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I don't think WaveGlider is a submersible. It's a surface-vessel, with solar panels!, and with energy-generating fins in its keel. Wikipedia explains: "The Wave Glider is composed of two parts: the float is roughly the size and shape of a surfboard and stays at the surface; the sub has wings and hangs 6 meters below on an umbilical tether"

http://imgur.com/nfdHsn2

So yes, it's impressive as heck that the WaveGlider survived a typhoon. The float part of it will be tossed around like crazy on top of the waves. It will stay tethered to the float part underwater. The tether will be yanked every which way.

Neil before him.

wow... I dont know why I bother. You don't understand peering... at all... Learn more here: http://drpeering.net/ Here's a very dumbed down example of what I think is going on. No I don't have proof, but this would be typical of one of these disputes... and no, peering negotiations are never nice and friendly. They more resemble bar brawls. http://i.imgur.com/uLQvkIi.jpg

> Capitalist theory says that if an incumbent merchant/provider
> is too inefficient to provide a good service or if another potential
> merchant/provider thinks they can do a better job for a lower
> price, then that new provider will step in and provide said service.

If the barrier to entry is too high, no one else can step in. Once a company is making huge monopoly profits, it can save a bit for a rainy day and undercut competitors until they go under. McDonald's could start selling burgers for 5 cents apiece until Burger King was bankrupt if it weren't for anti-monopoly laws.

The natural result of pure capitalism is monopolies. Regulation is required, because monopolies always wind up being bad for consumers.

Even moderately benign monopolies suck. Craigslist is a great example. Even though they are relatively benevolently run -- almost everything is free; a few things like real estate listings in major cities cost a lot and pay for everything else on the site -- their listings suck in a lot of ways and they have no incentive to make them better. Why can't they have columns for things like cars and computer so I can search specifically by Manufacturer -> Model, and not just to text searches on the ads? That would help deal with the fact that almost every ad in "cars for sale" looks like this. http://imgur.com/yOngDsE But because Craigslist has a monopoly, no other "stuff for sale" site can gain traction, and Craigslist has no reason to improve. So you eat the shit sandwich that is Craigslist because there's nothing else on the menu.

Indeed. Here is a picture of a flight path (by the Russian TransAero airline) this April, going well out of its way to avoid eastern Ukraine.
http://imgur.com/yvK47MY

I can confirm more than 300 dead with pictures of more than 10 bigboards with pictures/name/rank/age from kiev(june). ex.: http://i.imgur.com/CujDH0j.jpg
It was a sad day when i uploaded the pictures to google+ and it started to ask me to identify the faces.

Flew out the only safe way : Moscow. (80% russians aboard)

I'm not convinced webP is better, I've done a quick comparison and to my eyes JPEG beats it on like for like file sizes:

40k jpeg vs 40k webP (images converted to png for your viewing convenience)

Compared to the lossless original (one of Google's own webP comparison images) the webP version has lost more chroma resolution, leading to desaturation in parts and blurring of strong colour details like the red arm band.

It would be nice as a replacement for PNGs with alpha channels though.

I'm not convinced webP is better, I've done a quick comparison and to my eyes JPEG beats it on like for like file sizes:

40k jpeg vs 40k webP (images converted to png for your viewing convenience)

Compared to the lossless original (one of Google's own webP comparison images) the webP version has lost more chroma resolution, leading to desaturation in parts and blurring of strong colour details like the red arm band.

It would be nice as a replacement for PNGs with alpha channels though.

I'm not convinced webP is better, I've done a quick comparison and to my eyes JPEG beats it on like for like file sizes:

40k jpeg vs 40k webP (images converted to png for your viewing convenience)

Compared to the lossless original (one of Google's own webP comparison images) the webP version has lost more chroma resolution, leading to desaturation in parts and blurring of strong colour details like the red arm band.

It would be nice as a replacement for PNGs with alpha channels though.

And note http://i.imgur.com/77HxH2g.png (one second long from the video) that it is on Time Warner Cable (TWC).

Also shown here in the only true comic about Thor (and friends and foes), the Danish "Valhalla" comic by Peter Madsen. None of this Marvel junk, please.

http://i.imgur.com/87zorZg.jpg
Notice that Thor is shown in accordance with Norse mythology, as a stout man with red hair and a bushy beard. No fair-haired prettyboys here!

http://i.imgur.com/46TT17b.jpg
"How many times must I tell you? Don't touch my stuff!"

Best comic ever.

Also shown here in the only true comic about Thor (and friends and foes), the Danish "Valhalla" comic by Peter Madsen. None of this Marvel junk, please.

http://i.imgur.com/87zorZg.jpg
Notice that Thor is shown in accordance with Norse mythology, as a stout man with red hair and a bushy beard. No fair-haired prettyboys here!

http://i.imgur.com/46TT17b.jpg
"How many times must I tell you? Don't touch my stuff!"

Best comic ever.

The whole thing reminds me a more professional version of some random schmuck's GeoCities page circa 1998.

Not GeoCities, AOL. Circa what, 1991?

No they don't. That was sort-of true 3 years ago. Pirated content of current releases is from camcorder recordings. For instance that's all that's available for Transformers. Picture quality is generally shit. This still from the top-rated download may look OK, but in reality as a movie I find them pretty much unwatchable. And that's better than most camcorder recordings -Transformers was very popular around the world, and has been out for a while already, so better camcorder recordings are available.

Yeah I'm able to believe bootlegs are a slight positive, because anybody who wants to see the actual thing enough to suffer through a low-quality bootleg is going to want to go and see the movie in a theater.

Of course where bootlegs hurt the studios is in Blu-Ray recordings, where easily-available, free, high quality versions of the movie compete with the same thing that is not free. There is no economic method for not-free to compete with free. Just legal threats and an appeal to morals.

One exception is after the Oscar nominations in February or so, where review screeners are bootlegged, and some art movies may still be playing in the theaters.

That's just good science!

https://i.imgur.com/TOmx83x.jp...

Please notice the qualification "steady flight". Birds are moving.

Drones are moving too. False distinction is false.

You can probably recognize a bird as such and thus gauge its size (as it is an object you would expect to encounter), whereas a drone could have any shape or color or may even be made to look like a typical helicopter scaled down. There's no a priori estimate of such an object's size.

It was a toy. It looked like a toy. And if the source linked in this story was something besides the NY Post, you might actually get useful information like the type of drone (a DGI Phantom 2), photos, or a video showing one of the defendants with his toy (screengrab).

I might as well mention that I am a Systems Administrator and not a programmer despite my computer science education. I am a "lazy work-a-holic" in that I will work like hell to make sure I do not have to do a repetitive task more than once. Scripting and automation are wonderful things. I believe this sums it up nicely.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Laziness is its father.

Integrated audio is a bit of a running joke, see Goat Simulator system requirements...

This is coming from the company that recently decided that Hangouts only works in their Chrome browser.

According to this help section on Google Hangout, this is not currently true.

You say this is a "recent" decision, so I may have missed it. Please give us a citation.

Looks like you're right. Although, today, when I tried to install it in firefox (version 29), I got this error message, which told me that I needed to download Chrome (it did NOT tell me that my browser was too old).

So I stand corrected, I apologize, but I do cast some of that blame onto their own error message.

Possibli. ...how long was that?

This isn't the new desktop shell (Plasma2? PlasmaNext?), its basically the libs behind it, so there are no screen shots per se.

I must admit I find the new branding/naming conventions very confusing.

Plasma Next is the internal codename for whatever is the next version of Plasma being worked on, you won't see it used in general publicity. After some discussion we decided to use 5 as the technical version number, but we will not emphasise it in the publicity.

As someone already posted, this http://i.imgur.com/usfgJSF.png sort-of explains it. It's simple really:

* KDE = Entity that produces Free Software, like Mozilla or Microsoft or Google or Adobe
* Frameworks / Plasma / Applications = Software 'products' that KDE produces, like Microsoft produces .Net / Windows / Office
* 4 / 5 = Version number, sometimes a little mixed up, like Windows Vista and 7 (which is really version 9 or something) and Office 2013 which is for Windows 7, etc.

So the KDE Community produces KDE Software, currently consisting of:
* KDE Development Platform 4, a monolithic set of development libraries for use with Qt4
* KDE Plasma Workspaces 4, a set of desktop, netbook and tablet shells for Linux/BSD systems
* KDE Applications 4, various applications that can run under any Linux/BSD shell, and on Windows and Mac, but work best under Plasma on Linux.

These were all released in monolithic lock-step, so were conflated in people's minds as "KDE 4".

With the migration to Qt5 underway, we will eventually have:
* KDE Frameworks 5 (replacing Development Platform 4), a modularized set of development libraries for use with Qt5
* KDE Plasma Workspace 5, a shell for Linux/BSD systems that can dynamically adapt to desktop, netbook and tablet form factors
* KDE Applications, as above, but probably a mixture of Qt4 and Qt5 based in every release as they slowly migrate

These will all be on different release cycles as best suited to their target audience, so will see their individual identities emphasised more. Most users only need to know about "KDE Plasma" or "Plasma Desktop" and/or the specific KDE Applications that they use, everything else including version numbers will most likely be played down in the publicity.

It depends on whether you embrace it or not. There are some people for whom game tester is an amazing job. It also depends on the games being tested. There is a small clip of a demo at a con done by one of the game testers.

http://imgur.com/gallery/5XLUt...

When you are this good, even game testing can be fun, I guess.

This isn't the new desktop shell (Plasma2? PlasmaNext?), its basically the libs behind it, so there are no screen shots per se.

Version number will be 5.
you can just call it Plasma.

I must admit I find the new branding/naming conventions very confusing.

I find this bad boy very practical.
(and the "new" convention is almost 5 years old)

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

I learnt German and French at school, so I know how to learn a language, particularly European ones. I don't recall being frustrated with not knowing why I was wrong. Screenshot of the app showing the same mistake: http://imgur.com/8YzOYof

I found the mobile app really useful for learning some Spanish before going on holiday to South America earlier this year. One press turns off the microphone exercises, either permanently or for the next hour.

There are more "hardcore/weird/idiosyncratic/expressive/niche/unintelligible" languages for geniuses than just C, I've just recently ran into this nice 18 byte cunt-generating tidbit:

' *'{~4=+/~ 4<.|i:5

Ha, got "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.", when trying to post both code and result, Slashdot apparently can't stomach rhombus made of asterisks, thus inadvertently giving unplanned example of expression and power being too limited for something relatively simple, yet unexpected. Unless it's just protection from pasting heaps of ASCII art?
Anyway, result's here, proper Slavic cunt symbol should have vertical line in the center, but the shape is generally recognized as simplified substitute, as in, say, Renault logo ("One cunt on the grill, the other behind the wheel." as somebody mean, probably me, remarked when homeroom teacher passed us in her car).

But how is it against clever girls?

... assembly?

Yes. Here you go

Dear European that has never been to America, let me explain to you how fucking BIG our country is, compared to your entire Continent.

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

Your Puny countries are easy to build trains for. Ours is as big as most of Europe, and the entire Mediterranean sea (which have no trains, only boats). Extrapolating your small countries problems to a geography the size of the USA doesn't work. Yes, Geography matters.

Or let me put it this way, get on a train in Belgium and go to Israel. Go on, I dare ya. Oh wait, you can't!

So, in conclusion, your ideas about how to scale trains, is so fucking adorable.

Here, I broke it down for you.

I'm not commenting on this discovery but here are the other top stories from that site...
1 Hyena escapes lions by hiding in an elephant
2 Gay bears like blow jobs
3 Indonesia bans video-sharing site Vimeo over 'porn'
4 Top 5 worst mobile phones ever made
5 Fresh evidence supports Higgs boson discovery

all the 'nope' in the world isn't enough.

https://i.imgur.com/MHuW96t.gif

The expansion of the middle class is irrelevant to UBI. If you had 90% poor and 10% rich, then set up a progressive tax to provide for the UBI, the UBI and tax would be exactly the same with a distrivution of 10% poor, 80% middle class, and 10% rich.

You have 10 making $10,000 (poor), 80 making $50,000 (middle class), and 10 making $1,000,000 (rich), with a tax of 10% below $50,000 and 20% above $50,000. For (10% * (10*1000 + 80*50000 + 10*50,000) + 20% * (10*1000000)), you get $10,000 + $400,000 + $50,000 + $1,900,000, a total of $2,360,000. $1,950,000 comes from the coffers of the rich.

Make that 90% poor, 10% rich. That $14,100,000 becomes 90 people making $10,000 and 10 people making $1,401,000. For (10% * (90 * 10,000 + 10 * 50,000) + 20% * 10 * 1,351,000), you get $90,000 + $50,000 + $1,351,000, a total of $1,491,000.

Notice that, for example, sudden automation and a loss of jobs removes money from the poor and middle class, shifting it up to the rich. In the above example, with a sudden divide at $50,000, the result of our ridiculous scenario is a drop of 37%. That means UBI drops by 37%.

The big recession of the mid-2000s was a drop of 6% of personal income, which, with a 15% UBI, would have translated to UBI decreasing by 0.9%. Part of the common complaint (accurate or not) is the rich getting richer: people make fancy charts to complain about this. A flat tax on all income ensures that UBI does not self-defeat by correcting this problem: UBI isn't attempting to solve this problem, but rather to avoid it entirely.

Everyone I've seen propose a UBI (including Fair Tax people) couldn't explain what would happen if the UBI was doubled. "It'd be bad" is the most detail I got from anyone.

At low levels, UBI is not resilient: an economic downturn could leave the unemployed with not enough income to pay the cost of low-end housing. As I said, the mid-2000s economic downturn represented a 6% decrease in total income, equating to a small drop in UBI. UBI requires 1% padding above the bare minimum to survive this; the more padding, the more economic damage UBI can survive.

At extremely high levels, UBI fails in the same way as Marxism and similar systems. This is irrelevant, because UBI has a failure mode at a lower level. I mention it to illustrate another point: the majority-mean income in 2012, that being all personal income divided by all Americans aged 18 and over, was roughly $55,000. If we set UBI at 100% less taxes, every single American would receive the equivalent of a $55,000 salary as UBI. There simply isn't any more income.

UBI's upper bound isn't the proven one, or the implied disincentive to work. An increase in UBI increases economic activity and cash availability. This both encourages people to spend more freely and taxes the producers and distributors. UBI thus encourages inflation. Inflation is not a bad thing; but hyperinflation is economically destructive, and would damage the economy.

It's difficult to pinpoint where UBI is theoretically safe. Our current welfare system costs 25% of total personal income if you count retirement security (Social Security, Government Pensions), housing assistance, food security (WIC, food stamps), and unemployment. UBI costs considerably less, but is tied directly to economic activity rather than government outlay: instead of the government taxing to cover a need for so many trillions of welfare, they collect so many trillions of tax and divide that up as welfare.

As economic activity increases, so does UBI; and as UBI increases, so does the availability of money in the lower class. UBI works because the poor are now a harvestable cash crop: if they get too much cash, the cost of services and basic goods increases. If the cost of services and basic goods increases, more money flows through the economy without creating more wealth. If more money flows through the e

Dude, this is slashdot post ponies. Any submission that bashes Apple is clickbait, and they'll post cuz they need the ad revenue or something.

It's been years, but it was still a better site redesign than beta

ONCE AND FOR ALL

https://i.imgur.com/0V80ETG.gi...

http://i.stack.imgur.com/PKkDf...

I couldn't find the source for that data, but it does look like 50-75% is more accurate than 95%.

Neither does the other AC, apparently.

That's not a link. This is a link.

The MIT fusion project made this graph to illustrate: https://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

wondering what those two circa 5-billion/year spikes mean in the "maximum effective effort" curve. that's about doubling the budget of "accelerated" just for 3 years hurry.

It's common to hear someone say that "fusion power was 30 years away in the seventies, it's 30 years away now, and it will stay 30 years away"" or similar, and sadly, there is some truth to that (though perhaps it's 30 years now (estimated time for the DEMO full power-plant is 2033)). I think one of the reasons is that funding keeps decreasing, far below the optimistic projections of the 70s. The MIT fusion project made this graph to illustrate: https://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

It's a bit like when you're downloading a file, and while the download keeps making progress, the estimated time left stays put because the download speed keeps going down. I've had that happen a few times, and it requires an exponentially falling download speed. With fusion, the situation isn't quite that bad, but when you consider the sort of funding levels people were imagining before, it isn't surprising that they thought we would have fusion power by the year 2000.

One interesting way of putting this is to say that fusion power isn't a constant amount of time away, but about 50 billion dollars of funding away. To put those 50 billion dollars in context, fossil fules have received 594 billion dollars in subsidies in the USA since 1950. So partially fusion is difficult, and partially we're not trying very hard.

Obviously not the same, but heartwarming nonetheless, Hobbes and Bacon: http://imgur.com/gallery/tUzAL

https://imgur.com/a/VTbcB/nosc...

I'll hope this is going to be visible on google maps one day: http://imgur.com/a/rkQpO

"The car stereo I wanted 10 years ago"
"The car stereo I want today":

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

The one at the bottom is the one I wanted 10 years ago, and remains the one I want today. Why is that so hard!?!

"The car stereo I wanted 10 years ago"
"The car stereo I want today":

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

I'm eagerly awaiting the day when all communication on the internet can be done either via cat pictures or quoting memes

we're getting closer and closer.

You're welcome.

https://imgur.com/gallery/vdJM...

oops, here are all 4 pages as an album

http://imgur.com/a/utF2P#0