Japanese whalers cut season short

Aceofspades25 · 2 months

The Far Side: "I know you miss the Wainwrights, Bobby, but they were weak and stupid people - and that's why we have wolves and other large predators."

unclefred · 3 months

I keep remembering the Dave Barry line from, let's see...September 1990, when he was demonstrating that the word "weasel" makes anything funny:

WRONG: U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich

RIGHT: U.S. Rep. Weasel Gingrich

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900910&slug=1092368

Stevensa · 4 months

That update doesn't do anything about antenna sensitivity; it just speeds up getting ephemeris data, by pulling it over WiFi. And some people on XDA Forum have found that the update actually breaks their GPS.

I don't know, though; I noticed today that both Best Buy and Amazon are still listing GPS as a feature, so one could buy it, and be able to return it if the GPS doesn't work.

Stevensa · 4 months

I know they've made the GPS better. But, if it's bad enough that they're taking GPS off the spec sheet, and not putting it on the TF700T's, and giving refunds, then I have trouble believing that they've managed to fix the problem.

alley_almonds · 4 months

No camera.

Stevensa · 4 months

Do not get the Transformer Prime. The thing has a built-in Faraday cage. WiFi reception is impaired; GPS reception is such a joke they took it off the spec sheet and offered refunds to UK customers. (Why only UK, I don't know.)

The successor, the Transformer Prime TF700T, was announced at CES; it will cost $600 (for 32GB), with higher resolution, and has a plastic window in the back to let RF signals through—but they still didn't put GPS back on the spec sheet. If that's important to you, look elsewhere.

Asus also announced the MeMo 370T, which will be a $250 7" Tegra 3, due out in the second quarter. Only thing missing there will be a front-facing camera. (I suspect they had to drop something, and kept the rear-facing camera from the TPrime because it's gotten good reviews. Me, though, I want a tablet with a front camera, and don't care about the rear camera. I think.)

Me, I'm holding out for a quad-core Samsung. I was leaning toward the Galaxy Tab 8.9—almost the screen size of a 10", but weighing just under a pound—but the internals are kind of stale by now: a 1GHz Tegra 2, the same as, say, the original Xoom. Samsung has got to be working on a quad-core model; I'll wait for that.

metageek · 4 months

I like the idea of the Ethernet rings—a pair of rings that connect—but they should do something when connected.

scientologist2 · 11 months

No. I have the statutory basic plan, and I get my local channels in clear QAM. No cable box in sight.

scientologist2 · 11 months

The Cable Act of 1992 established a mandatory service level: for a regulated price (I pay $13, I think), you can get everything that you could get over the air. (In practice, since the cable company isn't going to go to the trouble of checking which channels each customer can get, this usually means "everything that someone in this area could get over the air".)

This was the same law that says the cable company can't charge you more to watch on multiple TVs—although, if you need set-top boxes, they can charge for those.

throwbone2 · 1 year

Like, say, Russia, or the Sahara?

mepper · 1 year

At themselves.

mepper · 1 year

The Necronomicon which has nice bits is not the true Necronomicon.

mepper · 1 year

It's worth noting that Android apps can include services, which do keep running in the background. They can't interact with the UI, though.

maxwellhill · 1 year

Absurd or cynical. Even if someone was one day away from completing their research, it'd take years to get regulatory approval. Maybe PETA knows this, and figures they can get some good press for an offer they'll never have to pay out on.

maxwellhill · 1 year

Right, because the cheese might be made from the chicken's mother's milk.

metageek · 1 year

This is the language I presented two years ago at the 2009 International Lisp Conference. It's finally ready for people to try out.

From the documentation:

Adder is a Lisp-1 which compiles to Python. It aims to integrate seamlessly into Python: every Adder function is a Python function, every Adder list is a Python list, etc.

Python-on-Lisp has been tried before; I think Adder has two advantages that previous attempts did not. The first is technical: Python's metaprogramming has gotten better in the past few years, which allows Adder to integrate more smoothly. The second is social: Clojure has prepared the ground for the notion of a Lisp that integrates into an existing language.

It has one bit of non-Lispy syntax: foo.bar.baz means exactly what it does in Python, and .bar.baz is a function, defined so that (.bar.baz foo) is identical to foo.bar.baz.

lisporter · 1 year

The actual question now is what can we do to help with the situation.

Not much, short of reforming the ACM. It's their policies that are the problem here. Really, these days, the ACM seems to do more to hold back the dissemination of CS research than to promote it.

NitrogenHater · 1 year

Nah, we just like explosions. Hence Mythbusters.

kraln · 1 year

"HTTP is what happens in the absence of good design." -- Keith Moore, at IETF-46

slap_shot_12 · 1 year

OK. I thought by pulpy you meant stuff that had been published in the pulps.

slap_shot_12 · 1 year

How pulpy? Gutenberg has lots of old stories from the pulps, from the 30s through the 60s.

slap_shot_12 · 1 year

Go browse through Project Gutenberg.

slap_shot_12 · 1 year

For Bujold, you don't need a bleeping Kindle. She's with Baen Books; all her stuff is available in DRM-free ePubs.

davebrk · 1 year

Yup. I stopped reading at:

I only have reasonable experience with Python and Java.

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