You know the funny thing is, IIRC 10 years ago "they" were proposing iron fertilization as a way to do exactly this: augment fish supply for harvesting (like we needed to pump up the system and stress everything out more). That didn't quite work either because I think they got the result they wanted here, sinking out. Basically, there's a lot of subtleties on when, where, what type of plankton are produced, how it's kept in surface layer, microplankton, jellyfish etc. The issue with large-scale manipulations is N is small and the screwups can stick.
Its still industries buying laws. Its still misuse of public funds/resources.
You know, I'm pretty strong anti-current copyright, I think the copyright lengths are way out of whack; DRM circumvention laws are wrong; fair use should allow more sharing than the industry wants, etc.
But I also think that (were everything to reach a reasonable compromise one day) that uploading an unreleased album to wide availability (where even its sale hasn't yet been permitted by the rightsholder) could reasonably be called a misdemeanor theft on the level of shoplifting, and that (minor, short-term) incarceration rates could be reasonable as a maximum penalty. Whether or not a judge should grant the maximum sentence on first offense is another matter.
An equally good question - can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Why? I recently built an 88-core Beowulf cluster for the price of 1.5 of these. I mean, forget the ridiculous eye candy and you can build a better machine with commodity parts for much less.
The only things that should limit my consumption are my available resources and self control. You have no right to take something off my plate simply because YOU think that I eat too much.
We'd need a Constitutional Amendment to term limit these bastards.
Honestly, I think term limits just increase the power of lobbyists, as it gives them more continuity than the officeholders and makes advertising $$$ more crucial (e.g. less name-recognition when there's open seats or relatively short-serving officials running).
Actually, as a scientist (but not your scientist, please consult your scientist) with a great respect and liking for my institution's lawyers: After going through some workshops ("law for techies" and vice versa), once you get over the jargon (e.g. days can be spent on "legal significance" vs. "scientific significance") you'd be downright amazed at the similarities.
If my IT department did this, and I fell for it, and then someone from IT or even better, my boss, came to me in person and said "you idiot, don't do that", you'd better believe I'd have embarrassment and pay attention.
But from a law enforcement agency that's as anonymous as the scammer would be? Intrusion aside, it's just one more piece of noise.
That being said, I think the big keys is to have exclusive stories that people want to read.
The problem is, you all (the "traditionals", at least in the decisionmaking rooms it seems) are defining "exclusive" as "first" and that becomes "rushed and shallow." You know what aggregaters have taught me? That a huge percentage of newspapers' "front pages" are the same story, in the same words regurgitated, as the wire stories. Those aren't the ones I come back to or spread around... the ones I come back to (and share) are those with considered analysis and thought. First to market "scoops" just doesn't pay the bills so much anymore.
I'm having more fun now than I ever had in college, and that's really saying something.
College was great, single, partying, etc.
Twenties were better, married, two incomes, clubbing, out on town all the time but no braindead hookups, etc...
Mid-thirties...kid, back getting sore, stress at leaving it too long for another kid, the two incomes and time going to kid, savings for kid, and house (to stay within means had to do major fixer upper)... missing friends from both college and twenties in same boat... not so much.
Though legos with the kid does offer some (not inconsiderable) solace.
You could do a similar ball-body-ground circuit, with the feet and hands electorally inert.
You mean electrify an entire playing field? Or conversely, ground the whole damn field like a fencing strip? I have a better idea... electrify the area behind the 1st-down line... YOU'RE NOT THERE YET! [cattle prod noise] GET UP!
52 kWh in 5 minutes is 624 kW, and in 3 minutes is around 1 MW.
To put it another way, a 240V at 20A supply outputs 4.8kW and would take ~10 hours to charge it. Halving that to five hours (40A) would be beyond ratings for almost all household wiring.
Old Turkish Story:
A man, Hodja came upon his two wives having one of their typical discussions. "We were just talking about which one of us you loved the best!" said the oldest one. "Now, now" said Hodja, used to these conversations "I love you both the same." The younger one, a clever one, said "come on. Now, imagine we were all three in a boat and the boat sank. You've only got time to save one of us. Who do you reach for first?" Hodja paused. He looked at his older wife. Then at his younger wife. Then at his older wife. Then at is younger wife. He paused for a long time. Finally, he looked back to his older wife. "Dear," he said at last, "I think you can swim a little bit, can't you?"
I don't recommend either Halliday/Resnick/Crane or Giancoli.
I dunno, I remember finally really "getting" pdes from H&R, though maybe that was very supplemented by lectures. I do know that as subjects go, what really made the math click was E&M: Maxwell's Equations were just so damn elegant and beautiful it all came together there for me (though coffee cups are good for boundary value problems - I seem to remember Boyce and DePrima being a good text with enough of the physics to make it work well).
...it seems to me like from just my experience here, 'math people' aren't destined to be number crunchers.
Some years away from there and I both agree and disagree. Agree in that it was a springboard for looking for polar bears in the arctic (so cool stuff) and much more of a range then many tech schools but beware! Like the comments about MIT above, if you don't enjoy math et al. enough to sweat it for a few years, there's serious trauma and near-failure to be had (plenty leave the fields entirely with some burnout).
Ultimately the best way is to visit universities and programs and look for the fit.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it prooved that by this method it wont work.
You know the funny thing is, IIRC 10 years ago "they" were proposing iron fertilization as a way to do exactly this: augment fish supply for harvesting (like we needed to pump up the system and stress everything out more). That didn't quite work either because I think they got the result they wanted here, sinking out. Basically, there's a lot of subtleties on when, where, what type of plankton are produced, how it's kept in surface layer, microplankton, jellyfish etc. The issue with large-scale manipulations is N is small and the screwups can stick.
Its still industries buying laws. Its still misuse of public funds/resources.
You know, I'm pretty strong anti-current copyright, I think the copyright lengths are way out of whack; DRM circumvention laws are wrong; fair use should allow more sharing than the industry wants, etc.
But I also think that (were everything to reach a reasonable compromise one day) that uploading an unreleased album to wide availability (where even its sale hasn't yet been permitted by the rightsholder) could reasonably be called a misdemeanor theft on the level of shoplifting, and that (minor, short-term) incarceration rates could be reasonable as a maximum penalty. Whether or not a judge should grant the maximum sentence on first offense is another matter.
I entreat you to please avoid using "stream", "streamed", and "streaming" seven times within as many lines of text.
Those responsible for streaming this stream of streaming streams have been streamed.
An equally good question - can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Why? I recently built an 88-core Beowulf cluster for the price of 1.5 of these. I mean, forget the ridiculous eye candy and you can build a better machine with commodity parts for much less.
But those are not without their Problems.
Then use TrueCrypt to create an encrypted partition
You mean if I fill a disk with 0's, I should TrueCrypt all the zeros.
It's kinda like a snow globe filled with lithium and cocaine.
Like, wasn't that just all a dream or something?
The only things that should limit my consumption are my available resources and self control. You have no right to take something off my plate simply because YOU think that I eat too much.
The Tragedy of the Commons.
We'd need a Constitutional Amendment to term limit these bastards.
Honestly, I think term limits just increase the power of lobbyists, as it gives them more continuity than the officeholders and makes advertising $$$ more crucial (e.g. less name-recognition when there's open seats or relatively short-serving officials running).
As opposed to techies?
Actually, as a scientist (but not your scientist, please consult your scientist) with a great respect and liking for my institution's lawyers: After going through some workshops ("law for techies" and vice versa), once you get over the jargon (e.g. days can be spent on "legal significance" vs. "scientific significance") you'd be downright amazed at the similarities.
...navigate the twisted corridors of the law instead of technology or computer code.
That y'all built yourselves... talk about job-preserving legacy code... ;)
It's the best form of targeted training.
I agree if it was local and targeted.
If my IT department did this, and I fell for it, and then someone from IT or even better, my boss, came to me in person and said "you idiot, don't do that", you'd better believe I'd have embarrassment and pay attention.
But from a law enforcement agency that's as anonymous as the scammer would be? Intrusion aside, it's just one more piece of noise.
That being said, I think the big keys is to have exclusive stories that people want to read.
The problem is, you all (the "traditionals", at least in the decisionmaking rooms it seems) are defining "exclusive" as "first" and that becomes "rushed and shallow." You know what aggregaters have taught me? That a huge percentage of newspapers' "front pages" are the same story, in the same words regurgitated, as the wire stories. Those aren't the ones I come back to or spread around... the ones I come back to (and share) are those with considered analysis and thought. First to market "scoops" just doesn't pay the bills so much anymore.
int f() { return 5050; } ?
Too much overhead.
#define SUM_0_100 5050
I'm having more fun now than I ever had in college, and that's really saying something.
College was great, single, partying, etc.
Twenties were better, married, two incomes, clubbing, out on town all the time but no braindead hookups, etc...
Mid-thirties...kid, back getting sore, stress at leaving it too long for another kid, the two incomes and time going to kid, savings for kid, and house (to stay within means had to do major fixer upper)... missing friends from both college and twenties in same boat... not so much.
Though legos with the kid does offer some (not inconsiderable) solace.
You could do a similar ball-body-ground circuit, with the feet and hands electorally inert.
You mean electrify an entire playing field? Or conversely, ground the whole damn field like a fencing strip? I have a better idea... electrify the area behind the 1st-down line... YOU'RE NOT THERE YET! [cattle prod noise] GET UP!
Wait a minute... Are you trying to say that Slashdot isn't fiction?
And you obviously haven't read some of my TPS reports.
52 kWh in 5 minutes is 624 kW, and in 3 minutes is around 1 MW.
To put it another way, a 240V at 20A supply outputs 4.8kW and would take ~10 hours to charge it. Halving that to five hours (40A) would be beyond ratings for almost all household wiring.
Hey, that's LISP. Oh, wait. I mean that's Zen!
For those who doubt that LISP is Zen, I ask the following: What is the sound of one ) closing?
Old Turkish Story: A man, Hodja came upon his two wives having one of their typical discussions. "We were just talking about which one of us you loved the best!" said the oldest one. "Now, now" said Hodja, used to these conversations "I love you both the same." The younger one, a clever one, said "come on. Now, imagine we were all three in a boat and the boat sank. You've only got time to save one of us. Who do you reach for first?" Hodja paused. He looked at his older wife. Then at his younger wife. Then at his older wife. Then at is younger wife. He paused for a long time. Finally, he looked back to his older wife. "Dear," he said at last, "I think you can swim a little bit, can't you?"
I don't recommend either Halliday/Resnick/Crane or Giancoli.
I dunno, I remember finally really "getting" pdes from H&R, though maybe that was very supplemented by lectures. I do know that as subjects go, what really made the math click was E&M: Maxwell's Equations were just so damn elegant and beautiful it all came together there for me (though coffee cups are good for boundary value problems - I seem to remember Boyce and DePrima being a good text with enough of the physics to make it work well).
...it seems to me like from just my experience here, 'math people' aren't destined to be number crunchers.
Some years away from there and I both agree and disagree. Agree in that it was a springboard for looking for polar bears in the arctic (so cool stuff) and much more of a range then many tech schools but beware! Like the comments about MIT above, if you don't enjoy math et al. enough to sweat it for a few years, there's serious trauma and near-failure to be had (plenty leave the fields entirely with some burnout).
Ultimately the best way is to visit universities and programs and look for the fit.
Why would anyone waste good tequila on rocks?
You're right, it should be served neat.
Let's not forget Congress. Remember, these are the people that we want to turn all healthcare over to.
Oh I so much more trust those folks who just lost the third copy of my coordination of benefits form. But hey, at least they're not a bureaucracy.
Scanners could be used for that...
Wimps. For a full-media machine on the cheap, just use a magnifying glass and a magnet.