Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Re: Bounties
Whenever El Reg rumormongers an Apple Rumor, a Foxconn worker has to die!
PLEASE, THINK OF THE FOXCONN WORKERS!
Why, do you have TV??
"The usual rule of thumb for screen size,"
Where does that one come from anyway, and does it apply to modern flat screens and PC display units?
Some french and/or letters are required!
We read:
Among other things, the 'mise' will tell national measurements bodies how they should combine results from different projects to define the quantum kilogram to help ensure reliability. 'Mise en pratiques' accompany all SI units.
Mise en pratique means "The act of putting into practice". You cannot use the word mise alone because then it means a bet. As for the plural, you want to put the s ending on the other word!
Thus:
Among other things, the 'mise en pratique' will tell national measurements bodies how they should (and I think this is the SHALL from the RFCs) combine results from different projects to define the quantum kilogram to help ensure reliability. 'Mises en pratique' accompany all SI units.
Re: If Apple have licensed this 'tech' to 3rd parties..
Not unless a lawsuit happens to occur.
Re: Apple=Bastards
"oriniginality as herpes!"
I remember the good old times when the commentariat had advanced spelling skills (more advanced than 10-year olds with ADHD doing left-hand browsing) and trolling was actually good.
Isn't "WarZ" basically a reattempt to do "DayZ", which is an enthusiast's attempt to reskin "ArmA II" into a Multiplayer Zombie Apocalypse Survivor Theme, which kinda works, with less rampant game hackers and more pay-to-play?
Few¹ politicians or media figures now dare criticise Wikipedia²
¹[weasel words]
²[citation needed]
Re: Self-evident wisdom
Well, there is some lass that can still be elected Miss Multiverse.
The cake is a lie! You are under arrest!
Re: Count me in
That's about the single occasion where copying does become stealing.
Holy stuff, the comments at Phys.org reach YouTube level of stupidity.
"Don't accept that relativity anyway..makes no sense, and as an engineer was taught to reject nonsense answers no matter who said them."
I sure hope that guy does not engineer any machines I need.
Re: Count me in
You wouldn't quantum download a cat!
Re: Confused
> I thought quantum entanglement was totally unaffected by removing the entangled entities to any distance.
That, truly, is still an open question that has to be solved experimentally. It is commonly assumed that entanglement does not break down over large distances or large differences in time because the mathematics currently used to describe what happens say "no, it's just a state as any other". But is that really so? No-one knows for real.
Re: Perl
Not to mention .... THIS!??!
$? : The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (`` ) command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator. This is just the 16-bit status word returned by the traditional Unix wait() system call (or else is made up to look like it). Thus, the exit value of the subprocess is really ($?>> 8 ), and $? & 127 gives which signal, if any, the process died from, and $? & 128 reports whether there was a core dump.
At some time, someone must have thought it good style to inject bit diddling into a glorified report processor
Someone cares about Apple outside of California?
"it's going to have to be in a foreign forum where it doesn't have the clout or the cachet it has at the ITC or the northern district of California"
The Asian Landmass (funnily described by Andrew as gearing up on IP enforcement) DOES NOT CARE.
Re: But...
> Anything you wouldn't put on a postcard shouldn't be put in an email.
Nice motto when the door closes on you for 10 years.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? IS THAT NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE?
Well, someone hasn't learned from the 3G auction disaster that wrecked Deutsche Telecom.
Where's the SHRUG icon?
> Luxembourg.
> Offshore Tax Haven
MFW
"which include Cupertino patents"
This should be universally named "Cupertino's pretends".
Never brought up again. Ever.
Sound like the final line the good-looking protagonist utters at the end of a hollywood slasher/horror movie.
You know there will be a Part II.
"HMRC has said it can’t comment on the investigation as it is ongoing: so we don’t know the nature of the attack, or whether it was successful."
Additionally, they didn't pick up the phone. At all.
“It is a completely transferable skill that goes across all boundaries”
Right.
Why dontcha help me clean the office fridge, appease the tax collector, then manage the grumpy IT cats in the dev bunker for whom everything is "easy peasy" until they actually have to deliver when it suddenly becomes "extremely complex". Meanwhile their latest construction is throwing bugs left and right which they don't care about, but hey the boss thought "better go downmarket on developer costs". Yes, we will do debugging in the afternoon.
"GRAIL orbiters make DEATH DIVE into lunar mountain: Impact point honors first female US astronaut"
It's all about her driving?
Re: Photoshop in Spaaaaace!
Could also be that it's actually a fleet of seven Toutatises poised to attack earth like interplanetary giganto-turds!
Re: No worries here
I sure hope it won't emerge from the Googleplex like a bad idea emerging from the mind of a green lieutenant.
Needs more Vader
"You have failed me for the last time, Apotheker!"
What is there to cherish
Confused shock-jock language from addled minds, with the obligatory "occupy"?
Tiresome.
Why?
The banks are being DoSed by dollar stuffing anyway? Watch out for those fatty banker livers..... hmmm. Very nice with a side-dish of Weimar pickles.
We now have the announcement that Ben Bernanke’s Fed will buy $45 billion a month in treasuries, QE4, until unemployment reaches 6.5% or his version of inflation exceeds 2.5%. What a surprise! ....
Well, it does appear now that Bernanke was just easing his toe in by announcing the purchase of agency mortgages last September, and is really focused on treasuries. In all probability, he is afraid that the market for treasuries will falter. He can now support it anytime he wants without causing panic.
The next announcement may well remove the $45 billion monthly limit. Then he will be able to finance the government with as much fairy dust money as he likes.
There is always the chance that the foreign buyers will eventually be spooked and it will all come crashing down. But right now the foreign buyers do not have a lot of options and anyway Bernanke retires in a year.
It would be interesting ( and helpful) if Alan Greenspan suddenly had a Saul of Tarsus/ Paul experience and spoke out against his protege Bernanke. Or perhaps Paul Volcker, who admitted that the Fed might be violating the Fed statute in 2008 ( there was really no doubt about it) might speak up? Unfortunately none of this is likely. And we will continue on down the rabbit hole.
Re: Kurzweil
So he's like the MARX of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
But he has 19 PhDs!
There was a Battlestar Galactica episode about that kind of problem....
Very nice but...
Why do these Chinese Explanatory Posters look like something one might find as inlay on a typical ripped DVD in a market stall in Shanghai?
Re: Time out a second...
The particle has rest mass, yes. 140 GeV/c², was it?
In this universe, any operation conserves the quantity mass energy, not the quantity rest mass. Transformations between energy and rest mass are scaled according E=mc²
So you can have the rest mass of 140 GeV/c² going away as long as the 0-rest-mass-photons coming out of your operations have a total energy of 140 GeV/c²
This is how matter/antimatter annihilation can happen.
Big Brother because Big Mass.
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON INCREASING STANDARD DEVIATIONS (away from the null hypothesis)
> This peak is a single Higgs.
Most quite likely on a likelihood scale of 0..1
After discussion plots, Tommaso Dorigo of the CMS collaboration has this to say:
So, to answer the question one idea is of course that some miscalibration systematics are affecting either or both mass measurements in ATLAS. However, I am sure this has been beaten down to death by the experimenters before making public the present results.
Another idea is that the gamma-gamma signal contains some unexpected background which somehow shifts the best-fit mass to higher values, also contributing to the anomalously high signal rate. However, this also does not hold much water - if you look at the various mass histograms produced by ATLAS (there is a bunch here) you do not see anything striking as suspicious in the background distributions.
Then there is the possibility of a statistical fluctuation. I think this is the most likely explanation, and I am willing to bet $100 with as many as five takers that the two measurements will be reconciled with each other once more statistics is added, and that no observation of a double state will be made. This however might take three years to sort out, given the impending shutdown of the LHC.
Finally, you might instead want to believe that we are indeed looking at the first hint of new physics -Supersymmetry or some other model producing multiple Higgs-like particles. Very exciting, but I just do not buy that.
Time will tell! So if you have some extra cash to throw away consider taking the bet...
This is getting into Blackadder territory.
Re: Demand has been phenomenal.
What jingle is that?
Re: I dunno....
Tons of radio pickups in there.
Anyone old enough to remember the CRTs knows what a mobile will do to the signal for sure.
But then again, a mobile is designed to dump energy into the aether, and radios are designed to pick them up or at least don't assume to be next to a 900 MHz milliwatt emitter.
Re: An interesting example that doesn't involve aviation
The thumbs-down herper-derper strikes again.
But I really want to know.
Re: 'Phone battery spark is an urban myth?
It is as impossible to ignite fuel with a mobile as it is to cook an egg. Yet another case of the "fear new technology" mindset. Static electricity from your pullover is a larger danger.
Around here, mobiles were forbidden on public transports (i.e. bus lines) in the early noughties because of "interference". Some drivers had experienced sudden unexplained revving ... turns out the real reason was yoofs opening the maintenance hatch in the back of the bus and playing around with the engine. Yup, must be those devilish mobiles.
Re: An interesting example that doesn't involve aviation
It is not verboten to use mobiles in the server room (or is it?)
Why should medical devices be more vulnerable to radio signals in the usual mobile bands?
Re: Interference vs. Distraction
Tests have been run.
I remember some test with a laptop which radiated quite heavily at the processor's frequency. IIRC there were interesting hot spots in the plane's tube (like in a microwave oven) and some interference with on-board electronics, but I can't remember whether that was considered a minor problem or not.
Re: What a dumb fuck
> it's to do with having passengers not being distracted (or distracting others) during the critical phases of flight.
We are talking about civilians here.
You know, the guys who are not exactly trained to get out of a tinfoil cylinder of death which is either doomed or doing a bellyglide over concrete at not unconsiderable speed.
Some of which may be under sedation, sleepy, sick, on ethanol...
Concentrate away! May the Force be with you.
Re: @Henry Wertz 1
> Boredom. The worst of all human diseases.
It is bring the boxcutter out in you!
> fairy dust
Don't most people think that way today? Interest in understanding how things are designed, produced or maintained is low. It's down there with proudly advertised ignorance about politics and economics ("too complicated for me, LOL"). Replaced by greenery, "social-mindedness" and proud marveling at the new gadget one bought on credit.
A sign posted on the bridge reads, "Stop! Pay troll!"
> Looks up, sees a ceiling instead of a bridge, nope - I'm not trolling! :)
I think the troll should be ON the bridge, blocking it. Not underneath.
Thanks, that makes sense.
Right.
> 157 Billion dollars is one quarter of their company value
That value is not the "company value". It is a hypothetical number with no basis in reality generated by overheated speculative fever - aka "a bubble" - due to people having too much cash. In other words, people just buy at that price because they hope to sell the day after for some profit. This is only gonna get worse, as Quantitative Easing 4 has now been given the go-ahead.
Re: Don't expect real news when reading The Register
If there needs to be "reasonable explanations" for a quiet, uneventful launch day at the Apple Stores, something sure is not quite right.
Re: 5 days?
But then why was the US "nuke-a-moon" program cancelled? And was Smoking Man involved in any way, kind or shape?
> Apple is taking an increasingly hard line against bulk purchasers in an effort to keep a lid on the grey market for hardware.
I thought they actually wanted to sell their stuff?
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