2) Those references show that those papers have been published referenced in academic journals, not their personal website. You clearly do not understand the difference between an academic journal and a personal website and you're demonstrating that lack of understanding in your post.
"Publish or perish" refers to publishing papers in an academic journals, not putting stuff on a personal website. The fact that you don't understand the difference is sad.
You clearly did not look at the website. The guys who did this are in academia, but the website is not an academic publication nor would any of the stuff they post garner funding. Their top articles include such things as "The Beer Belly of America", "The Price of Weed", "Church vs. Beer? on Twitter" and "Church, bowling, guns and strip clubs."
They're doing this as a fun hobby, not serious academic research. There is no funding, no grants, nothing.
I'm fairly sure the accelerometer in the FuelBand cannot tell what type of clothing you're wearing, nor what type of movie you're seeing. All it can show is that you moved around a lot at certain hours of the night. At worst, someone who really hated you and got that information would know when to show up to follow you around and could get a nap first rather than having to sit outside your house for hours to catch you leaving.
Do you spend more time eating a slice of pizza than you spend on a walk? And do you energetically move your arm back and forth continuously during the entire duration of time that you eat pizza?
If your answer to both of those is no, then the device would not flag your pizza eating activity as more calorie burning than your walk.
If your answer to both of those is yes, you should record yourself eating a slice and put it up on YouTube. The sheer silliness of it would probably get millions of views.
The reason Virginia isn't very high up on the list despite the large number of racist tweets is that it was offset by an even larger number of non-racist tweets which aren't shown on the map. If you look at the floatingsheep page linked in the summary, they explain "we aggregated the 395 hate tweets to the state level and then normalized them by comparing them to the total number of geocoded tweets coming out of that state in the same time period."
As a result, a single racist tweet is much more influential in the calculation when it comes from a state with a very low number of tweets overall (Utah is one that suffers from this).
Also, they counted tweets, not accounts tweeting. One person who tweeted twenty racist comments is treated the same as twenty people all tweeting one racist comment. Obviously those should not be treated the same for determining how racist a state is.
Ideally, I think they should have counted accounts that tweeted racist comments and each state's score should have a margin of error give based on the number of accounts tweeting vs the population in the state. But they didn't, so there you have it.
The floatingsheep page specifically says, "we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets." It's not their fault that the author of the Atlantic article left out those details.
Imagine you're in NYC. Power is out, the place is flooded and your apartment is destroyed.
Without relying on "your fucking cell phone or having access to any phone at all" and only relying on yourself, how the hell are you going to find a place to stay?
Have fun figuring that out. Everyone else is going to use the payphone to call their friends and relatives and they'll have a couch to sleep on while you're still hunting for a dry cardboard box to sleep in.
What i propose is to tweak the system that works 99% of the time so that it works 100% of the time.
Sounds great. Now show me the cell phone system that works 99% of the time during wide scale power outages and we'll get right to work on that last 1%.
Oh, right, cell phones never work during wide scale power outages so it's actually a hell of a lot more than 1% extra effort that's required here.
Every cell tower would have to have backup generators, on-site fuel supplies and routing maintenance to ensure that these things will work when needed. Towers built on top of buildings and on privately owned property usually pay a leasing fee which will most likely have to be renegotiated. You can't legally put a large container of fuel on top of a building, either, because it presents an enormous fire hazard. The fuel generally has to be stored underground (if it's legal in the area... it's not in some places) or some distance away from the building, so you're going to have to do some serious construction.
I haven't even covered all the problems and costs involved, but I'm sure everybody will be happy with their $1000/month cell phone bills while it all gets done so it doesn't matter. Let the work begin!
it's a motor, controller and a chassis, for crying out loud.
And a very expensive battery. The Nissan Leaf's battery costs http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/15/nissan-leaf-profitable-by-year-three-battery-cost-closer-to-18/">$18,000 to produce. This is why you don't see really good electric cars at that low of a price point. Fortunately, we have people making electric sports cars and they will help drive the advances in battery technology, eventually leading to cheaper, better batteries and cheaper electric cars.
Incorrect. Players with modded or unmodded consoles who join a multiplayer game with a character in badass mode get kicked into that mode. Having a modded console does not protect you from this bug. The article highlights the fact that an unmodded console to make it clear that it's not just modders who are at risk of losing their characters.
Minivan? Not cramped enough. It's like using a Smart car to move your furniture. It can do the simpler, smaller jobs easily enough but to get the larger ones done in even a half-assed manner, you're going to have to be really creative and put in a lot of work.
Here you go: "Yon ti kras plis pase yon ane de sa, yon iPhone pwototip 4s mache nan yon San Francisco bar, sa ki pouse yon manhunt kontwovÃsyal pa yon kounye a-moun ki mouri anketà Apple ak SFPD la. Koulye a, Wired rapà ke yon Nexus 4 pwototip mache nan yon bar Francisco dÃnye San mwa, sa ki pouse Google nan sik ekip sekirite li a sou ', savoneuz' yon San Francisco Bartender ki avize Google ke li ta jwenn telefÃn yo, ki te chache fà okazyone li nan yon depi-anile evÃnman android sou OktÃb 29. Là a 'Google Polis' te montre yo nan bar la, nan savoneuz ko-travayà voye 'dezespere' Google anketà a sou yon Chase zwa sovaj ki te ateri l 'nan yon anba-sÃnen toupatou Station SFPD, ki soti nan ki li menm ansanm ak avoka savoneuz a te dwe akonpaye deyà nan anba gade a nan polis yo nan KovÃti pou revÃlt plen ak zam otomatik se konsa pà a te kapab fà aranjman pou yon 1 am vin chÃche nan telefÃn nan. "
The ignorant make up the majority of the population, so device makers cater to them. Letting them remain ignorant is the fastest way to ensure the propagation of DRM and walled gardens and the demise of unrestricted devices. Only when consumers are informed can they make intelligence choices that lead to devices which are better for consumers rather than devices which are simply more profitable for the manufacturers.
TL;DR That's the worst possible thing you could do.
Translated to plain language, "We're always looking for new sources of tax revenue and we saw an opportunity to declare that ebooks aren't equivalent to printed books, which allows us to tax them."
No no no. You have to print them out, take photos of them with a 35mm SLR camera, get the photos developed, scan the photos, use an OCR program to convert the photos to text, paste the text in a page layout program, crop the images from the photos and insert them into the proper places in the text, then save the whole thing as a PDF file, then use Calibre to convert the PDF file to a MOBI file.
Your calculations completely ignore the fact that blood is flowing through the area. If the area is warmer than the blood, heat will be absorbed by the blood and carried throughout the body (which is quite good at eliminating excess heat).
More obviously; if a temperature increase of 1-2 degrees was enough to cause harm, everyone who ever had a fever would be permanently damaged and we'd all be avoiding sunlight as if we were vampires.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Childish insults do nothing to make your case.
2) Those references show that those papers have been published referenced in academic journals, not their personal website. You clearly do not understand the difference between an academic journal and a personal website and you're demonstrating that lack of understanding in your post.
I'm done explaining it to you.
"Publish or perish" refers to publishing papers in an academic journals, not putting stuff on a personal website. The fact that you don't understand the difference is sad.
LOL
You clearly did not look at the website. The guys who did this are in academia, but the website is not an academic publication nor would any of the stuff they post garner funding. Their top articles include such things as "The Beer Belly of America", "The Price of Weed", "Church vs. Beer? on Twitter" and "Church, bowling, guns and strip clubs."
They're doing this as a fun hobby, not serious academic research. There is no funding, no grants, nothing.
I'm fairly sure the accelerometer in the FuelBand cannot tell what type of clothing you're wearing, nor what type of movie you're seeing. All it can show is that you moved around a lot at certain hours of the night. At worst, someone who really hated you and got that information would know when to show up to follow you around and could get a nap first rather than having to sit outside your house for hours to catch you leaving.
Do you spend more time eating a slice of pizza than you spend on a walk? And do you energetically move your arm back and forth continuously during the entire duration of time that you eat pizza?
If your answer to both of those is no, then the device would not flag your pizza eating activity as more calorie burning than your walk.
If your answer to both of those is yes, you should record yourself eating a slice and put it up on YouTube. The sheer silliness of it would probably get millions of views.
The dots indicate single tweets.
The reason Virginia isn't very high up on the list despite the large number of racist tweets is that it was offset by an even larger number of non-racist tweets which aren't shown on the map. If you look at the floatingsheep page linked in the summary, they explain "we aggregated the 395 hate tweets to the state level and then normalized them by comparing them to the total number of geocoded tweets coming out of that state in the same time period."
As a result, a single racist tweet is much more influential in the calculation when it comes from a state with a very low number of tweets overall (Utah is one that suffers from this).
Also, they counted tweets, not accounts tweeting. One person who tweeted twenty racist comments is treated the same as twenty people all tweeting one racist comment. Obviously those should not be treated the same for determining how racist a state is.
Ideally, I think they should have counted accounts that tweeted racist comments and each state's score should have a margin of error give based on the number of accounts tweeting vs the population in the state. But they didn't, so there you have it.
The floatingsheep page specifically says, "we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets." It's not their fault that the author of the Atlantic article left out those details.
Wirth's Law:
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is getting faster.
it's not difficult!
That's a very long lecture about apostrophe use for someone who didn't even manage to get all the capitalization right.
Everyone votes for the candidate that they think will best represent their own interests. That's kinda how Democracy works, after all.
Pay phones are POTS functionality, you moron. Put away whatever the hell you're smoking and pay some fucking attention.
Not full sheets, but they do sell 2' x 4' and smaller pieces.
Imagine you're in NYC. Power is out, the place is flooded and your apartment is destroyed.
Without relying on "your fucking cell phone or having access to any phone at all" and only relying on yourself, how the hell are you going to find a place to stay?
Have fun figuring that out. Everyone else is going to use the payphone to call their friends and relatives and they'll have a couch to sleep on while you're still hunting for a dry cardboard box to sleep in.
What i propose is to tweak the system that works 99% of the time so that it works 100% of the time.
Sounds great. Now show me the cell phone system that works 99% of the time during wide scale power outages and we'll get right to work on that last 1%.
Oh, right, cell phones never work during wide scale power outages so it's actually a hell of a lot more than 1% extra effort that's required here.
Every cell tower would have to have backup generators, on-site fuel supplies and routing maintenance to ensure that these things will work when needed. Towers built on top of buildings and on privately owned property usually pay a leasing fee which will most likely have to be renegotiated. You can't legally put a large container of fuel on top of a building, either, because it presents an enormous fire hazard. The fuel generally has to be stored underground (if it's legal in the area... it's not in some places) or some distance away from the building, so you're going to have to do some serious construction.
I haven't even covered all the problems and costs involved, but I'm sure everybody will be happy with their $1000/month cell phone bills while it all gets done so it doesn't matter. Let the work begin!
You get what you ask for. If you say "burger" and mean "triple patty with extra cheese", you're going to be disappointed in the result.
Screwed that link, didn't I.
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/15/nissan-leaf-profitable-by-year-three-battery-cost-closer-to-18/
Wake me up when an electric car is $20k new
http://i.mitsubishicars.com/
$21.625 after the tax credit. So... wake up.
it's a motor, controller and a chassis, for crying out loud.
And a very expensive battery. The Nissan Leaf's battery costs http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/15/nissan-leaf-profitable-by-year-three-battery-cost-closer-to-18/">$18,000 to produce. This is why you don't see really good electric cars at that low of a price point. Fortunately, we have people making electric sports cars and they will help drive the advances in battery technology, eventually leading to cheaper, better batteries and cheaper electric cars.
Incorrect. Players with modded or unmodded consoles who join a multiplayer game with a character in badass mode get kicked into that mode. Having a modded console does not protect you from this bug. The article highlights the fact that an unmodded console to make it clear that it's not just modders who are at risk of losing their characters.
Minivan? Not cramped enough. It's like using a Smart car to move your furniture. It can do the simpler, smaller jobs easily enough but to get the larger ones done in even a half-assed manner, you're going to have to be really creative and put in a lot of work.
Here you go:
"Yon ti kras plis pase yon ane de sa, yon iPhone pwototip 4s mache nan yon San Francisco bar, sa ki pouse yon manhunt kontwovÃsyal pa yon kounye a-moun ki mouri anketà Apple ak SFPD la. Koulye a, Wired rapà ke yon Nexus 4 pwototip mache nan yon bar Francisco dÃnye San mwa, sa ki pouse Google nan sik ekip sekirite li a sou ', savoneuz' yon San Francisco Bartender ki avize Google ke li ta jwenn telefÃn yo, ki te chache fà okazyone li nan yon depi-anile evÃnman android sou OktÃb 29. Là a 'Google Polis' te montre yo nan bar la, nan savoneuz ko-travayà voye 'dezespere' Google anketà a sou yon Chase zwa sovaj ki te ateri l 'nan yon anba-sÃnen toupatou Station SFPD, ki soti nan ki li menm ansanm ak avoka savoneuz a te dwe akonpaye deyà nan anba gade a nan polis yo nan KovÃti pou revÃlt plen ak zam otomatik se konsa pà a te kapab fà aranjman pou yon 1 am vin chÃche nan telefÃn nan. "
On noes! Someone is doing something that I don't think is worthwhile! Make them stop!
The ignorant make up the majority of the population, so device makers cater to them. Letting them remain ignorant is the fastest way to ensure the propagation of DRM and walled gardens and the demise of unrestricted devices. Only when consumers are informed can they make intelligence choices that lead to devices which are better for consumers rather than devices which are simply more profitable for the manufacturers.
TL;DR That's the worst possible thing you could do.
Translated to plain language, "We're always looking for new sources of tax revenue and we saw an opportunity to declare that ebooks aren't equivalent to printed books, which allows us to tax them."
No no no. You have to print them out, take photos of them with a 35mm SLR camera, get the photos developed, scan the photos, use an OCR program to convert the photos to text, paste the text in a page layout program, crop the images from the photos and insert them into the proper places in the text, then save the whole thing as a PDF file, then use Calibre to convert the PDF file to a MOBI file.
Your calculations completely ignore the fact that blood is flowing through the area. If the area is warmer than the blood, heat will be absorbed by the blood and carried throughout the body (which is quite good at eliminating excess heat).
More obviously; if a temperature increase of 1-2 degrees was enough to cause harm, everyone who ever had a fever would be permanently damaged and we'd all be avoiding sunlight as if we were vampires.