount of hype on the stock and a history of insane growth. Your expectation is more of the same. That suddenly changes dramatically. You sell.

The stock has been traded mostly on pure momentum and speculation of late. That kind of scenario is highly sensitive to any kind of news.

I'm surprised the tumble wasn't worse than it was. There must be some real solid long term money in play.

How does the proper defense scenario play out with a gun? Someone pulls a gun on you to rob you, and you then pull yours out without getting shot? Once you do pull out your gun, do you shoot the robber(s)? I find it hard to imagine any of this working out very well.

Or is the possibility that you may be armed supposed to act as a deterrent?

I'm eagerly awaiting some clarification on this. I was going to buy a note 3 the day it becomes available through my carrier. If there is no workaround to the region locking I'll stick with my blackberry 9900 until a better option comes along (perhaps the HTC One Max).

I hate it as well, but I think it is generally anticipated that any greentech solution is never going to be widely adopted until it achieves price parity.

If you wouldn't mind, could you indicate which other methods you are referring to? I'd like to check them out. As far as I know stereolithography is the most accurate method known. And I can't foresee any accuracy issues inherent in this particular solution that can't be improve with a slight increase in materials cost.

I was just talking to my mom about 3D printers on Friday, trying to explain the processes of the different types, and how the most accurate ones like this (lasers, laser-sensitive liquid, directed high precision curing) are the best but also the most expensive. That conversation would have gone much differently had I seen this project a few days ago.

One hundred dollars is a major game changer. I've been somewhat reserved on the 3D printing hype because of a lack of necessity for most people, and a lack of precision/usefulness at the lower price range. This can change all of that. For one hundred dollars you no longer have to worry about longer term entertainment value or interest for children. It's the cost of a couple of video games. And for project work, you don't have to worry about needing it for multiple projects. At $100 a single use justifies the cost many times over. I'm looking into spending $400 right now on a single 3D print for a small product I'm working on.

I love rewarding ingenuity. BACKED!

"You're going after him instead of his argument."

That doesn't make it ad hominem. That's a phrase used in the context of a debate. jessedhillon isn't after the argument at all. He's attacking a certain behaviour.

ad hominem: "Your point about global warming is invalid because you slap your children and I don't like that."

not ad hominem: "You slap your children and I don't like that."

Yeah I guess our popular end user products are much more polished now and don't force you to get your hands dirty. I remember you couldn't even start a game without typing some cryptic code into the computer. So that extra push isn't there anymore and you can easily use all of this technology without ever learning anything. On the other hand, I think we now have much more information available and easily accessible for those who do choose to get involved.

That official gameplay video is really impressive if you haven't looked at the state of the art in video games lately. It looks like a wish list of gaming features put together by hardcore fans with no limits on budget or creativity.

If I didn't know the game was released and well received, I'd say there's no way in hell it would be possible to put it all together on time, on budget, and without major flaws. Damn impressive.

Since when do 12 year olds compare themselves against highly polished products put out by companies with hundreds of employees?

When I was 12 I wasn't trying to build Seven Cities Of Gold, I was happy just to have a little blinking sprite move across the screen.

Nowadays you can fire up a browser and scratchpad and have a hello world alert box pop up in five seconds. And there are arduinos, and raspberry pi's, and crazy cool robotics kits. There's still plenty out there to motivate kids who are interested in tinkering.

I thought this was about anti-patterns or cryptic code passages. It's literally about the string 'wtf'

I used to be one. But then so many people were using Whatsapp I started using that. Fewer and fewer people were using BBM. Even fewer still were the number of people who used BBM exclusively. Now I don't think I'll miss BBM at all and as a result I'm looking to Android for my next phone.

Is there a page listing all the features that Cyanogenmod provides over Android?

The page with the section "So what is the difference between Android and CyanogenMod" talks about how Cyanogenmod comes to be created after each Android release but doesn't describe the actual features.

Aubrey has been talking about tackling aging as a disease for a long time now. Some of us have been waiting for some real serious investment in that direction because historically it seems he has been the lone voice in the field willing to challenge aging in this way.

This announcement could be interpreted as strong support for the general concepts that Aubrey talks about.

Miss? I've never used multi-finger gestures on a touchpad. Mostly because I don't use touchpads. I think that kind of interaction feature came about after I had already written them off as annoying. But it seems like I'd have to significantly remove my focus from the home row to do that - instant disdain.

I just looked it up and it appears as though these gestures you speak of are used for scrolling, swiping, zooming, and alternate clicking just like on a tablet.

I use the alternate button (left mouse button for me) for alternate clicking.

I use the middle button for scrolling.

Swiping, I think is to switch apps? That would be alt-tab.

Zooming is usually some key combination or key in combination with a left or right mouse button drag.

If you don't use the pointer it's probably just a matter of getting used to and tweaking the settings. Make sure to go into the mouse settings and play with both the trackpoint firm-touch, light-touch sensitivity as well as the operating system's pointer speed. Then just practice. I've even gotten to the point where I can do a half decent job playing a FPS with the trackpoint. I wouldn't try to compete in Quake Arena with it, but for casual single player use it's quite alright.

The people behind Ghost didn't think that Wordpress is fine. So they set off to create something better and a bunch of other people also thought the idea would be better so they supported them. That all seems good to me.

What's even better, you might agree, is that they are not stopping anybody else from setting off to create something more complicated than blogs and crud apps.

"an ease to writing that makes it pleasant to compose text formatted for the web...Compared to WordPress’s bulky editor and aging PHP code base, the difference is striking."

I don't know anything about WordPress's bulky editor, but how does the code base have any relevance to front end usability?

I'm not sure about their production status. A quick search does seem to indicate that you are correct.

I have a 2013 Thinkpad so I know about the new keys and I don't mind them at all. And I really like that they've gotten rid of the trackpad completely on the new models since I hate trackpads even more than a separate mouse.

But I do rest my palms on the area beside the trackpad. Looking at the new models that area seems like it might be a bit short. I'm not sure where my wrists would rest there and I fear they may be in some in between zone not completely on the keyboard and not completely off of it. That would probably be annoying. Hopefully that's not the case. I'm tempted to order one of these just to find out whether I find them okay or not. If I don't, I'll have to scour the internet for older models and buy a few. Thanks for the heads-up :)

That article is written by a scientific adviser to the Atomic Energy Control Board, Ottawa, Canada.

If that doesn't bother you, consider that the facts cited come from a "recent" report published in 1978.

Interesting. That sounds like urban myth material - a special subway under the subway.

But from my limited knowledge, bigger and bigger nukes wouldn't make a difference against deep hardened bunkers since they don't penetrate before detonation. When you look at pictures of atomic bomb damage you don't see deep craters, you see a wide area of surface level damage.

I'd be all over that if it had some kind of integrated mouse pointer. I loathe moving my entire hand around to mouse. So I stay with the Lenovo Travel Ultranav.

"The warhead had a yield of nine megatons—about three times the explosive force of all the bombs dropped during the Second World War, including both atomic bombs"

My god. That alone is enough to scare me. Why on earth would you create a single weapon so powerful when you aren't limited to only one? I guess I don't fully grasp the concept of an arms race because no matter how I think about it that just seems grossly irresponsible.

Raise bullies? You are putting a whole lot of faith into the idea that parenting alone shapes a child's behaviour. And all kids are different so your burden isn't even amongst the population. The level of involvement for one kid might be near zero while another requires near constant attention. Are you okay with putting additional burden on parents based on the needs of their particular children? Are you prepared to define what "responsible parent" actually means in a concrete way that everyone can discuss, or can I just say yes I pay attention and I spend time with them therefore I am a responsible parent?

What kind of punishment are you talking about? If you imprison them what will you do with the kids? If they are poor and you fine them, is that going to be a net win for society?

And teachers? Teachers these days have near zero enforcement options. You can't make them responsible unless you also give them back some power. They sometimes suffer abuse from students as well.

It is only a parenting problem if you accept a certain level of mandatory responsibility for parents. I think that conceptually people have no problem with that idea. We all want to say that we are responsible parents. But to try to put something concrete down into legislation is a different story. People won't admit it, but they really aren't highly involved in many cases and sometimes have good reasons not to be. So when it comes time to talk about real consequences, I think there would be a lot of push back.

I'd like to see details of how #1 would actually look. Nuber two is a definitely win. #3 would probably be inevitable because #1 would likely be full of holes and grey areas.

Your analog seems ill equipped to deal with the constant surveillance and responsibility a parent would face. The bartender simply stops serving. End of responsibility. If the patron becomes abusive he gets kicked out by the bouncer. For parents you are talking about a scenario where there is no end of responisibility. You can't just kick them out into someone else's bar.

How? The parents wouldn't even know. Sounds like you want to legislate a certain parenting rigor involving a high level of parental involvement.

This mother actually did close facebook, even moved her kid to a new school. She did quite a bit more than many parents would have and it still wasn't enough. I don't think it is reasonable to put a 24/7 multi-year, constant surveillance burden on the average parent.

And what about enforcement? So you see bad stuff on your kid's phone repeatedly...in the end all you can do is take it away. Then they go to the computer. Then you take that away. Then they stay after school to use the computers there. Really I don't expect the symptom mitigation solutions to be very effective.

Wondered the same. Her mom closed her facebook acct and took other measures, and the girl went back to other sites. I suppose that if there is a massive concentration of social activity online and you want to be part of it you will endure the bullying rather than be an outcast. Very complicated situation, I'm sure. Can victims become addicted to the attention, even if it is negative?