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In a way, yes, the programming projects in ML seemed like a better measure of performance in that you have to actually figure something out. However, they have two (sort of) disadvantages vs normal homework:

1) you immediately know if you got it right or wrong when you submit, so you can to a lesser extent brute force the correct answer

2) with the exception of maybe the first assignment, they are all "fill in the blank" sort of programming assignments. You basically just have to find the equations they give you in the PDF, translate them directly to Octave, and bam you're done.

Does Keychain do this as well?

As far as I know, the High Speed Rail system is not maglev and modern trains have roughly them same energy efficiency as modern planes.

How much bandwidth are they saving by making a P2P network? I made up some numbers and got about 30k$ a month at S3 prices, is that worth building and maintaining this P2P network instead of just a bunch of servers?

The iPhone version makes me so angry I have trouble reading the article.

They're not really clear, but supposedly it's unlimited as long as, say, 50% of your mintues/texts/data are done through wifi.

Only if you have limited minutes.

I think the implication of the article is that it would not use an existing carrier at all. Republic wireless still relies on traditional cell phone networks to handle calls/data/texts when not in range of wifi.

Oddly enough, you can get an unlimited plan on the Sprint network through Virgin Mobile for $55 a month.

Relevant Richard Feynman story: http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/fey1.htm

The key part is when the anonymous buyer remains anonymous. If his invention works, why not patent it and let everyone see the internals?

EDIT: Looks like there supposedly is a patent: "a method and apparatus for carrying out nickel and hydrogen exothermal reactions," with production of copper, though I haven't found the patent itself.

http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3080659.ece/BINARY/Ro...

Seems like someone would independently make one though.

My understanding is that some people just restart the JVM periodically to avoid GC pauses. How does that compare for web applications?

Well as long as they add more digits for longer numbers, I foresee no problems.

Thanks, no idea why I didn't see this list before.

The ATT iPhone costs I think 80$ a month. If you get a Virgin Mobile phone with the same plan, it costs 35$ per month. And the Virgin Mobile plan is a little better.

I was also basing this off of the Sprint iPhone costing roughly the same as the ATT iPhone, and Virgin Mobile supposedly using the Sprint network.

Dyed black hair? Tight pants? Single speed bike?

Ericsson has this policy as well

I can't find either of these plans on their website. I went to buy a Micro SIM card, and the only unlimited everything plan is 105$ a month. There is no 100 minute plan or 30$ plan that I can find.

You may be correct as I think I saw an informal survey of iPhone 4S buyers that stated only a small percentage were upgrading.

However, iPhone 3GS users for the most part have had the phone 24 to 12 months, and if you are eligible for an upgrade with AT&T, it seems you pay the iphone subsidy each month (by my estimates, around $50 per month) regardless of whether you upgrade or not. So it makes sense to upgrade and sell the new phone on ebay if you want to keep your 3GS.

Try using IE9 instead

Why don't the neighbors find the guy with the deed to the house, and pay him a few k$ to throw out the squatter?

I thought Barce was a guy. Who is that woman on the page?

Did you have to get a contract and pay the business installation fee?

In San Francisco, where I live, they have basically a monopoly on high speed internet. Here are the options and speeds I have tested:

1) DSL (through ATT or Sonic.net, I got Sonic's ADSL2 service) ~$60 a month, 3.4/0.86 Mbps

2) Monkeybrains local wireless rooftop ISP: $35 a month, ~10/10Mbps, depending on location (large building to the north blocks service to my building)

3) Webpass, same as Monkeybrains, but only handles buildings with like 10+ apartment units, $45 a month, 100/100 or 45/45 Mbps, basically has to already be available where you live, so not me

4) Comcast residential service, ~$60 a month, 22.3/4.34 Mbps, this is what I went with

5) Find someone with a fast internet connection and set up some sort of wireless directional antenna or free space optics to use their connection from the roof - expensive and I don't know anyone with a connection that fast within sight of my building.

Nobody can run fiber because of ATT and Comcast having basically monopolies on running cables anywhere. I mean, the city isn't too proactive anyway in that area, but ATT and Comcast are clearly slowing it down a lot

I looked at this, but they want to charge a high installation fee and have a 1-year contract. Can you avoid the installation fee if you already have residential service? What about the contract?

It can be flaky, sometimes the bar doesn't appear, but usually it does. I have the page bookmarked to I can check it easily. It sorta feels like I'm living in the 1990s and checking on my dial up modem.

Me neither, does anyone have evidence of how popular they've become?

A friend of mine worked on some large scale SSL deployment, he wrote up the results of his tests here: http://zombe.es/post/5183420528/accelerated-ssl

He's concerned about the raw speed of the SSL calculations, not requests per second, but if you're actually concerned about SSL speed and you have enough requests per second to justify optimizing SSL speed, it could be pretty useful.

I thought you were going to say an electric shock. Although an electric shock would also use a lot of power and probably be a terrible idea just like microwave heating of the skin, at least the shock would provide fast feedback