Yeah.. Wikipedia.. which gives the overview, but also links to the actual text of the law.
Now please explain to me why you are so intent on SPINNING. You keep going on about data, and how Jones papers are 'valid' or whatever.
Did the CRU release Jones' source code?
If YES: Jones upheld his end of the public trust.
If NO: THATS A FUCKING VIOLATION OF THE FUCKING LAW. Jones pissed all over the public trust.
Thats all there is to it. Jones violated the public trust, and did not follow the law ON PURPOSE. He should never receive another penny of public money. EVER.
You can go on and on about how his work is valid, or that the data wasn't his.. BUT HE STILL VIOLATED THE LAW EVEN IF ALL YOU SAY IS TRUE.
I've got source code right here, produced by the CRU and only available because it was stolen, that says different.
"The required computer code is straightforward and easily written by a competent researcher...
So they ADMIT that there was source code produced by the CRU that was open for FOI requests but make the EXCUSE that it was "easily written"
Thats called SPIN. No where in the law does it state that they do not have to provide stuff that is "easily written"
Spin it however you want. That source code was supposed to be provided by Jones upon request. He did not provide it. It had to be STOLEN. He deserves to lose every penny of public grant money from now until he dies. He should never get public funding again. He violated the public trust.
..and if you looked at the source code, like I have, you would know that it has magic constants in it to make the figures come out as they do. The stolen code is still available. Why not go have a look.
On the other hand, much of the information demanded from Dr. Jones was data that he did not produce...
..and some of it was. Did he provide it upon request? No? Yeah. No, he did not.
Jones did not supply his source code.
End of fucking story. Stop spinning Jones' stinky shit into something where some other people are at fault. Jones is at fault. Thats all there is too it. Jones did not live up to the public trust bargain and should therefore never receive public money again. The fact that groups that have more to lose than he does "cleared him" means nothing to people that arent willing to swallow spin.
So you see it as a desirable thing that random cranks should have the legal power to impede the work of a scientific research group by making demands for irrelevant data (or data that actually belongs to somebody else, as was the case for much of what was demanded)?
I think its desirable that all people, including random cranks, have the legal power to request information produced with their public money.
What you just did here is spin. You didnt like the reality, so you created a narrow fiction where you hope others will swallow your shit. Fuck no, we wont. We fear that spinning is a real problem in this science, so more spinning by armchair believers like you don't mean jack.
Lets find out if Joe Plumber ripped off his last customer. "Hey Joe, did you rip off your last customer? No? Well OK then. Joe didn't rip off his last customer."
So Jones's only infraction was that he was not sufficiently responsive to demands for data, contending (correctly, as the committee found) that the data demanded was not needed to check his results.
Did you miss the lie?
The lie goes "he doesnt have to provide data if it isnt needed to check his work"
The legality however, is different and goes "he has to provide the data upon proper request"
Basically, they are all people from other fields because there is no associates/bachelors/masters degrees in climatology.
None of the big names in climatology have advanced degrees in statistics, but they should, because they is the primary discipline that they are practicing.
Most of the games played on freechess.org are 'lightning' games, and usually its the 'fastest' setting of "1 0" which is 1 minute total per player with no time added per move. Some of the players individually have game counts in the hundreds of thousands. Normally these players play 'sets' of games, 10 or more consecutively, against any given opponent.
Some of the player play a very hucksterish style, with the goal being to simply eat away at their opponents clock with surprise checks, highly dubious sacrifices, and other outright gorilla tactics. Its very fun to watch, and to play.
For the user, the lag he experiences is the combination of the two.
The fact is that people with lower input latency have an advantage even when the total round-trip latency remains unchanged. The latency-to-display is a red herring... humans compensate for latency-to-display by leading the target.
If players A and B both have latency-to-display of 200ms, but player A has a 0ms input latency and player B has a 200ms input latency, who the fuck do you think wins?
The transform from screenspace to object/worldspace isnt the issue. You are ignoring the fundamental (and first) step.
Design an algorithm to iterate over the pixels within the triangle, when the pixels are hexagons.
Normally a rasterizer uses something like Bresenham or DDA in order to find the edge pixels, and picks up some anti-aliasing information here by trivially calculating how much of the pixel is covered by the ideal triangle (this information falls right out of either method whether you use it or not), and then simply iterates across each scanline of the triangle from start pixel to end pixel.
(yes, I have written software rasterizers..)
You cant even find the edge pixels as easily... and then you have the much more complicated anti-aliasing problem of determining how much of the hexagon pixel is covered by the ideal triangle...
All the transforming to object/world space isnt even important. You cant do that until you are iterating over the pixels of the triangle.
This explains why Star Wars ruined the acting career of everyone in it, aside from Harison Ford, who 'coincidentally' was the lead actor in Lucas's other major hit series. If Indiana Jones had flopped, Harison Ford would probably not have had much more of a career either.
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Indeed. With Cuda, DirectCompute, and OpenCL, nearly 100% of your code is boilerplate interfacing to the API.
There needs to be a language where this stuff is a first-class citizen and not just something provided by an API.
ActiveX components are great because of their power to effect the browser and even the host computer!
Source code is not data.
The law does not say that only data is open to FOI requests. QUITE THE CONTRARY.
First, they are subject to THESE LAWS.
In addition, they are also subject to THESE LAWS
Yeah.. Wikipedia.. which gives the overview, but also links to the actual text of the law.
Now please explain to me why you are so intent on SPINNING. You keep going on about data, and how Jones papers are 'valid' or whatever.
Did the CRU release Jones' source code?
If YES: Jones upheld his end of the public trust.
If NO: THATS A FUCKING VIOLATION OF THE FUCKING LAW. Jones pissed all over the public trust.
Thats all there is to it. Jones violated the public trust, and did not follow the law ON PURPOSE. He should never receive another penny of public money. EVER.
You can go on and on about how his work is valid, or that the data wasn't his.. BUT HE STILL VIOLATED THE LAW EVEN IF ALL YOU SAY IS TRUE.
He is just upset that when the RIAA cracks down, some users will not have gotten a complete Floyd album.
No, it was not.
I've got source code right here, produced by the CRU and only available because it was stolen, that says different.
"The required computer code is straightforward and easily written by a competent researcher...
So they ADMIT that there was source code produced by the CRU that was open for FOI requests but make the EXCUSE that it was "easily written"
..and if you looked at the source code, like I have, you would know that it has magic constants in it to make the figures come out as they do. The stolen code is still available. Why not go have a look.
Thats called SPIN. No where in the law does it state that they do not have to provide stuff that is "easily written"
Spin it however you want. That source code was supposed to be provided by Jones upon request. He did not provide it. It had to be STOLEN. He deserves to lose every penny of public grant money from now until he dies. He should never get public funding again. He violated the public trust.
So your implying that Gavin is a dishonest swindler?
I am implying that the people implicated in the emails, the old boys club, is running RealClimate. Its that simple.
On the other hand, much of the information demanded from Dr. Jones was data that he did not produce...
Jones did not supply his source code.
End of fucking story. Stop spinning Jones' stinky shit into something where some other people are at fault. Jones is at fault. Thats all there is too it. Jones did not live up to the public trust bargain and should therefore never receive public money again. The fact that groups that have more to lose than he does "cleared him" means nothing to people that arent willing to swallow spin.
So you see it as a desirable thing that random cranks should have the legal power to impede the work of a scientific research group by making demands for irrelevant data (or data that actually belongs to somebody else, as was the case for much of what was demanded)?
I think its desirable that all people, including random cranks, have the legal power to request information produced with their public money.
What you just did here is spin. You didnt like the reality, so you created a narrow fiction where you hope others will swallow your shit. Fuck no, we wont. We fear that spinning is a real problem in this science, so more spinning by armchair believers like you don't mean jack.
Honestly mods, how can the parent get any closer to a school book example of a flamebait?
Just like CLimatology, there arent actually any classes you can take in flamebaiting. No school books in either.
No they're not. Real Climate article http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/09/hey-ya-mal/
Guess who runs realcimate...
Lets find out if Joe Plumber ripped off his last customer. "Hey Joe, did you rip off your last customer? No? Well OK then. Joe didn't rip off his last customer."
So Jones's only infraction was that he was not sufficiently responsive to demands for data, contending (correctly, as the committee found) that the data demanded was not needed to check his results.
Did you miss the lie?
The lie goes "he doesnt have to provide data if it isnt needed to check his work"
The legality however, is different and goes "he has to provide the data upon proper request"
Did you not see what they did there?
Except that Mann and Jones were cleared from the suspicion of actually lying.
What is a 'Climatologist,' precisely?
Basically, they are all people from other fields because there is no associates/bachelors/masters degrees in climatology.
None of the big names in climatology have advanced degrees in statistics, but they should, because they is the primary discipline that they are practicing.
The coding part of application development is less than 5% of a full application development cycle.
umm.. its a flashlight app
Those lightning games are over in less than 2 minutes, and another one started by the players immediately. Yes, most.
Most of the games played on freechess.org are 'lightning' games, and usually its the 'fastest' setting of "1 0" which is 1 minute total per player with no time added per move. Some of the players individually have game counts in the hundreds of thousands. Normally these players play 'sets' of games, 10 or more consecutively, against any given opponent.
Some of the player play a very hucksterish style, with the goal being to simply eat away at their opponents clock with surprise checks, highly dubious sacrifices, and other outright gorilla tactics. Its very fun to watch, and to play.
are they saying that the consequences of this information are, dare I say it, negative?
For the user, the lag he experiences is the combination of the two.
The fact is that people with lower input latency have an advantage even when the total round-trip latency remains unchanged. The latency-to-display is a red herring... humans compensate for latency-to-display by leading the target.
If players A and B both have latency-to-display of 200ms, but player A has a 0ms input latency and player B has a 200ms input latency, who the fuck do you think wins?
Your sibling post already indicated that most games require at least 4 frames (at 60fps) before input is translated to the screen.
But that is irrelevant to the subject of input lag. Thats input lag + display lag, which is different.
Between input and display is game mechanics, and it is all about game mechanics and initiating them before the other guy.
The iDetector is available now at your nearest Apple Store. Make sure you get the carrying case.
The transform from screenspace to object/worldspace isnt the issue. You are ignoring the fundamental (and first) step.
Design an algorithm to iterate over the pixels within the triangle, when the pixels are hexagons.
Normally a rasterizer uses something like Bresenham or DDA in order to find the edge pixels, and picks up some anti-aliasing information here by trivially calculating how much of the pixel is covered by the ideal triangle (this information falls right out of either method whether you use it or not), and then simply iterates across each scanline of the triangle from start pixel to end pixel.
(yes, I have written software rasterizers..)
You cant even find the edge pixels as easily... and then you have the much more complicated anti-aliasing problem of determining how much of the hexagon pixel is covered by the ideal triangle...
All the transforming to object/world space isnt even important. You cant do that until you are iterating over the pixels of the triangle.
Renders fine in Opera, a standards compliant browser :)
I mean seriously..
In my early days of computing, pixels werent square.. they were rectangles (4:3 display, 320x200 resolution.. do the math)
Now who wants to write a rasterizer for non-rectangular pixels... any takers?
So they should make the laser look more like a laser rifle or laser pistol...
...oh... wait..
This explains why Star Wars ruined the acting career of everyone in it, aside from Harison Ford, who 'coincidentally' was the lead actor in Lucas's other major hit series. If Indiana Jones had flopped, Harison Ford would probably not have had much more of a career either.