If I'm playing a car racing game, I won't think it out of place to see billboards on the side of the road. If they advertise Coke/Pepsi, and the developer makes some money, that's fine.
So long as the ads are no more intrusive than the real world, and actually add to the game world, I'd be ok with this.
This is a great idea, and illustrates the benefits of science to help improve the world. Ecosystems around human habitations aren't natural to start with, and we have every right to mess them up for our benefit.
Also from the article:
For his part, Moscamed’s Aldo Malavasi gets impatient with critics from rich countries.
“Dengue is a problem in poor countries, in Latin America, Africa and Asia,” Malavasi says. “I don’t care about Europeans. I don’t care about you gringos. I care to help the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia.”
That is the sort of practical attitude we need to solve the problems of poor countries. Less hand wringing, more action, with adaptive management of any issues that arise.
For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's degree in science with a double major in ecology, and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. I work as a civil engineer providing water supplies rather than as an ecologist because there's no/hardly any money in science, so I might have a different point of view than more pure scientists. As far as I'm concerned, the reason to care about the environment is because we live in it. We should protect or change the environment as we see fit to benefit the most number of people. That's why we dam rivers, clear land, make farms, build cities, and protect endangered animals; it's all to improve quality of life for humans. Until mosquitoes become endangered, we should kill as many as we can.
Christmas Island is 1600 km from the Australian mainland, and 351 km from Indonesia (Java).
It is because of its proximity to Indonesia that people smugglers take their boats there, plus Jakarta is on Java so there are a lot of people there.
Papua New Guinea: 170 km Tasmania: 220 km Indonesia (Java to Christmas Island): 351 km Indonesia (Timor to mainland Australia): 440 km East Timor: 513 km
"Whatever is happening is probably a relatively common, though difficult to detect, phenomenon. Extrapolating from the research, astronomers estimate there are as many as about 10,000 similar high-energy millisecond radio bursts happening across the sky every day."
No, that plant was proven to be very reliable. It survived a severe earthquake and began automatically shutting down before the tsunami hit.
It was designed to withstand tsunamis, just not one as big as actually occurred. When hit by the over design limit tsunami, it suffered damage but did not fail dangerously. No one was killed, and radiation tests show that the only people to be exposed to significant radiation levels were site workers, none of which received a fatal dose.
So, if a nuclear power plant can safely shut down after such natural disasters, it shows that nuclear power is very safe. The engineers who designed that plant should be commended.
Sources: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster)
Preliminary dose-estimation reports by the World Health Organization and United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation indicate that 167 plant workers received radiation doses that slightly elevate their risk of developing cancer, but that it may not be statistically detectable. Estimated effective doses from the accident outside of Japan are considered to be below (or far below) the dose levels regarded as very small by the international radiological protection community.
World Nuclear News (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/rs_fear_and_stress_outweigh_fukushima_radiation_risk_3105131.html)
The most extensive international report to date has concluded that the only observable health effects from the Fukushima accident stem from the stresses of evacuation and unwarranted fear of radiation.
From the article, if you can't be bothered clicking the link:
The words not, that, we, who, and give are cognates in five language families, and nouns and verbs including mother, hand, fire, ashes, worm, hear, and pull are shared by four. Going by the rate of change of these cognates, the model suggests that these words have remained in a similar form since about 14,500 years ago, thus supporting the existence of an ancient Eurasiatic language and its now far-flung descendants.
From Google: Mother in England Matr in Russia Motina in Lithuanian Mater in Latin Manman in Haitian Creole Ma in Chinese Mwtr in Yiddish Mteay in Khmer
Getting Doom with it was a large part of their Kickstarter campaign.
They did say the Kickstarter was only for devs, so Doom would be more as a tech demo than the main reason for purchase, but a lot of the 9,500 supporters looked like regular people wanting to get in on the next cool thing.
Apple still tries these tactics in Australia, even two years after being brought to public attention. In Australia, if a product isn't fit for purpose, you can return it to the store it was bought from, regardless of what Apple try to tell you. This is one small part of the reason for the 'Australia Tax', the other parts being inexplicable.
I am not visiting the US until you get rid of your guns. You are all batshit crazy.
As pointed out elsewhere on the thread, 3 deaths / 100,000 people/year in the US vs 0.09 in Australia. The founding fathers were wrong. Get over it. A lot of you disagree with their religious beliefs which were the reason for fleeing Europe. You are allowed to disagree with their beliefs in other areas too.
...and for this reason, if someone chooses them as their ISP, then having a backdoor to their network probably IS necessary, as they are the type of person who will forget their password and lock themselves out of their router, and not be able to find the factory reset. Telstra were just being proactive in their service offering.
For this same reason, noone that cares about security was affected.
The issue was that after the shooting incident, his photo was wrongly associated with the name of a violent gang. He might have been shot by that gang, but wasn't part of it.
A website wrongly used his photo with the wrong name, and after indexing that site, Google showed his photo when people searched for a particular criminal. He asked for Google to block that photo when those search terms were used, and they didn't. That is when his lawyers said he had a case.
According to the internet, ordnance is "Origin: 1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance". So ordnance is just a very old spelling mistake. The original is ordinance. Which suits both congress and war for the same reason; in both settings ordinance is used for shooting your enemy.
We all know models are never a perfect description of reality. And it is well known that models are usually wrong, but some are useful.
But more importantly is the World Bank's comment that
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Never upgrade something that is working.
(Unless it is a worthwhile security update, obviously)
If I'm playing a car racing game, I won't think it out of place to see billboards on the side of the road. If they advertise Coke/Pepsi, and the developer makes some money, that's fine.
So long as the ads are no more intrusive than the real world, and actually add to the game world, I'd be ok with this.
This is a great idea, and illustrates the benefits of science to help improve the world. Ecosystems around human habitations aren't natural to start with, and we have every right to mess them up for our benefit.
Also from the article:
For his part, Moscamed’s Aldo Malavasi gets impatient with critics from rich countries.
“Dengue is a problem in poor countries, in Latin America, Africa and Asia,” Malavasi says. “I don’t care about Europeans. I don’t care about you gringos. I care to help the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia.”
That is the sort of practical attitude we need to solve the problems of poor countries. Less hand wringing, more action, with adaptive management of any issues that arise.
For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's degree in science with a double major in ecology, and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. I work as a civil engineer providing water supplies rather than as an ecologist because there's no/hardly any money in science, so I might have a different point of view than more pure scientists. As far as I'm concerned, the reason to care about the environment is because we live in it. We should protect or change the environment as we see fit to benefit the most number of people. That's why we dam rivers, clear land, make farms, build cities, and protect endangered animals; it's all to improve quality of life for humans. Until mosquitoes become endangered, we should kill as many as we can.
Christmas Island is 1600 km from the Australian mainland, and 351 km from Indonesia (Java).
It is because of its proximity to Indonesia that people smugglers take their boats there, plus Jakarta is on Java so there are a lot of people there.
Papua New Guinea: 170 km
Tasmania: 220 km
Indonesia (Java to Christmas Island): 351 km
Indonesia (Timor to mainland Australia): 440 km
East Timor: 513 km
I heard New Zealand had claimed Tasmania, and Australia didn't bother to object.
Yes, it is worth remembering East Timor, they get forgotten fairly often, like Papua New Guinea.
But they are a bit further away. From closest point on mainland Australia to nearest point of other places, distances are:
Papua New Guinea: 170 km
Tasmania: 220 km
Indonesia (Timor): 440 km
East Timor: 513 km
That far north the kangaroos don't work properly. They tend to climb trees and then fall out instead of the usual behaviour of offering bouncy rides.
Australia's nearest neighbour was and is Papua New Guinea. You can almost walk from Papua to Australia at low tide (if you have very long legs).
Second nearest is Tasmania, followed by Indonesia.
I do not think [classified] means what you think it means.
Logged in post the same thing and was beaten to it.
The Classic Mode option doesn't make it look like the classic Slashdot. It still looks like the beta anorexic Slashdot.
"Whatever is happening is probably a relatively common, though difficult to detect, phenomenon. Extrapolating from the research, astronomers estimate there are as many as about 10,000 similar high-energy millisecond radio bursts happening across the sky every day."
Seems like a lot.
No, that plant was proven to be very reliable. It survived a severe earthquake and began automatically shutting down before the tsunami hit.
It was designed to withstand tsunamis, just not one as big as actually occurred. When hit by the over design limit tsunami, it suffered damage but did not fail dangerously. No one was killed, and radiation tests show that the only people to be exposed to significant radiation levels were site workers, none of which received a fatal dose.
So, if a nuclear power plant can safely shut down after such natural disasters, it shows that nuclear power is very safe. The engineers who designed that plant should be commended.
Sources:
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster)
Preliminary dose-estimation reports by the World Health Organization and United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation indicate that 167 plant workers received radiation doses that slightly elevate their risk of developing cancer, but that it may not be statistically detectable. Estimated effective doses from the accident outside of Japan are considered to be below (or far below) the dose levels regarded as very small by the international radiological protection community.
World Nuclear News (http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/rs_fear_and_stress_outweigh_fukushima_radiation_risk_3105131.html)
The most extensive international report to date has concluded that the only observable health effects from the Fukushima accident stem from the stresses of evacuation and unwarranted fear of radiation.
Agreed. I run groundwater simulation models that take 48 hours to complete. My Xeon CPU is the bottleneck.
At my charge out rate of $200/hour, a modest increase in CPU speed could lead to saving over $1000 per model run.
But Xeons aren't overclockable, and our IT department wouldn't allow them to be overclocked even if they could be.
So, yes MHz/GHz still matters. But, no I'm not too fussed about the overclocking issue in the article.
From the article, if you can't be bothered clicking the link:
The words not, that, we, who, and give are cognates in five language families, and nouns and verbs including mother, hand, fire, ashes, worm, hear, and pull are shared by four. Going by the rate of change of these cognates, the model suggests that these words have remained in a similar form since about 14,500 years ago, thus supporting the existence of an ancient Eurasiatic language and its now far-flung descendants.
From Google:
Mother in England
Matr in Russia
Motina in Lithuanian
Mater in Latin
Manman in Haitian Creole
Ma in Chinese
Mwtr in Yiddish
Mteay in Khmer
I guess this would be a good time to bring up the fact that batteries often fail explosively.
...for unusual definitions of "usually", yes.
Getting Doom with it was a large part of their Kickstarter campaign.
They did say the Kickstarter was only for devs, so Doom would be more as a tech demo than the main reason for purchase, but a lot of the 9,500 supporters looked like regular people wanting to get in on the next cool thing.
I can imagine a lot of unhappy people.
I reckon I'll use it to run Notepad, so I can take notes on my phone, and Solitaire, so I can play games when I'm out.
I doubt anything more heavy duty would run fast enough, and besides, I can usually remote desktop to my home PC from my phone if I need to.
See http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/01/apple-stores-warranty-approach-contradicts-australian-consumer-law/ for more detail.
I am not visiting the US until you get rid of your guns. You are all batshit crazy. As pointed out elsewhere on the thread, 3 deaths / 100,000 people /year in the US vs 0.09 in Australia. The founding fathers were wrong. Get over it. A lot of you disagree with their religious beliefs which were the reason for fleeing Europe. You are allowed to disagree with their beliefs in other areas too.
...and for this reason, if someone chooses them as their ISP, then having a backdoor to their network probably IS necessary, as they are the type of person who will forget their password and lock themselves out of their router, and not be able to find the factory reset. Telstra were just being proactive in their service offering. For this same reason, noone that cares about security was affected.
The issue was that after the shooting incident, his photo was wrongly associated with the name of a violent gang. He might have been shot by that gang, but wasn't part of it. A website wrongly used his photo with the wrong name, and after indexing that site, Google showed his photo when people searched for a particular criminal. He asked for Google to block that photo when those search terms were used, and they didn't. That is when his lawyers said he had a case.
I misread the title, was disappointed until I saw the word Hadoop. It's such a a silly name.
According to the internet, ordnance is "Origin: 1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance". So ordnance is just a very old spelling mistake. The original is ordinance. Which suits both congress and war for the same reason; in both settings ordinance is used for shooting your enemy.
I came here to post that exact same comment. "Can I scan it with my Android QR scan app?"
But more importantly is the World Bank's comment that
'Models are useful even when their results are not entirely correct because they facilitate communication' World Bank HEF Techniccal Report 1, June 2010
because as you can see, the model is generating discussion. If the model is wrong, it is still the first step towards making a better model.