I saw no SATA in Hell. I saw only a bunch of Imps and some random other monsters.
I did get a nifty box, though...
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Slashdot folks also rate random flames at Microsoft fairly highly, too. While such moderation is sometimes deserved, that doesn't mean that the flames always have a valid point. I agree that Rob kind of ducked the question here, but just because Slashdotters rated something well doesn't automatically make it a good thing.
It's stored in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search. If I lock off my profile to other users (if they existed), then they wouldn't be able to read the files that exist therein, including the Google cache.
Have you ever had that experience where you realize you're about to do something terribly, terribly wrong, but the impulse has already been sent and you can't stop it?
My issue isn't with the lack of a byline, to which I rarely pay much attention anyway. My issue is that there seems to be no identification whatsoever on who responded to the survey, or where they're from. I can look up the credentials of, say, Charles Baird of CSU Hayward or James Gatti of Univ of Vermont, and then decide whether to trust them. I can't look up the credentials of unnamed, unsourced economists who replied to a survey.
Mach numbers aren't static, as they vary with air pressure. Orbital re-entry velocities are around 25,000ft/s (7620m/s), or at least that's what was used with the Mercury and Gemini missions. (The same page lists the Apollo re-entry velocity as 36,000ft/s.) That's an enormous difference from what SSO encountered.
Nanotubes aren't difficult to manufacture. It's nanotubes of appropriate length and consistency that are hard to manufacture. The current record is a mere 4cm, a little too short to reach orbit, even when wound as a cable. It's still several times longer than the previous record. If we can keep up this pace, we might be able to get nanotubes with lengths of tens or hundreds of centimeters soon, and those might be enough to wind into a cable. Imagine someone suspending himself from the ceiling with something the diameter of thin-guage fishing line.
Heh... Imagine catching a marlin with the same line.
Anyway, we still have some things to do, but we may be getting close to the point where we're not trying to peer over the horizon because the next major port is in view.
Maybe it's an early glitch, part of just getting it out there. Most systems only have one profile in common use. Fortunately, this isn't an issue that will affect me, but still good to know about, since my parents do use multiple profiles.
I found both the letter and the Economist article disturbingly lacking in information, but they were opposites. I saw lots of names, but few specific details in the letter, as it mostly used vague assertions and tried to back them with a few numbers. The Economist article had lots of details, but no names, relying on the source of the names to provide it with backing.
LIQUID CO2 is injected into the ground, at least for sequestration. It has to be in liquid form because the involved pressures are so high. At a pressure of one atmosphere, yes, liquid CO2 is cold, but at higher pressures, it can be a lot warmer.
Underground CO2 storage doesn't involve tanks. It involves injecting it into deep wells, usually at least several hundred meters below the surface. This is already done by at least one company in Norway to get around CO2 emission taxes there.
There's no way to economically harvest it yet, though. There is some research being done into this, but because methane hydrate is unstable below certain pressures (and hence above certain depths), there is worry that it could become unbound and percolate into the atmosphere. This could be a Very Bad Thing, considering that the estimates of the energy density available in methane hydrate deposites exceed double that of all known gas, oil, and coal deposits worldwide, and because methane has ten times the global warming capacity that carbon dioxide possesses.
How many of those are naturally caused? Most surface oil fires are the result of leaks or equipment breakage that allow oil to the surface, where it somehow ignites.
It's been a while since I used Lookout, but I seem to recall it forcing its way through the indexing, whereas Google is only doing it when the computer is idle. You can get away with some keystrokes, but it seems like disk activity halts indexing.
Some quick notes that I've found:
Indices seem to be user-specific. They are stored under %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Google\Google Desktop Search.
Google has indexed 11,000+ items (e-mails and files) so far for me, and the index size is ~88MB. I'm not entirely sure which files have been indexed, so I don't know how large the final index will be, but I have ~53,500 files on two partitions, so I expect that it will be at least a couple hundred megs when all is said and done (though not all files will be even touched yet, I'm sure).
Damn, the Outlook searches are fast. I need to get some people in my company who get an e-mail per minute (or more) to use this.
An e-mail just arrived, and was indexed within seconds.
Why they don't change to voting on a saturday like most people? Who knows?
The most common fight against putting it on the weekend comes from religion. Christians argue against putting it on Sunday because that's their holy day. Jews argue against putting it on a Saturday because that's their holy day. Businesses complain about making the day a national holiday (my preference), even though there's no requirement that any company gives a particular holiday off. Companies in some states are required to give at least two hours off (unpaid) for employees to vote if they request it.
Another problem for the US is that they hold so many elections on the same day. But there's no real requirement that state or local elections should be held the same day.
There are legal requirements. Federal law specifies the date for federal elections ("[t]he Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year"), and state law provides for matching that date in most cases, so you're talking about changing a lot of laws. In addition, elections are expensive. They take time and money to prepare, print, distribute, conduct, collect, count, verify, and publish -- $300 million nationally in a presidential election, according to one estimate, and almost all of those costs are borne at the state or local level.
As for separate elections simplifying things, I doubt that would happen. In my area alone (a city in Orange County, CA), I will be able to vote for President/Vice President, one of two Senators, and a House Representative at the federal level; an Assemblyman and possibly a Senator at the state level; and at the local level there are college district trustees, local school district trustees, city government (mayors, city council members, treasurer, and clerk), water district commissioners, sanitary district commissioners, sewer district commissioner, and library district trustees at the local level. This doesn't include sixteen state-level initiatives that are on the ballot and various county-level initiatives that may be, depending on the location of the voter. I'm not quite sure, but we may also be electing judges. That seems like quite a lot to some, but it's about normal for California in a major election year, so you can see why splitting things up more than they are (there are primary elections in June) could make things more confusing and certainly more expensive.
I can give you some reasons. They're not necessarily good reasons, but they are reasons used.
1. Virtual elimination of mechanical breakdown. This can be an issue with some of the older equipment. It doesn't address the electronic systems breaking down or crashing, though.
2. Rapid collection of stats. This has less to do with anything useful and more to do with people getting impatient. In most cases, the results are pretty obvious within hours of the polls closing. In other cases, we get a little tension for a few days as things come down to the wire. (In still other cases, we get a lot of political infighting for the next four years.)
3. Standardization of interfaces. I've only seen one e-voting system, so I'm not entirely sure how possible this is, but it seems to me at least theoretically possible that the presented screen can be relatively standardized across a state, at least in terms of basic layout (since county- and city-specific issues will be different, of course).
Personally, I miss the lever system that I used for about ten years. The 'ka-chunk' feeling of the ballot being marked seemed to give a tactile and auditory sensation to the emotional satisfaction of having expressed my opinion.
While many of the answers were like that (on both sides) there were many unscripted moments and the debates still give us a chance to see the different personalities in action.
I got a good laugh (as did several friends on both sides of the aisle) at Bush's response to the timber ownership point Kerry brought up. "I own a timber company? That's news to me.... Need some wood?"
A nice, light-hearted moment in the midst of some otherwise strained (in several ways) responses. (Yes, I know the facts about the trust and technicalities of the law. It was still worth a chuckle.)
As a follow-up, I do hope that the technology that is used in Western factories makes its way to the nations that do pick up these industries for themselves, as they tend to be cleaner and more efficient, if more expensive. Starting off on the right foot with the new factories could well help some of those developing nations to avoid some of the pollution problems we've seen in the last century.
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If it's new... how can it be Team Fortress Classic?
I saw no SATA in Hell. I saw only a bunch of Imps and some random other monsters.
I did get a nifty box, though...
Slashdot folks also rate random flames at Microsoft fairly highly, too. While such moderation is sometimes deserved, that doesn't mean that the flames always have a valid point. I agree that Rob kind of ducked the question here, but just because Slashdotters rated something well doesn't automatically make it a good thing.
It's stored in %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search. If I lock off my profile to other users (if they existed), then they wouldn't be able to read the files that exist therein, including the Google cache.
Have you ever had that experience where you realize you're about to do something terribly, terribly wrong, but the impulse has already been sent and you can't stop it?
Yeah. Every time I go to Slashdot.
[green]We've polluted the Earth enough, and now you want to pollute the sun?! When will you evil Republicans stop destroying nature?![/green]
My issue isn't with the lack of a byline, to which I rarely pay much attention anyway. My issue is that there seems to be no identification whatsoever on who responded to the survey, or where they're from. I can look up the credentials of, say, Charles Baird of CSU Hayward or James Gatti of Univ of Vermont, and then decide whether to trust them. I can't look up the credentials of unnamed, unsourced economists who replied to a survey.
Mach numbers aren't static, as they vary with air pressure. Orbital re-entry velocities are around 25,000ft/s (7620m/s), or at least that's what was used with the Mercury and Gemini missions. (The same page lists the Apollo re-entry velocity as 36,000ft/s.) That's an enormous difference from what SSO encountered.
Nanotubes aren't difficult to manufacture. It's nanotubes of appropriate length and consistency that are hard to manufacture. The current record is a mere 4cm, a little too short to reach orbit, even when wound as a cable. It's still several times longer than the previous record. If we can keep up this pace, we might be able to get nanotubes with lengths of tens or hundreds of centimeters soon, and those might be enough to wind into a cable. Imagine someone suspending himself from the ceiling with something the diameter of thin-guage fishing line.
Heh... Imagine catching a marlin with the same line.
Anyway, we still have some things to do, but we may be getting close to the point where we're not trying to peer over the horizon because the next major port is in view.
Maybe it's an early glitch, part of just getting it out there. Most systems only have one profile in common use. Fortunately, this isn't an issue that will affect me, but still good to know about, since my parents do use multiple profiles.
I found both the letter and the Economist article disturbingly lacking in information, but they were opposites. I saw lots of names, but few specific details in the letter, as it mostly used vague assertions and tried to back them with a few numbers. The Economist article had lots of details, but no names, relying on the source of the names to provide it with backing.
Both come across as about equally useless to me.
LIQUID CO2 is injected into the ground, at least for sequestration. It has to be in liquid form because the involved pressures are so high. At a pressure of one atmosphere, yes, liquid CO2 is cold, but at higher pressures, it can be a lot warmer.
Oops. Forgot Application Data in my path string up there. Thanks for correcting it.
Underground CO2 storage doesn't involve tanks. It involves injecting it into deep wells, usually at least several hundred meters below the surface. This is already done by at least one company in Norway to get around CO2 emission taxes there.
There's no way to economically harvest it yet, though. There is some research being done into this, but because methane hydrate is unstable below certain pressures (and hence above certain depths), there is worry that it could become unbound and percolate into the atmosphere. This could be a Very Bad Thing, considering that the estimates of the energy density available in methane hydrate deposites exceed double that of all known gas, oil, and coal deposits worldwide, and because methane has ten times the global warming capacity that carbon dioxide possesses.
How many of those are naturally caused? Most surface oil fires are the result of leaks or equipment breakage that allow oil to the surface, where it somehow ignites.
It does happen, and from natural causes, too.
No, we won't suddenly be growing wheat in fucking north dakota, the soil isn't right for it.
Wheat growers in North Dakota beg to differ.
It's been a while since I used Lookout, but I seem to recall it forcing its way through the indexing, whereas Google is only doing it when the computer is idle. You can get away with some keystrokes, but it seems like disk activity halts indexing.
Some quick notes that I've found:
Indices seem to be user-specific. They are stored under %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Google\Google Desktop Search.
Google has indexed 11,000+ items (e-mails and files) so far for me, and the index size is ~88MB. I'm not entirely sure which files have been indexed, so I don't know how large the final index will be, but I have ~53,500 files on two partitions, so I expect that it will be at least a couple hundred megs when all is said and done (though not all files will be even touched yet, I'm sure).
Damn, the Outlook searches are fast. I need to get some people in my company who get an e-mail per minute (or more) to use this.
An e-mail just arrived, and was indexed within seconds.
I like this.
Why they don't change to voting on a saturday like most people? Who knows?
The most common fight against putting it on the weekend comes from religion. Christians argue against putting it on Sunday because that's their holy day. Jews argue against putting it on a Saturday because that's their holy day. Businesses complain about making the day a national holiday (my preference), even though there's no requirement that any company gives a particular holiday off. Companies in some states are required to give at least two hours off (unpaid) for employees to vote if they request it.
Another problem for the US is that they hold so many elections on the same day. But there's no real requirement that state or local elections should be held the same day.
There are legal requirements. Federal law specifies the date for federal elections ("[t]he Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year"), and state law provides for matching that date in most cases, so you're talking about changing a lot of laws. In addition, elections are expensive. They take time and money to prepare, print, distribute, conduct, collect, count, verify, and publish -- $300 million nationally in a presidential election, according to one estimate, and almost all of those costs are borne at the state or local level.
As for separate elections simplifying things, I doubt that would happen. In my area alone (a city in Orange County, CA), I will be able to vote for President/Vice President, one of two Senators, and a House Representative at the federal level; an Assemblyman and possibly a Senator at the state level; and at the local level there are college district trustees, local school district trustees, city government (mayors, city council members, treasurer, and clerk), water district commissioners, sanitary district commissioners, sewer district commissioner, and library district trustees at the local level. This doesn't include sixteen state-level initiatives that are on the ballot and various county-level initiatives that may be, depending on the location of the voter. I'm not quite sure, but we may also be electing judges. That seems like quite a lot to some, but it's about normal for California in a major election year, so you can see why splitting things up more than they are (there are primary elections in June) could make things more confusing and certainly more expensive.
I saw an orange glow around 9pmEST
Sunrise came at 6pm Pacific that day?
The optometrist called. Your Lasik appointment needs to be moved up.
I can give you some reasons. They're not necessarily good reasons, but they are reasons used.
1. Virtual elimination of mechanical breakdown. This can be an issue with some of the older equipment. It doesn't address the electronic systems breaking down or crashing, though.
2. Rapid collection of stats. This has less to do with anything useful and more to do with people getting impatient. In most cases, the results are pretty obvious within hours of the polls closing. In other cases, we get a little tension for a few days as things come down to the wire. (In still other cases, we get a lot of political infighting for the next four years.)
3. Standardization of interfaces. I've only seen one e-voting system, so I'm not entirely sure how possible this is, but it seems to me at least theoretically possible that the presented screen can be relatively standardized across a state, at least in terms of basic layout (since county- and city-specific issues will be different, of course).
Personally, I miss the lever system that I used for about ten years. The 'ka-chunk' feeling of the ballot being marked seemed to give a tactile and auditory sensation to the emotional satisfaction of having expressed my opinion.
Sunrise came at 6pm Pacific that day?
Odd... I didn't think my clock was that far off...
While many of the answers were like that (on both sides) there were many unscripted moments and the debates still give us a chance to see the different personalities in action.
... Need some wood?"
I got a good laugh (as did several friends on both sides of the aisle) at Bush's response to the timber ownership point Kerry brought up. "I own a timber company? That's news to me.
A nice, light-hearted moment in the midst of some otherwise strained (in several ways) responses. (Yes, I know the facts about the trust and technicalities of the law. It was still worth a chuckle.)
As a follow-up, I do hope that the technology that is used in Western factories makes its way to the nations that do pick up these industries for themselves, as they tend to be cleaner and more efficient, if more expensive. Starting off on the right foot with the new factories could well help some of those developing nations to avoid some of the pollution problems we've seen in the last century.