This isn't picking and choosing, this is following the bloody law. It's not Google's fault if the government and the justice system make this possible, and not complying could end up with Google getting blocked from operating in those countries.
That's the thing: climate change projects are also losing funding. There's no big corporation having interests in either, so they're getting dumped on the wayside. Hooray for capitalism?
This is how politics is supposed to work, too, but partisan politics have corrupted this. You should be able to associate with the politicians that are doing what YOU want on a case by case basis. Senator X is pushing for a healthcare reform you like, you support him. Senator Y is pushing for net neutrality, support him. And so on. The parties shouldn't matter as much as they do, they should just act as approximate indicators of tendencies (so a right wing party wouldn't be expected to enact many left wing policies, for instance). Right now, though, instead of being able to cherry pick the politicians on each case you have a stance on, you need to take not just the politician, but their entire party whole and suck it up. Such a system cannot possibly represent you faithfully.
-Line spacing (and spacing in general) is controlled by the cozy/comfortable/compact options in the settings drop-down (the gear in the top right).
-Ctrl+clicking opens emails in a new tab just fine. As a Slashdot grumpy old man, I'd hope you know your shortcut-fu!
-"Mailboxes"? I assume you mean labels? You can select which ones show without having to click on "More" by going in the "Labels" settings page. There are a lot of controls there, even.
I feel like people, when presented with a new interface, never try to even look at it before balking off. Just a bit of actually using the interface and trying its various features can be extremely beneficial and takes only a few minutes.
Wyoming is flooded in politics. Why else do you think that the state that has the most to lose if we decide to curb CO2 emissions happens to be the one that is skeptical about global warming? That it's complete happenstance? Bullshit.
Science is apolitical. Politics however meddle in everything, including science.
Overract much? Sure, they should've added LGBT stuff in their game (although I'm not quite sure trans can even be represented in a game about Mii avatars...), but I'm pretty sure Nintendo's games have helped a LOT more teenagers (through a way of escaping bad events, or a distraction and way too calm themselves, and so on) than they've hindered. This isn't some sort of conscious campaigning against LGBT, it's an omission. To then imagine how the world would be better without them is both ludicrously harsh and undermines your position by making you even more insensitive than you claim them to be.
But hey, keep on crusadin', most people are way too scared of the fanatical devotion to this movement to speak up when things turn bonkers. I didn't like the karma that much anyway.
This. I have many friends in the physics dept and the reason they're doing Fortran at all is that they're basing their own stuff off of existing Fortran stuff.
What amused me about the article was actually the Fortran versions they spoke about. F95? F03? F08? Let's be real: just about every Fortran code I've heard of is still limited to F77 (with some F90 if you're lucky). It just won't work on later versions, and it's deemed not worth porting over, so the entire codebase is stuck on almost 40 years old code.
The problem is that Beats' phones seem to leak a fairly high amount of sound. I've seen so many in the subway (the red wires are a dead giveaway) and I constantly hear faint music.
Not really. It's not because MSR wants to ship things that the rest of MS will actually allow them to do so. Unfortunately, they're entirely subservient to the corporate structure, which is ludicrously averse to just about everything that comes from their research arm. It's sad, really.
This reminds me of people saying climatologists have no more credibility than deniers because Al Gore is on their side. Al Gore. I don't know of a single paper from him, of any actual research. He's a politician. Like any other politician trying to enter a field they have not a fucking clue about, I completely ignore him. Much better for blood pressure, and it tends to bring noise levels way down (those politicians can be loud!).
Actual computer scientists, engineers and mathematicians wouldn't be behaving like this. What we're seeing is armchair [insert topic of the day here]ists.
That first link is quite amusing, because it explains nothing in what the data actually is. His single graph, which he summarizes as "global temperature", is actually the monthly anomalies of the lower troposphere global mean, ie. by how many degrees was that month differing from the average of that month's records. It's also funny to be using a simplistic linear approximation when the data is this noisy; it means nothing.
The troposphere isn't what most people think of when they talk about temperature. If you look at the very site he uses, WoodForTrees.org, pretty much every other graph, again using the simple linear approximation at play here, shows an increase. He pretty much cherry-picked the graph that confirmed his biases. This isn't to say that the graph is wrong or that my analysis is right. It just means that, as so many people have said already, you just CAN'T summarize the whole enormous complex machine that is the climate by a single measurement. What does that graph mean in relation to everything else? I'm not a climatologist, I don't know. From what I can tell, he's not much more recognized in the topic than I am. I won't claim that credentials are all that matters, but I will trust an actual scientific organization (or even just a single researcher in the field) before a random guy using a fake name on WordPress. Again, not because I'm doing an appeal to authority, but because this whole thing is way too complicated to start doing armchair climatology.
If you think predicting moon and solar cycles is not useful, then you should perhaps go back and look at history. As a general tip: overgeneralizations like the one the GP is debunking are always wrong (including this one? maybe!).
RMS: Nonfree software is likely to spy on its users, or mistreat them in other ways. It is software for suckers.
Yes, because insulting people who make or use proprietary software is a surefire way to convert them, right? The FLOSS community as a whole could use just a little bit of tact overall (RMS chief among them).
I took notes because of the "just in case" feeling I'd get otherwise, but in retrospect I probably should've done just this. I almost never came back to the notes, so all I ended up with was a large amount of (usually unintelligible) scribbling that'd sleep on my desk until the end of the semester. It's also why the courses where all the notes were available online were my favorites, as then I didn't feel compelled to take notes and could instead just listen.
You sure you've actually thought that through? Sure, I'd probably pick the US before Russia, or Ukraine, or most of Africa, or the Middle East... but contrarily to what the US govt would like you to think, there's more than war-torn countries, drug cartels and fanatics in the world. I'd pick a solid number of countries in Europe before the US, like France, the UK or Germany, and I'd probably stay here in Canada before all of those. Yes, they all have their own problems, but I think the US is very close to a precipice and you guys are giving no signs of stopping the march forward.
The only risk is if a competing app has a low enough barrier to entry that people decide to migrate to it instead. In the mobile world, for this kind of service, this is a very real possibility.
I disagree. If websites relied purely on a single javascript block, then filtering out the tracking, advertising and other bullshitting scripts would be a lot harder than it is now, where most of the external scripts are stuff you want to block. You can generally allow the site itself (and if it's big enough, perhaps a CDN and another domain or two) and you'll get the site without the shit.
Also, hosting relatively large scripts like jQuery on their own, static path helps a lot for caching. You have one copy of the script for dozens of sites, instead of dozens of copies of the same file.
Only if you assume that Newtonian mechanics apply, which they won't. When estimating acceleration for something like 0.003c, you can disregard relativistic effects, but not when you get anywhere near c. At that point, the velocity needs to be computed through general relativity, which is fiendishly more complicated than just v/a.
This is Zenimax suddenly realizing that with Carmack off, their entire id buyout has become worthless. Their engine is awkward and basically only used by id and some related devs. Their games have been subpar at best. The only thing they had was some bright people, and Carmack was the biggest chunk by far.
They're now flailing wildly in the vain hope that they'll be able to get some compensation from somewhere.
Titanfall was developed by Respawn and published by EA. Respawn are an independent developer, not owned by either EA or Microsoft. Microsoft have absolutely no control over those developers apart from having an exclusivity deal with Respawn/EA.
There's another reason that Sycraft-fu's reply didn't mention: the development of those games started before the consoles were out. This means that the targets, while known, were also moving. Specs changed a few times and I'll bet the APIs changed significantly over the course of the past few years. That makes it quite hard to properly implement the graphics engine for the console. This is why, as developers get more familiar with the API and hardware, we see graphics quality keep improving on the same hardware. Compare an early era game of any console with a late era game, you'll see quickly. They're still limited in what they can do, obviously, but whereas early on the limits are largely down to developers' unfamiliarity with the console, later on they're squarely due to the console's hardware. Games developed before the console's hardware/API were even done had to be even more flexible, which generally means not quite as optimal.
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This isn't picking and choosing, this is following the bloody law. It's not Google's fault if the government and the justice system make this possible, and not complying could end up with Google getting blocked from operating in those countries.
That's the thing: climate change projects are also losing funding. There's no big corporation having interests in either, so they're getting dumped on the wayside. Hooray for capitalism?
This is how politics is supposed to work, too, but partisan politics have corrupted this. You should be able to associate with the politicians that are doing what YOU want on a case by case basis. Senator X is pushing for a healthcare reform you like, you support him. Senator Y is pushing for net neutrality, support him. And so on. The parties shouldn't matter as much as they do, they should just act as approximate indicators of tendencies (so a right wing party wouldn't be expected to enact many left wing policies, for instance). Right now, though, instead of being able to cherry pick the politicians on each case you have a stance on, you need to take not just the politician, but their entire party whole and suck it up. Such a system cannot possibly represent you faithfully.
Huh?
-Line spacing (and spacing in general) is controlled by the cozy/comfortable/compact options in the settings drop-down (the gear in the top right).
-Ctrl+clicking opens emails in a new tab just fine. As a Slashdot grumpy old man, I'd hope you know your shortcut-fu!
-"Mailboxes"? I assume you mean labels? You can select which ones show without having to click on "More" by going in the "Labels" settings page. There are a lot of controls there, even.
I feel like people, when presented with a new interface, never try to even look at it before balking off. Just a bit of actually using the interface and trying its various features can be extremely beneficial and takes only a few minutes.
Wyoming is flooded in politics. Why else do you think that the state that has the most to lose if we decide to curb CO2 emissions happens to be the one that is skeptical about global warming? That it's complete happenstance? Bullshit.
Science is apolitical. Politics however meddle in everything, including science.
Overract much? Sure, they should've added LGBT stuff in their game (although I'm not quite sure trans can even be represented in a game about Mii avatars...), but I'm pretty sure Nintendo's games have helped a LOT more teenagers (through a way of escaping bad events, or a distraction and way too calm themselves, and so on) than they've hindered. This isn't some sort of conscious campaigning against LGBT, it's an omission. To then imagine how the world would be better without them is both ludicrously harsh and undermines your position by making you even more insensitive than you claim them to be.
But hey, keep on crusadin', most people are way too scared of the fanatical devotion to this movement to speak up when things turn bonkers. I didn't like the karma that much anyway.
This. I have many friends in the physics dept and the reason they're doing Fortran at all is that they're basing their own stuff off of existing Fortran stuff.
What amused me about the article was actually the Fortran versions they spoke about. F95? F03? F08? Let's be real: just about every Fortran code I've heard of is still limited to F77 (with some F90 if you're lucky). It just won't work on later versions, and it's deemed not worth porting over, so the entire codebase is stuck on almost 40 years old code.
The problem is that Beats' phones seem to leak a fairly high amount of sound. I've seen so many in the subway (the red wires are a dead giveaway) and I constantly hear faint music.
Not really. It's not because MSR wants to ship things that the rest of MS will actually allow them to do so. Unfortunately, they're entirely subservient to the corporate structure, which is ludicrously averse to just about everything that comes from their research arm. It's sad, really.
The Courier was MSR's project, but the rest of MS killed it. It's not a fault of Microsoft Research.
I hear the SpaceX Steam account has something like 10,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program.
This reminds me of people saying climatologists have no more credibility than deniers because Al Gore is on their side. Al Gore. I don't know of a single paper from him, of any actual research. He's a politician. Like any other politician trying to enter a field they have not a fucking clue about, I completely ignore him. Much better for blood pressure, and it tends to bring noise levels way down (those politicians can be loud!).
Actual computer scientists, engineers and mathematicians wouldn't be behaving like this. What we're seeing is armchair [insert topic of the day here]ists.
That first link is quite amusing, because it explains nothing in what the data actually is. His single graph, which he summarizes as "global temperature", is actually the monthly anomalies of the lower troposphere global mean, ie. by how many degrees was that month differing from the average of that month's records. It's also funny to be using a simplistic linear approximation when the data is this noisy; it means nothing.
The troposphere isn't what most people think of when they talk about temperature. If you look at the very site he uses, WoodForTrees.org, pretty much every other graph, again using the simple linear approximation at play here, shows an increase. He pretty much cherry-picked the graph that confirmed his biases. This isn't to say that the graph is wrong or that my analysis is right. It just means that, as so many people have said already, you just CAN'T summarize the whole enormous complex machine that is the climate by a single measurement. What does that graph mean in relation to everything else? I'm not a climatologist, I don't know. From what I can tell, he's not much more recognized in the topic than I am. I won't claim that credentials are all that matters, but I will trust an actual scientific organization (or even just a single researcher in the field) before a random guy using a fake name on WordPress. Again, not because I'm doing an appeal to authority, but because this whole thing is way too complicated to start doing armchair climatology.
If you think predicting moon and solar cycles is not useful, then you should perhaps go back and look at history. As a general tip: overgeneralizations like the one the GP is debunking are always wrong (including this one? maybe!).
RMS: Nonfree software is likely to spy on its users, or mistreat them in other ways. It is software for suckers.
Yes, because insulting people who make or use proprietary software is a surefire way to convert them, right? The FLOSS community as a whole could use just a little bit of tact overall (RMS chief among them).
I took notes because of the "just in case" feeling I'd get otherwise, but in retrospect I probably should've done just this. I almost never came back to the notes, so all I ended up with was a large amount of (usually unintelligible) scribbling that'd sleep on my desk until the end of the semester. It's also why the courses where all the notes were available online were my favorites, as then I didn't feel compelled to take notes and could instead just listen.
You sure you've actually thought that through? Sure, I'd probably pick the US before Russia, or Ukraine, or most of Africa, or the Middle East... but contrarily to what the US govt would like you to think, there's more than war-torn countries, drug cartels and fanatics in the world. I'd pick a solid number of countries in Europe before the US, like France, the UK or Germany, and I'd probably stay here in Canada before all of those. Yes, they all have their own problems, but I think the US is very close to a precipice and you guys are giving no signs of stopping the march forward.
The only risk is if a competing app has a low enough barrier to entry that people decide to migrate to it instead. In the mobile world, for this kind of service, this is a very real possibility.
I disagree. If websites relied purely on a single javascript block, then filtering out the tracking, advertising and other bullshitting scripts would be a lot harder than it is now, where most of the external scripts are stuff you want to block. You can generally allow the site itself (and if it's big enough, perhaps a CDN and another domain or two) and you'll get the site without the shit.
Also, hosting relatively large scripts like jQuery on their own, static path helps a lot for caching. You have one copy of the script for dozens of sites, instead of dozens of copies of the same file.
Only if you assume that Newtonian mechanics apply, which they won't. When estimating acceleration for something like 0.003c, you can disregard relativistic effects, but not when you get anywhere near c. At that point, the velocity needs to be computed through general relativity, which is fiendishly more complicated than just v/a.
This is Zenimax suddenly realizing that with Carmack off, their entire id buyout has become worthless. Their engine is awkward and basically only used by id and some related devs. Their games have been subpar at best. The only thing they had was some bright people, and Carmack was the biggest chunk by far.
They're now flailing wildly in the vain hope that they'll be able to get some compensation from somewhere.
Titanfall was developed by Respawn and published by EA. Respawn are an independent developer, not owned by either EA or Microsoft. Microsoft have absolutely no control over those developers apart from having an exclusivity deal with Respawn/EA.
There's another reason that Sycraft-fu's reply didn't mention: the development of those games started before the consoles were out. This means that the targets, while known, were also moving. Specs changed a few times and I'll bet the APIs changed significantly over the course of the past few years. That makes it quite hard to properly implement the graphics engine for the console. This is why, as developers get more familiar with the API and hardware, we see graphics quality keep improving on the same hardware. Compare an early era game of any console with a late era game, you'll see quickly. They're still limited in what they can do, obviously, but whereas early on the limits are largely down to developers' unfamiliarity with the console, later on they're squarely due to the console's hardware. Games developed before the console's hardware/API were even done had to be even more flexible, which generally means not quite as optimal.
Look, I am a normal dude who doesn't involve in criminal activities. Life is good then in Singapore.
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