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The latest version of iOS is in fact 9.2.1—but it was released on 19 January 2016. (Screenshot for archival reference.)

I for one am really excited about this new feature:

https://i.imgur.com/P82GvlT.gi...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

Idiocracy - and now all scientists research Bigger Dicks as society collapses.

Idiocracy scientist monkey boner measure:
http://i.imgur.com/DN6qb8I.png

- Tsarkon Reports

Opposite day!

We're ready if you are.

a lot of stacking in there too : Sega CD, Megadrive, 32X, Action Replay, Sonic and Knuckles, earlier Sonic game..

This one sounds real! http://imgur.com/7HrfvtZ

"The banking sector is meant to be highly competitive so that scarce capital (savings) is efficiently allocated to the businesses that will produce the best real returns on it."

This has never been the truth.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

I like imagr. I have no affiliation (not even an affiliate marketing link on my website).

There are no charge options that are possibly good enough for most people and that I like better than Google-Photos, but I have found that even the paid account ($25/yr) which is what I have is worthwhile for someone who needs lots of high resolution online and offline options.

Naturally free is better, so maybe Amzon is right for you, but I would encourage you to check it out if you have a few minutes. You can't have too many free options, in case ... well, in case what is happening with Google and Picassa ... users left in the lurch and needing to scramble for alternative options.

It's got some kind of social media thing going which I pay no attention to, just always log right into my account. What I like best is you can post images to websites (forums, etc) and they don't leave your posts orphaned like so many of the usually touted options do (cough! photobucket! cough!) when you don't log in often enough or by displacing older images for newer ones.

http://imgur.com/

You are the useful idiot in the middle.

Just scam them from Martin Shkreli's dumb ass.

Forget the UN, now Apple's lawyers are going to come after him... http://i.imgur.com/LEx7WBQ.jpg

The ones I first worked out on my own were that all whole numbers were the result of the sum of a single set of only primes raised to powers (2^3 + 5 + 11^2) or the *product* of a single set of primes raised to powers (2 * 3^2 * 7). Then some teacher told me there was no chain rule for integration, and I found the chain rule essentially a mental mathematics strategy for solving complex derivatives, so I took the next 40 minutes to analyze several integration exercises and produced integration by parts (which we learned about a week later--what a waste of time). Simple stuff.

My favorite one was physics tensile problems. I *hated* tensile problems. To solve a tensile problem, we had to carry out a seven-step algorithm in which we'd break down each angle into its horizontal and vertical component vectors, then solve the right triangle for each, and combine the solution's horizontal and vertical vectors, solving for the hypotenuse.

In that picture, consider T1 and T2 as the length of those sides (they're the tension on each rope or whatnot they represent). M is the hanging mass. As it turns out, you can get a triangle by placing a line of length M between the top left point (where angle Theta is) and the bottom right vertex (where T2 meets the vertical wall); or by moving T2 *without rotating it* such that any of its vertexes connects to any of T1's vertexes, and then connecting the remaining two with a line of length M. I recognized this largely by mathematical result.

Pick a set. You'll either end up with two sides and an angle or two angles and a side. You can now glance at this diagram, apply the Law of Cosines, and solve it in one step. When I showed my physics teacher, he said he didn't see any mathematical reason that would work, although it *did* work on every problem we tried. Should have asked the Asian chick who took every form of math there was when she went to college; my teacher was largely a materials science type of guy.

Obviously, this one's my favorite because it's a *much* simpler way to tackle an irritatingly tedious problem *and* my academic superiors could never understand why it worked. That means I didn't waste my time figuring out some mathematical trick I could have found by flipping a dozen pages ahead in the book. As far as I know, this is a known technique, but *very* few sources mention using either the law of sines or the law of cosines to solve tension triangles.

This is why math was always fun for me. I reflected a lot on how it all fit together.

...a 13 years old joke: http://imgur.com/iEy7v7O

Another explanation (at least according to github) is that white women are some of the biggest barriers to progress.

Perhaps it is simply the result of men being good feminists and rejecting pull requests from women in order to promote greater diversity and inclusion in tech. I don't know if the authors of the study also factored in race to their data analysis though.

Well, given what passes for trolling online, we really need to help educate people on how to be better allys.

You know which one

Sexual Misconduct explained:

Sexual Misconduct explained

You're mistaken -- the cheese convention was a few weeks ago, on 1/11.

Seriously. I turned off ad block to see how their main page looked, and I get two versions of the autoplaying, rapidly animated banner ad. Out of curiosity, I cropped and measured the screen area used by ads and content: 36% ads, 30% headlines/graphics, 34% header/whitespace. That's not really winning me over.

Then again, this commenting page is no better when it loads...

Sources: http://imgur.com/a/8fto4

Gary Larson predicted this.

Well I'll have nothing to do with GitHub in futurehttp://uk.businessinsider.com/...

If you didn't see any attacks on gamers, you are willingly blinding yourself to the issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://imgur.com/gallery/FzbfI...
http://www.reaxxion.com/10765/...
http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2014...

It appears that this tumblr collects information about people being harassed for supporting gamergate.
http://gamergateharassment.tum...

And here is a site that explains what happened from the gamergate perspective. Since your post above is so wildly accusatory, it might be good for you to read it as it goes into quite a bit of detail about the ethics issues being brought up, and how it was the gaming journalists themselves that were talking about it being a harassment campaign when they didn't want to defend themselves for the clear ethics violations being brought up.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...

"While that's true, AMD hasn't had a strong product launch since 2012."

AMD hasn't NEEDED a strong product launch, considering the lack-luster performance of the mobile i5 versus an old as dirt Athlon II.

She has some very good points though. It's funny to watch the videos with all the male characters having strategic butt coverings, but not female characters.

You don't play very many video games huh? Sure is strategic butt covering in here.

People overreact though, "raawr, she wants to change my game very slightly!" And GG had some very repulsive actors in it, they don't know how to debate so they decide to send threats.

Sure thing, lots of death threats there. You of course realize it's not a slightly. How's that Fire Emblem censorship going? SFV? GTA5? Those claims that gamers just "being localized" and all that(except of course when it's something they like...like steven universe then it's censorship)? If she actually gave a shit on anything she said, she'd make her own games and let the market decide if they're worth anything or not. But nope, she'd rather run to the UN and claim that criticism is harassment. And being told to prove her arguments is harassment.

She has some very good points though. It's funny to watch the videos with all the male characters having strategic butt coverings, but not female characters.

You don't play very many video games huh? Sure is strategic butt covering in here.

People overreact though, "raawr, she wants to change my game very slightly!" And GG had some very repulsive actors in it, they don't know how to debate so they decide to send threats.

Sure thing, lots of death threats there. You of course realize it's not a slightly. How's that Fire Emblem censorship going? SFV? GTA5? Those claims that gamers just "being localized" and all that(except of course when it's something they like...like steven universe then it's censorship)? If she actually gave a shit on anything she said, she'd make her own games and let the market decide if they're worth anything or not. But nope, she'd rather run to the UN and claim that criticism is harassment. And being told to prove her arguments is harassment.

I understand. I am insulated to the point where it doesn't even matter who gets elected. The entire US economy could collapse and I'd be fine. Hell, the world could go to hell in a bucket and I'd be fine. Literally, I'll be fine. My kids will be fine. I didn't want to have irresponsible jackasses for kids so they do have trust accounts (managed, market based) but those don't provide them with a lot of income. Yes, they could not work - if they really wanted to. But, they'd be pretty unhappy. Well, sort of?

My son's cheating and living in Peru but soon I'll be loaning (not giving, he didn't ask for a gift - smart kid, and he's not wanting to touch his trust) him the money to buy a nice, but small, bar and hotel in Peru. He can pay the money back or pay me a percentage of the profits until he does. He's supporting himself and his girlfriend's family from his trust. It's not a lot of money here but the smart ass kid went to Peru where ~3k USD/mo is good money. He was in college, he was working on a masters in the biology studies. He went to Peru on a summer trip to help collect and collect/process/sequence the DNA in some endangered plants. He found a nice, really beautiful too, native Peruvian and never returned to school. So, no... He's not exactly productive. He's smoking weed and sexing a beautiful native but having a good time, I'd probably have done the same thing at his age - except that wasn't really an option.

So, it's not an age thing. It's just a large group of them - my kids peers are mostly doing okay. They still keep in touch with "the old man." I get phone calls, emails, and pictures to let me know what's going on in my kid's peers lives. Most of them are pretty good and I suspect that's a part of the selection bias. Yes, it's probably a bit odd but my kid's friends still call me up, still keep in touch, still inflate my ego by calling for advice, and still consider me a confidante. Hell, some of them have even spent time living with me - even after the kids left. Meh... They know they've always got a home and if they really need something then they have only but to ask and they're not even my kids. So, no... It's not an age thing.

I can't put my finger on it, exactly what is wrong, and enumerate all the issues that I see. I simply lack the communication skills and the time. I can't say what began it but I can speculate. I can't say where it's going and, again, I could speculate. The thing is, as I began this message I mentioned this, I'm insulated. I'll be fine - no matter what. So, it's not like I'm worried because it's going to impact me and mine. Hell, even my grandkids (when they build me some) will be fine but I'm not leaving them a lot either. I will not be accountable for having enabled trashy people. They'll be all set and get to go to school and whatnot. I did well in life but the kids still have to live lives of their own and earn respect the hard way. The rest is getting left to a variety of charities and a few trusts that will keep things running (and giving) in perpetuity.

I dunno? All I know is that I've a limited sphere of influence but that I'm doing what I can. Like you, I too see problems. I really don't know if we'll be okay just because we've been okay up until now. That's a bit like saying that my house hasn't burned down yet so it's sure to not burn in the future. But then, I get stuff like what I'm about to link to.

http://i.imgur.com/V1vizoJ.png

Just before I pushed the reply button, I opened my email and noticed that. It makes me almost weep for humanity. It's just a small image. That's not editing, that's real, and it's oh so very timely. No, it's not just the kids... It's not just education. It's a cultural rot that is visible in academia and many, many other areas. Alas, I could go on but I suspect we're on the same page.

You are correct. Not only that, the learning objective with drag and drop might be colloquially called "coding" but in reality it might be to teach the logic of problem solving and the logic of coding using graphics

I use Simulink for a living. This is exactly what it it is, the buzz word is "Model Based Control". It doesn't mean I spend any less time trying to figure out the logic of how things work. Our whiteboards at work are covered with sketched block diagrams on how we need to implement a strategy.

Almost every company I know of has moved on past C for their engineers and just has them design and implement algorithms in Simulink. It's why the are a lot of positions open for Simulink across the country.

It writes better C faster than I ever could. Including C that meets ISO® 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and related functional safety standards such as IEC 62304 and it's cutting development time in half

I got an Arduino Robot the other day and I spent more time messing around with C than I ever have with Simulink. I can make a control system to run a 16 cylinder engine in a half an hour. Drag and drop an engine speed sensor, drag and drop injector block. Toss in some PID control and it's done. Right now I would kill for a Python equivalent of Simulink but nothing comes close, I'm about ready to just make an Arduino mako template so I can teach python to write my C for me.

Not that people that need to know C disappeared, they're just the ones writing our 'device drivers' for Simulink. When I drag and drop a "Digital I/O" block into the model I trust that they made it so it works. (And sometimes it doesn't, but that's all code). It validates the datatypes. Does fixed pointing in a straight forward manner. I know most people think autogenerated code is big and scary but I trust it better than I trust some guy that took a few C courses in college.

Additionally it's much easier to let engineers do stuff how engineers do them and programmers how programmers do things and not make the engineers learn programming or the programmers learn engineering. (Not that we don't exist, but we write the device drivers)

It's why a lot of dev boards also have Simulink libraries. It's not that I don't know C or assembly it's that I'm tired of dicking with it and just want to make a controller. I can take the same Simulink model and compile it for multiple vendors and even different devices for that vendor.

I can swap dev boards without changing any of my model logic in a few seconds. Even compile it for FPGAs and PLCs.

Further reading:

1. http://papers.sae.org/2013-01-...
2. https://www.mathworks.com/tagt...
3. http://www.mathworks.com/compa...

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You are correct. Not only that, the learning objective with drag and drop might be colloquially called "coding" but in reality it might be to teach the logic of problem solving and the logic of coding using graphics

I use Simulink for a living. This is exactly what it it is, the buzz word is "Model Based Control". It doesn't mean I spend any less time trying to figure out the logic of how things work. Our whiteboards at work are covered with sketched block diagrams on how we need to implement a strategy.

Almost every company I know of has moved on past C for their engineers and just has them design and implement algorithms in Simulink. It's why the are a lot of positions open for Simulink across the country.

It writes better C faster than I ever could. Including C that meets ISO® 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and related functional safety standards such as IEC 62304 and it's cutting development time in half

I got an Arduino Robot the other day and I spent more time messing around with C than I ever have with Simulink. I can make a control system to run a 16 cylinder engine in a half an hour. Drag and drop an engine speed sensor, drag and drop injector block. Toss in some PID control and it's done. Right now I would kill for a Python equivalent of Simulink but nothing comes close, I'm about ready to just make an Arduino mako template so I can teach python to write my C for me.

Not that people that need to know C disappeared, they're just the ones writing our 'device drivers' for Simulink. When I drag and drop a "Digital I/O" block into the model I trust that they made it so it works. (And sometimes it doesn't, but that's all code). It validates the datatypes. Does fixed pointing in a straight forward manner. I know most people think autogenerated code is big and scary but I trust it better than I trust some guy that took a few C courses in college.

Additionally it's much easier to let engineers do stuff how engineers do them and programmers how programmers do things and not make the engineers learn programming or the programmers learn engineering. (Not that we don't exist, but we write the device drivers)

It's why a lot of dev boards also have Simulink libraries. It's not that I don't know C or assembly it's that I'm tired of dicking with it and just want to make a controller. I can take the same Simulink model and compile it for multiple vendors and even different devices for that vendor.

I can swap dev boards without changing any of my model logic in a few seconds. Even compile it for FPGAs and PLCs.

Further reading:

1. http://papers.sae.org/2013-01-...
2. https://www.mathworks.com/tagt...
3. http://www.mathworks.com/compa...

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I like LXDE for its simplicity and speed. I don't need (or want) "pretty" so much as I want functional. LXDE is functional for me. I'm even able to make it look good (in my view). Here's an image that I took a while back - it's "busy" but it's not normally that busy.

http://i.imgur.com/8u6dr2r.png

The dock at the top only appears when I mouse-over the top and off-screen. That's not really a part of LXDE but I made it with the tools offered to manage task bars. Err... I'm not sure that was the goal of those who offered such tools but with the right settings, that's what I made. It works well enough and I think it looks fine.

LXDE is fast on older hardware and blazingly fast on new hardware. I guess Lubuntu is moving to LXQt so I'll have to see where that goes. Supposedly, it is much the same. I've not yet pulled down the 16.04 beta build to see what changes I can look forward to. I tried them all - well, all the fairly popular ones. There's little bloat with LXDE, it's straight forward, it's stable, it's light, it doesn't have a bunch of features that I'm not interested in, it's fairly basic but still robust enough for customization, and it results in something familiar to me.

So, I went with LXDE.

Anyhow, I had to say something. I mean, it looked like you were legitimately asking for information and not actually trying to flame, argue, or fight. Someone's gotta say something. Everyone's got their ego tied to such trivial things and anything seen as a slight will be taken personally. It's like a presumption that everyone wants to fight as opposed to converse, it's silly and it results in people fighting/arguing and doing stupid shit instead of actually communicating and learning. All because someone's ego is so frail and accomplishments so few that they're tied to some silly bit of software and anyone not conforming is not affirming their choice... It has to be an uncomfortable way to live one's life. I can't imagine what their interpersonal relationships look like.

Yup.

Our probes have established that blowing sand is basically a non-issue on Mars.

Martian dust? You mean the stuff that is believed to have killed Mars 3 through coronal discharge? That may have led to Pathfinder's battery failure? That did this to Curiosity's coin?

Nasa says:

Mars’ dust storms aren’t totally innocuous, however. Individual dust particles on Mars are very small and slightly electrostatic, so they stick to the surfaces they contact like Styrofoam packing peanuts.

“If you’ve seen pictures of Curiosity after driving, it’s just filthy,” Smith said. “The dust coats everything and it’s gritty; it gets into mechanical things that move, like gears.”

The possibility of dust settling on and in machinery is a challenge for engineers designing equipment for Mars.

This dust is an especially big problem for solar panels. Even dust devils of only a few feet across -- which are much smaller than traditional storms -- can move enough dust to cover the equipment and decrease the amount of sunlight hitting the panels. Less sunlight means less energy created.

In “The Martian,” Watney spends part of every day sweeping dust off his solar panels to ensure maximum efficiency, which could represent a real challenge faced by future astronauts on Mars. ...

“We really worry about power with the rovers; it’s a big deal,” Smith said. “The Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed in 2004, so they’ve only had one global dust storm to go through (in 2007) and they basically shut down operations and went into survival mode for a few weeks.

And the thing is, Rovers are a far kinder target than anything that humans will be working with. There are such big gaps between every little deliberate movement that they undertake, it's a very light workload.

There's no dust on Venus. There is some variation in clouds, but sunlight is constantly abundant. You even get almost as much power on the undersides of your panels as the topsides, due to reflection.

It seems somewhat unlikely considering that the atmosphere is 150ppm sulfur dioxide and only 20ppm water vapor

That's because the vast majority of the gas is present in the form of SO2 and to a lesser extent SO3 and H2S, not H2SO4. H2SO4 is only stable within a relatively narrow temperature range; it is not stable anywhere near Venus's surface (vaporizing at about 40km) far above where the vast majority of Venus's atmosphere's mass is. That said, the concentration is higher than I remember it. But:

it will almost certainly break down whenever a droplet collides with a solid object.

From the link above: "Below about 57 km, the vapor pressure of sulfuric acid and water over the cloud particles is relatively high, and therefore sulfuric acid clouds can evaporate in a relatively short period of time." So you're not going to end up with the surface sitting around with a layer of wet acid on it. And the mass loading is just so low, like 8 milligrams per cubic meter of air. That's just not much acid, that's like the concentration you find in volcanic fogs on Earth (like the one I was breathing a year ago :P). It's nothing like dunking an object in a vat of sulfuric acid. And again, most plastics are immune or at least highly resistant to sulfuric acid damage.

The biggest killer of plastics in general is UV radiation. On Mars, there's no protection from it. On Venus, there is.

My understanding is that the Vega probe died while it's battery should have still had an operational

Screenshot. Maybe it's only a problem on Firefox on OSX? I can check a different OS later........

More Ponies !!!

Offtopic? I must assume there are some moderators here who weren't around for April Fools Day in 2006. Slashdot did ponies before it was cool.

PS: Wow, that was ten years ago.

This is like saying murders are way down, but ignoring to mention that you've put the entire population in straight jackets.

Murder Rates and IE usage are both down!

In the "Tracks in the Regolith" image, there are yellow streaks in the tire tracks that look like artifacts from color correction or brightness (over-) enhancement.

https://i.imgur.com/idasVMZ.jp... and there are others. They are scumbags and the excuse is too little to late.
A live counter: http://www.livecounts.x10host....

Check out the sheer number of chain and chain guides in newer Audi's.

http://i.imgur.com/t5XUfav.jpg

And this is the end facing the firewall, so to service any of this shit you will be removing the engine.

This has bothered me as well.

What about doing something like this (using whatever font you want)? http://i.imgur.com/EW1h6gy.jpg
Or how about just going with big ol' NWSE?

Here are the UI annoyances I referred to in my previous reply to you (which is here).

The links following the title is a bad idea. The site made its community used to all links being in the text of the story, but someone decided that a link should go in the title. See this screenshot, and look at where "(phoronix.com)" is? That is really annoying. Make it go back to where we are used to it (in the story text).

In this screenshot the background color is dark when the mouse moves to the drop down list. That is distracting and obscures the choices. The background color should remain white with no change when the mouse is moved in, as in this screenshot.

Here are the UI annoyances I referred to in my previous reply to you (which is here).

The links following the title is a bad idea. The site made its community used to all links being in the text of the story, but someone decided that a link should go in the title. See this screenshot, and look at where "(phoronix.com)" is? That is really annoying. Make it go back to where we are used to it (in the story text).

In this screenshot the background color is dark when the mouse moves to the drop down list. That is distracting and obscures the choices. The background color should remain white with no change when the mouse is moved in, as in this screenshot.

Here are the UI annoyances I referred to in my previous reply to you (which is here).

The links following the title is a bad idea. The site made its community used to all links being in the text of the story, but someone decided that a link should go in the title. See this screenshot, and look at where "(phoronix.com)" is? That is really annoying. Make it go back to where we are used to it (in the story text).

In this screenshot the background color is dark when the mouse moves to the drop down list. That is distracting and obscures the choices. The background color should remain white with no change when the mouse is moved in, as in this screenshot.

http://imgur.com/VmRo4qt

$50? I feel like I've been screwed. Mine has cost me about $215 just to file the request Oh, and another $42 to announce announce this tiny little thing in the newspaper. (part of Illinois law is that a legal name change requires publishing in a newspaper)

Usually when I think of Anonymous, this is what I really think of:

http://i.imgur.com/Wng3qhv.jpg

yeah, if only the Us were more favorable to business...
like Denmark, voted Most Favorable Country to do business in.

Democratic socialist denmark, with its free schooling, higher wages, budget surplus, better healthcare....

http://i.imgur.com/7TeCb5c.jpg

go the fuck away mi, you ignorant piece of shit

Darth Bernie agrees.

Let the socialism flow through you!

There was an article with photo showing a huge and horrible looking mass of lines and cables strung around utility poles in some town in China or India. Mayor got totally pissed at so many poles of all these ugly cables he ordered city crews to tear them all down to beautify the city streets. Result was town was delivered to the Sixth century.

Welcome to the telephone tower of Stockholm 1887-1913:
http://hugelolcdn.com/hugewoah...
http://www.ericsson.com/thinki...
https://i.imgur.com/pWidlce.jp...

New York:
http://static.messynessychic.c...
Pratt, Kansas:
http://static.messynessychic.c...
"The railway station at Pearl Street, Boston, Massachusetts, after a hurricane in January 1881":
http://static.messynessychic.c...

Their comment about the tower in Stockholm:
"A telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, with 5000 connected lines. It was used between 1887 and 1913, but the tower stood there until 1953, when it fell down after a fire."

"An 1880s postcard of Broadway, New York":
http://static.messynessychic.c...

"Power lines and supporting structure in a lane west of Main Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 1914":
http://static.messynessychic.c...

Later pictures and texts taken from: http://www.messynessychic.com/...

See screenshot.

The classic pirating vs. buying the DVD infographic.