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Firefox and IE are basically the only good browsers still, I'm so sick of bugs like this on really important features.
https://code.google.com/p/chro...
http://jsfiddle.net/7C7ey/

But for distributing previews to the people you want to get feedback from (corrections, etc), a PDF is fine.

https://www.google.com/search?...

It looked so cool in "MSTK3000: The Movie" and "This Island Earth"

No they won't.

From here:

In addition, Google Public DNS engineers have proposed a technical solution called EDNS Client Subnet. This proposal allows resolvers to pass in part of the client's IP address (the first 24/64 bits or less for IPv4/IPv6 respectively) as the source IP in the DNS message, so that nameservers can return optimized results based on the user's location rather than that of the resolver. To date, we have deployed an implementation of the proposal for many large CDNs (including Akamai) and Google properties. The majority of geo-sensitive domain names are already covered.

Communism and dictatorship orthogonal to each other. One can exist without the other.

Dictatorship can exist without Communism, yes — Sulla was one example, Pinochet was another. Communism, on the other hand, can not exist without dictatorship — its economic ineptitude is such, that people revolt very quickly unless the Communists manage to gain dictatorial power.

communism was never reached, never even tried for, in the authoritarian socialist republics. Socialism by itself is thriving and well in Europe in Sweden, Danmark, Finland, France, and others

Your attempts to distinguish between Socialism and Communism are silly — Socialism is nothing but "Communism-lite". Says so in "Das Kapital"...

Those are the countries with some of the highest standards of living.

No, they aren't — their apartments and cars are smaller, and everything (that is not subsidized) is more expensive. And what good they do have, is despite their Socialism, not thanks to it.

Hugo Chavez was not a dictator

Well, maybe, there are subtle differences between "president for life" and "dictator", but I'm not aware of it.

He also left the country [Venezuela -mi] in better state than he found it for its people

And what sources can you cite to support this claim? Maybe, it is the quadrupling of the murder rate in the country, which makes it better "for its people"? Or its "wonderful" GDP growth (despite the spiking demand for oil)?

And you just did [caused a coup and installed a dictator -mi] it in Ukraine last year.

Wow... Am I talking to Joe Biden? Please, cite the sources proving both: a) the US caused a coup in Ukraine last year; b) the current President of Ukraine is a dictator.

The only period of sustained economic growth in your country? The economic and political hegemony?

I asked you, what did the US grab — as you alleged we did. The hegemony was simply due to the fact, we weren't destroyed by the bombings — thanks to geography, not any premeditated evil plan... Our laissez-faire Capitalism may have had something to do with our economic power too.

Cared for defeating Hitler and the Nazis? Stopping the atrocities?

Nothing was known by the outside world about Hitler's atrocities until circa 1943 — when Polish intelligence managed to smuggle some proofs from their (occupied) country. Earlier rumors were dismissed as anti-German propaganda. One of us, indeed, ignorant of history...

Of course, by 1943 we already deeply involved — helping our allies both economically and militarily — because we did (and do) care for these values even if we didn't know the worst of it, when we started.

When I make arguments, list couple articles on wikipedia

Listing a couple of articles does not make an argument. You can cite such articles to support an argument, but you didn't... Your arguments — and I am using the term loosely — were quite apart from the links you gave.

First go and learn history and politics

Shkolota, my knowledge of history and politics far exceeds yours — and even that of your Kremlin handlers :-)

The question mark was missing from the link.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Citation as to the fact that both companies are big boys who can make business deals without our help, or as to Level3 saying the traditional "sender pays" rule is proper? For the latter, here are a few thousand references:

https://www.google.com/searchq...

Common fallacy.
Not every move needs to be about shareholder value. That is only the case if their mission statement is:

"Every move is to optimize shareholder earning regardless of the damage it does to people."

Example from https://www.google.com/about/c...:
"You can make money without doing evil.

Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we’re ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:

We don’t allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find–so it’s possible that certain searches won’t lead to any ads at all.

We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don’t accept pop–up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you’ve requested. We’ve found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.

Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a “Sponsored Link,” so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust."

You could say that means they aren't optimized strictly for shareholder value;which is correct.

Of course, the better google is in the public eye, the more there value increases as well.

... right here.

Crop yields down? Seriously.

https://www.google.com/search?...

This search returns pages of charts shooing increased crop yields (for states, the whole US, other countries) over time. In fact the big worry in farming in the US this year is the price of corn dropping precipitously because of a bumper crop.

A body that does not absorb all incident radiation (sometimes known as a grey body) emits less total energy than a black body and is characterized by an emissivity, epsilon
j* = epsilon * sigma * T^4

In the above equation, using the "dot" notation which YOU pointed out to ME, j is energy and j* is power. This isn't just Wikipedia. It is very easy to find this relation in other sources as well:

Here is "A Textbook of Engineering Thermodynamics . The section on radiative power of a gray body:

Since all bodies are continuously receiving and radiating thermal energy, energy radiating from unit area (all this energy is absorbed by the black surroundings) = sigma * emissivity * T^4

The example goes on to express heat transfer between long co-axial cylinders using heat transfer equations similar to those we discussed before. But heat transfer is NOT the same as the radiative power of a SINGLE gray body at steady-state. Power out is a function of emissivity and temperature ONLY. Heat transfer from one surface to another requires 2 bodies, or 2 surfaces of the same body. But note that the equation for power out clearly implies it is independent of transfer to cooler bodies.

You can also find it here. In this case, note that it gives the equation for power output as distinct from radiation "loss" (heat transfer). BECAUSE THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. One is the power output of a SINGLE gray body at a given temperature. The other is radiative transfer to another body. One requires ONLY emissivity and temperature to calculate. The other involves 2 bodies.

Is this clear yet? Or are you going to continue to erroneously claim that radiative POWER output is dependent on the presence of cooler bodies? Do you really need more examples, or are you finally willing to admit you have been proved wrong? If you need more examples of this, you can find them with a quick search of the 'net. I just did, since I don't have a good way to link to my textbooks.

but can't spot missing Malaysian airlines !!

I spotted missing Malaysia Airlines here!

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

... On January 2, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan seas. ...

(French original: ... Le 2 janvier, nous avions fait onze mille trois cent quarante milles, soit cinq mille deux cent cinquante lieues, depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

... We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. ...

(French original: ... Nous avions fait alors seize mille deux cent vingt milles, ou sept mille cinq cents lieues depuis notre point de départ dans les mers du Japon. ... )

The only thing making sense here is that the miles are (quite understandably) nautical (1,852 meters), and that the leagues are French metric (4,000 meters).

Mind you, the (perhaps tired) English translator didn't get it always right:

... We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the Nautilus then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,200 pounds to each square two-fifths of an inch of its surface. ...

...which makes little sense. But even here, the French original comes to our rescue with being completely unambiguous:

... Nous avions atteint une profondeur de seize mille mètres — quatre lieues — et les flancs du Nautilus supportaient alors une pression de seize cents atmosphères, c'est-à-dire seize cents kilogrammes par chaque centimètre carré de sa surface! ...

http://www.google.com/trends/e...

No one used that bogus "manchildren" term until very recently. Feminazi shitcunt detected.

Take a look at some of the articles that pop up with a Google search...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Just when victory was about to be had, the terrorists accused the doctors and workers of being American spies and killed an aide worker.

But not because Americans didn't use doctors and workers for their war shattering the hard earned trust.

Who put them and all the people at risk in the first place only to get what the CIA wanted?

NASA found that 441 grams/cm^2 of silicon dioxide (Moon dust) would be sufficient shielding, which equals 4.41 tons/m^2. Hibernation dangers and personal preference regarding books may vary, of course.

Here is my favorite one.

Thanks!

BTW, a quick google search indicates that the word "conservative" appears nowhere on that site.

Either the government has to declare you to be the bad guy, or CNN does. https://www.google.com/search?...

Exactly. And now the government must be stoked that it will have a test case to bring to the Supreme Court so that the Supreme Court can twist out some "logic" to say parallel construction is OK. They say that bad facts make bad law, and Ubrecht is fairly unlikeable, what with the attempts to find a hit man. From a "destroy the 4th" perspective, this case is even better than Smith v. Maryland: http://www.google.com/url?q=ht... (*). The Feds must be creaming their pants in anticipation of having parallel construction deemed constitutional.

(*) This is the grandfather of our massive indiscriminate surveillance policy. The short summary is that the police were too lazy to get a search warrant that would surely have been granted, simply had the phone company set one up. And although it dealt with a single individual, with specific facts sufficient for a warrant, and covered a specific and short time period, the Third Party Doctrine took on a different character after that, being applied to all people, in the absence of any evidence, for all time.

Anyone have experience with non-root tether apps on Android?

If you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty with adb and OpenVPN, you can take a look at azilink. It basically runs a Java-based NAT on your phone, which communicates with OpenVPN on your computer. I had some issues with the app on the phone crashing once in a while, but for the most part it works. It might work better for you.

FYI: XP support ended on April 8, 2014, 12 years after release (per the top link off the Google link).

https://www.google.com/search?...

I guess under these standards the papua new guinea indigenous dress would be considered pornography and 'child pornography'.

Real pornography happens within people's heads and minds, not on film or pictures. Government is not authorised to destroy individual freedoms this way, however once you allow the government to take some freedoms away, allow it to take away most of your private property ownership and operation rights, you lose your bodies to the government as well, which is why in many respects, the government sees itself as your owner, where your income belongs to it, your property belongs to it unless it allows you to keep some and where your bodies and your lives belong to it as well.

The TSA agents feeling up your private parts or taking your naked pictures, the prison sentences for narcotics possession or sale, the capital punishment for anything at all really, the wars, the murder of civilians in cases of so called 'collateral damage', the 'civil forfeiture', etc.etc. all of these are indicators of the unauthorised usurped powers that government enjoys and that the individuals lost.

So we have: sea ice that might be just a little lower than normal in certain parts of Alaska, but pretty normal overall.

I suppose that depends on your definition of normal, for example it's about 2 million square kilometers below the average for 1980-2010, which hardly seems to qualify as normal. I can a reason see why you would choose an average of the lowest years on record for comparison, but it's not a very flattering reason.

No, they don't. They have the power to tell the captain, and the captain has the power to tell the authorities on the ground who do have the power to arrest.

Yes they can.

We're talking about the very divided urban/rural China here, not the US where we have widespread suburban recreational agriculture like you're describing. Urban Sprawl is a monstrosity caused by all sorts of poorly reasoned policies, and in the US it's probably the single biggest source of unnecessary environmental harm.

As for a general scientific citation about the costs of microfarming versus organized industrial scale farming I'm going to have to say I don't have one. For multiple reasons, the first people that "environmental harm" is a subjective measure that only appears in aggregate for an entire eco system, and also because I'm not aware of anyone trying to study any of the more objective measures specifically with respect to it.

As an argument by example, however, I'd point at the economic and environmental differences between Haiti and the Dominican republic as an example. Just look at the border on google maps

Let me guess: the fate of our universe depends on us winning the next Tetris tournament, because the other guys have won the last nine. One sage but somewhat aloof character - Christopher Lambert, perhaps, but with a Russian accent - will gather together a diverse team of fighters - no, arcade junkies - to battle an alien invasion force that has overwhelming technological superiority. Except that instead of actual battles, we'll get head-to-head Tetris. I can't wait for the cinemasins version of that

From a quick google search: http://books.google.com/books?... and http://www.springer.com/engine...

PS: NASA uses the term "microgravity" for almost-zero-G, which is a different concept.

Last time they had a $99 tablet they sold like mad. This should work out well. :D

On my Android, I already use Automatic Call Recorder Pro. Records all calls, or can whitelist/blacklist contacts if you just want to record unsolicited calls. Uploads semi-automatically to a number of back-end cloud services.
https://play.google.com/store/...

There seem to be numerous automatic sound recorders that trigger on sound level. A few searches of the play store turn up dozens, some with good reviews. [And the ones with mixed reviews seem to be device specific errors...]

For this new vulnerabilty, there are no toy-command-checks yet I believe. But in the meantime, try the "Fun Shellshock test with curl" on the NAS boxes in your neighborhood (or anywhere else this Google search points you to).

And note that as a bonus the web server on that NAS already runs as root, so there is no need for a "privilege escalation" vulnerability. Nothing to escalate, you start from the top already.

There's a bit of open interest all the way out to Jan2016 options.

https://www.google.com/finance...

Obviously a lot more on the call side than the put side though.

This is from my head, so I'm sorry if it's not complete or includes apps not considered part of the GMS suite.

Other than Gmail, Play Store, Youtube, and Maps I can think of:
Play Music, Play Books, Play Games, Play Movies & TV, Play Newsstand, Google search, Google voice search, Google Translate, the Chromecast app, Google+, Google Now, Drive, Chrome, Hangouts, and Google Wallet.

That's nineteen of the twenty I guess. I don't really use the movies/tv app or the newsstand app. The rest I do to some extent. I wonder if the separate Google Settings icon is considered part of the apps suite, or if maybe the Chromecast integration isn't.

Are the default clock, calendar, contacts, calculator, and SMS messaging app (that they keep trying to obsolete in favor of Hangouts) part of the suite?

Google as it turns out has a list of apps for Android and another for iOS in case you want their apps on Apple hardware. Some of those I didn't think to list above.

This is from my head, so I'm sorry if it's not complete or includes apps not considered part of the GMS suite.

Other than Gmail, Play Store, Youtube, and Maps I can think of:
Play Music, Play Books, Play Games, Play Movies & TV, Play Newsstand, Google search, Google voice search, Google Translate, the Chromecast app, Google+, Google Now, Drive, Chrome, Hangouts, and Google Wallet.

That's nineteen of the twenty I guess. I don't really use the movies/tv app or the newsstand app. The rest I do to some extent. I wonder if the separate Google Settings icon is considered part of the apps suite, or if maybe the Chromecast integration isn't.

Are the default clock, calendar, contacts, calculator, and SMS messaging app (that they keep trying to obsolete in favor of Hangouts) part of the suite?

Google as it turns out has a list of apps for Android and another for iOS in case you want their apps on Apple hardware. Some of those I didn't think to list above.

Still waiting for examples of how to exploit this (remotely or otherwise), without using an existing hole to do so.

Plesk has a test.cgi file enabled by default. Here, go exploit all these hosts:
https://www.google.com/search?...

Read Google's privacy policy: http://www.google.com/policies.... It seems fairly readable to me. A list per-service might be theoretically useful, but I doubt a normal human would read through each of them.

But take a moment and look at what Google offers here. Google lets you see most of your data on your account dashboard, view and edit your search history, view and edit what ad categories are targeted at you, sign up for account activity reports, and has fairly readable multi-lingual help pages. That's better than almost anyone else.

Maybe Google's advertising practices or monopoly power are issues, but on the issue of data transparency, I think they passed the "good enough" level quite some time ago. The real issue appears to be that even if a company provides good information, no one will bother to look at it.

If you are asking for "real proof", that goes both ways.

So until there's proof, there's no valid reason to change current practice. Let sales and marketing provide proof, as opposed to hand-waving, that the current practice needs to be changed. The onus is on them, since they want the change.

This had been appreciated by our support and developer community, as they can readily see what issues are addressed and what new features have been introduced.

You don't need to make your internal bug tracking software public to do this. You only have to provide release notes. You can go one step further and publish a roadmap if you feel that is helpful. But none of this requires you to "air your dirty laundry". The fact he tries validate his decision with facts that don't actually back him up just shows me he doesn't have a very good argument.

I've emphasized the word "support", because the people doing the support are most likely the customer's in-house staff. If they're giving good feedback to their bosses, how is that a counter-argument? To the contrary, it does bolster his claims that it's good for business.

People know all software has bugs. Hasn't stopped Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Amazon, from doing business. If marketing doesn't know how to "feature" this openness - by emphasizing the responsiveness to users (not that it's open per se), then they're idiots.

If people are so knowledgeable about the fact all software has bugs, why do none of the huge companies you mention openly list their internal bug tracking data? They all have huge and experiences sales and marketing departments, and all of them feel it is not a good idea. Some cloud companies do publish very detailed uptime and maintenance reports, but that is because of how wary companies still are about trusting another company's uptime statistics. They still don't openly publish unfixed bugs

That one took only seconds to debunk. The number one smartphone software in the world in terms of sales has a public searchable bug list., including open bugs. FreeBSD, which is the base of OSX and which Apple contributes heavily to, lets anyone browse all bug reports or just open ones.

Apparently the idiots downvoting have no clue.

The Mythbusters demonstrated it's plausible that driving distances less than 400 miles is faster than flying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's almost exactly a 400 mile journey that takes 6 hours.

https://www.google.com/maps/di...

And if you're hauling a month's worth of stuff, or a family, you might not want to stuff it in a single checked bag.

I'm not saying we should consider them legitimate or anything of the kind. But claiming that they are "not Islamic" sounds like claiming that the child molesting Irish priests weren't Catholic.

Those Irish priests were recognized by the leaders of the Church as members of the Church.
I don't know any prominent Muslim Clerics saying that ISIL actions are in line with Islamic teaching. (I can find the opposite though)

I am making the assumption that despite calling yourself X, the authorities of X have to agree with you for it to be true.

Thanks for that suggestion.

Here you can find strange videos related to sci-fi and life from outer space :
True sci-fi vidz

Enjoy !

It's no mystery as to why the number of board feet of timber harvested in NFS controlled lands in 1988 was nearly 12 billion, while in 1999 it was less than 2 billion (2013 was a similar number).

While I don't discount the fact that presidential policies might have had an effect, but do you think that maybe there were less trees harvested in 2013 because they had all either died and decomposed or burned already? Take a trip to a Western forest affected by Mountain Pine Beetle and it will be evident when you look up the mountain side and see 90% of the trees standing dead. Here's some images that should give you an idea

I don't care which part of "the light bulb" fails. When it doesn't light up, the entire thing needs to be replaced.

BUT... you can get CFLs that don't have the transformer/ballast built in.

Here's what a ballast looks like:
https://www.google.com/search?...

The problem is, we are trying to adapt CFLs to Incandescent sockets. Buy new lamps and you wont have this problem anymore. The CFLs you're getting have about the cheapest ballasts that can be made in them and the airflow through them is awful. In an ideal setup you'd have these ballasts elsewhere... where they can remain cool. Each ballast would run multiple bulbs for years without issue.

Take a ballast, shrink it down small enough to fit into an incandescent base and seal it in plastic? Yea... not going to last very long.

That's neat. The demo takes in the video from a video game of the Pong/Donkey Kong era, can operate the controls, and in addition has the score info. It then learns to play the game. How to do that?

It's been done before, but not this generally. "Pengi", circa 1990, played Pengo using only visual input from the screen. It had hand-written heuristics, but only needed vision input from the game. So we have a starting point.

The first problem is feature extraction from vision. What do you want to take from the image of the game that you can feed into an optimizer? Motion and change, mostly. Something like an MPEG encoder, which breaks an image into moving blocks and tracks their motion, would be needed. I doubt they're doing that with a neural net.

Now you have a large number of time-varying scalar values, which is what's needed to feed a neural net. The first thing to learn is how the controls affect the state of the game. Then, how the state of the game affects the score.

I wonder how fast this thing learns, and how many tries it needs.