The problem is that funding one scientist for twenty years will not yield the same results
as funding twenty scientists for one year. In other words: Progress (in any kind of research) does
not depend linearly on the accumulated amounts spent. If you spend little enough, there won't be any
progress at all, because the One Scientist will be busy documenting the status quo before he retires,
so the next One Scientist can learn the status quo before he retires,...
There's a nice graph about that. Note the "actual funding" line.
While K-9 is a very nice client on a phone, it's awful on a larger tablet.
The builtin one sucks too.
It took me about a dozen tries to find the only Android mail client
with a sensible tablet interface that lets you properly quote inline:
The barely googleable K-@ Mail. I happily paid for the pro version.
"We want to make things better and ship them." – That's an interesting quote.
Over the last decades, I've seen some really amazing demos of things being worked
on at MSR. Has any of it ever shipped? As a real product, I mean, not as some half
done and by now abandoned proof of concept?
Assume that a human is around 100kg, the energy required to accelerate the human to escape velocity (assuming 100% efficient propulsion and no support equipment required) is around 6.2GJ, or 1.7MWh to put it into a more consumer-friendly terms. The average American (to pick the country with the highest per-capita energy consumption) uses around 87kWh per year, so the cost of getting a human away from Earth, assuming perfect conditions, is around 20 times their energy consumption living on Earth for a year.
Check your numbers. I pay for close to 1.2MWh per year in electricity alone. Then there's heating, transportation,... – and I'm not even American.
According to this table, US per capita energy consumption is about 84MWh/year. You're off by a factor of 1000.
And no, Amazon won't sell it online any cheaper - they can't. Diamond Comics (the SOLE comic distributor for practically ALL comics worldwide) has a virtual monopoly on it,...
Uh, make that "worldwide distribution of all american comics".
I have half a wall full of comic books (many of them actual books, with hard spines),
and I'm not sure if even a single one of them is from a publisher under Diamond's
"jurisdiction".
In my world geek news sources it's information - "The Chinese photo" would be shown or linked to. GPS coordinates would be accurate not "almost" a vague coordinate.
Jup. Pretty much all reporting on this is abysmal, from painfully simplified to just plain wrong and misleading.
One thing I haven't seen correct in any non-aviation specific publication:
The aircraft didn't send pings to the Inmarsat satellite, it replied
to pings by the Inmarsat satellite. It's an important detail:
That's why we know the roundtrip times.
All images (including the new one) are there, all known technical information (times, positions, etc.) is there.
Updated information is highlighted with a light yellow background.
The most amazing thing: As far as I know, avherald.com is a one-man operation.
For an adult human, 400-600 is about the limit of what we can detect.
No.
For most average human adults, the limit is about 300 dpi.
Speaking as a graphic designer with over two decades of experience, there is a reason that graphic designers have always targeted a print resolution of 300 dpi for colour images.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me.
Diagonals. Everything non-rectangular really. And that's just for monochrome.
Don't assume stuff that is valid for print to be valid for pixel displays. (also, there actually is print beyond 300 DPI...)
Print DPI (or LPI) are very different from display PPI: Print uses adaptive-sized, adaptive-positioned, overlapping, and even adaptive-shaped blobs of ink.
Displays use constant-size, fixed-position, non-overlapping squares (or rectangles) with discrete color-distribution
(no way to reorder subpixels: if a pixel is horizontal RGB, you can't make its right edge red. And making just its top
half yellow is even trickier. Print can do both.).
You need quite a bit more PPI than a good print's DPI to approach the same visual quality.
You are mistaken. As it happens, I just helped with a "first boot" of a
new EU-bought laptop yesterday that came with Win 8 preinstalled:
A browser selection screen was part of the initial config procedure.
List of things that would have been far more useful than a chat service[...]
Some 40 A380s at list prices (only chumps pay list prices for aircraft, so it'd be even more)
[...] More than 26.000 flagship smartphones (Take your pick)
At over 730000 dollars per phone, those better come with a flagship attached.
cutting-edge GPS receivers can pull satellite signals out from all the way down to a few dB above the noise floor now, even in "urban canyon" locations where signal is blocked by buildings as well as being muddled.
I'd certainly hope so, considering that the satellite signal is considerably below the noise floor once it reaches the ground... (sources vary between 20dB to 26dB below the noise, I didn't do the math myself)
When you're not on your own computer you have little choice of browsers. I, for one, would be furious if someone installed anything on my computer without permission and I refuse to do it to anyone else.
That's perfectly all right - I'm not blaming you. However, you should absolutely be
blaming your IT department, IE7 is incredibly deprecated.
It's only really sensible for a certain class of particles though, so it complements the LHC (or its successor),
but doesn't replace it. The main issue is that in a linear collider, one can't "reuse" the accelerating elements
by sending the particles through more than once. That is very limiting for heavier particles and makes the
ring more efficient.
Perhaps it's impractical, but they could conceivably build an accelerator that wrapped the surface of Earth.
No need to roll your own. If the redundant files are identical (the
problem as stated lets me assume that), use fdupes.
"Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by
comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte
comparison."
It's fast, accurate, and generates a list of duplicate files to handle
yourself - or automatically deletes all except the first of duplicate
files found.
I've used it myself with tens of thousands of pictures to exactly do
what the OP wants.
I don't doubt the existence of physical bugs, but the claimed scale
of 100k devices in the field isn't supported by the article.
They infected 100k machines with software, most of them remotely.
(In that case, I consider the claimed number to be rather low even.)
It's right there in the first two paragraphs of TFA:
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet
I haven't figured out why they won't just sell you an HBO Go subscription as a separate entity. They have a digital content distribution system in place. It has support on many different devices. Yet they still require that you buy their channel through a cable/satellite provider and THEN get access to it.
Why not just have an HBO Go subscription for $10/month? They can cut out the middle man (cable companies) and get a lot more customers that only do internet based TV.
HBO doesn't want to cut out the middlemen, because doing so would actually lose
them money (or at least not make them as much as one would expect, while at the
same time seriously pissing off their current revenue sources):
I think the choice of VC-1 came because it was supported by Silverlight while H.264 was limited if present at all. VC-1 is also the protocol of choice for Blu-Ray, and the time saved simply copying the files instead of moving them to H.264 may be significant.
While VC-1 is part of the mandatory codecs in the BluRay standard due to very heavy lobbying by
Microsoft at the time, I've yet to encounter a single actual disc using it. There are some of them out
there (it is used a lot by Warner Brothers), but "of choice" VC-1 certainly isn't.
And copying files from BDs to directly use as streaming sources? With their double-digit megabit
per second encoding bitrates (the maximum video bitrate alone is 40MBit/s)? Absolutely not.
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Sorry, you write nonsense. GPS is no longer distorted since decades, at least 15 years.
I must have missed the law abolishing the ionosphere. Have a citation?
The problem is that funding one scientist for twenty years will not yield the same results ...
as funding twenty scientists for one year. In other words: Progress (in any kind of research) does
not depend linearly on the accumulated amounts spent. If you spend little enough, there won't be any
progress at all, because the One Scientist will be busy documenting the status quo before he retires,
so the next One Scientist can learn the status quo before he retires,
There's a nice graph about that. Note the "actual funding" line.
Have you tried him on K-9 mail for Android?
While K-9 is a very nice client on a phone, it's awful on a larger tablet.
The builtin one sucks too.
It took me about a dozen tries to find the only Android mail client
with a sensible tablet interface that lets you properly quote inline:
The barely googleable K-@ Mail. I happily paid for the pro version.
Ask the cities that have transport tunnels why they haven't built any more.
Incomplete list of cities surprised to learn that they are not building new transportation tunnels right now:
...and so on. Those are just the ones I'm immediately aware of.
New York
London
Delhi
Toronto
Beijing (multiple lines)
San Francisco
Los Angeles (just getting started)
Paris (multiple lines)
Seoul (including a maglev line)
The whole grain oats, enriched generously with folate and iron, would serve to deter even the most wanton of breakfast criminal.
It's been well established that cereal offenders aren't deterred by palatal punishment. Oats don't make them quake.
"We want to make things better and ship them." – That's an interesting quote.
Over the last decades, I've seen some really amazing demos of things being worked
on at MSR. Has any of it ever shipped? As a real product, I mean, not as some half
done and by now abandoned proof of concept?
Assume that a human is around 100kg, the energy required to accelerate the human to escape velocity (assuming 100% efficient propulsion and no support equipment required) is around 6.2GJ, or 1.7MWh to put it into a more consumer-friendly terms. The average American (to pick the country with the highest per-capita energy consumption) uses around 87kWh per year, so the cost of getting a human away from Earth, assuming perfect conditions, is around 20 times their energy consumption living on Earth for a year.
Check your numbers. I pay for close to 1.2MWh per year in electricity alone. Then there's heating, transportation, ... – and I'm not even American.
According to this table, US per capita energy consumption is about 84MWh/year. You're off by a factor of 1000.
And no, Amazon won't sell it online any cheaper - they can't. Diamond Comics (the SOLE comic distributor for practically ALL comics worldwide) has a virtual monopoly on it, ...
Uh, make that "worldwide distribution of all american comics".
I have half a wall full of comic books (many of them actual books, with hard spines),
and I'm not sure if even a single one of them is from a publisher under Diamond's
"jurisdiction".
And you don't have to floor the brake, any light pressure will overcome the idle speed.
That must be some awesome headlights.
In my world geek news sources it's information - "The Chinese photo" would be shown or linked to. GPS coordinates would be accurate not "almost" a vague coordinate.
Jup. Pretty much all reporting on this is abysmal, from painfully simplified to just plain wrong and misleading.
One thing I haven't seen correct in any non-aviation specific publication:
The aircraft didn't send pings to the Inmarsat satellite, it replied
to pings by the Inmarsat satellite. It's an important detail:
That's why we know the roundtrip times.
One of best sources - maybe even the best source - is The Aviation Herald:
Malaysia B772 over Gulf of Thailand on Mar 8th 2014, aircraft missing, high degree of certainty: deliberate action
All images (including the new one) are there, all known technical information (times, positions, etc.) is there.
Updated information is highlighted with a light yellow background.
The most amazing thing: As far as I know, avherald.com is a one-man operation.
For an adult human, 400-600 is about the limit of what we can detect.
No.
For most average human adults, the limit is about 300 dpi.
Speaking as a graphic designer with over two decades of experience, there is a reason that graphic designers have always targeted a print resolution of 300 dpi for colour images.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me.
Diagonals. Everything non-rectangular really. And that's just for monochrome.
Don't assume stuff that is valid for print to be valid for pixel displays. (also, there actually is print beyond 300 DPI...)
Print DPI (or LPI) are very different from display PPI: Print uses adaptive-sized, adaptive-positioned, overlapping, and even adaptive- shaped blobs of ink.
Displays use constant-size, fixed-position, non-overlapping squares (or rectangles) with discrete color-distribution
(no way to reorder subpixels: if a pixel is horizontal RGB, you can't make its right edge red. And making just its top
half yellow is even trickier. Print can do both.).
You need quite a bit more PPI than a good print's DPI to approach the same visual quality.
Yeah with security holes and no updates I wont trust it.
What are you talking about?
The last SeaMonkey release, SeaMonkey 2.25, came out two days ago.
Its Gecko is identical to the one in Firefox 28.
Instead of linking to some site linking to or embedding the ad from youtube,
here's the actual youtube link.
You are mistaken. As it happens, I just helped with a "first boot" of a
new EU-bought laptop yesterday that came with Win 8 preinstalled:
A browser selection screen was part of the initial config procedure.
List of things that would have been far more useful than a chat service[...]
Some 40 A380s at list prices (only chumps pay list prices for aircraft, so it'd be even more) [...] More than 26.000 flagship smartphones (Take your pick)
At over 730000 dollars per phone, those better come with a flagship attached.
cutting-edge GPS receivers can pull satellite signals out from all the way down to a few dB above the noise floor now, even in "urban canyon" locations where signal is blocked by buildings as well as being muddled.
I'd certainly hope so, considering that the satellite signal is considerably below the noise floor once it reaches the ground... (sources vary between 20dB to 26dB below the noise, I didn't do the math myself)
When you're not on your own computer you have little choice of browsers. I, for one, would be furious if someone installed anything on my computer without permission and I refuse to do it to anyone else.
That's perfectly all right - I'm not blaming you. However, you should absolutely be
blaming your IT department, IE7 is incredibly deprecated.
Wouldn't the optimal path to increase the speed of matter as rapidly as possible be a straight line?
Yes. And it is being given serious thought.
It's only really sensible for a certain class of particles though, so it complements the LHC (or its successor),
but doesn't replace it. The main issue is that in a linear collider, one can't "reuse" the accelerating elements
by sending the particles through more than once. That is very limiting for heavier particles and makes the
ring more efficient.
Perhaps it's impractical, but they could conceivably build an accelerator that wrapped the surface of Earth.
That's wouldn't be a straight line anymore...
Log off and try to log back in, I couldn't log in at work (they use IE7).
While there is a lot of very valid crticism about all this beta stuff, this
isn't one of them. IE7? Seriously? And you blame the website?
Come on...
No need to roll your own. If the redundant files are identical (the
problem as stated lets me assume that), use fdupes.
"Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by
comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte
comparison."
It's fast, accurate, and generates a list of duplicate files to handle
yourself - or automatically deletes all except the first of duplicate
files found.
I've used it myself with tens of thousands of pictures to exactly do
what the OP wants.
"CSI: Computer Seizure Incidents" - I would sooo watch that show.
of 100k devices in the field isn't supported by the article.
They infected 100k machines with software, most of them remotely.
(In that case, I consider the claimed number to be rather low even.)
It's right there in the first two paragraphs of TFA:
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet
I haven't figured out why they won't just sell you an HBO Go subscription as a separate entity. They have a digital content distribution system in place. It has support on many different devices. Yet they still require that you buy their channel through a cable/satellite provider and THEN get access to it.
Why not just have an HBO Go subscription for $10/month? They can cut out the middle man (cable companies) and get a lot more customers that only do internet based TV.
HBO doesn't want to cut out the middlemen, because doing so would actually lose
them money (or at least not make them as much as one would expect, while at the
same time seriously pissing off their current revenue sources):
Why Doesn't HBO Allow Non-Cable Subscribers To Subscribe To HBO Go à la Hulu?
I think the choice of VC-1 came because it was supported by Silverlight while H.264 was limited if present at all. VC-1 is also the protocol of choice for Blu-Ray, and the time saved simply copying the files instead of moving them to H.264 may be significant.
While VC-1 is part of the mandatory codecs in the BluRay standard due to very heavy lobbying by
Microsoft at the time, I've yet to encounter a single actual disc using it. There are some of them out
there (it is used a lot by Warner Brothers), but "of choice" VC-1 certainly isn't.
And copying files from BDs to directly use as streaming sources? With their double-digit megabit
per second encoding bitrates (the maximum video bitrate alone is 40MBit/s)? Absolutely not.
This doesn't seem to have been linked already:
Photo showing the 2012 Mac Pro vs. the 2013 Mac Pro - both with the same amount of additional hardware.