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When it is extra-cranial, this will be big news. For these implants the main thought observed is likely to be "whoa - why did I let these guys stick wires directly into my brain?"
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Developers have a year to rework their apps before it shuts down. It wouldn't parse?
One reason I'm a little skeptical of "Blank As A Service" platforms.
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We're exactly six months through Microsoft's unprecedented free upgrade offer for Windows 10. The offer officially expires July 29, 2016, on the one-year anniversary of the new operating system's release. But what happens then? I see three possible scenarios. They start nagging you to upgrade to Windows 11?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They start nagging you to upgrade to Windows 11?
1. They need no! With W10 they already rule your updates, so it will update automatically to the next version...
2. W10 is the last version of the Windows family so there will be no 11 (only 10.123454354363453275464352343214321432434...)
3. W10 will downgrade itself to 8, and you will have to buy it back...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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01/31/2016 Politico: [^]
"Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer in May, said earlier this month that vast troves of research were "trapped in silos, preventing faster progress and greater reach to patients." While few researchers disagree, many are still reluctant to share the raw data used in their research, posing big obstacles to the vice president’s initiative.
The tension boiled over this month when Jeffrey Drazen, editor of the New England Journal, and co-author Dan Longo, wrote in an op-ed that while sharing was all well and good, it had to be done collaboratively, not by "data parasites" who stole or misused work that might have taken bench scientists decades to assemble. The editorial did not mention Biden’s initiative, but many commenters noted its relevance.
Over a snowbound weekend, the Twittersphere exploded with angry attacks on the Journal, which gave the impression of an ivory tower beset by flame-throwing iconoclasts. Geneticist Michael Eisen, at the University of California, Berkeley, decried the editorial (which Drazen toned down four days later) as "one of the most shockingly anti-science things ever written."
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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So, no copyright on that research, or would that be a bridge too far?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The modern car's operating system is such a mess that researchers were once able to get complete control of a vehicle by playing a song laced with malicious code.
Malware encoded in the track was executed after the file was loaded from a CD and processed by a buggy parser.
What kind of music you are listening to in your car?
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Binary, best kind of music.
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Binary? Well, yes and no...
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Imagine what they could achieve if they played the song backward !!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Jochen Arndt wrote: What kind of music you are listening to in your car?
Hits and Pieces by Hacky and the Buffer Overflows
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Mostly metalcore, but your message makes me think to scan my playlists....
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That sounds scary!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. Kerbal Space Program, cuneiform edition
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There is no evidence in the Wikipedia article for "using data collected by Babylonians."
There is evidence for the possible use of a "Babylonian" model in calculating eclipses in one of the "dials" of the device; there's also evidence for Egyptian influence, since one of the other "dials" has intervals marked with Egyptian terms directly translated into the Greek of the time (koine).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00407-014-0145-5
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/355836
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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There is a video (BBC) explaining the analyze that was conducted lately.
In this video, it is obvious that data from babylonian astronomers was used.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Windows Phone started off life as a promising alternative to Android and iOS five years ago. "No no! 'E's pining!"
Put this post next to the "Surface Phone coming soon". Maybe one will be right.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: promising alternative to Android and iOS
Keyword: promising
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Was it ever actually alive?
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The real problem is that it has a low market share so developers overlook it, therefore apps are missing (even the big app provider seldom have working and up to date WP versions), for this reason people don't buy it and that's why it has a low market share.
I have one Windows Phone and it is astonishingly fast, it crashed only once in over a year - usually I NEVER shut it down, it's on 24/7 for months - and nver disappointed me, while costing like the lowest possible Android. I had several Androids before, costing up to 250€, and all were garbage afer six months: several MINUTES to wait before the telephony application openes up, meaning if I'm to call 911 for an emergency I'd be elephanted up for sure.
Battery life is more than double my previous Androids and the usage is the same if not a bit more.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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I don't doubt that they're good phones, but that doesn't mean that people will buy them. They need the likes of Apple to help market their product. Both my daughters have Apple phones, and they are always breaking and failing. My Google Nexus by comparison is utterly reliable.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Definitely agree: same for me.
I'd also add that I'll probably fall to a plain "old" phone back when my Lumia 800 stops working...
No reasons at all to switch to an Android, yet to money to throw for an Apple.
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That's my idea too, but I'm quite comfortable having a web browser and WhatsApp (some of my contacts use only that, also it's useful being able to receive photos for a number of domestic reasons) so I'll probably stick with Lumia as long as they're produced.
I feel only the lack of a proper GPS system, here where I live it misses me of several km and the maps are stupid - they lack the indications of where is the tube and they give me the position of the bus stops but not WHICH busses pass through them. Google does not develope its fairly functional Google Maps for iphone and blocks IE - I can't use the web version. There are a number of rogue alternatives that access Google Maps but are rooted out periodically.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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