DonGateley

One problem with this is the number of thugs in city and town police forces. They aren't going to give up their bully franchises easily.

These Moto phones would be great vehicles for getting people to try Ubuntu Touch. Why do they only provide images for the most expensive possibilities?

Beats 'phones could be a recognizable and elegant adjunct to a headworn VR device if Apple has any plans in that area. I'd be rather surprised if they didn't and see this as a pretty clear indicator we'll see them enter that fray.

Thanks. [3] is essentially the outline of the first course I took from him.

It didn't occur me that SRT division might have any recent relevance, ancient history and all that, but Google tells me that the Pentium floating point bug was in fact a buggy lookup table for SRT division and that it is still apparently in use in microprocessors today. I wish he could know that.

I wish I could find the part written by J.E. Robertson. I took several graduate level courses from him as an undergraduate in the mid '60s. He became the world expert on division. He found that if you recoded to the redundant base -1, 0, 1 then number encodings could be found that had lots of zeros which he could optimize over and speed the division up. There were other sequential configurations he did special things with as well. You wouldn't believe the amount of theory he deduced from studying the redundant encoding problem and its application. The result was SRT division. He was the R and I can't remember who S and T were.

SRT division was implemented in the Illiac II.

Thank you. $32 and on order.

It says 27 subjects experienced induced lucid dreaming. How many didn't? If the rate is anywhere near 100% and the experimental setup description can be obtained there will be DIY boxes galore to do this and soon.

Does anybody know where the paper is? This is a rare case where I don't give a damn about a pay wall.

Has anyone looked to see if Beats might have an interesting patent portfolio? Something perhaps to augment Apple's recently granted patent on bioinformatic earphones?

As much as I dislike the impact this could have I must say that designing a clean, orthogonal, complete API can take longer than actually implementing it. A properly thought out API will dictate the implementation and strongly optimize it. I've done API's and then the code to implement them and there is no way I can see API creation as other than a highly creative endeavor.

The designer in me says, yes this is the right decision, but my pragmatist is worried.

Processor instruction sets are no less API's than are the means of accessing a software product. Can they be copyrighted?

When it's half that I will start to get interested. I can't see what advantage it has over food, other than fad appeal, when it's more expensive.

Other than the spiral flexures that NASA uses this seems to be rather unique in that shock is absorbed in two dimensions rather than one. No matter from what direction jerk is applied the wheel will absorb it in the same or a similar direction rather than just absorbing the vector component that is along the direction of a linear shock absorber.

That means it will absorb more of the shock and be more comfortable. If people know of another mechanism that has this characteristic I'd love to know about it.

A real sleeper in headphone market is the $33 Philips SHL9705A-28. They are as comfortable as anything on-ear that I have listened to and better sounding than most of the high-end devices. They put the ATH-M50 to shame. The AKG-K702, not so much. I like their sound better than either the Senn HD598 or HD650 to which they are very similar. I listen to and objectively measure and test 'phones for a living.

Aw shucks. I see they are discontinued (some left on Amazon though.) That's the problem with Philips, they have such a huge line that consumers can't find their way through it to find the gems and thus they languish. In general I will say emphatically that nobody offers better cost/performance than Philips.

What do you think permanently changes electro-mechanically during this mythical "break in"?

The mass of coil and diaphragm? Can't.

The compliance of the surround? Won't.

The resistance, inductance or capacitance of the coil? Can't.

The shape or size of the chamber? Can't.

The magnet strength? Won't.

The coil/magnet coupling? Can't.

The relative placement of interacting parts? Won't.

The stiffness of the diaphragm? Won't.

I think that about covers all the possibilities. It is far more likely that the listener's perception changes due to expectation. Far, far more likely.

So pay them. There, that's cleared up.

Heh, as a wet behind the ears engineer I worked on the first computer for IBM that switched late in the design from core to solid state. Saw lots of higher density versions of what he is holding in that video.

Back then our field engineers used to fly with small stacks of these for field replacement in the passenger area of planes. They were called "boms" until some passengers freaked out at overheard conversations. :-)

Really naive question: might it be possible to bridge Rust to some older language's high content, well developed library?

My thought too except I can't see what he is doing or might do with the float except fund promotion to leverage growth.

You beat me to the punch. Purdy's book has been far too obscure for far too long. He was the first to awaken me to this cultural deviance and I've been stuck with seeing it everywhere ever since. While it may be too simplistic I blame, J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Holden Caulfield almost entirely for this plague of irony. I sincerely wish the creepy Salinger had been lost in the war. As a culture we would be the better for it.

When I read For Common Things I thought perhaps it could be the bell weather of change. Instead it was mostly ignored. He was remarkably young and remarkably brilliant when he wrote it and it gave me hope for the for the influence of his generation. Alas...

This article made me realize what it is that I find so absolutely compelling in DFW's works. I find his suicide not the least surprising in light of his remarkable sense of sincerity. How could one with such sensitivities continue in this brave new world of snark.

Yeah, after a moving wait bar it just comes up grey.

Whether or not he is remembered for it, except for Tim Berners Lee no one else holds a candle to him in that regard. I had enough years "before" that the years "after" and what his work effected delineates it as the most profoundly disruptive period in history by a wide margin. It has become a sixth sense, so integrated with our cognition that we scarcely notice it. And he wants to take that integration much, much further.

From what the article discloses about his personality I don't much like him but will never deny his inestimable impact.

That's just plain stupid. Because it was being over-diagnosed and became fad mental illness of the day does not mean it doesn't exist. It most certainly does. There are specific behavioral and verbal traits and even physiognometric characteristics which as a bundle are unique and can be clearly distinguished.

I have never been able to get HD in a browser on my PC with "free" Instant Prime. I cancelled Prime because of all the obscure restrictions on streaming Instant Prime. What are you doing to get HD from Instant Prime?

Do your due diligence well. Amazon does an amazing job of obscuring what Instant Prime is available on leaving an easy impression that it is when it isn't. No Tivo, for example, but they make it all too easy to misunderstand that.

What carriers is it incompatible with?

Teeth falling out is more a consequence of smoking its hydrochloride. The vapor condenses to hydrochloric acid which has a predictable effect on teeth.

That is very cool. I know that John Cocke who invented the architecture (and was an old drinking buddy of mine) would definitely approve.

It was an outgrowth of his work developing the first optimizing compiler (Fortran) with Fran Allen which earned him a Turing Award. Good on ya, Johh, wherever and with whomever you might be sipping now. :-)

Does anyone know when all this started? Who got the first software patent and when?

If one isn't familiar with said financial instruments and all of the other terminology in these comments what is the best remedy for that? Is there any book whose content is pretty much constrained to the elements discussed here?

If you so "hate to say this" why have you said it twice in this thread?

The strangeness is the fact that they add and that the sum is as physically meaningful as the components. In a nutshell, so to speak.