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The E-mail address are good or real at least the ones from http://slexy.org/view/s21jyUzcUb spammers wet dream.
Also Richard Clayton has blocked himself from search engines at bericotechnologies.com he works there http://i.imgur.com/m7feh.png
Just the few I've played with.

My post look like crap as I appear to be a bot.

If you want to get an understanding of the state of fusion research, you need to look at this graph. Fusion power is not unreasonable, nor even very far out of reach. This interview is good reading as well.

If we want to get serious about global warming, we could do worse than funding more fusion research.

Worked for Snake. The Playstation Controller was essential to make it happen.

Seeing as how the previous iteration was something like this, I'd say it's a fair engineering improvement.

Hopefully the new models are not just continuing a 20-year trend of underestimating the impacts of global warming. Like melting arctic ice.

That trend has been so consistent that I find myself wondering whether the IPCC deliberately shoots low to make their projections more palatable.

Hopefully the new models are not just continuing a 20-year trend of underestimating the impacts of global warming. Like melting arctic ice.

Until this is resolved, I'm wary of locking myself into Valve any more than I already am. The thought of a locked down environment worries me, too; that seems antithetical to what has made PC gaming and enthusiasm what it is.

Still, it's Valve, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but being trapped in one more walled garden not only with software but hardware is not the direction I like the industry to move.

Meh, show me a modern mod that compares to Quake/Team Fortress. So, I'm not talking about hats just to be clear. I'm talking about mods big enough to support third party mods of mods and mapping communities.

If you find one, I'm just going to go down the list of popular Quake mods, working my way up to UT2K mods were third party mapping and mod modding probably started to peter out.

Today's "mods" are crap. Who was it, some ID guy that said the tool chain is getting too complex for community content? Anyway, I agree with that pretty much.

Until this is resolved, I'm wary of locking myself into Valve any more than I already am. The thought of a locked down environment worries me, too; that seems antithetical to what has made PC gaming and enthusiasm what it is.

Still, it's Valve, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but being trapped in one more walled garden not only with software but hardware is not the direction I like the industry to move.

No, like this http://i.imgur.com/suzSY.gif from http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14edxt/so_a_friend_of_a_friend_made_this_for_his_parrot/c7ckm1t ... ;)

You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?

Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.

Hmm.. I shut down Steam and then opened it up fresh. This is the first screen that came up http://i.imgur.com/wviMA.jpg
Not a single advertisement to be seen.

Huh? Microsoft themselves has already admitted that Windows 8 sales are at nearly the EXACT same pace as Windows 7 sales

No, what was said is that Windows 8 sales are in line with Windows 7. We can look at the historical figures to see how Win7 sold; over the course of its lifetime Windows 7 sold on average a pretty flat 20M licenses a month. In the first few months of release it sold an average of 26M licenses a month; during its first 70 days on sale, MS Win7 sold 60M licenses. If they sold 40M in the first 30 days, that leaves only 20M units to sell over the next 40 days including the Christmas season and Black Friday. Selling at this rate (15M a month) is well below what Win7 sold during the rest of its lifetime (20M). The numbers don’t just make sense.

However, what does make sense is that current sales of Win8 are in line with Win7. As I’ll show later, current market share growth of Win8 as measured by statcounter is, in fact, in line with Win7.

Okay... How about actual web usage

Sure, let’s take a closer look though, instead of just reporting a simple difference and calling it a day. Foremost, if you take a look at the actual data, Win8 is growing much differently than Win7 did when it was first released. While Win7 market share grew linearly after launch, Win8 is growing either quadratically, or at least has hit an inflection point and will continue linear growth that about matches (or slightly exceeds) Win7.

Take a look at these figures, derived from worldwide statcounter data. (Statcounter doesn’t publish Win8 data on its own yet, but did so for the period of 10/1 – 11/28 here. To get Win8 stats outside this range, I took the average ‘Linux’ and ‘Other’ (both of which have no growth; average daily change for Linux is .0002, and .002 for Other) percent share from the linked data, and subtract that from the current ‘Other’ data, and what’s left is a good estimate of Win8 share.)

The first chart shows the market share of Win8 over the past 14 days (11/1912-12/2/12), and Win7 over the comparable 14 day period in 2009 (11/15/09 – 11/28/09). If you fit a line to this data, you can see that Win8 is growing at a rate comparable (actually a bit faster) to Win7. The second image shows growth of Win7 over the first quarter of availability, and Growth of Win8 until today. The chart also contains two Win8 growth projections: quadratic (fitted to all the data) and linear (fitted to the past two weeks of data). Even though the quadratic curve is a better fit, the linear projection is probably more likely to pan out and shows Win7-like growth. Either way, what’s clear is that Win8 is not growing the same way Win7 did (linear right out of the gate). There was either a slow start and its growing linearly now, or it’s growing quadratically.

Finally in the figure, I have a comparison of percent growth since launch. You keep making reference that Win8 is behind Win7 in absolute terms, but you are not revealing that Win7 started at a much higher percentage than Win8: 2.21% vs. 0.38%. Even Vista started at a high percentage, at 0.6% according to your w3sch

on Curiosity and are just about ready to go... http://imgur.com/VWcAU :o)

That doesn't look like Jimmy Hoffa to me...

on Curiosity and are just about ready to go... http://imgur.com/VWcAU

:o)

It seems to me that charisma is much more important for getting ahead in politics and business.

100% Agreed. http://imgur.com/PzbPO

>Let me know when Ubuntu can do something simple like change the amount of lines scrolled with the mouse wheel.

http://i.imgur.com/tfca6.png

Isn't that for KDE only?

By default Ubuntu and most Linux distros I used definitely don't have that.

Here

Asshole.

Here

>Let me know when Ubuntu can do something simple like change the amount of lines scrolled with the mouse wheel.

http://i.imgur.com/tfca6.png

Look how silly you are. Look.

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There's actually a 1.5 version in the nightly builds, and despite the bugs and crashes, it's well worth upgrading. They've got the OCR issues resolved and have made surprisingly useful enhancements to the GUI. Here is a screenshot.

Pandas are not so nice: http://i.imgur.com/lkWZH.jpg

From redditor xSmoothx post titled "Putting into perspective just how big the black hole of NGC 1277 truly is"

Ha! With the Greenland's icesheet melting, Google can no longer credibly cover up the secret alien base complex that could be seen temporarily in GoogleEarth due to a lapse of the Google Censorship Directorate to remove the satellite image evidence.

The article slideshow isn[t working for me. Some photos from an Amazon warehouse were posted on reddit the other day. Here are those photos: http://imgur.com/a/q1WIO.

Old news. I have had this on my S3 since Day 1. I also have Barometer Monitor, which generated this pretty cool graph on Monday and Tuesday, October 29-30, the days Hurricane Sandy came to town and then left. http://i.imgur.com/tuM8x.png

Thank you for suggesting your unplayable piece of shit.

http://imgur.com/lrDA7

Posting from Nexus 7 and here is what it looks like in portrait mode. Basically more than half the screen stays empty. What tablets did you test it with, besides iPad?
Screenshot

You aren't kidding. Here's the refurb special of the day - only $99,999.00.

Well, I'd have to assume that an ICBM sometime after it's apogee, will be armed and ready. I would assume there would be a contingency plan for the warhead being intercepted, even if it was to crash into an aircraft or "weather balloon" on the way down.

Please consult the USAF Aircraft Identification Chart for clarification of those terms. :)

The accidental releases of nuclear weapons (there have been a few) were all in the unarmed state. The worst accident that happened, that I can recall, is the conventional explosive exploded. The nuclear reaction never took place. See the January 17, 1966 Palomares incident.

As I understand it, the ideal detonation is not at ground level, but a few miles high. The EMP should be catastrophic to any electronics within a huge radius. The shockwave is massive, and the resulting fallout will spread further.

That's not to say any nuclear weapon use is "ideal". In the 1940's, there was no risk of a counter attack. Now? It would be a world wide disaster. M.A.D. and all that.

So, to try to stay on topic ... :) The Iron Dome wouldn't do anything against an ICBM, mostly because that isn't what it's designed for. No one is admittedly targeting Israel with ICBMs. Their concern is relatively short range conventional weapons.

Truth is stranger than fiction...

http://imgur.com/gallery/Swtc9

So the Palestinians launch missiles at Isreal and you are upset that Isreal is pissed off about it and launches counter attacks? If Canada started launching rockets at the US, I would expect us to invade and conquer them in short order. I'm surprised that Palestine has been allowed to exist as long as it has.

I can't help but think that this comic applies in this situation.

Barrage of Estes model rockets. Cry me a fucking river.
Let me spell it out.

There are an insufficient number of Picards to adequately supply the amount of facepalm this requires and deserves.

The Reinforcements Have Arrived

Well shucks. So much for my plans.

You miss the point completely.

It's password reset token notification with link (like this) that appeared in Skype clients of anyone who has this email set as primary. When you click that link it led to password reset page with a dropdown box listing all accounts registered with this email and "reset password" button.

The problem is that they don't require verification when setting a primary email.

Party divide according to:

-County -State -Popular vote
-Population density
http://i.imgur.com/pflQf.jpg

Relevant article (though the Image is not originally theirs:
http://gizmodo.com/5960290/this-is-the-real-political-map-of-america-hint-we-are-not-that-divided

I must have tried it once years ago when something was bugging me. Anyway there is no shortage of pagers, it is pretty much standard in most desktops/wm, at least it used to be, I haven't looked much lately. In the worst case I can write my own pager in perl-gtk.
Screenshot of my current gnome3-fallback pager : http://i.imgur.com/HTUdW.png

Another thought to explain the problem with gnome shell : it seems they removed all the options and replaced them with extensions. Extensions are nice and all, but for basic things it's just stupid and frustrating, and the opposite of user-friendly, an example is the date format, it should be a simple combobox, instead you must search "date" in the extension list, find an extension that simply replace one format by one other, which doesn't even install ... But even if it worked, it replaces a simple thing like a combobox or a checkbox by a complex, long and annoying procedure... Gnome 2 already removed or hid options, some that I liked, but this has reached a ridiculous point.

And I tried a few extensions, why do they use this strange submenus that insert the items into the menu rather than opening on the side, and as a bonus require a click.

Without javascript and at 1920x1080 I see that the note at the bottom is still partially blocked. :/

Without javascript and at 1920x1080 I see the message partially hidden.

The surface gravity is proportional to mass (7x) and inversely so to the square of the radius (~1/4) so 7/4 is about 1.75 surface gravity compared to Earth.

That's actually rather close. Here's a handy graph for demonstration purposes.

"LED's give a high electrical efficiency but they aren't cost efficient even with the electrical savings"

Absolute nonsense. Several times I've had LED payback in terms of months, not years, over several intense-light required crops.

"he LED's last forever thing is a myth especially given the larger number of elements to fail."

I'm holding a Nichia LED right now. Just the bare LED on a tiny square thermal board. I smashed it face-first with a hammer, exposed the substrate and surface topology...

As you can see, it still fucking works.

The power drivers might fuck off and die, yes, and occasionally a poorly-binned diode might fuck up a whole panel if not properly designed, but what you talk about, over the 4+ year current life of the majority of my LED units, only two out of several THOUSAND have failed.

"You could achieve a better result with a mix of cool and warm fluorescent lights or daylight spectrum fluorescent."

No, you can't. Fluorescent lighting is nowhere near as efficient, and LED outputs much higher photon flux densities per watt, unfocused, than an equally-powered and focused fluoro tube, with the option of selecting more efficient wavelengths (white fluorescents use tri-phosphor tech. White LEDs now have more broad peaks, providing near-incandescent quality light at well over HID efficiencies.)

Sorry, you're not qualified to be discussing this. I happen to do this globally. (that's my UK research facility with me doing the testing.)

"LED's give a high electrical efficiency but they aren't cost efficient even with the electrical savings"

Absolute nonsense. Several times I've had LED payback in terms of months, not years, over several intense-light required crops.

"he LED's last forever thing is a myth especially given the larger number of elements to fail."

I'm holding a Nichia LED right now. Just the bare LED on a tiny square thermal board. I smashed it face-first with a hammer, exposed the substrate and surface topology...

As you can see, it still fucking works.

The power drivers might fuck off and die, yes, and occasionally a poorly-binned diode might fuck up a whole panel if not properly designed, but what you talk about, over the 4+ year current life of the majority of my LED units, only two out of several THOUSAND have failed.

"You could achieve a better result with a mix of cool and warm fluorescent lights or daylight spectrum fluorescent."

No, you can't. Fluorescent lighting is nowhere near as efficient, and LED outputs much higher photon flux densities per watt, unfocused, than an equally-powered and focused fluoro tube, with the option of selecting more efficient wavelengths (white fluorescents use tri-phosphor tech. White LEDs now have more broad peaks, providing near-incandescent quality light at well over HID efficiencies.)

Sorry, you're not qualified to be discussing this. I happen to do this globally. (that's my UK research facility with me doing the testing.)

"LED's give a high electrical efficiency but they aren't cost efficient even with the electrical savings"

Absolute nonsense. Several times I've had LED payback in terms of months, not years, over several intense-light required crops.

"he LED's last forever thing is a myth especially given the larger number of elements to fail."

I'm holding a Nichia LED right now. Just the bare LED on a tiny square thermal board. I smashed it face-first with a hammer, exposed the substrate and surface topology...

As you can see, it still fucking works.

The power drivers might fuck off and die, yes, and occasionally a poorly-binned diode might fuck up a whole panel if not properly designed, but what you talk about, over the 4+ year current life of the majority of my LED units, only two out of several THOUSAND have failed.

"You could achieve a better result with a mix of cool and warm fluorescent lights or daylight spectrum fluorescent."

No, you can't. Fluorescent lighting is nowhere near as efficient, and LED outputs much higher photon flux densities per watt, unfocused, than an equally-powered and focused fluoro tube, with the option of selecting more efficient wavelengths (white fluorescents use tri-phosphor tech. White LEDs now have more broad peaks, providing near-incandescent quality light at well over HID efficiencies.)

Sorry, you're not qualified to be discussing this. I happen to do this globally. (that's my UK research facility with me doing the testing.)

And the winner is this

Which is weird because I loaded it in a vertically oriented portrait screen and... http://imgur.com/63l9U

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That hides the bottom 310px of the page no matter what screen resolution is used.

Page with javascript
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var HeroResize=AC.Class({initialize:function(b){this._height=null;this._hero=$(b);
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That hides the bottom 310px of the page no matter what screen resolution is used.

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apple.com/uk vs apple.com on a 1600-px high screen. I had to hit F11 *after* loading apple.com/uk to include the notice in the screen capture.

Pretty sleazy.

Don't have to scroll to see it. http://imgur.com/gwdtH