I live on a quiet street in the suburbs; not private, but not highly public. With StreetView, suddenly EVERYPLACE is highly public
There is no such concept as "highly" public, it's either public or private.
What you mean is that you live in a street that few people have reason to visit. What makes you think that many people would have the motivation to see that street in StreetView? There are millions of quiet streets everywhere in the world, yours shouldn't be particularly interesting to anyone.
I would certainly object if only *my* house were pictured in StreetView, but if every house is there then it makes no difference. I have nothing that would make either the police or the criminal people especially interested in me. And if either of them had some special curiosity about me they wouldn't need Google, they could just as well walk down my street (it's public, remember?) and take all the pictures they wanted.
In biology, Word is already the document editor of choice. And Excel is the charting software of choice
I remember reading somewhere about a bug in excel where a nomenclature for genes was substituted for dates. They had alphanumeric codes for genes and codes like "apr03" were automatically replaced by "April-03-2007" or something like that. It seems that thousands of experiments in DNA sequencing had to be redone, because they had saved all the data in excel spreadsheets and had no backups.
The wider the age range, the less room there is for typical plot elements, because younger audiences get bored quickly
I have to disagree with you on that. My favorite movie is Rio Bravo, which I first saw when I was nine years old. By current standards, that movie is slooooowww. It goes for over two hours and it's only about five minutes after the titles that someone first speaks something. But it's a wonderful film.
I loved it the first time I saw it because I became immersed in the action, I never realized time was passing. I remember it was only after the film ended and my father remarked on how long it was that I realized that nearly two and a half hours had passed.
It's a simple plot, but it's so good that the director Howard Hawks did the same thing again, not oncebut twice. All three movies are great and all star John Wayne doing a similar plot. I still have to see a film that I liked on Fx alone.
Seymour Cray was killed by a speeding redneck in a trans-am in 1996.
According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Rarick, 33, had tried to pass Cray on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, struck another car, which then struck Cray's Jeep Cherokee, causing it to roll 3 times. Rarick received a citation for careless driving causing serious bodily injury. He was unhurt in the accident"
It says nothing there about Rarick being a redneck or not, but at least one thing is clear: the American myth about SUVs being safer than small cars is busted, at least in this anecdote. SUVs are more likely to roll over and break your neck.
you only have to look at the complexity of American rotary aircooled designs versus, say, the liquid cooled Merlin engine,
I think you mean radial engines, because rotary engines may look similar when not running but are an entirely different thing.
Air cooled engines are still used in small planes, their weight to power ratio is better than in water cooled engines. In larger aircraft both water and air cooled engines were replaced by turbines.
Also, air cooled engines are still widely used in motorcycles. I think the main motive for not using them in cars anymore is due mostly to the difficulty in cooling in an enclosed region, have you seen how cramped is a modern car under the hood?
The main advantage of water cooling is that it's easier to carry the heat away to some place where it can be either reused for some other purpose or dumped to the environment. With air cooling you have to bring a substantial amount of cool air to where the heat is being generated.
However I still think computers are mostly in the range where it's easier to bring the air in. The amount of heat dissipated per volume of equipment is not so great that the additional complexity of water cooling would be justified.
As they are actually in free fall, effective gravity is zero and hence the weight is zero too
Then what keeps it in orbit? If effective gravity were zero it would fly away in a straight line.
I do understand that gravity is acting on the HST + shuttle to keep it in orbit but there is no force required to support them which is the definition of weight
If someone drops a 760 kg machine on your head that machine would weigh absolutely nothing, until it hits your head?
Every time these weight vs. mass discussions appear here I wish there existed a (-1, Pedantic) mod.
Although I love GATTACA, that film had a faulty reasoning.
Assuming a science so advanced people could be programmed from conception to have six fingers and become superb pianists, the same technology level would allow people to correct their genetic shortcomings. For instance, we already have Lasik to correct imperfect eyesight such as the protagonist in the film had.
Technology works both ways, if it's so advanced it lets someone find genetic "imperfections" it can also be used to mask them.
I normally open each web session in a new browser window and use the taskbar. It works for me because I really cannot see the point of having 20+ parallel sessions, I just close the windows that don't interest me at the moment.
Most social workers are actually insulted by the systems being introduced, because they increase the administrative workload (in spite of DCSF claims to the contrary) while removing the responsibility and flexibility for workers to make qualitative assessments and trained, experienced decisions.
That's typical of what happens every time you start automating a bureaucratic process. The problem is that responsibility and flexibility are inversely proportional to security.
TFA cites the death of a girl named Victoria Climbié as one of the motives for creating this database. Wikipedia has a long article on her. In her first hospital admission people noticed she was badly injured but "Ruby Schwartz, the consultant paediatrician and named child protection doctor at the hospital, diagnosed scabies and decided that it was scratching that caused the injuries. She made the diagnosis without speaking to Victoria alone.[17] Schwartz later admitted that she made a mistake". It's mistakes like that that this database is trying to avoid.
Although this database seems "big brotherish", I wish people who complain so much about it would propose alternatives. I have often seen cited the fact that children are much more likely to be abused by relatives or people who are close to them. Yet so many people are absolutely afraid of strangers. When you balance two opposite risks, it seems to me that the Cinderella stepmother is a bigger risk than the internet paedophile.
It's a huge company that won't disappear so soon, but if you pay $40 billion in dividends and still have so much problem to get the stock price back to 30% of the peak...
I agree with this part... but do not agree about what companies should move to.
With Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot with Vista, the big question is how many feet they have. If the answer is "two", then windows 7 is their last bullet.
those who seek to view them are what drives their creation. you do admit that obvious observation, right?
No, I don't.
First of all, let's get a [citation needed] here, what's this thing you call "child pornography"? I have had internet connection for over fifteen years now. I have seen thousands upon thousands of pornographic pictures in the internet, but I still have to see one single photograph of a child engaged in sex. Have *you* ever seen a picture of a child having sexual intercourse? Do you know of anyone that has ever seen such a picture?
Let's face it, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY DOES *NOT* EXIST!!!
So called "child pornography" is nothing but a lame excuse of people trying to assert their power upon others. All they want is to censor other people.
Wouldn't the word have gotten out just the same if it had been televised instead?
Putting something on youtube so that anyone in the world can watch is a pretty simple procedure. How can you do a similar thing on television? Do you have the CNN editor's phone? Can you give me that number so I can send them my video?
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but are you suggesting there should not be ANY limits on "free speech"?
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Should we do away with libel? Calumny? Slander? Allow people to yell "FIRE" in a theater?
You mean that by giving driving licenses to people we tell them to run over pedestrians in the street? Freedom of speech does not mean fuck the consequences.
I think someone here needs some civic lessons of what freedom and responsibility mean.
And then Microsoft stops supporting the product, changes the formats the products uses, and makes prior formats erratic or impossible to implement.
It's ironic that he stated "Technology wise, African needs can be summarised in one word: access" because keeping older MS-Access versions working is one of the trickiest parts in a Microsoft solution.
Although I'm a Linux-only programmer, I've had several people where I work ask me for solutions to recover lost MS-Access databases. "I only use Postgres, call Microsoft support" is my standard answer. Normally when they do that the answer is that MS-Access does not have sophisticated data recovery tools, they must buy that from third-party vendors. "Total" cost of ownership, indeed!
Yeah, that'll take care of it. We'll just get rid of all the car companies.
Not all of them. Just get rid of those that bet their future on biggas guzzlers -- and lost. Let Darwin and Adam Smith take care of that.
It's amazing how people who think we should do nothing to fight global warming because it would cost too much are the same who propose spending as much or more to save companies that are among the causes of global warming.
If we have to choose between spending a trillion dollars now and spending a trillion fifty years from now, which should we do? Personally, I'd rather wait the fifty.
If you have to remove that cancerous tumor now or wait a year, what will you do?
But more importantly, there's a philosophical point to be made. When faced with a possible problem, should you always make a radical change to the status quo? Well, what do you do in your personal life? Most people don't do this, unless the potential problem is both very serious and has a high probability
Right now, it has already been proven to an extremely high degree of certainty, that global warming is both very serious and has a high probability.
broken models like this one do damage to the radical policymakers
Broken model? What broken model? The model for global warming is fully intact. The fact that one small part of an accessory needs some adjustment in no way breaks the model for global warming.
The only thing this study shows is that water that circulates in depths of 700 to 1500 meters under the surface travels in wider and slower paths than had been previously thought. The total flux of water is, naturally, the same, water isn't accumulating in the Arctic.
And how can we possibly justify spending such massive sums with that much uncertainty as to the outcome?
Imagine what your country would be like if the RIAA were in charge of running the roads
I think you are confusing things a bit, the problem with the RIAA is not that it's a private organization, but that it's a monopoly.
Private roads exist in many countries. In France and Italy, where I sometimes travel on business, the main roads are private, you pay for each kilometer you drive. The system works fine, at least the pavement is in *much* better shape than most of California's state freeways.
The image had the best possible quality that would fit in the allowed file size. I believe their algorithm is biased toward portraits, that have a big sharply focused central subject and an out of focus background.
My picture was a boat in a canal, and it had great depth of field. What the selective gaussian blur did was to soften the surrounds, like branches, leaves, and reeds in the image, while keeping the boat in the center in sharp focus.
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There is no such concept as "highly" public, it's either public or private.
What you mean is that you live in a street that few people have reason to visit. What makes you think that many people would have the motivation to see that street in StreetView? There are millions of quiet streets everywhere in the world, yours shouldn't be particularly interesting to anyone.
I would certainly object if only *my* house were pictured in StreetView, but if every house is there then it makes no difference. I have nothing that would make either the police or the criminal people especially interested in me. And if either of them had some special curiosity about me they wouldn't need Google, they could just as well walk down my street (it's public, remember?) and take all the pictures they wanted.
The comment right above mine had already posted a link to a study explaining it in detail.
I remember reading somewhere about a bug in excel where a nomenclature for genes was substituted for dates. They had alphanumeric codes for genes and codes like "apr03" were automatically replaced by "April-03-2007" or something like that. It seems that thousands of experiments in DNA sequencing had to be redone, because they had saved all the data in excel spreadsheets and had no backups.
I have to disagree with you on that. My favorite movie is Rio Bravo, which I first saw when I was nine years old. By current standards, that movie is slooooowww. It goes for over two hours and it's only about five minutes after the titles that someone first speaks something. But it's a wonderful film.
I loved it the first time I saw it because I became immersed in the action, I never realized time was passing. I remember it was only after the film ended and my father remarked on how long it was that I realized that nearly two and a half hours had passed.
It's a simple plot, but it's so good that the director Howard Hawks did the same thing again, not once but twice. All three movies are great and all star John Wayne doing a similar plot. I still have to see a film that I liked on Fx alone.
According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Rarick, 33, had tried to pass Cray on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, struck another car, which then struck Cray's Jeep Cherokee, causing it to roll 3 times. Rarick received a citation for careless driving causing serious bodily injury. He was unhurt in the accident"
It says nothing there about Rarick being a redneck or not, but at least one thing is clear: the American myth about SUVs being safer than small cars is busted, at least in this anecdote. SUVs are more likely to roll over and break your neck.
I think you mean radial engines, because rotary engines may look similar when not running but are an entirely different thing.
Air cooled engines are still used in small planes, their weight to power ratio is better than in water cooled engines. In larger aircraft both water and air cooled engines were replaced by turbines.
Also, air cooled engines are still widely used in motorcycles. I think the main motive for not using them in cars anymore is due mostly to the difficulty in cooling in an enclosed region, have you seen how cramped is a modern car under the hood?
The main advantage of water cooling is that it's easier to carry the heat away to some place where it can be either reused for some other purpose or dumped to the environment. With air cooling you have to bring a substantial amount of cool air to where the heat is being generated.
However I still think computers are mostly in the range where it's easier to bring the air in. The amount of heat dissipated per volume of equipment is not so great that the additional complexity of water cooling would be justified.
... it *escapes* leaving a bloody trail...
Then what keeps it in orbit? If effective gravity were zero it would fly away in a straight line.
If someone drops a 760 kg machine on your head that machine would weigh absolutely nothing, until it hits your head?
Every time these weight vs. mass discussions appear here I wish there existed a (-1, Pedantic) mod.
In KDE the icon for each site is shown on the taskbar.
Although I love GATTACA, that film had a faulty reasoning.
Assuming a science so advanced people could be programmed from conception to have six fingers and become superb pianists, the same technology level would allow people to correct their genetic shortcomings. For instance, we already have Lasik to correct imperfect eyesight such as the protagonist in the film had.
Technology works both ways, if it's so advanced it lets someone find genetic "imperfections" it can also be used to mask them.
Without gathering a significant number of genomes, how could anyone identify which illnesses are hereditary, much less try to find a cure?
I'm willing to bet that in the next 30 years we will have "personal drugs" tailored to a specific genome made by a desktop machine.
Sorry, you should have added a 'Commit;' to your son's name.
I normally open each web session in a new browser window and use the taskbar. It works for me because I really cannot see the point of having 20+ parallel sessions, I just close the windows that don't interest me at the moment.
That's typical of what happens every time you start automating a bureaucratic process. The problem is that responsibility and flexibility are inversely proportional to security.
TFA cites the death of a girl named Victoria Climbié as one of the motives for creating this database. Wikipedia has a long article on her. In her first hospital admission people noticed she was badly injured but "Ruby Schwartz, the consultant paediatrician and named child protection doctor at the hospital, diagnosed scabies and decided that it was scratching that caused the injuries. She made the diagnosis without speaking to Victoria alone.[17] Schwartz later admitted that she made a mistake". It's mistakes like that that this database is trying to avoid.
Although this database seems "big brotherish", I wish people who complain so much about it would propose alternatives. I have often seen cited the fact that children are much more likely to be abused by relatives or people who are close to them. Yet so many people are absolutely afraid of strangers. When you balance two opposite risks, it seems to me that the Cinderella stepmother is a bigger risk than the internet paedophile.
That's relative. Their stock value, currently around $20, never again reached their peak of $60 after 2000.
Their cash reserves aren't what they used to be, they spent two thirds of it trying to shore up the stock price, without result.
Their revenues are dropping through the floor.
It's a huge company that won't disappear so soon, but if you pay $40 billion in dividends and still have so much problem to get the stock price back to 30% of the peak...
With Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot with Vista, the big question is how many feet they have. If the answer is "two", then windows 7 is their last bullet.
No, I don't.
First of all, let's get a [citation needed] here, what's this thing you call "child pornography"? I have had internet connection for over fifteen years now. I have seen thousands upon thousands of pornographic pictures in the internet, but I still have to see one single photograph of a child engaged in sex. Have *you* ever seen a picture of a child having sexual intercourse? Do you know of anyone that has ever seen such a picture?
Let's face it, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY DOES *NOT* EXIST!!!
So called "child pornography" is nothing but a lame excuse of people trying to assert their power upon others. All they want is to censor other people.
Putting something on youtube so that anyone in the world can watch is a pretty simple procedure. How can you do a similar thing on television? Do you have the CNN editor's phone? Can you give me that number so I can send them my video?
*** YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! ***
You mean that by giving driving licenses to people we tell them to run over pedestrians in the street? Freedom of speech does not mean fuck the consequences.
I think someone here needs some civic lessons of what freedom and responsibility mean.
It's ironic that he stated "Technology wise, African needs can be summarised in one word: access" because keeping older MS-Access versions working is one of the trickiest parts in a Microsoft solution.
Although I'm a Linux-only programmer, I've had several people where I work ask me for solutions to recover lost MS-Access databases. "I only use Postgres, call Microsoft support" is my standard answer. Normally when they do that the answer is that MS-Access does not have sophisticated data recovery tools, they must buy that from third-party vendors. "Total" cost of ownership, indeed!
Not all of them. Just get rid of those that bet their future on big gas guzzlers -- and lost. Let Darwin and Adam Smith take care of that.
It's amazing how people who think we should do nothing to fight global warming because it would cost too much are the same who propose spending as much or more to save companies that are among the causes of global warming.
If you have to remove that cancerous tumor now or wait a year, what will you do?
Right now, it has already been proven to an extremely high degree of certainty, that global warming is both very serious and has a high probability.
Broken model? What broken model? The model for global warming is fully intact. The fact that one small part of an accessory needs some adjustment in no way breaks the model for global warming.
The only thing this study shows is that water that circulates in depths of 700 to 1500 meters under the surface travels in wider and slower paths than had been previously thought. The total flux of water is, naturally, the same, water isn't accumulating in the Arctic.
You speak as if we weren't already spending hundreds of billions to keep companies that cause global warming alive.
Yes, that's pretty much what we see now...
I think you are confusing things a bit, the problem with the RIAA is not that it's a private organization, but that it's a monopoly.
Private roads exist in many countries. In France and Italy, where I sometimes travel on business, the main roads are private, you pay for each kilometer you drive. The system works fine, at least the pavement is in *much* better shape than most of California's state freeways.
The image had the best possible quality that would fit in the allowed file size. I believe their algorithm is biased toward portraits, that have a big sharply focused central subject and an out of focus background.
My picture was a boat in a canal, and it had great depth of field. What the selective gaussian blur did was to soften the surrounds, like branches, leaves, and reeds in the image, while keeping the boat in the center in sharp focus.