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"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. Climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in the CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (Read the explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this great swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the scientific data presented has been faked.

This hasn't only been exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is just an excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting it.

(And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read scientific or generalistic newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to...)

"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. The Earth's climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in the activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (See explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-Made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the data presented has been faked.

This was not only exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is only a big excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting this lie.

And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to.

This is worth a watch...
http://vimeo.com/41038445
Enjoy!

This video is nice and all, but it's been done before; and to be honest I like Jan Jelinek's soundtrack better... :D

This simulated intersection looks pretty scary for manual control. It looks like there's a small real-world test case in India.

The OMCOPTER gives wings to the Red Epic Also a bunch of amateur aerial videos posted on youtube using various quad, hexa, or omni rotor UAVs.

Here is another as a comic.
https://vimeo.com/41038445

The AP1000 is a Gen III reactor and has serious flaws
Here's a PDF documenting the flaws
And a long video that goes over some of the details and some of the politics: http://vimeo.com/31897709
I remember this from another /. thread about nuclear power

Politics and money are going to push through designs we know are not safe.
I hope the Chinese companies designing their own Gen III reactors can do better than Westinghouse.

or Cloud IDE , especially if you use Java: Online Java Debug Video

Some links:
Cloud IDE
Online Java Debug Video
Cloud Bees
Cloud Foundry
OpenShift
Heroku

www.cloud-ide.com and the video link

Looking at the example they have out ( http://vimeo.com/44280691 ), it appears they want to make really bad powerpoint presentations.

Too bad you need an iPad (or install iTunes??) to even see what the article is talking about. Nope.

Oh, hey look. It's crappy.

http://vimeo.com/channels/soundworkscollection/40853396

I can't view anything in my Flash-free browser. After some searching I found what looks like a downloadable video of the asteroid flyby (56 MB).

A war against Flash will sap your time and energy. Just install the plugin until it is no longer offered, and then you can watch it without all of the searching and posting about how you routed around Flash.

The sixth closest asteroid encounter on record, the May 29 near-miss by the object catalogued as "2012 KT42", was tracked by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii as it whizzed inside the orbital distance of Earth geosynchronous satellites (6.6 Earth radii or an altitude of 22,000 miles).

Not necessarily. We don't care! We don't have to! We're the Phone Company.

http://vimeo.com/12915013

Agreed. It's not the end of the world by any means, but as is often the case there's some truth in the middle, particularly for porn.

Futurama's Don't Date Robots gag wasn't entirely wrong. At the risk of reducing my gender to an object here, the impetus for men to enter into stable monogamist relationships with women is the companionship of and sex with a woman. Over time stronger long term emotional bonds develop, but in the short term the hook is what we can do to satisfy the seemingly bottomless well of male lust.

Porn changes that. I would like to think sex with a good woman is still better than doing it as a solo activity, but at the same time I know I can't compete with porn from a variety perspective (I can't be blonde, brunette, 18, a MILF, and asian all at the same time). And to be clear I do like a good (or dirty?) porno now and then myself - it's something I enjoy sharing with my fiancee - but it's something we can do together that strengthens our bond. I know he's also wanking it on the side (what man doesn't?) but at no point do I feel like he's avoiding the opportunity to have sex with me, in spite of the ups and downs of a relationship. But can a guy still have some kind sexual gratification without actually interacting with a woman? With the incredible amount of porn available these days (and increasingly complex toys), absolutely. And that's the issue.

At least from my perspective it's something that has already changed relationship dynamics. I've been fortune to meet a wonderful man that is my fiancee, but for many of my friends they have not been so lucky. We are all at an age where we should be settling down and forming those long term commitments, and while my friends are ready, the men they should be forming those commitments with are not. It's not that the men aren't there financially or even emotionally, but from the perspective of someone entering into one of those relationship, so many of the men simply don't see the need for a woman. They go do things together as guys while rarely interacting with the girls, and apparently that's all they ever need. And I absolutely think porn plays a part in that because their sexual needs are being met elsewhere.

Is porn bad? No, clearly not. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and I believe we've reached that point. As things stand we're going to end up with a lot of awkward middle-agers in a couple of decades, who will have never formed a long term relationship either because they shortchanged the original impetus to do so (men), or because there were no partners for them (women).

TL;DR: Porn not all bad, but too much porn means men never settle down with women because they don't need sex.

I watched a video on Elon Musk which stated that raw materials come in to the factory in Hawthorne, CA and rocket parts come out the other side. I believe most of their 1500+ employees are in CA (awesome vid of them cheering the launch here). Hawthorne is about a mile from LAX and they can probably just take the parts over to LAX and put them on a big transport and fly them. I'd be willing to bet that transport costs are but a tiny tiny fraction of the human resource cost of the project.

Transportation costs would probably be minor by comparison, true.

And SpaceX won't be dealing with anything the size of the shuttle external tank, which had to be shipped by covered barge from around New Orleans. The Falcon components could also be transported by rail, since no one section of the rocket itself is wider than the old shuttle SRBs (Falcon: 3.2m, SRBs: 3.7m). The fairing, or payload capsule, is 5.2m though, too wide for train tunnels, so those parts probably have to shipped or flown.

There's probably some pages out there saying how the components are transported, but a quick Google didn't turn up anything useful.

You make good points. Yes 28.5 degrees North and launching eastward gives a substantial boost to any rockets launched and so Florida and/or Texas will likely stay in the picture as launching point. I'd be willing to bet that NASA gave SpaceX the equivalent of free rent at the launch facilities (which are probably maintained by other contractors on NASA's behalf). The SpaceX information on the Falcon Heavy all list an 'inclination' of 28.5 degrees so I am guessing the assumption is all launches will happen from Kennedy in FL.

I watched a video on Elon Musk which stated that raw materials come in to the factory in Hawthorne, CA and rocket parts come out the other side. I believe most of their 1500+ employees are in CA (awesome vid of them cheering the launch here). Hawthorne is about a mile from LAX and they can probably just take the parts over to LAX and put them on a big transport and fly them. I'd be willing to bet that transport costs are but a tiny tiny fraction of the human resource cost of the project. Los Angeles has tremendous assets for this sort of work -- there's a hi-tech corridor around Glendale/Burbank with all kinds of operations. There's an enormous talent pool of skilled workers, access to sea, air, and land shipping, etc. Boeing's a little different but most of their employees are on the West Coast. Lockheed also has a lot of facilities in Cailfornia. As does Raytheon. If you want to hire talented and experienced engineers and rocket scientists (and support staff), there are a ton of them around Los Angeles.

Someone made an intriguing animation:
http://vimeo.com/37751380

They're really pushing IE 9 adverts in the UK. It's fucking hillarious since all they do is show whooshy graphics and flash buzzwords up in between it. It's all "The web is more beautiful!" and stuff

It's on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/37918278

As narrated by Morpheus.
As narrated by Kyle Reese. Enjoy!

As narrated by Morpheus.
As narrated by Kyle Reese. Enjoy!

Oops; we're talking about uploading videos, not search engine. My bad.

Not that there aren't LOTS of alternatives, but many of them seem to be, shall we say, "specialized".

Virtually all human activity is based on getting tail.

That's why you don't date robots.

I will just leave this here as a homework assignment.

And you thought pink slime was bad....

Watch this, his lectue and demo and then tell me it's the same as we already have, and that a man charged with designing new forms of human computer interaction at Apple didn't know this. Also please respond with why he wasted our time telling us something that already comonly exsisted in the software world, as well as how the confrence organisor and who ever aproved posting missed all this. https://vimeo.com/36579366 I was happy to see my post on slashdot. It's quite heavily edited, but this has improved the post. One question for slashdot, is the reason many posts get rejected due to posters needing heavy editing and this not having been done in the past.

I commend you for your genuine interest to aid your son now that he's starting to explore the exciting, wild, large, fuzzy, beautiful world of things we usually refer to as "programming".

There are some excellent recommendations for books already posted, but I just wanted to point out a video that might help you get a different perspective on what might be worth pursuing when teaching these things to young people: ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack

It's a talk made by someone that has already been mentioned in other posts, a legendary figure that goes by the name of Why the Lucky Stiff (creator of the Poignant Guide to Ruby), and let me tell you, if you have already read something about him and felt curious about why he did the things he did and in the way he did them, seeing him on video really helps you see where he comes from and what his motivations are.

Make sure to see the bits of the talk where he presents a video made by a kid where he explains in his own words the experience he (the kid) had learning programming from books, and then trying to learn it from a sandbox like Hackity Hack (a creation of Why, but it really could be any other similar tool).

Best of luck to you and your son!

Vimeo does have a ban on commercial use, unless you purchase their new(ish) Vimeo Pro. I don't think it has good ad platform, making it a no-go unfortunately...

I have a regular RC Aircraft that I use to take aerial videos and they work out pretty well.

Here is an example:
http://vimeo.com/4400759

(turn down your sound, I am not video editor so the sound track is still in there and loud)

Drones are cool, but really not as safe regularly controlled RC Aircraft and even if you do get into drones you should really have regular RC aircraft experience so a set up like mine would be a very reasonable first step. The air frame I use is often used for diy drones so your investment will not be wasted if you start with a more traditional set up.

If you haven't seen it already, you might be interested in this:
Interactive Starry Night

http://vimeo.com/38077785 I wrote this Friday night, I have since learned that the 5th and Mission garage is city property. I still have not gone to my car. The following is a letter I submitted this morning on the website of the SMFTA, faxed to the board of the SMFTA and sent to CBS Channel 5 San Francisco. I am staying in town 10 days as a contractor. For the past 10 years I have been parking for as many as 12 days at a time while performing my duties at these events. Tonight I went to my car to get a tripod for my camera, my hobby being photo and videography. I turned on my camera as I was walking out of the garage and continued taping as I was walking down the public sidewalk. 2 of your security guards accosted me and said "You are not allowed to take pictures here". I said I didn't know that and apologized saying that I did not see any signs that prohibited photography. One of the guards told me that I had to delete my photos immediately. I objected saying he had no right to tell me what to do with my photos (actually they are video files). They asked me if I was parking in the garage and I said yes. They asked to see my ticket I told him I didn't bring it because I wasn't going to leave the garage, just get something out of my car. They took this as an admission that I didn't have a car in the garage. They asked me where it was parked I said the 2nd floor on the south side. One man asked me for my ID. I said I did not have to give them my ID because I had broken no laws and he was not a policeman. By now 2 more large security guards had arrived and they surrounded me in a rather intimidating fashion. They told me that I had trespassed and that I was in trouble. I reiterated that my car was parked in there and I asked them if they were detaining me. They did not answer then said that the manager was on his way to talk to me. I replied fine, I will talk to the manager. I believe his name was George he would not give me his last name. George takes his position very seriously. He comports himself with a self-important overbearing attitude. His voice immediately went to a near shout stating that I had been trespassing and then he threatened me with arrest for criminal trespass. I stated the trespassing laws in California do not work the way he thinks they do. He thinks that himself detaining someone even off the property then telling any policeman that a person has trespassed means that the officer will automatically arrest that person. This interpretation of California trespass law if carried out on an uninformed citizen not on your property but detained on the sidewalk would subject your company to serious liability. I suspect that the officer hearing what had transpired would merely say that no crime had been committed. George did not take my instructing him on how trespassing law works very well. His voice went up in volume and timbre and he started using swear words, taking the Lord's name in vain and saying that he wanted to fuck me. Looking around I could see the security guards were embarrassed at the way this man was acting. Several had stepped back no longer wishing to be directly involved in George's tirade. He asked me if I wished he call the police. I replied no, certain that they would be irritated at his wasting their time. George told me to, I believe his words were "You are wasting my time. Now get the fuck out of here". I told him I was now on public property and he had no legal right to tell me what to do. At this time George looked around at the other security guards and told them that if I showed up on the property they were to arrest me for trespassing. I now fear I cannot go back to my car without bodily injury being inflicted on my person. I wish someone from upper management to meet me at the property line and escort me to my car. I will gladly leave your premises. I would also like a personal apology from the George person. If I do not receive one I will pursue legal action. He does not reflect well on the other employees, management, or owners of

Seems to me that the HR flacks are not doing their job properly if they associate a search cloud with the work history of a prospective hire. If I do a search for a person and "autocomplete" gives me unusual results, I don't immediately stop typing and have a spaz-- I take an extra second to finish the search. I can't even see how this could be considered a form of libel or slander, as in the "Santorum" situation (which I find to be hilarious, and not slander at all BTW). This guy's beef is with the HR departments, not the company that makes tools used by the lazy HR drones.

Google is working exactly as it should-- associating popular searches with similar words. Let's say my name is Killroy, Bob-- does the judge really think that upon typing in "Kill" and upon seeing the following results: "killer elite, kill the irishman, kill bill, killer whale" the reasonable choice is to stop typing assume the applicant is a killer whale? Absurd.

On a related note, I made a JAVA applet that uses autocomplete to generate "food" for little animated "animals": AutoComplete Hive Mind Cannibals. I LIKE autocomplete, it is a weird profile of what people search for and what associations they make.

The point is also that you can connect effect and cause of parts of the site. This is not easy by just a preview.

This is also what Bret Victor talked about in Inventing on Principle: To be effectively creative and productive, there must be an immediate connection between what you do and the consequences.
That principle is broken when you have to go over, and reload. (anything longer than 500ms is broken).

Vimeo was the only problem I /ever/ ran into with Mozilla not supporting h.264.

Vimeo was saying it's all FireFox's fault while (correctly, imho) Firefox maintained it was Vimeo's problem. (I should note Vimeo's suggested workaround never worked for me).

Clearly Vimeo's problem for not supporting the open web and continuing to contribute to it's degredation. A real shame, because (despite some of their other asinine policies) Vimeo video quality (and community) stands head-and-shoulders above YouTube.

I can understand why Firefox is doing this, but maybe they need to relegate h.264 support as a plugin or extension. Seems to work for Flash, and I'm sure helped with the demise of Flash on the web - which is a very very good thing imo.

He could have reduced the CV value of the gear if he didn't use double mirroring - i.e. the phone could be horizontal, screen down. One fewer mirror is better quality. Software can mirror the screen contents (I tried an Iphone in a similar setup, using the car windshield as the mirror). As a next project, the camera could continuously monitor the user's eyeballs and determine where in the real life and on the screen he is looking at, including depth! Also, whenever an image is shown on the screen to augment reality, the phone uses not plain images but light field camera (Lytro; might go on the hat too) pictures so it can be refocused as the user's eyes indicate various depth. Stuff like this becomes almost practical: http://vimeo.com/timoarnall/light-painting-wifi and add CMU Johnny Chung Lee's techniques for depth simulation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&feature=player_detailpage#t=165s) and motion tracking (Minority Report). Maybe for better precision, use some laser light to determine the focus depth and exact direction the user looks at. Then Apple should blow 10Bn on converting the entire gear into one fashionable eyepiece, that doubles as sunglasses, available with a black or - much later - white frame. _That_ will bring the CV value down.

I do some speaking, both professionally and for fun. I have run teaching workshops, from a couple of hours through to two-days long. I love speaking to an audience about a subject I care about.

This is a workshop I gave last year on managing information security. This is a video of a talk I gave recently on the evolution of the personal computer.

Here are some tips that I think help to make a better experience for everybody.

Understand your audience

Who are you presenting to? What are they likely to find most interesting? Most valuable? What single clear mesasge would you most like to communicate to them?

When preparig for a business talk, look up "Zachman Enterprise Architecture." The Zachman Framework describes the different views that different roles have in an organisation. Show how your view relates to their view, and how you support their objectives.

Know your subject; Prepare and Practice

You influence how your audience reacts, and how your audience reacts will influence how you feel. This sets up a feedback loop. If you know what you're talking about, and are passionate about it, this comes across to your audience very positively. If you are unsure or uncomfortable this also comes across.

There's no substitute for knowing exactly what you want to say. This doesn't come from preparing a script and reading from it; it comes from being absolutely clear in your own mind what points you want to make. For me, I find it works to write down the whole speech in advance, and to read through it a few times before giving the talk. When actually presenting, I don't read from my speaking notes, but I do have them in front of me to refer to if I can't remember a detail, or where I was planning to take it next.

Go through your talk by yourself, and if you can it is invaluable to practice it in front of someone else - they'll often pick up on confusing or badly explained ideas and help you communicate them better.

Sometimes things will go wrong - if you know your subject and you know what you were planning to say, you can move on smoothly without letting problems impact the experience too badly.

Visual slides, not text heavy slides

This can't be stressed enough; nobody wants to see somebody reading their own slides. It's boring, and it wastes their time and yours. You might as well have sent out a document and been done with it - you'd probably all be better off.

Because you know your subject, you shouldn't need too many queues to know what you want to say. Use the slides to reinforce what you are saying; graphs, diagrams (clear, simple diagrams!), photographs or short video clips make good slides. Words don't. If you have to use words, and sometimes you do, keep it short and simple. Guy Kawasaki proposes the 10/20/30 rule; Ten slides, Twenty minutes, Thirty point font.

Interact with your audience

If you are comfortable interactibg with the audience, doing so regularly helps keep them engaged. If you're not comfortable, try planning a few questions for the audience at relevent points in your talk.

Relax

It may not be easy, but try to relax. Some people find it ewasy to get aup and talk to an audience, and some people don't. If you don't, you'll find it gets easier the more you do it. I still get nervous before a talk - every single time without fail - but I'm fine once I start as long as I've prepared and know the points I want to make.

"I suspect there will be more use of HTTPS and SSL, too."

http://vimeo.com/18279777 (ignore the first 15 minutes of chair shuffling)

Dan Pink in a lecture that I think was reused for a TED talk discusses the pay for performance problem. I'm sure the citations can be found. http://vimeo.com/6248069

Here's a 1-hour documentary on Vimeo; I've watched most of about half of it so far - even multi-tasking while doing so, it's pretty interesting. So many remembered images from my collection of Heavy Metal magazines!

http://vimeo.com/38272217

And here is the vimeo video for those who want to tear their eyes out when
visiting i-programmer and their 180px content column.

I'm a big proponent of self-driving cars but this example of a computer-controlled intersection makes my sphincter pucker.

Just to see how many edits are being made each year, have a look at http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-2011 (2011) or http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-2010 (2010)

Just to see how many edits are being made each year, have a look at http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-2011 (2011) or http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-2010 (2010)

Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.

Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.

Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.

Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.