Yeah since he's moving from OSX due to its apparent corruption by tablet inspured guff somehow I don't think "Move to windows 8" is even a remotely sensible suggetion.
Republicans don't evolve. They are intelligently designed.
Around about the same time god "designed" ebola and those horrible eye-worms that infest people in parts of africa. The old dude in the sky was in bit of a misanthropic mood that day presumably,
Clive Palmer is actually completely fecking bonkers. People here in australia treat him as sort of a scary/facinating madman who got all the dollars but none of the sense that one might associate with being a billionaire. Granted its not uncommon with australian billionaires to be a bit cranky (See rupert murdoch, gina rinehart, and so on).
That said. I want someone to convince him to spend his billions on space travel. He's just far enough off his rocker to actually consider it.
Unless your doing industrial CAD, your not actually going to be using Autocad for 3d work, its not its strong point.
Personally I found Cinema 4D very intuitive although the tag thing admittedly had me scratching my head a bit. However I'm not talking about advanced features (Nobody would deny that basic primitive modeling is very straightforward in C4d. Select if from the menu and drag it about).
The problem with blender is that its not even obvious how to do THAT. Its a huge cognitive load at step 1.
[quote]...Microsoft have had there behinds kicked around so badly, that when they describe new technology they describe the pack of 4 "Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon", you would have thought with all this analysis, they could done better with the internet[all of it], social media, smartphones, mp3 players, tablets...all their money still comes from Office/OS.[/quote]
How is any of this even remotely relevant to a story about statistics?
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Yeah it was my first Unix because my old XT couldn't run Linux (which was *very* new at the time). It was great to mess around with, and I managed to hack together a driver for my wang hard drive controller, but the lack of a TCP sockets stack really limited its usefulness.
20 foot sea rise is in line with high end (as he states) worst case scenarios in some modelling. That was not a lie. To not state that would be to misrepresent the science, which this is not.
I still haven't seen an example of a lie posted yet.
Pretty much how Max, Maya or Cinema4d are doing it. You should be able to open a new program and see at a glance how the basic operations are performed, and if you can't find out how to do it without consulting a manual. Blender is the only 3d software I know where its impossible to learn without a manual.
UI design isn't a black art, its a science with a lot of research behind it and its abundantly clear the blender team never consulted with it. Its an undoubtably power piece of software, and with inbuilt sculpting and matchmoving (I think), it may well be one of the most powerful 3D pieces of software on the market. But if nobody knows how to use the damn thing, it'll never achieve its goal of bringing that power to the masses.
Tough decisions need to be made that will disrupt the comfort of the power users by adjusting for workflow and ease of learning. My understanding is that blender can be operated well with a keyboard, and that doesn't need to change at all since keyboard shortcuts are largely non-discoverable. But The UI needs a massive redesign to create discoverability for new users.
Its not hypocrisy, its forcing them to live by the rules they themselves created. By doing this they expose the rotten double standard of copyright laws.
Imagine if the powerful had to live by the rules they created. No more police violence because the police could not mug people, no more wars Because murder would be illegal for the powerful too, no more bank shenanigans because the bankers could not burglarize people anymore. So many ills in society over.
So lets make the bastards follow their own rules I say.
Quick, point out an actual lie in that film. Keep in mind, most of the reviews by actual scientists have so far said that it mostly got the facts rights.
So basically $5000 plus another $10000 in lawyers fee (All the rest are costs that are the same in the US because its *always* the same damn call center anyway)
So, assuming Australian sales as an linear proportion of US sales (Big assumption, but its almost impossible to find sales figures!) we might get about a million copies of a game sold for a top-selling game, we're talking a couple of cents a copy here. There seems to be another $30 - $50 unaccounted for here!
I think its obvious that he's considered it due to the slashdot thread!
But yeah, he really isn't obliged to comply. Unless they can point to a specific patent or something that infringes on something then he really hasn't got any obligation to thake them seriously at all AFAIK.
The files are created by other people, and no judge on the planet is going to accept that the agressors EULA which is an agreement between them and THEIR customers in anyway entraps third parties without the third parties consent. Just importing a datafile isn't consent otherwise the entire edifice of IT interoprerability would be under siege.
Tackling is one of the things that drew me into this game, and in pvp its something I wish other MMOs would emulate. Its a skill almost custom made for low-skill players (Although for a *titan* you need to be slightly more high-skilled as titans are immune to webs, and need warp bubbles to trap them. ).
When I first started I joined "Goon fleet" and was given a friggate , a warp scrambler and stasis web, and told how to train it in 3 days. A few days later I went on my first fleet battle and about ten of us beginners pinned down a couple of enemy battle ships piloted by guys with 2+ years experience which allowed goonfleets more experienced pilots to wail away hammering the battleships. And I died about two minutes into the battle, but those two minutes where enough to have played a decisive role helping our 30 man fleet beat a bunch of guys with years more experience than us. I was addicted.
It gave a role for beginers as zippy "cannon fodder" to assist the more experienced players win.
That is actually what happens when you disconnect and reconnect, you get blasted away to a "safe spot" (and then disappear). When you reconnect, you return to the safe-spot and your shit starts an auto-warp back to where you where before. Which in this case might be the middle of an absurd 3000 man punch-up.
The "tipping point" people refer to is the point where methane calthrate is being released at a higher rate from cryotic soils than CO2/Methane/etc can be sunk. Once this happens, to put it bluntly, we're fucked. The last time we believe this happened on a major scale was te he permian-triasic exctinction event that nearly ended life on the planet. This was caused, it is believed, by a 4c rise in temperatures which tipped a calthrates defrosting event, and the 4c turned into a 10c+ global warming which is enough to potentially end life on the planet.
Its very simple science, and you can "model" it on a pocket calculator. No speculation required. If 4c is enough as it was in the permian-triasic event (remember that was 4c over about 1000 years, not 4c in 100 years, a much more dramatic event) to set off a full blown calthrate melt-off, to put it mildly we are fucked and then some.
[quote]Do you know what the problem with that argument is? The problem is that regardless of what the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming actually is, it *started* with substantial political and corporate interests framing it as certain and apocalyptic.[/quote]
Actually when scientists first started warning that the consequences of CO2 could be extreme and dire there where no political interests interested at all in the topic. Fouriers warnings in the 1870s about the greenhouse effect where pretty much ignored until the early 1900s when data started to come in that the infrared absorbsion properties of CO2 he had observed in the laboratory and he postulated would affect the atmosphere where turning up localized around roads and automobile heavy areas. From that point CO2 climate change was pretty much confirmed in theory and observation but still a bit abstract until later in the 1900s when new data found that some of the droughts and changes in arctic and oceanic conditions where directly caused by it.
Unfortunately the other thing that happened in the 1900s was a growth of anti-science activism around creationism and various health kookery, and some of this bled over into physics denialism which found an apreciative audience amongst conservative audiences who had decided that tempering the carbon economy was "socialist". And now here we are with half the planet insistent on denying the evidence in front of their eyes.
We've had nearly a 150 years of physics to get here, and now its "political interests" that are making the carbon molecules absorb infra red.
Well congratulations conservatives, it wasn't us scientific folk that decided atoms have a liberal bias, you goons.
The beauty of computers is without a sense of context, the conceptual difficulty of hardcore physics vs urban dictionaries sailor slurs would be completely irrelevant to it. So your probably right actually.
Yeah but nokia pretty much are phasing out whatevers left of that line in the bargain basement. Developers hate it, and nokia goofily threw all sorts of roadblocks in the way of adopting that god forsaken OS anyway. Heck the way things are looking,other than the odd delusional pundit who still thinks blackberry is going to make a triumphunt return, Nokia will probably be on the droid bandwagon too soon anyway.
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Yeah since he's moving from OSX due to its apparent corruption by tablet inspured guff somehow I don't think "Move to windows 8" is even a remotely sensible suggetion.
I recomend reading the OP when you comment on it.
Republicans don't evolve. They are intelligently designed.
Around about the same time god "designed" ebola and those horrible eye-worms that infest people in parts of africa. The old dude in the sky was in bit of a misanthropic mood that day presumably,
It has been said that comedy on the internet is tragedy followed by the words "....and then I lost my bitcoins".
This price spike is just a set up for one hell of a punchline.
Clive Palmer is actually completely fecking bonkers. People here in australia treat him as sort of a scary/facinating madman who got all the dollars but none of the sense that one might associate with being a billionaire. Granted its not uncommon with australian billionaires to be a bit cranky (See rupert murdoch, gina rinehart, and so on).
That said. I want someone to convince him to spend his billions on space travel. He's just far enough off his rocker to actually consider it.
Unless your doing industrial CAD, your not actually going to be using Autocad for 3d work, its not its strong point.
Personally I found Cinema 4D very intuitive although the tag thing admittedly had me scratching my head a bit. However I'm not talking about advanced features (Nobody would deny that basic primitive modeling is very straightforward in C4d. Select if from the menu and drag it about).
The problem with blender is that its not even obvious how to do THAT. Its a huge cognitive load at step 1.
[quote]...Microsoft have had there behinds kicked around so badly, that when they describe new technology they describe the pack of 4 "Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon", you would have thought with all this analysis, they could done better with the internet[all of it], social media, smartphones, mp3 players, tablets...all their money still comes from Office/OS.[/quote]
How is any of this even remotely relevant to a story about statistics?
Yeah it was my first Unix because my old XT couldn't run Linux (which was *very* new at the time). It was great to mess around with, and I managed to hack together a driver for my wang hard drive controller, but the lack of a TCP sockets stack really limited its usefulness.
20 foot sea rise is in line with high end (as he states) worst case scenarios in some modelling. That was not a lie. To not state that would be to misrepresent the science, which this is not.
I still haven't seen an example of a lie posted yet.
Pretty much how Max, Maya or Cinema4d are doing it. You should be able to open a new program and see at a glance how the basic operations are performed, and if you can't find out how to do it without consulting a manual. Blender is the only 3d software I know where its impossible to learn without a manual.
UI design isn't a black art, its a science with a lot of research behind it and its abundantly clear the blender team never consulted with it. Its an undoubtably power piece of software, and with inbuilt sculpting and matchmoving (I think), it may well be one of the most powerful 3D pieces of software on the market. But if nobody knows how to use the damn thing, it'll never achieve its goal of bringing that power to the masses.
Tough decisions need to be made that will disrupt the comfort of the power users by adjusting for workflow and ease of learning. My understanding is that blender can be operated well with a keyboard, and that doesn't need to change at all since keyboard shortcuts are largely non-discoverable. But The UI needs a massive redesign to create discoverability for new users.
In the terrified imagination of Glen Beck
Its not hypocrisy, its forcing them to live by the rules they themselves created. By doing this they expose the rotten double standard of copyright laws.
Imagine if the powerful had to live by the rules they created. No more police violence because the police could not mug people, no more wars Because murder would be illegal for the powerful too, no more bank shenanigans because the bankers could not burglarize people anymore. So many ills in society over.
So lets make the bastards follow their own rules I say.
Actually thats sort of what this is about. People are being forced to use it by all the covert web tracking.
In bitcoins defense its almost singlehandedly invented the genre of schadenfreude based financial humor.
"Hey guys I've put my entire life savings into bitcoin"
*someone posts "sell now!" on a forum and life savings instantly lose 4/5 of its value.
A wise man once said "Comedy on the internet is defined as tragedy , and the words "and then I lost my bitcoins""
Quick, point out an actual lie in that film. Keep in mind, most of the reviews by actual scientists have so far said that it mostly got the facts rights.
So, balls in your court dude, show me a lie.
And all three of those films where excelent. hobbit was a bit slow to start, but picked a nice pace up as it went on.
Not sure your point here?
So basically $5000 plus another $10000 in lawyers fee (All the rest are costs that are the same in the US because its *always* the same damn call center anyway)
So, assuming Australian sales as an linear proportion of US sales (Big assumption, but its almost impossible to find sales figures!) we might get about a million copies of a game sold for a top-selling game, we're talking a couple of cents a copy here. There seems to be another $30 - $50 unaccounted for here!
I think its obvious that he's considered it due to the slashdot thread!
But yeah, he really isn't obliged to comply. Unless they can point to a specific patent or something that infringes on something then he really hasn't got any obligation to thake them seriously at all AFAIK.
The files are created by other people, and no judge on the planet is going to accept that the agressors EULA which is an agreement between them and THEIR customers in anyway entraps third parties without the third parties consent. Just importing a datafile isn't consent otherwise the entire edifice of IT interoprerability would be under siege.
git init
How hard is that?
Ah ok, my bad. Going from memory there. What was the 1870s era stuff about? Maybe it was some other experiments?
Tackling is one of the things that drew me into this game, and in pvp its something I wish other MMOs would emulate. Its a skill almost custom made for low-skill players (Although for a *titan* you need to be slightly more high-skilled as titans are immune to webs, and need warp bubbles to trap them. ).
When I first started I joined "Goon fleet" and was given a friggate , a warp scrambler and stasis web, and told how to train it in 3 days. A few days later I went on my first fleet battle and about ten of us beginners pinned down a couple of enemy battle ships piloted by guys with 2+ years experience which allowed goonfleets more experienced pilots to wail away hammering the battleships. And I died about two minutes into the battle, but those two minutes where enough to have played a decisive role helping our 30 man fleet beat a bunch of guys with years more experience than us. I was addicted.
It gave a role for beginers as zippy "cannon fodder" to assist the more experienced players win.
That is actually what happens when you disconnect and reconnect, you get blasted away to a "safe spot" (and then disappear). When you reconnect, you return to the safe-spot and your shit starts an auto-warp back to where you where before. Which in this case might be the middle of an absurd 3000 man punch-up.
The "tipping point" people refer to is the point where methane calthrate is being released at a higher rate from cryotic soils than CO2/Methane/etc can be sunk. Once this happens, to put it bluntly, we're fucked. The last time we believe this happened on a major scale was te he permian-triasic exctinction event that nearly ended life on the planet. This was caused, it is believed, by a 4c rise in temperatures which tipped a calthrates defrosting event, and the 4c turned into a 10c+ global warming which is enough to potentially end life on the planet.
We know the temperatures from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Methane_Hydrate_phase_diagram.jpg
Its very simple science, and you can "model" it on a pocket calculator. No speculation required. If 4c is enough as it was in the permian-triasic event (remember that was 4c over about 1000 years, not 4c in 100 years, a much more dramatic event) to set off a full blown calthrate melt-off, to put it mildly we are fucked and then some.
[quote]Do you know what the problem with that argument is? The problem is that regardless of what the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming actually is, it *started* with substantial political and corporate interests framing it as certain and apocalyptic.[/quote]
Actually when scientists first started warning that the consequences of CO2 could be extreme and dire there where no political interests interested at all in the topic. Fouriers warnings in the 1870s about the greenhouse effect where pretty much ignored until the early 1900s when data started to come in that the infrared absorbsion properties of CO2 he had observed in the laboratory and he postulated would affect the atmosphere where turning up localized around roads and automobile heavy areas. From that point CO2 climate change was pretty much confirmed in theory and observation but still a bit abstract until later in the 1900s when new data found that some of the droughts and changes in arctic and oceanic conditions where directly caused by it.
Unfortunately the other thing that happened in the 1900s was a growth of anti-science activism around creationism and various health kookery, and some of this bled over into physics denialism which found an apreciative audience amongst conservative audiences who had decided that tempering the carbon economy was "socialist". And now here we are with half the planet insistent on denying the evidence in front of their eyes.
We've had nearly a 150 years of physics to get here, and now its "political interests" that are making the carbon molecules absorb infra red.
Well congratulations conservatives, it wasn't us scientific folk that decided atoms have a liberal bias, you goons.
The beauty of computers is without a sense of context, the conceptual difficulty of hardcore physics vs urban dictionaries sailor slurs would be completely irrelevant to it. So your probably right actually.
Yeah but nokia pretty much are phasing out whatevers left of that line in the bargain basement. Developers hate it, and nokia goofily threw all sorts of roadblocks in the way of adopting that god forsaken OS anyway. Heck the way things are looking ,other than the odd delusional pundit who still thinks blackberry is going to make a triumphunt return, Nokia will probably be on the droid bandwagon too soon anyway.