As long as Sony continues to bully George Hotz for publicizing Sony's all random numbers=2 coding error, any setback for Sony is good news in my book and conversely, good news for Sony is bad news.
Sorry LG lost their injunction.
Kennedy and Cronkite weren't the the first and second. They were different manifestations of the real challenger, Nimby. Nimby is always there. Nimby doesn't want nuclear, coal, oil, gas, hydro, solar, or wind power. Nimby doesn't go away until things get so bad that all his neighbors tell him to stfu because they're sick of freezing to death.
The best thing that level-headed environmentalists could do would be to speak out, vocally, about this kind of nonsense and condemn groups that simply take contrary positions by default.
It doesn't help. Several prominent environmentalists such as Stewart Brand and former Greenpeace director, Patrick Moore, have spoken out in favor of nuclear after having opposed it in the past. The problem is that it just takes a very small number of objectors to block, re-block, and re-re-block again before costs get too high. Unfortunately, here in California, there's zero leadership in Sacramento that has the balls to say enough is enough.
Net result is that we're importing expensive power from neighboring states instead of producing it cheaply here. Without cheap power, energy-intensive industries close up shop and relocate to other states and thereby add to the highest unemployment rate in the nation - a fact that eludes Sacramento.
It appears Pickens was looking to secure water rights and water transportation rights in remote areas via eminent domain. He was able to do it because people believed he was developing the wind resource that is there.
The problem is that he's developed a network that taps into the Ogallala Aquaifer. The Ogallala is an aquifer that's been over-tapped before Pickens arrived on the scene and with his newly acquired water rights, looks to be drained completely making Pickens richer than he already is and leaving the farmers who depend on the resource in the lurch.
We had the same game play out in California in the early 1900s when Los Angeles was developed. LA raided the Owens Valley a few hundred miles away for water. The Owens Valley ceased to be a viable farming community as the water disappeared and boosters like the Chandlers of the LA Times got richer. A more recent example of the same money play is Las Vegas raiding huge portions of Nevada water so the Bellagio can lure tourists to Vegas.
Just as the Owens Valley turned to dust so will large parts of the midwest turn to dust as the already over-used Ogallala disappears. So a few people will get very,very rich and a national asset will cease to exist.
The Ogallala is an example of where government regulation is severely needed. It's a resource we should be using at a rate commensurate with its ability to recharge so that not only do we benefit from its existence so do our great grand children. Raiders like Pickens don't give a fuck about long term consequences as long as they make bank today.
I computed a similar acceleration. Then I checked my work by watching the video and saw that the jet starts moving at 1:55 and is lifting off at 1:59 which means 4 seconds to go from 0 to 240 instead of 1.7 seconds.
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That tells me they don't uniformly accelerate the plane and that it requires half the power to get the plane airborne than the 1.7 second calculation requires. You can see from the video that it takes the plane about a second to move its own length or 60 feet (assumed it was an f18) which means it starts out at a slower acceleration than it must have to cover the remaining 240 feet in 3 seconds.
Nonetheless, going from 0 to 240 in 4 seconds has got to be one hell of a hoot.
I tried to help out and gave up after the first data set due to the poor user interface.
The basic idea of the project is to identify spikes in the dataset. To do that you, click on a plus sign to indicate you've found a spike, drag on a box that appears in mid screen to wherever your spike is and then try to position the box on the spike. I don't know why, but dragging was slightly laggy and so you feel somewhat like a drunk trying to place the box where you want it. Spent more time trying to position the boxes than it took to id spikes.
Once you've positioned the box, if you want to narrow or widen the box, you're stuck with a Macintosh window resize mechanism that only lets you adjust from the lower right. Resizing the window moves the dot you've just positioned which puts you back in drunken sailor drag mode.
A simpler interface would just track where you click and place the boxes accordingly along with a 'keep the center dot in place whilst adjusting the box boundaries from any edge" resize mechanism. Maybe that'l be in Planet Hunter V2.0 .
Gee. It sounds like you're describing pollanywhere.com. I've been using them this year in my classroom in lieu of clickers but judging from the patent claim, Microsoft claims to have invented what they're already doing.
"Climate change" isn't a slogan, it's the name of a problem.
Except the problem was previously called "Global Warming" and when it became clear that maybe that wasn't panning out, "Global Warming" morphed to "Climate Change".
That change looks like a problem called "politically expedient."
How much do ISPs pay for their connectivity?
Can they get flat rate access and if yes, how much does something like an un-metered gig/sec connection cost per month/year?
I can see one way Comcast has it right and if it's not that way, then Comcast's argument suggests something they really don't want to say.
Netflix feeds data to level 3 which distributes it out to its servers spread across the land. The stream then is handed off to Comcast for delivery to consumers. Comcast would have a valid point if the network looked like this:
Netflix -> L3 Los Gatos ->Comcast ->L3 Server ->Comcast ->user
In which case L3 would be using Comcast's network to keep its distributed servers current and Comcast's complaint would be justified.
The alternative picture, and what most of us presume is correct is looks like this:
Netflix-> L3 Los Gatos -> L3 fiber network -> L3 Server ->Comast ->user
In which case Comcast is on the receiving end and according to Comcast, they should be paid by L3 since more data flows their way than vice-versa. However, if that's true, then Comcast should pay me since more data flows to my PC from Comcast than vice versa.
So Comcast, do you owe me money?
If L3 pays Comcast, then Comcast pays me to watch Netflix movies.
The link you provide is, by it's own admission, speculative. After much blather the post resolves to:
If this is true, and the details do line up, it's rather stunning (and incredibly braindead) that Comcast would make such a demand right now, just as the merger is close to approval. You would think that someone in management would recognize the sort of backlash such a demand would bring. Of course, again, I'm wondering if there are more details here. I wasn't aware of an online movie offering from Level 3, and I'm wondering if Level 3 was actually trying to do something more involved rather than just letting users access online content through existing connections. I'm sure the details will come out soon enough...
followed by an update that links to another post that parrots Comcast's press release claiming the dispute is a peering issue.
In short, the link you provide adds nothing to the discussion.
Customer:Why do I have to pay a COMCAST SUBSCRIBER FEE for downloading movies? Netflix:Comcast charges us extra to stream the movie to you. Other ISPs don't do that so our other customers don't have to pay that fee. Customer: I'll have to get my city council to revoke Comcast's charter. Looks like it's time for the city just to build its own network.
The conversation wouldn't even transpire if Netflix started broadcasting a warning to Comcast customers that their monthly agreement is going to change if Comcast gets their way.
The problem wasn't the stink. It was the economics. From the get go, they were relying on subsidies to make the process pay.
These kind of businesses sprout up whenever there are government subsidies to be had or fuel prices spike. Their prospectuses will have a phrase that states that the company isn't profitable if you take away the subsidies or it will be profitable if the price of fuel rises faster than the rate of inflation.
Had Renewable really developed a viable technology that delivered fuel at $15/barrel as they promised, there would have been more than enough money to clean up the stench.
And Sprint has few 4G towers. The 4G speed won't matter if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The nearest 4G towers are 50 miles east in Stockton and Modesto. Stockton has the distinction of having among the highest foreclosure rates in California.
There's a mailing list, Minor Planet Mailing List, where amateur and professional asteroid hunters congregate and their equipment covers the gamut from 8" up meters wide scopes.
Regardless of scope size, they are all limited by the fact that it's hard to look towards the sun to spot asteroids whose orbits are primarily sunward of us. A well shaded scope parked at a Lagrange point could go a long ways towards addressing that threat.
Back in the early days of DOS, the OS was relatively stable but the hardware on which it ran was all over the map. We wanted to port Crystal Quest from the Mac to the PC but punted when we saw that we had no way of knowing how many PCs there were that had both a mouse, sound hardware and a video card that could handle bitmap video. All of those features were standard on a Mac but were customizations on a PC. It wasn't until Windows 95 came out that Microsoft started dictating minimum hardware specs that all machines had to have and Microsoft wouldn't let the manufacturer say the PC could run Windows 95 until Microsoft had QA'd the box.
Android is still in the DOS days. Once Google gets around to learning the same lesson Microsoft learned (albeit slowly) and develops a QA test suite that they administer, the problem will only get worse.
This is so damn typical. Congress passes a law that has negative consequences so they pass another law to try to fix the consequences. Congress is responsible for the decline of rare earth mines in the first place. For example, a good junk of the Mojave was home to several rare-earth mines that were put out of business when Senator Feinstein pushed through the Desert Wilderness Protection act.
Solar farms are out of luck when they try to site in the Mojave for the same reason - Feinstein has blocked off huge chunks of land.
Instead of subsidizing mining, perhaps repealing Senator Feinstein's handiwork would be a good place to start.
Not sure where you got that idea. Hydrogen burns very well if you can control the feed line. It's used for welding, and less commonly, driving space shuttles.
When the first H-bomb was being setup for the test, one of the tanks needed venting to release some excess hydrogen. Instead of just letting it vent off into the atmosphere, they lit the hydrogen as it came out the vent tube. Hydrogen flames aren't visible so the the way they knew it was burning was from the heat and from the fact that burnt seagulls kept falling out of the sky. The birds couldn't see the hazard until it was too late.
I hear seagull isn't very tasty but then maybe it was overcooked.
The only drawback to running barefoot is you can easily pickup hookworms running near dog droppings. Hookworms crawl about a foot a day from where they're first dropped so just being near poop can be enough to infect you.
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Ostensibly, "editing" is why Slashdot has "editors."
You'll definitely want http://www.periodicvideos.com/ and their sister site, http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ . Both are first rate.
As long as Sony continues to bully George Hotz for publicizing Sony's all random numbers=2 coding error, any setback for Sony is good news in my book and conversely, good news for Sony is bad news. Sorry LG lost their injunction.
Kennedy and Cronkite weren't the the first and second. They were different manifestations of the real challenger, Nimby. Nimby is always there. Nimby doesn't want nuclear, coal, oil, gas, hydro, solar, or wind power. Nimby doesn't go away until things get so bad that all his neighbors tell him to stfu because they're sick of freezing to death.
The best thing that level-headed environmentalists could do would be to speak out, vocally, about this kind of nonsense and condemn groups that simply take contrary positions by default.
It doesn't help. Several prominent environmentalists such as Stewart Brand and former Greenpeace director, Patrick Moore, have spoken out in favor of nuclear after having opposed it in the past. The problem is that it just takes a very small number of objectors to block, re-block, and re-re-block again before costs get too high. Unfortunately, here in California, there's zero leadership in Sacramento that has the balls to say enough is enough.
Net result is that we're importing expensive power from neighboring states instead of producing it cheaply here. Without cheap power, energy-intensive industries close up shop and relocate to other states and thereby add to the highest unemployment rate in the nation - a fact that eludes Sacramento.
The problem is that he's developed a network that taps into the Ogallala Aquaifer. The Ogallala is an aquifer that's been over-tapped before Pickens arrived on the scene and with his newly acquired water rights, looks to be drained completely making Pickens richer than he already is and leaving the farmers who depend on the resource in the lurch.
We had the same game play out in California in the early 1900s when Los Angeles was developed. LA raided the Owens Valley a few hundred miles away for water. The Owens Valley ceased to be a viable farming community as the water disappeared and boosters like the Chandlers of the LA Times got richer. A more recent example of the same money play is Las Vegas raiding huge portions of Nevada water so the Bellagio can lure tourists to Vegas.
Just as the Owens Valley turned to dust so will large parts of the midwest turn to dust as the already over-used Ogallala disappears. So a few people will get very,very rich and a national asset will cease to exist.
The Ogallala is an example of where government regulation is severely needed. It's a resource we should be using at a rate commensurate with its ability to recharge so that not only do we benefit from its existence so do our great grand children. Raiders like Pickens don't give a fuck about long term consequences as long as they make bank today.
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That tells me they don't uniformly accelerate the plane and that it requires half the power to get the plane airborne than the 1.7 second calculation requires. You can see from the video that it takes the plane about a second to move its own length or 60 feet (assumed it was an f18) which means it starts out at a slower acceleration than it must have to cover the remaining 240 feet in 3 seconds.
Nonetheless, going from 0 to 240 in 4 seconds has got to be one hell of a hoot.
The basic idea of the project is to identify spikes in the dataset. To do that you, click on a plus sign to indicate you've found a spike, drag on a box that appears in mid screen to wherever your spike is and then try to position the box on the spike. I don't know why, but dragging was slightly laggy and so you feel somewhat like a drunk trying to place the box where you want it. Spent more time trying to position the boxes than it took to id spikes.
Once you've positioned the box, if you want to narrow or widen the box, you're stuck with a Macintosh window resize mechanism that only lets you adjust from the lower right. Resizing the window moves the dot you've just positioned which puts you back in drunken sailor drag mode.
A simpler interface would just track where you click and place the boxes accordingly along with a 'keep the center dot in place whilst adjusting the box boundaries from any edge" resize mechanism. Maybe that'l be in Planet Hunter V2.0 .
Gee. It sounds like you're describing pollanywhere.com. I've been using them this year in my classroom in lieu of clickers but judging from the patent claim, Microsoft claims to have invented what they're already doing.
"Climate change" isn't a slogan, it's the name of a problem.
Except the problem was previously called "Global Warming" and when it became clear that maybe that wasn't panning out, "Global Warming" morphed to "Climate Change".
That change looks like a problem called "politically expedient."
By "redundant link" are you saying you purchase bandwidth from different vendors or you purchase multiple OC3s from the same vendor?
Who is offering a $1k rate?
How much do ISPs pay for their connectivity? Can they get flat rate access and if yes, how much does something like an un-metered gig/sec connection cost per month/year?
Netflix feeds data to level 3 which distributes it out to its servers spread across the land. The stream then is handed off to Comcast for delivery to consumers. Comcast would have a valid point if the network looked like this:
Netflix -> L3 Los Gatos ->Comcast ->L3 Server ->Comcast ->user
In which case L3 would be using Comcast's network to keep its distributed servers current and Comcast's complaint would be justified.
The alternative picture, and what most of us presume is correct is looks like this:
Netflix-> L3 Los Gatos -> L3 fiber network -> L3 Server ->Comast ->user
In which case Comcast is on the receiving end and according to Comcast, they should be paid by L3 since more data flows their way than vice-versa. However, if that's true, then Comcast should pay me since more data flows to my PC from Comcast than vice versa.
So Comcast, do you owe me money?
If L3 pays Comcast, then Comcast pays me to watch Netflix movies.
If this is true, and the details do line up, it's rather stunning (and incredibly braindead) that Comcast would make such a demand right now, just as the merger is close to approval. You would think that someone in management would recognize the sort of backlash such a demand would bring. Of course, again, I'm wondering if there are more details here. I wasn't aware of an online movie offering from Level 3, and I'm wondering if Level 3 was actually trying to do something more involved rather than just letting users access online content through existing connections. I'm sure the details will come out soon enough...
followed by an update that links to another post that parrots Comcast's press release claiming the dispute is a peering issue. In short, the link you provide adds nothing to the discussion.
Customer:Why do I have to pay a COMCAST SUBSCRIBER FEE for downloading movies?
Netflix:Comcast charges us extra to stream the movie to you. Other ISPs don't do that so our other customers don't have to pay that fee.
Customer: I'll have to get my city council to revoke Comcast's charter. Looks like it's time for the city just to build its own network.
The conversation wouldn't even transpire if Netflix started broadcasting a warning to Comcast customers that their monthly agreement is going to change if Comcast gets their way.
Does the ruling include Facetime?
When have you caught so much anti-matter that releasing it would cause a serious problem? How much is too much?
The problem wasn't the stink. It was the economics. From the get go, they were relying on subsidies to make the process pay. These kind of businesses sprout up whenever there are government subsidies to be had or fuel prices spike. Their prospectuses will have a phrase that states that the company isn't profitable if you take away the subsidies or it will be profitable if the price of fuel rises faster than the rate of inflation. Had Renewable really developed a viable technology that delivered fuel at $15/barrel as they promised, there would have been more than enough money to clean up the stench.
>Sprint has no data cap.
And Sprint has few 4G towers. The 4G speed won't matter if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The nearest 4G towers are 50 miles east in Stockton and Modesto. Stockton has the distinction of having among the highest foreclosure rates in California.
Depends on what you call small.
There's a mailing list, Minor Planet Mailing List, where amateur and professional asteroid hunters congregate and their equipment covers the gamut from 8" up meters wide scopes.
Regardless of scope size, they are all limited by the fact that it's hard to look towards the sun to spot asteroids whose orbits are primarily sunward of us. A well shaded scope parked at a Lagrange point could go a long ways towards addressing that threat.
You're missing a key point.
Back in the early days of DOS, the OS was relatively stable but the hardware on which it ran was all over the map. We wanted to port Crystal Quest from the Mac to the PC but punted when we saw that we had no way of knowing how many PCs there were that had both a mouse, sound hardware and a video card that could handle bitmap video. All of those features were standard on a Mac but were customizations on a PC. It wasn't until Windows 95 came out that Microsoft started dictating minimum hardware specs that all machines had to have and Microsoft wouldn't let the manufacturer say the PC could run Windows 95 until Microsoft had QA'd the box.
Android is still in the DOS days. Once Google gets around to learning the same lesson Microsoft learned (albeit slowly) and develops a QA test suite that they administer, the problem will only get worse.
This is so damn typical. Congress passes a law that has negative consequences so they pass another law to try to fix the consequences. Congress is responsible for the decline of rare earth mines in the first place. For example, a good junk of the Mojave was home to several rare-earth mines that were put out of business when Senator Feinstein pushed through the Desert Wilderness Protection act.
Solar farms are out of luck when they try to site in the Mojave for the same reason - Feinstein has blocked off huge chunks of land.
Instead of subsidizing mining, perhaps repealing Senator Feinstein's handiwork would be a good place to start.
Not sure where you got that idea. Hydrogen burns very well if you can control the feed line. It's used for welding, and less commonly, driving space shuttles.
When the first H-bomb was being setup for the test, one of the tanks needed venting to release some excess hydrogen. Instead of just letting it vent off into the atmosphere, they lit the hydrogen as it came out the vent tube. Hydrogen flames aren't visible so the the way they knew it was burning was from the heat and from the fact that burnt seagulls kept falling out of the sky. The birds couldn't see the hazard until it was too late.
I hear seagull isn't very tasty but then maybe it was overcooked.
The only drawback to running barefoot is you can easily pickup hookworms running near dog droppings. Hookworms crawl about a foot a day from where they're first dropped so just being near poop can be enough to infect you.