That's a pretty precise attempt at a measurement for a very nebulous idea. Now we wait for the "other" study from the Fossil Fuel's industry groups I guess. This sort of wildly speculative "guess" at something that is basically unmeasureable due to the large number of variables and assumptions only makes it more difficult to get the public to believe the results of more meaningful and relevant studies when that time comes.
Did you RTFA? Do you understand concepts of quantitative risk assessment? Do you really think that we should equally balance an academic article produced by non-profit third parties and one produced by an industry group directly opposed to nuclear?
I am still wanting to see a viable long term storage solution for the waste, with at least one example of a spent rod finding a final and safe resting place. Otherwise the tail risk of nuclear power is just a myth.
Feeding it to babies would result in fewer deaths than abandoning nuclear power would. That's not hyperbole. It's an understatement.
Why are hardware stories ever posted without a link to the Anandtech review? PCMag? Really? Anyway, here's the link to a review that's actually useful:
the analog face buttons? I gave up pretty quick on them after using them to play Mad Maestro on the PS2. Didn't even realize they were still in the PS3. I do wish Sony would stop adding pointless features to their game pads. It's not so much that the features bug me as I'd rather they spend time/money somewhere else. Plus it'd be nice if the gamepads weren't $60 bucks. On the plus side the PS4's gamepad looks cheap to produce.
I think the useless touchpad will drive up the price.
NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Robert F. Collins was convicted yesterday of scheming to split a $100,000 bribe from a drug smuggler, making him the first federal judge in the 200-year history of the judiciary to be found guilty of taking a bribe.
When confronted by fact, the geek retreats into fantasy,
You're claiming that the self policing system isn't corrupt because it doesn't result in many convictions? Is my sarcasm meter broken or did you seriously just try to make that argument?
Negative: If the gene causing infertility is transmitted via pollen, then farmers that try to produce an heirloom seed crop near a field planted with a Monsanto variety would be screwed since their seed crop could end up infertile.
This is exactly what will happen, and so Monsanto will put and end to many farmers' current practice of saving part of this years crop as next year's seed--since their seed yield will be reduced they negatively impact their future yield due to a percentage of the seed being sterile.
Doesn't this seem like it's a single plot twist away from eliminating the ability to grow any major crop and causing the collapse of civilization as famine sweeps the globe?
HTC is trying to replace megapixels with 'ultrapixels,' cutting down the size of photos but using much larger individual pixels to sharply reduce noise and improve low-light performance.
This doesn't sound like it's a good thing.
Lower res pictures with bigger pixels? That sounds more like "we've put in a lower resolution camera, and that's better".
Of course, the problem with low light performance on a phone is the sensor is so small as to be useless at the published megapixel rates. Which is why my cell phone will never replace my actual cameras.
My iPhone 5 has a great camera compared to most other phones. The 8 megapixel images it captures are about equivalent to those created by my 1.3 megapixel $400 digital camera manufactured in 2001. The lower resolution, larger sensor size approach taken by HTC in this new phone looks like a massive step change improvement over the iPhone.
Unfortunately, the other problem in iPhotos is that they get way, way oversharpened and autoleveled to blow out bright pixels and crush all the dark pixels into a uniform black. This makes objectively poorer photos with less information, but since phone users don't usually postedit their photos by applying color correction or unsharp masks, it leaves us with the impression that the iPhone has _more_ detail and color fidelity. Even major review sites makes this mistake (Ars, for instance). I think the solution is analogous to what a lot of dedicated cameras have done for about 15 years - capture something similar to a RAW image, but when you display it on your phone screen or post a shrunken version to FB or whatever, process it to look punchy and exciting without eliminating the original, high quality image.
But if your SSD is nearly full with data that you never change, wouldn't all the writing happen in the small area that is left? This would significantly reduce lifetime.
I believe all the major brands actually move your data around periodically, which costs write cycles but is worth it to keep wear balanced.
The rest of Europe too. Bags are mostly banned there but the population isn't dropping like flies.
This study is flawed, methinks.
The paper doesn't say anything about the population dropping like flies. Do you have statistics for food-based illness in Europe before and after a similar ban?
no, the one over russia was very rare. it was very large
the tunguska event in 1908, ironically also over siberia, is the last time we had something as large or larger, a century ago
Citation needed. The Tunguska event came from an object on the order of 100 meters in diameter (http://web.utk.edu/~comet/papers/nature/TUNGUSKA.html). The early estimate I saw from NASA of today's meteor's diameter was 10 meters in diameter. That's a 1000x difference in volume, making your comparison pretty extreme.
if the loose gravitational agglomeration is large enough, it's possible for the smaller rock to pass by on the other side of the earth, swinging around and appearing to come from another direction
This isn't an issue of two objects "appearing to come from another direction." The problem is that the direction of travel of the two objects was tremendously different. In other words, they don't share the same orbit around the Sun. Notice that the Russian meteor isn't following a path anything like DA14's south to north path: http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2013/02/russian-meteor-path-plotted-in-google.html.
He's claiming Tesla representatives instructed him to purposefully drive past the reported range then lie about it? That does not sound credible.
He says that Tesla reps claimed he'd have enough range despite the range on the display. It sounds like the reps were guessing that the range shown the night before was accurate because it was given based on a warmed up battery, while the morning range was from a cold battery, which isn't reflective of the battery temperature while in use. As it turned out, they were almost right - once he got going the range display elongated and nearly got him to his destination.
Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
I don't know for sure, but it seems like there was. When Broder claims he was driving around [nearby streets, presumably] looking for the [in his words] poorly marked charging station, Tesla is saying that he was driving around in a parking lot. The only way Tesla could know the difference would be GPS data. This stands to reason because as remarked elsewhere, when an electric car is low on charge, it alerts you verbally, and asks if it can "lay in a course" [Star Trek term:-)] to the nearest charging station. This strongly implies GPS. Plus, for such a high end car, a built in [GPS] navigation system is one of the expected extras.
The parking lot is about 0.3 miles around, so Broder's and Tesla's stories agree if Broder did two laps around the large parking lot at 7 miles per hour, which seems quite believable.
Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
The data logging showed speeds as high as 81 MPH. That's hardly limping along at 45 and it's certainly not a "difference in wheel sizes" as the reporter claims. Plus he drove.6 miles in circles mostly at speeds between 10-15 MP while supposed "looking for a charging station". If you didn't find it on your first time circling the small 100 car lot, why wouldn't you just slow down to look for it rather than going in circles around the lot 30-40 times at a speed too fast to carefully look?
1) There was a single, brief spike to 81 MPH.
2) When he claims 45, the log shows a little over 50. He doesn't claim that the discrepancy was caused by a difference in wheel sizes - he mentions it as a possible explanation (which sounds quite unlikely to be the case).
3) By my estimation on the map, 0.6 miles is 2circles around the quite large parking lot in Milford. That's not excessive. 2. Not "30-40." And his speed "too fast to carefully look?" He went 0.6 miles in 5 minutes, meaning his speed was 7 mph.
Adisakp, I can't decide whether you're more likely to be Tesla's CEO or Iraq's Minister of Information.
Syfy is owned by NBC, and Comcast has already made changes there.
Syfy's Eureka series debuted in 2006. I was never a big fan, but it looked like it had promise, gained a following and did well. They'd throw out occasional references to things like the LHC and CERN, had Joe Morton (who played Miles Dyson in Terminator 2) as a regular character, and even brought in our buddy (and by that I mean he reads and posts on Slashdot) Wil Wheaton toward the end.
Comcast purchased a majority stake in NBC in January 2011. By August, Eureka was cancelled. The show had good ratings, good viewership, and was considered "the golden child" of Syfy, but Comcast killed it because it was not profitable enough. It wasn't losing money, but Comcast decided that if you have to spend money on special effects to sell the show to viewers, there are lots of cheaper, more profitable ways to get viewers' attention.
With Comcast poised to take full control of NBC sooner, expect more of the shows that drive Syfy's viewership to be cancelled in the next couple of years, and if they take it far enough eventually Syfy may go away.
I miss the days of MST3K, Farscape, BSG and Star Trek reruns on Sci Fi. I'd settle for SG1 and Dr. Who. But hey, aspiring actors need low budget, low quality movies to build a career, right?
Science does not question the existence of the almighty. Science does not question the existence of creation. Science causes no crisis of faith in one that is faithful. All science does is disrupt those that want to use faith to gather personal power, wealthy, and in the process elevate themselves to the level of the almighty.
A science teacher of mine (Jesuit priest, actually) would teach evolution and everything else without any problems.
In his words: "Science teaches us how. Religion teaches us who was behind it, never HOW".
I also had a lot of (American west coat) Jesuit priest teachers who described evolution as incontrovertible fact, taught sex education accurately and completely, and made sure students knew that our Catholic school anonymously and freely distributed condoms to students. They also taught us about other religions in a refreshingly academic tone and supported the formation of gay student groups. Modern Jesuits in America are pretty great teachers.
Wow. That review was terrible. It also does nothing to refute the facts that the battery life sucks, it overheats, and it's a shitty tablet and a shitty laptop together. Please astroturf elsewhere
While that may have been astroturfing, as always Anandtech produced the most informative, data-filled review of a tech product. No other source ever, ever, ever comes close to Anandtech. It's absurd that Slashdot would ever mention a hardware review and skip Anandtech.
Is groundbreaking science over? No, not remotely. Is the era where groundbreaking science is publicized and sort of vaguely understood by a lot of non-scientists over? Probably not, but that's at least closer to the truth.
Sorry to self reply, but another thought: the only reason people ask this stupid question or make the implied statement is that there's just do damn much groundbreaking science done today. Yes, it's harder to stand out than it was a couple hundred years ago. No, it's not because progress is slower - it's just ubiquitous. Science is more amazing than ever and in a hundred years it will be more amazing yet.
Shit, I think I'm arguing for the existence of something analogous to Kurzweil's moronic singularity.
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According to the report I just heard on the BBC World News, estimates place the total value of these hidden assets around $32 trillion.
When there's fingerpointing and one of the two dies suddenly...
the other guy wins, right?
Finger pointing followed by death usually implies force lightning.
That's a pretty precise attempt at a measurement for a very nebulous idea. Now we wait for the "other" study from the Fossil Fuel's industry groups I guess. This sort of wildly speculative "guess" at something that is basically unmeasureable due to the large number of variables and assumptions only makes it more difficult to get the public to believe the results of more meaningful and relevant studies when that time comes.
Did you RTFA? Do you understand concepts of quantitative risk assessment? Do you really think that we should equally balance an academic article produced by non-profit third parties and one produced by an industry group directly opposed to nuclear?
I am still wanting to see a viable long term storage solution for the waste, with at least one example of a spent rod finding a final and safe resting place. Otherwise the tail risk of nuclear power is just a myth.
Feeding it to babies would result in fewer deaths than abandoning nuclear power would. That's not hyperbole. It's an understatement.
Why are hardware stories ever posted without a link to the Anandtech review? PCMag? Really? Anyway, here's the link to a review that's actually useful:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6858/the-razer-edge-review
the analog face buttons? I gave up pretty quick on them after using them to play Mad Maestro on the PS2. Didn't even realize they were still in the PS3. I do wish Sony would stop adding pointless features to their game pads. It's not so much that the features bug me as I'd rather they spend time/money somewhere else. Plus it'd be nice if the gamepads weren't $60 bucks. On the plus side the PS4's gamepad looks cheap to produce.
I think the useless touchpad will drive up the price.
It's actually quite a good default position, with incompetence only slightly behind it.
The number of federal judges impeached for all causes since 1904 is 10.
Two were acquitted, Six were removed. Two resigned. Impeachment in the United States
NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Robert F. Collins was convicted yesterday of scheming to split a $100,000 bribe from a drug smuggler, making him the first federal judge in the 200-year history of the judiciary to be found guilty of taking a bribe.
Federal Judge First Ever Convicted Of Taking Bribe [June 30, 1991]
When confronted by fact, the geek retreats into fantasy,
You're claiming that the self policing system isn't corrupt because it doesn't result in many convictions? Is my sarcasm meter broken or did you seriously just try to make that argument?
Benchmark-wise, an FX 8350, the 8-core top-end Piledriver,
Anand, who is almost always right about everything in the industry, seems to think these will be Jaguar (slower) cores rather than Piledriver. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6770/sony-announces-playstation-4-pc-hardware-inside
Negative: If the gene causing infertility is transmitted via pollen, then farmers that try to produce an heirloom seed crop near a field planted with a Monsanto variety would be screwed since their seed crop could end up infertile.
This is exactly what will happen, and so Monsanto will put and end to many farmers' current practice of saving part of this years crop as next year's seed--since their seed yield will be reduced they negatively impact their future yield due to a percentage of the seed being sterile.
Doesn't this seem like it's a single plot twist away from eliminating the ability to grow any major crop and causing the collapse of civilization as famine sweeps the globe?
This doesn't sound like it's a good thing.
Lower res pictures with bigger pixels? That sounds more like "we've put in a lower resolution camera, and that's better".
Of course, the problem with low light performance on a phone is the sensor is so small as to be useless at the published megapixel rates. Which is why my cell phone will never replace my actual cameras.
My iPhone 5 has a great camera compared to most other phones. The 8 megapixel images it captures are about equivalent to those created by my 1.3 megapixel $400 digital camera manufactured in 2001. The lower resolution, larger sensor size approach taken by HTC in this new phone looks like a massive step change improvement over the iPhone.
Unfortunately, the other problem in iPhotos is that they get way, way oversharpened and autoleveled to blow out bright pixels and crush all the dark pixels into a uniform black. This makes objectively poorer photos with less information, but since phone users don't usually postedit their photos by applying color correction or unsharp masks, it leaves us with the impression that the iPhone has _more_ detail and color fidelity. Even major review sites makes this mistake (Ars, for instance). I think the solution is analogous to what a lot of dedicated cameras have done for about 15 years - capture something similar to a RAW image, but when you display it on your phone screen or post a shrunken version to FB or whatever, process it to look punchy and exciting without eliminating the original, high quality image.
But if your SSD is nearly full with data that you never change, wouldn't all the writing happen in the small area that is left? This would significantly reduce lifetime.
I believe all the major brands actually move your data around periodically, which costs write cycles but is worth it to keep wear balanced.
The rest of Europe too. Bags are mostly banned there but the population isn't dropping like flies.
This study is flawed, methinks.
The paper doesn't say anything about the population dropping like flies. Do you have statistics for food-based illness in Europe before and after a similar ban?
In Ireland that didn't happen when they introduced a levy on plastic bags years ago and their usage plummeted.
Citation? Your statement is empty as an anecdote.
no, the one over russia was very rare. it was very large
the tunguska event in 1908, ironically also over siberia, is the last time we had something as large or larger, a century ago
Citation needed. The Tunguska event came from an object on the order of 100 meters in diameter (http://web.utk.edu/~comet/papers/nature/TUNGUSKA.html). The early estimate I saw from NASA of today's meteor's diameter was 10 meters in diameter. That's a 1000x difference in volume, making your comparison pretty extreme.
if the loose gravitational agglomeration is large enough, it's possible for the smaller rock to pass by on the other side of the earth, swinging around and appearing to come from another direction
This isn't an issue of two objects "appearing to come from another direction." The problem is that the direction of travel of the two objects was tremendously different. In other words, they don't share the same orbit around the Sun. Notice that the Russian meteor isn't following a path anything like DA14's south to north path: http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2013/02/russian-meteor-path-plotted-in-google.html.
A reporter can fabricate facts (or forget details), and logs can be fabricated (or erroneously-recorded in the first place).
Considering that the logs agree with Broder's take on the story much better than Tesla's take, I think round 1 goes to Broder.
He's claiming Tesla representatives instructed him to purposefully drive past the reported range then lie about it? That does not sound credible.
He says that Tesla reps claimed he'd have enough range despite the range on the display. It sounds like the reps were guessing that the range shown the night before was accurate because it was given based on a warmed up battery, while the morning range was from a cold battery, which isn't reflective of the battery temperature while in use. As it turned out, they were almost right - once he got going the range display elongated and nearly got him to his destination.
Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
I don't know for sure, but it seems like there was. When Broder claims he was driving around [nearby streets, presumably] looking for the [in his words] poorly marked charging station, Tesla is saying that he was driving around in a parking lot. The only way Tesla could know the difference would be GPS data. This stands to reason because as remarked elsewhere, when an electric car is low on charge, it alerts you verbally, and asks if it can "lay in a course" [Star Trek term :-)] to the nearest charging station. This strongly implies GPS. Plus, for such a high end car, a built in [GPS] navigation system is one of the expected extras.
The parking lot is about 0.3 miles around, so Broder's and Tesla's stories agree if Broder did two laps around the large parking lot at 7 miles per hour, which seems quite believable.
Was there a GPS logging that could confirm one story or the other? 54 mph vs 60 is quite a big difference on this long of a journey...
The data logging showed speeds as high as 81 MPH. That's hardly limping along at 45 and it's certainly not a "difference in wheel sizes" as the reporter claims. Plus he drove .6 miles in circles mostly at speeds between 10-15 MP while supposed "looking for a charging station". If you didn't find it on your first time circling the small 100 car lot, why wouldn't you just slow down to look for it rather than going in circles around the lot 30-40 times at a speed too fast to carefully look?
1) There was a single, brief spike to 81 MPH.
2) When he claims 45, the log shows a little over 50. He doesn't claim that the discrepancy was caused by a difference in wheel sizes - he mentions it as a possible explanation (which sounds quite unlikely to be the case).
3) By my estimation on the map, 0.6 miles is 2circles around the quite large parking lot in Milford. That's not excessive. 2. Not "30-40." And his speed "too fast to carefully look?" He went 0.6 miles in 5 minutes, meaning his speed was 7 mph.
Adisakp, I can't decide whether you're more likely to be Tesla's CEO or Iraq's Minister of Information.
Admit it, you were caught being a New York Times reporter.
Pack it in, because logs don't lie.
The logs clearly show a story closer to the reporter's account than Tesla's.
Fortrunately, English has a word that nicely covers both of those variants: deceipt.
A newspaper has no business engaging in any form of deceipt. It's the opposite of informing the reader.
I think you mean deceit.
Syfy is owned by NBC, and Comcast has already made changes there.
Syfy's Eureka series debuted in 2006. I was never a big fan, but it looked like it had promise, gained a following and did well. They'd throw out occasional references to things like the LHC and CERN, had Joe Morton (who played Miles Dyson in Terminator 2) as a regular character, and even brought in our buddy (and by that I mean he reads and posts on Slashdot) Wil Wheaton toward the end.
Comcast purchased a majority stake in NBC in January 2011. By August, Eureka was cancelled. The show had good ratings, good viewership, and was considered "the golden child" of Syfy, but Comcast killed it because it was not profitable enough. It wasn't losing money, but Comcast decided that if you have to spend money on special effects to sell the show to viewers, there are lots of cheaper, more profitable ways to get viewers' attention.
With Comcast poised to take full control of NBC sooner, expect more of the shows that drive Syfy's viewership to be cancelled in the next couple of years, and if they take it far enough eventually Syfy may go away.
I miss the days of MST3K, Farscape, BSG and Star Trek reruns on Sci Fi. I'd settle for SG1 and Dr. Who. But hey, aspiring actors need low budget, low quality movies to build a career, right?
Science does not question the existence of the almighty. Science does not question the existence of creation. Science causes no crisis of faith in one that is faithful. All science does is disrupt those that want to use faith to gather personal power, wealthy, and in the process elevate themselves to the level of the almighty.
A science teacher of mine (Jesuit priest, actually) would teach evolution and everything else without any problems.
In his words: "Science teaches us how. Religion teaches us who was behind it, never HOW".
I also had a lot of (American west coat) Jesuit priest teachers who described evolution as incontrovertible fact, taught sex education accurately and completely, and made sure students knew that our Catholic school anonymously and freely distributed condoms to students. They also taught us about other religions in a refreshingly academic tone and supported the formation of gay student groups. Modern Jesuits in America are pretty great teachers.
Wow. That review was terrible. It also does nothing to refute the facts that the battery life sucks, it overheats, and it's a shitty tablet and a shitty laptop together. Please astroturf elsewhere
While that may have been astroturfing, as always Anandtech produced the most informative, data-filled review of a tech product. No other source ever, ever, ever comes close to Anandtech. It's absurd that Slashdot would ever mention a hardware review and skip Anandtech.
Is groundbreaking science over? No, not remotely. Is the era where groundbreaking science is publicized and sort of vaguely understood by a lot of non-scientists over? Probably not, but that's at least closer to the truth.
Sorry to self reply, but another thought: the only reason people ask this stupid question or make the implied statement is that there's just do damn much groundbreaking science done today. Yes, it's harder to stand out than it was a couple hundred years ago. No, it's not because progress is slower - it's just ubiquitous. Science is more amazing than ever and in a hundred years it will be more amazing yet.
Shit, I think I'm arguing for the existence of something analogous to Kurzweil's moronic singularity.