If you're living off of 800 a month (net) you're total annual income is only about $11,000 which puts you well into the bottom 10% of incomes - and likewise makes it time to recognize a luxury good.
As a software examiner I can say that this honestly doesn't change a lot in our art unit. If the implementation could occur in someone's head then no physical transformation takes place (i.e. software steps that aren't claimed to be on a computer.)
There are only a small amount of applications this effects and it's very easy to overcome, although I unfortunately can't go into much more depth than that.
No, it depends a lot on where and how the water is evaporated. The same climate model which predicts this cooling effect also predicts an amplified warming effect from global warming-induced evaporation.
CaptainPatent as AC:
What you're describing is case number 1, the assumption made is that if case number 3 is true. I don't doubt that there may be runaway greenhouse because of this invention. Evaporation - no matter how it occurs - still undergoes the same phase change which traps additional heat and sends it skyward. The self correction I was describing may occur more slowly than any potential self-regulation, but if case #3 is true that's what would happen.
I wasn't making any assumptions about what the weather would do because there's evidence pointing all directions. I was just pointing out that no matter what, the result is either neutral at best, or damaging at worst.
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Exactly what I was thinking.
This invention would do one of three things:
1)Cause runaway greenhouse effects that make the earth unmanageably hot.
2)Cause little to no change at all at the cost of thousands of what will probably be taxpayer dollars.
3)Cause appropriate temperature correction.
The interesting part is that if number 3 is true, then the earth getting hotter would also cause more evaporation creating in essence the same effect. If whatever research findings he has are correct it would mean the earth is actually fairly self-regulating and the temperature would balance itself out anyways.
This is first thing in a long time from Microsoft that has truly impressed me. Amazing what you can accomplish with a little fear of competition. If this is truly novel, nice job!
If you didn't read the article, all they did is put the touch sensitive portion on the back and have that activate a cursor on the front.
At first I thought "Wow, that's a great idea"
Then I thought "Duh, why didn't anyone else think of it?"
Then I thought "Man, that's really limiting" - Imagine how slow typing would be on one of these devices. For each character you'd have to press to see the cursor, adjust for the actual location, then 'lock in' to press the button. Don't get me wrong, it's great for browsing and playing some games, but the Iphone's typing system would be better than this and an actual keyboard is still king.
I do give some props to Microsoft though, I'm glad someone finally thought to do this.
Um, actually "hot" nuclear fuel only needs to be stored for around 40 years (depending on the type of fuel) to drop to a radiation level less than 1/1000th of the original fissionable material and after about 10,000 years the radiation level is nothing more than background radiation.
At the 40 year mark the radiation levels are still something to be cautious of, but short term exposure isn't a major problem at that point so as long as you don't take long naps on the stockpile, you should be fine.
The thing I find most fascinating about nuclear versus coal is in this wikepedia article:
In countries with nuclear power, radioactive wastes comprise less than 1% of total industrial toxic wastes, which remain hazardous indefinitely unless they decompose or are treated so that they are less toxic or, ideally, completely non-toxic.[53] Overall, nuclear power produces far less waste material than fossil-fuel based power plants. Coal-burning plants are particularly noted for producing large amounts of toxic and mildly radioactive ash due to concentrating naturally occurring metals and radioactive material from the coal. Contrary to popular belief, coal power actually results in more radioactive waste being released into the environment than nuclear power. The population effective dose equivalent from radiation from coal plants is 100 times as much as nuclear plants.
Nuclear is far better than coal, but it is true that wind and solar do pollute less if you ignore manufacturing processes.
A spellchecker is an important feature I'm sure you will agree if you have had to read anything posted by someone else on the internet.
You can say that again!
I don't believe Opera is anymore secure then Firefox. It is less popular which means it's not targeted by malware, perhaps this is the reason that it looks more secure?
I completely agree with this statement. Opera may actually be less secure than Firefox overall. I'm sure Opera will end up having at least some minor, if not a couple major security holes in its lifetime. For this moment though and because there seems to be a known and exploitable hole in Firefox for financial information of all things Opera just looks on the surface to be a better option... for now.
Don't let that stop you from using it, I'm all for people being able to choose their own tools (unless it's IE6, then you have to die in a fire), however choose them for the right reasons and not on false assumptions.
The original post made it sound like you were going against the above statement but I think we're pretty much on the same page. Shall we start the bonfire?
My gp comment was just as relevant as your original post. Yes Firefox had spellcheck as an implemented feature for a longer time than Opera, but length of implementation is fairly irrelevant - both of them now have the feature and should be judged as such.
If you can't live without spellcheck in submission spaces in a browser (which I no longer can after using this feature in Firefox since implementation) I understand that was and should have been a determining factor. At this point and for reasons of that particular feature though, they should be judged on equal ground. Additionally and as I pointed out, another factor for a lot of people should be security. I personally am considering switching to Opera (or at least downloading / running side-by-side to Firefox) now that it has a much larger feature set and for the time being seems to be more secure.
I just think the argument of "but this already has those features" is an argument borne of fanboyism alone and the browser should be judged on full merits. Opera for that reason looks pretty good right now.
Most common home-row QWERTY words:
bag, lag, sag, hag...
Most common home-row Dvorak words:
a, i, it, is, in, as, he, us, duh, its, nut, sin, sit, the, that, this, then, than, need, net, set, said, had, has, hit, his, end, use, shit, dust, hind, hint, shin, shut, shun, thin, unit, seen, seed... need I continue?
in fact, Dvorak home row can do 43.75% of all two-letter TWL words while QWERTY can do a whopping 11.46%
The only home row two-letter words QWERTY CAN do that Dvorak can't are:
AG - pertaining to agriculture
AL - east Indian tree
FA - fourth tone of the diatonic musical scale
KA - Egyptian spiritual self
LA - sixth tone of the diatonic musical scale
Unless you're an ancient Egyptian singing horticulturist, I doubt you've ever used even one of those in day-to-day typing.
Actually the fact that so few words can be typed on the same hand is evidence towards the efficiency of Dvorak.
alternating hand keystrokes are the fastest and least stress-inducing type of keystroke. The fact that so many words in Qwerty can be typed on the same (left) hand and so few can be in Dvorak shows that a larger subset of the Dvorak words alternate, whereas a smaller subset of the Qwerty words do.
On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.[19] Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is crwth.
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If you're living off of 800 a month (net) you're total annual income is only about $11,000 which puts you well into the bottom 10% of incomes - and likewise makes it time to recognize a luxury good.
...your standard geek.
Hey, I know tons of geeks with tons of personalities... just check their character sheets!
Wow, so you personally commit fraud and forgery to get your "enemy" a $40 speeding ticket?
sounds like a great idea until the first time a cop is on scene to pull you over.
I hope those kids like jail time!
I'm pretty sure this was the original discussion and intended link in case you're interested.
As a software examiner I can say that this honestly doesn't change a lot in our art unit. If the implementation could occur in someone's head then no physical transformation takes place (i.e. software steps that aren't claimed to be on a computer.)
There are only a small amount of applications this effects and it's very easy to overcome, although I unfortunately can't go into much more depth than that.
I'm a huge fan of dead laptop batteries, burning hot pants, and scoliosis.
This has to be the perfect laptop for me!
No, it depends a lot on where and how the water is evaporated. The same climate model which predicts this cooling effect also predicts an amplified warming effect from global warming-induced evaporation.
CaptainPatent as AC:
What you're describing is case number 1, the assumption made is that if case number 3 is true. I don't doubt that there may be runaway greenhouse because of this invention. Evaporation - no matter how it occurs - still undergoes the same phase change which traps additional heat and sends it skyward. The self correction I was describing may occur more slowly than any potential self-regulation, but if case #3 is true that's what would happen.
I wasn't making any assumptions about what the weather would do because there's evidence pointing all directions. I was just pointing out that no matter what, the result is either neutral at best, or damaging at worst.
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Exactly what I was thinking.
This invention would do one of three things:
1)Cause runaway greenhouse effects that make the earth unmanageably hot. 2)Cause little to no change at all at the cost of thousands of what will probably be taxpayer dollars. 3)Cause appropriate temperature correction.
The interesting part is that if number 3 is true, then the earth getting hotter would also cause more evaporation creating in essence the same effect. If whatever research findings he has are correct it would mean the earth is actually fairly self-regulating and the temperature would balance itself out anyways.
but seriously...microsoft does some interesting stuff! The microsoft-hate that goes on around here is kindof silly.
Blasphemer!
I banish you from Slashdot, and you shall be sacrificed to the all-mighty penguin!
This is first thing in a long time from Microsoft that has truly impressed me. Amazing what you can accomplish with a little fear of competition. If this is truly novel, nice job!
If you didn't read the article, all they did is put the touch sensitive portion on the back and have that activate a cursor on the front.
At first I thought "Wow, that's a great idea"
Then I thought "Duh, why didn't anyone else think of it?"
Then I thought "Man, that's really limiting" - Imagine how slow typing would be on one of these devices. For each character you'd have to press to see the cursor, adjust for the actual location, then 'lock in' to press the button. Don't get me wrong, it's great for browsing and playing some games, but the Iphone's typing system would be better than this and an actual keyboard is still king.
I do give some props to Microsoft though, I'm glad someone finally thought to do this.
At the 40 year mark the radiation levels are still something to be cautious of, but short term exposure isn't a major problem at that point so as long as you don't take long naps on the stockpile, you should be fine. The thing I find most fascinating about nuclear versus coal is in this wikepedia article:
In countries with nuclear power, radioactive wastes comprise less than 1% of total industrial toxic wastes, which remain hazardous indefinitely unless they decompose or are treated so that they are less toxic or, ideally, completely non-toxic.[53] Overall, nuclear power produces far less waste material than fossil-fuel based power plants. Coal-burning plants are particularly noted for producing large amounts of toxic and mildly radioactive ash due to concentrating naturally occurring metals and radioactive material from the coal. Contrary to popular belief, coal power actually results in more radioactive waste being released into the environment than nuclear power. The population effective dose equivalent from radiation from coal plants is 100 times as much as nuclear plants.
Nuclear is far better than coal, but it is true that wind and solar do pollute less if you ignore manufacturing processes.
I finally convinced everyone in my apartment to switch...
We're getting a strange "limited or no connectivity" problem now.
That's pretty much like building a mind-reader to figure out if a person has ever committed a crime. Good luck with that.
Or like exploiting three people capable of seeing into the future in order to generate police reports and make arrests.
As we learned, nothing can possibly go wrong!
You didn't pass any "go"....
Hey now, nobody said he was going directly to jail.
So we can blame him for giving Hubbard his start? Not something I'd brag about. ;)
Lord Xenu looks down at you with disgust.
Hey, good news! You've succeeded!
I think we're on to something!
Tomorrow's headline:
Article misrepresenting "mental body swapping" leads to mental body swapping!
Ok, I was absolutely pumped because the subject line of this story made it sound like they successfully transplanted a brain or something...
After reading the article they were just simultaneously poking people with sticks...
perhaps now that you have that insight you can "mentally swap" the disappointment I'm feeling.
A spellchecker is an important feature I'm sure you will agree if you have had to read anything posted by someone else on the internet.
You can say that again!
I don't believe Opera is anymore secure then Firefox. It is less popular which means it's not targeted by malware, perhaps this is the reason that it looks more secure?
I completely agree with this statement. Opera may actually be less secure than Firefox overall. I'm sure Opera will end up having at least some minor, if not a couple major security holes in its lifetime. For this moment though and because there seems to be a known and exploitable hole in Firefox for financial information of all things Opera just looks on the surface to be a better option... for now.
Don't let that stop you from using it, I'm all for people being able to choose their own tools (unless it's IE6, then you have to die in a fire), however choose them for the right reasons and not on false assumptions.
The original post made it sound like you were going against the above statement but I think we're pretty much on the same page.
Shall we start the bonfire?
My gp comment was just as relevant as your original post. Yes Firefox had spellcheck as an implemented feature for a longer time than Opera, but length of implementation is fairly irrelevant - both of them now have the feature and should be judged as such.
If you can't live without spellcheck in submission spaces in a browser (which I no longer can after using this feature in Firefox since implementation) I understand that was and should have been a determining factor. At this point and for reasons of that particular feature though, they should be judged on equal ground. Additionally and as I pointed out, another factor for a lot of people should be security. I personally am considering switching to Opera (or at least downloading / running side-by-side to Firefox) now that it has a much larger feature set and for the time being seems to be more secure.
I just think the argument of "but this already has those features" is an argument borne of fanboyism alone and the browser should be judged on full merits. Opera for that reason looks pretty good right now.
Other features include a spell checker and auto updating.
Firefox had this years ago, seriously is this accurate, Opera just got these?
So Opera is a little behind the times...
Personally I can't wait until they get around to implementing horrendous security holes as a subset of its features!
After researchers tested the stash it seemed seemed like 2700 years had passed. In reality it was only 42 minutes.
Sources also say that after testing the researchers' hands "looked awesome."
Most common home-row QWERTY words:
bag, lag, sag, hag...
Most common home-row Dvorak words:
a, i, it, is, in, as, he, us, duh, its, nut, sin, sit, the, that, this, then, than, need, net, set, said, had, has, hit, his, end, use, shit, dust, hind, hint, shin, shut, shun, thin, unit, seen, seed... need I continue? in fact, Dvorak home row can do 43.75% of all two-letter TWL words while QWERTY can do a whopping 11.46% The only home row two-letter words QWERTY CAN do that Dvorak can't are:
AG - pertaining to agriculture
AL - east Indian tree
FA - fourth tone of the diatonic musical scale KA - Egyptian spiritual self LA - sixth tone of the diatonic musical scale
Unless you're an ancient Egyptian singing horticulturist, I doubt you've ever used even one of those in day-to-day typing.
alternating hand keystrokes are the fastest and least stress-inducing type of keystroke. The fact that so many words in Qwerty can be typed on the same (left) hand and so few can be in Dvorak shows that a larger subset of the Dvorak words alternate, whereas a smaller subset of the Qwerty words do.
need more proof, just do a
then follow that up with a
On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.[19] Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is crwth.
That's nothing, I just finished overclocking my server by giving it a continuous feed of liquid hydrogen...
Man that puppy runs cool... I think I'll celebrate with a smoke!
[INSERT CaptainPatent INTO DARWIN_AWARD]