The plan form is fairly simple, and a dead load like soil which is unchanging is fairly easy to design for. http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/zumtor/plan3.gif (lives loads are the ones that cause real problems).
The theory behind vertical farms is fairly well exercised at this stage, and architects as well as engineers have been having a go for ages: the Dutch firm MVRDV designed "pig cities" to provide pigs with more room in farms while reducing overall farm footprint, as the Netherlands is the largest producer of Pork in Europe.
The vertical farm project has been running for some time now, and the section looks fairly credible, basically like a stack of greenhouses with a central light source, although some of them include dishes to get light inside through fibre optics (iirc). The theory is sound, and it's buildable, but maybe just not in city centres.
This is the OP here, and personally I find that I listen to a lot of music on YouTube, especially now that Warner has pulled out of Last Fm and I can't listen to their full tracks there. It's poor quality sound, but it's how I find new music that I've heard about and want to check out before buying. iTunes preview is too short, MySpace is unbearable and like I said, Warner Music have pulled their full tracks from Last.fm. (besides that, it's much easier to download hq tracks from myspace than youtube that requires you to strip the low quality audio from low quality video).
In Galloway in Scotland, the local tourist board is trying to set up a dark sky park. The area that they're planning to open it is apparently the darkest place in Europe.
There are already two in the US, in Utah (http://www.nps.gov/nabr/parknews/news040507.htm) and Northern Pennsylvania (http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/cherrysprings.aspx). This BLDGBLOG article mentions suggests World Heritage sites for experiencing darkness, set up to protect dark areas: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-sky-park.html
I recently visited Poland (Krakow) and there the level of street lighting was a lot lower, resulting in reduced light pollution. Streets were mostly lit with light reflected from buildings. It's surprising to be able to see the night sky from the middle of a city of 1 million. It's not comparable to countryside darkness by any means, but it really changes the character of a city.
My first reaction was that this is a grievous and unnecessary violation of privacy that would lead to nothing more than snooping by bored civil servants.
But FTFA: "Staton said although the measure may violate the privacy of sex offenders, the need to protect children "outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals."
It's not just laziness, but ignorance about computing as well.
People like my parents blame computers for "problems", like not being able to navigate easily to connect to wireless networks while using windows or not being able to figure out how to disconnect a drive.
These things piss people off, but while the solutions are there, and relatively easy, they're well hidden. The icons are in the taskbar in XP and Vista too, as far as I know, but that's pretty much useless for anyone who doesn't already know what the green arrow means, or a computer beside three arcs. They're too ambiguous, and too hard to find.
I honestly believe that Windows isn't bad, and it's my platform of choice mainly due to AutoCad software. But from using both Ubuntu and OSX infrequently they're more intuitive systems that are easier for the casual user to pick up.
People like my parents would probably pick up OSX quite quickly without too much help, but don't know that the problems that they complain about aren't computer issues, but are Windows problems.
Windows does have other problems, which have been talked about ad nauseum here already, but one of the biggest issues with the casual user is the GUI.
If Windows 7 fixes the GUI, amongst other things *cough*UAC*cough*, then they'll have a system that people will stay with.
And maybe I'll stop getting calls asking how to connect to the internet:)
I've seen the warnings that are played before movies since about 2006, but I', not sure if I'd report anybody that was recording a movie. Has anyone else actually encountered this? What would you do?
Another way newspapers are failing on the web is the use of terms in headlines that generate high ranking on search engines.
Stories like the iPhone Nano that the Mail ran a few weeks ago, and that was linked to from here are perfect examples of it.
Journalism is second place to the SEO it seems.
Charlie Brooker wrote about it a couple of weeks ago, but the best example he gave was from the Telegraph where journalists wrote: "Young women - such as Britney Spears - are buying more shoes than ever"
It's true that in the world of building design as well that designing solely with computer allows you to overlook flaws with a design, and that a physical model is still the best way to test design.
It's also true that you can't sketch an idea in AutoCad, and that the beginnings of a design in any field should be sketched/modelled. It's almost as if when something is conceived on computer it's automatically granted legitimacy.
Except, when Firefox isn't set as your default browser it asks you if you want to set it as default when you start it up, with an option to turn off the prompt too.
It's a bit wrong for them to set it as default whether it's the best browser or not.
Banks are going to have to start to treat customer records with as much gravity as they would physical cash.
Otherwise this will happen again and again, and people will start losing money as a result.
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A few months ago I picked up a desktop tower, 3.2ghz dual core, 512mb nvidia card, 320gb hard drive.
the only problem is the gamers case, and the tricked out blue leds that are inside, but apart from that, bargain.
You can find them if you look.
How apt, considering your username
I might be wrong, but wasn't Windows 7 supposed to be that total rewrite of Windows that was needed?
And of course, the source for some of the tech he used for the art school project, http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm Almost as old as the internet itself
The Kunsthaus in Bregenz by Peter Zumthor hosted an exhibition where trenches from World War One were recreated: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coffeemoon/3180793744/ nad http://architecturephoto.net/jp/Zumthor02-thumb.jpg
The plan form is fairly simple, and a dead load like soil which is unchanging is fairly easy to design for. http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/zumtor/plan3.gif (lives loads are the ones that cause real problems).
The theory behind vertical farms is fairly well exercised at this stage, and architects as well as engineers have been having a go for ages: the Dutch firm MVRDV designed "pig cities" to provide pigs with more room in farms while reducing overall farm footprint, as the Netherlands is the largest producer of Pork in Europe.
The vertical farm project has been running for some time now, and the section looks fairly credible, basically like a stack of greenhouses with a central light source, although some of them include dishes to get light inside through fibre optics (iirc). The theory is sound, and it's buildable, but maybe just not in city centres.
I think that still falls under torture though.
This is the OP here, and personally I find that I listen to a lot of music on YouTube, especially now that Warner has pulled out of Last Fm and I can't listen to their full tracks there. It's poor quality sound, but it's how I find new music that I've heard about and want to check out before buying. iTunes preview is too short, MySpace is unbearable and like I said, Warner Music have pulled their full tracks from Last.fm. (besides that, it's much easier to download hq tracks from myspace than youtube that requires you to strip the low quality audio from low quality video).
a copypasta gnna troll at 1 informative?
Come on mods, have the trolls got mod points now too? Or are they just that stupid that they'll mod up anything that praises apple in the header?
In Galloway in Scotland, the local tourist board is trying to set up a dark sky park. The area that they're planning to open it is apparently the darkest place in Europe.
There are already two in the US, in Utah (http://www.nps.gov/nabr/parknews/news040507.htm) and Northern Pennsylvania (http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/cherrysprings.aspx). This BLDGBLOG article mentions suggests World Heritage sites for experiencing darkness, set up to protect dark areas: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-sky-park.html
I recently visited Poland (Krakow) and there the level of street lighting was a lot lower, resulting in reduced light pollution. Streets were mostly lit with light reflected from buildings. It's surprising to be able to see the night sky from the middle of a city of 1 million. It's not comparable to countryside darkness by any means, but it really changes the character of a city.
But how do you calculate the rate of rotation and mass of a galaxy that you're in? It's mind blowing that we can actually do that.
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It's the government, and they're terribly out of touch you know...
In other news, the Tories are now the party of the left in the UK.
Apart from that, he was good in The Ruby In The Smoke (and it was a more faithful adaptation than The Golden Compass =X)
Although, would her memories of "romance" with women be erased or carried through?
My first reaction was that this is a grievous and unnecessary violation of privacy that would lead to nothing more than snooping by bored civil servants.
But FTFA:
"Staton said although the measure may violate the privacy of sex offenders, the need to protect children "outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals."
So it's alright then...
It's not just laziness, but ignorance about computing as well.
People like my parents blame computers for "problems", like not being able to navigate easily to connect to wireless networks while using windows or not being able to figure out how to disconnect a drive.
These things piss people off, but while the solutions are there, and relatively easy, they're well hidden. The icons are in the taskbar in XP and Vista too, as far as I know, but that's pretty much useless for anyone who doesn't already know what the green arrow means, or a computer beside three arcs. They're too ambiguous, and too hard to find.
I honestly believe that Windows isn't bad, and it's my platform of choice mainly due to AutoCad software. But from using both Ubuntu and OSX infrequently they're more intuitive systems that are easier for the casual user to pick up.
People like my parents would probably pick up OSX quite quickly without too much help, but don't know that the problems that they complain about aren't computer issues, but are Windows problems.
Windows does have other problems, which have been talked about ad nauseum here already, but one of the biggest issues with the casual user is the GUI.
If Windows 7 fixes the GUI, amongst other things *cough*UAC*cough*, then they'll have a system that people will stay with.
And maybe I'll stop getting calls asking how to connect to the internet :)
This guy's a hoot!
His comments are all titles "YES!", and "GOOD!", with my personal favourite being "exerllent".
I've seen the warnings that are played before movies since about 2006, but I', not sure if I'd report anybody that was recording a movie. Has anyone else actually encountered this? What would you do?
It's tabbed browsing that's been causing memory leak all this time.
That's it, I'm going back to IE6 until Chrome comes out.
You know how quickly someone can pull a gun at a trade show...
Another way newspapers are failing on the web is the use of terms in headlines that generate high ranking on search engines.
Stories like the iPhone Nano that the Mail ran a few weeks ago, and that was linked to from here are perfect examples of it.
Journalism is second place to the SEO it seems.
Charlie Brooker wrote about it a couple of weeks ago, but the best example he gave was from the Telegraph where journalists wrote: "Young women - such as Britney Spears - are buying more shoes than ever"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/21/charliebrooker.pressandpublishing
It's true that in the world of building design as well that designing solely with computer allows you to overlook flaws with a design, and that a physical model is still the best way to test design. It's also true that you can't sketch an idea in AutoCad, and that the beginnings of a design in any field should be sketched/modelled. It's almost as if when something is conceived on computer it's automatically granted legitimacy.
There was the RepRap, until the TSA defeated it in the war on terror: http://blog.reprap.org/2008/07/tsa-really-wreck-reprap-child.html
Except, when Firefox isn't set as your default browser it asks you if you want to set it as default when you start it up, with an option to turn off the prompt too. It's a bit wrong for them to set it as default whether it's the best browser or not.
Banks are going to have to start to treat customer records with as much gravity as they would physical cash. Otherwise this will happen again and again, and people will start losing money as a result.