Somebody here doesn't understand what exponential mean. Fun fact : those "meager" 10.8% would multiply your money by 2 in less than 7 years, and by 28400 in 100 years.
And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch.
I'm sure you could find someone who has been smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 40 years and who still is relatively healthy. Are cigarettes "extraordinarily safe for humans" ? Is falling from a 20 m roof "extraordinarily safe for humans" because some guy survived it?
I have no clue about DDT, I'm just saying that this logic is deeply flawed.
Maybe, but 5 weeks for mouse's DNA is like 5 weeks for human's DNA.
It's like the birds and rodents living happily in Chernobyl. Who cares if you get a cancer after 15 years of radiation if your average life expectancy is 10 years?
Well, Ruby & Python are just like islam & Judaism or vim & Emacs. They're very similar, yet distinct, and once you've chosen one path, it's hard to take another.
I'm really good at using Ruby, know the inner workings, wrote many plug-ins and applications, and contributed to the project. There are many cool projects for Python that I'd love to understand, use and contribute to.
I tried some tutorials for Python, but it feels like a waste of time when I already know a OO high-level scripting language.
A common compiler would be really cool, but I don't know if it is even possible.
I used to get excited for every single tech gadget out there, and would run to Amazon or the next shop to get it ASAP. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe I'm becoming more and more environmentally-conscious, but the bottom line is : You don't need it. Nobody needs an All-in-one PC in the kitchen, nobody needs a web-enabled washing machine, nobody needs a beta firmware on its dishwasher, and nobody needs an LCD display on the fridge. Those stuff just get obsolete after 2 years, and become "broken" even though their main utility would still work perfectly fine without the added useless complexity. I expect my fridge, my dishwasher and my washing machine to still work in 10 years. Your gadget will wind up in the dump in a few years.
Let's say you have a very weird car with 4 engines, 12 wheels turning in different directions, 8 steering wheels, 5 gearboxes and 20 buttons. You have no idea what each control does : some appear not to have any influence, some need to be used together, some have delayed influence, some cancel each other... You can probably forget to get a perfect understanding of the car, and will never find the perfect driving strategy.
You just need a driver assistance system that will minimise the time needed as well as the number of dents and bumps for a given travel.
In a world where we've tamed our environment and largely protected ourselves from the vagaries of nature
Yeah right. Except for peak oil, AGW and other minor stuff, we live in perfect harmony with our environment, and there's simply no way we could get in trouble from the vagaries of nature.
Exactly. Once it's done, release a Firefox plugin that dumps the Gema audio disclaimer, grabs a random song out of your library and plays it with the video. Brownie points for rhythm analysis and matching beats. Or just put Bob Marley songs on every video. It works perfectly fine!:D
That's pretty much my job. You want something like this: http://www.solmetric.com/buy210.html If you don't have access to it : Do you have any picture? Did you model your roof+trees it in Sketchup? Could you sketch an elevation profile of your horizon with (azimuth,elevation) coordinates? I usually ask $$$ for design/monitoring of big projects, but I have many scripts to get a complete report with rough estimates in a few minutes for smaller projects.
Exactly, it's very frustrating. It's like getting 30 points in every tennis games but still losing 6-0 6-0 6-0. While I don't care that much about tennis, it sure is a shame that we cannot get proper political representation. The biggest problem is that in order to change this, A & B should vote for it. They don't have any incentive to.
With a bootable clone done with CCC or SuperDuper, you don't have to install anything. The backup is already a complete working system. You simply need to boot with the backup drive after powering your Mac OS. It literally takes 5 second to get your system working again after a catastrophic disk failure. CCC is already installed on your backup drive, so you can resume your backup routine.
Also, TimeMachine has a weird structure with fake hardlinks and wrong inodes, so you cannot parse the directory structure under Linux.
I have Time Machine backups of that (this is hands-down the best consumer on-site backup solution on the market).
Did you actually use it for recovery?
Both my rotated TimeMachines were corrupt. They never complained during backups, but failed miserably while trying to recover my Pictures HDD. Only some of the backup files were corrupt, but when you try to recover a complete disk with TM, it's all or nothing, and the process stops after the first error, leaving you in the dust. I had to write a parsing script with ruby, "cp -avX", ditto and chmod in order to get my system back. It wasn't so hard, but it sure was stressful with one disk down, two corrupt disks and no other backup to get my pictures back.
BTW, TimeMachine doesn't backup every file in your system, and is too stupid to realize that it should not begin from scratch after recovery : it needs twice the storage after that, because it thinks every file is new.
My drives weren't big enough, so I had to wipe the backups and lose the local history.
Fuck it. I began using Carbon Copy Cloner since then, and never looked back. It's free as in donationware, it works, it gives you a bootable backup that you can actually test and rotate properly, it can easily be automated, it archives the files that you've deleted between backups, and uses much less space than TimeMachine. I hear SuperDuper is just as good. TimeMachine is some crappy software with nice looking interface that gives you a false sense of security.
As usual with energy/environment/social related questions, it's easy to answer but hard to accept. Here are some facts : *) You probably don't need it. I know/. is heavily gadget-oriented, and I also love to play with techy new stuff. But the truth is that nobody *needs* a smart phone. It's cool to have a linux kernel in the pocket, it can be fun and convenient to always have Angry Birds and emails on the go, but people can survive without it. *) It uses gold, silver, tantalum, platinum, palladium, lead, tin, copper, oil, aluminium, etc. Some of them are getting rare, some of them are linked to conflicts for extraction. *) It will be a piece of junk in a few months/years. Planned obsolescence is a bitch. *) It's hard to recycle. It's so hard almost nobody bothers to try, and just dump it. *) As you mentioned, the production process isn't really worker-friendly.
And the list goes on and on. The obvious answer is not to buy it. The real question is if you wanna walk the walk.
I have to admit I had to read the TFA in order to understand how the hell this system works. So they use open circuit cooling towers with cleanish water coming from a sewage treatment plant. Those wet cooling towers are known for being prone to Legionellosis, even when clean water is used. This problem probably becomes worse with dirty water. I wouldn't like to be the technician cleaning and repairing those towers.
Maybe you should insist more, because they're no such thing as a 24bit/channel camera. AFAIK, the highest bit depth you can get is 16bit/channel on high end medium-format sensors.
That's a real problem for non-involved people. I tried hard to find unbiased information about the geopolitical situation there. I suppose the best you can do is to use the arithmetical mean of available biased information sources. Problem is, you cannot know where you land, and you cannot discuss with people that use those sources, because they're so extreme that they see a balanced point of view as being extreme.:-/
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Somebody here doesn't understand what exponential mean.
Fun fact : those "meager" 10.8% would multiply your money by 2 in less than 7 years, and by 28400 in 100 years.
Good question.
That's the smoothest-looking pixel I've ever seen!
This will be the perfect chip to process polls, political speeches, economic analyses and penis measurements!
I'm sure you could find someone who has been smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 40 years and who still is relatively healthy.
Are cigarettes "extraordinarily safe for humans" ?
Is falling from a 20 m roof "extraordinarily safe for humans" because some guy survived it?
I have no clue about DDT, I'm just saying that this logic is deeply flawed.
Maybe, but 5 weeks for mouse's DNA is like 5 weeks for human's DNA.
It's like the birds and rodents living happily in Chernobyl.
Who cares if you get a cancer after 15 years of radiation if your average life expectancy is 10 years?
Viel Spaß : http://www.unblocker.yt/ :D
Well, Ruby & Python are just like islam & Judaism or vim & Emacs.
They're very similar, yet distinct, and once you've chosen one path, it's hard to take another.
I'm really good at using Ruby, know the inner workings, wrote many plug-ins and applications, and contributed to the project.
There are many cool projects for Python that I'd love to understand, use and contribute to.
I tried some tutorials for Python, but it feels like a waste of time when I already know a OO high-level scripting language.
A common compiler would be really cool, but I don't know if it is even possible.
Sad but true. You can still spot a lot of kw/h in "Le Monde", which should be a high-standard newspaper.
I used to get excited for every single tech gadget out there, and would run to Amazon or the next shop to get it ASAP.
Maybe I'm getting old or maybe I'm becoming more and more environmentally-conscious, but the bottom line is :
You don't need it.
Nobody needs an All-in-one PC in the kitchen, nobody needs a web-enabled washing machine, nobody needs a beta firmware on its dishwasher, and nobody needs an LCD display on the fridge.
Those stuff just get obsolete after 2 years, and become "broken" even though their main utility would still work perfectly fine without the added useless complexity.
I expect my fridge, my dishwasher and my washing machine to still work in 10 years.
Your gadget will wind up in the dump in a few years.
Let's say you have a very weird car with 4 engines, 12 wheels turning in different directions, 8 steering wheels, 5 gearboxes and 20 buttons.
You have no idea what each control does : some appear not to have any influence, some need to be used together, some have delayed influence, some cancel each other...
You can probably forget to get a perfect understanding of the car, and will never find the perfect driving strategy.
You just need a driver assistance system that will minimise the time needed as well as the number of dents and bumps for a given travel.
Yeah right. Except for peak oil, AGW and other minor stuff, we live in perfect harmony with our environment, and there's simply no way we could get in trouble from the vagaries of nature.
Exactly. :D
Once it's done, release a Firefox plugin that dumps the Gema audio disclaimer, grabs a random song out of your library and plays it with the video.
Brownie points for rhythm analysis and matching beats.
Or just put Bob Marley songs on every video. It works perfectly fine!
Not exactly :
Amateur photographers talk about gear.
Pro photographers talk about money.
Masters talk about light.
Read http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 or http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403 for a good laugh. /. trolls pale in comparison. :D
It's great until you really need it:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2745715&cid=39468827
That's pretty much my job.
You want something like this:
http://www.solmetric.com/buy210.html
If you don't have access to it :
Do you have any picture? Did you model your roof+trees it in Sketchup? Could you sketch an elevation profile of your horizon with (azimuth,elevation) coordinates?
I usually ask $$$ for design/monitoring of big projects, but I have many scripts to get a complete report with rough estimates in a few minutes for smaller projects.
Exactly, it's very frustrating.
It's like getting 30 points in every tennis games but still losing 6-0 6-0 6-0.
While I don't care that much about tennis, it sure is a shame that we cannot get proper political representation.
The biggest problem is that in order to change this, A & B should vote for it. They don't have any incentive to.
With a bootable clone done with CCC or SuperDuper, you don't have to install anything. The backup is already a complete working system.
You simply need to boot with the backup drive after powering your Mac OS.
It literally takes 5 second to get your system working again after a catastrophic disk failure.
CCC is already installed on your backup drive, so you can resume your backup routine.
Also, TimeMachine has a weird structure with fake hardlinks and wrong inodes, so you cannot parse the directory structure under Linux.
Did you actually use it for recovery?
Both my rotated TimeMachines were corrupt. They never complained during backups, but failed miserably while trying to recover my Pictures HDD.
Only some of the backup files were corrupt, but when you try to recover a complete disk with TM, it's all or nothing, and the process stops after the first error, leaving you in the dust.
I had to write a parsing script with ruby, "cp -avX", ditto and chmod in order to get my system back.
It wasn't so hard, but it sure was stressful with one disk down, two corrupt disks and no other backup to get my pictures back.
BTW, TimeMachine doesn't backup every file in your system, and is too stupid to realize that it should not begin from scratch after recovery : it needs twice the storage after that, because it thinks every file is new.
My drives weren't big enough, so I had to wipe the backups and lose the local history.
Fuck it. I began using Carbon Copy Cloner since then, and never looked back.
It's free as in donationware, it works, it gives you a bootable backup that you can actually test and rotate properly, it can easily be automated, it archives the files that you've deleted between backups, and uses much less space than TimeMachine.
I hear SuperDuper is just as good.
TimeMachine is some crappy software with nice looking interface that gives you a false sense of security.
As usual with energy/environment/social related questions, it's easy to answer but hard to accept. /. is heavily gadget-oriented, and I also love to play with techy new stuff. But the truth is that nobody *needs* a smart phone. It's cool to have a linux kernel in the pocket, it can be fun and convenient to always have Angry Birds and emails on the go, but people can survive without it.
Here are some facts :
*) You probably don't need it. I know
*) It uses gold, silver, tantalum, platinum, palladium, lead, tin, copper, oil, aluminium, etc. Some of them are getting rare, some of them are linked to conflicts for extraction.
*) It will be a piece of junk in a few months/years. Planned obsolescence is a bitch.
*) It's hard to recycle. It's so hard almost nobody bothers to try, and just dump it.
*) As you mentioned, the production process isn't really worker-friendly.
And the list goes on and on. The obvious answer is not to buy it.
The real question is if you wanna walk the walk.
I have to admit I had to read the TFA in order to understand how the hell this system works.
So they use open circuit cooling towers with cleanish water coming from a sewage treatment plant.
Those wet cooling towers are known for being prone to Legionellosis, even when clean water is used.
This problem probably becomes worse with dirty water.
I wouldn't like to be the technician cleaning and repairing those towers.
The interpolation you're talking about is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosaicing, usually done for typical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter.
The extra bit-depth is only interesting if you get RAW information from the sensor and you do the post-processing and conversion to JPEG afterwards.
You'll be able to extract much more information from deep shadows and blown highlights :
http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/14-bit-raw-12-bit-part-two.html
If you don't do any post-processing, you probably won't see any difference between (8bit/channel in-camera JPEG) vs (JPEG extracted from RAW file)
[citation needed]
Who needs units anyway?
I suppose the 48 you mention really are 48bits/(3 channels), i.e. 16bit/channel.
Maybe you should insist more, because they're no such thing as a 24bit/channel camera.
AFAIK, the highest bit depth you can get is 16bit/channel on high end medium-format sensors.
That's a real problem for non-involved people. :-/
I tried hard to find unbiased information about the geopolitical situation there.
I suppose the best you can do is to use the arithmetical mean of available biased information sources.
Problem is, you cannot know where you land, and you cannot discuss with people that use those sources, because they're so extreme that they see a balanced point of view as being extreme.