The guy was razor sharp, and at times almost prescient.
From around 6 minutes in this interview, he talks re. the music industry's rot, and predicts much of the internet's climb over the last decade and a half. All to Paxman's skepticism...
Heavy use of compressed air tubes for postal mail (these remain only used in special settings like moving samples around hospitals, although my supermarket has one for money, weirdly)
Here in Europe, most supermarkets seem to use those, which has led to some ingeniously inventive heists in France, as previously reported here.
I'd guess that most of the direct injuries happened when people ran to their windows to watch the flare and contrail. Looking at the videos, the sonic boom happened at least 27 seconds later: right when people would be clustered in front of the glass.
It is similar to Tsunamis, where a lot of the fatalities happen to people who chase the receding sea...
I was somewhat naive in those days. I did not understand how the voters could be both for it and against it. Dear old Humphrey showed me how it's done.
The secret is that when the Man In The Street is approached by a nice attractive young lady with a clipboard, he is asked a "series" of questions. Naturally the Man In The Street doesn't wants to make a good impression and doesn't want to make a fool of himself. So the market researcher asks questions designed to elicit "consistent" answers. Humphrey demonstrated the system on me. "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teen-agers?"
"Yes," I said.
"Do you think there is a lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?"
"Yes."
"Do they respond to a challenge?"
"Yes."
"Might you be in favor of reintroducing National Service?"
"Yes."
Well, naturally I said yes. One could hardly have said anything else without looking inconsistent. Then what happens is that the Opinion Poll publishes only the last question and answer.
Of course, the reputable polls didn't conduct themselves like that. But there weren't too many of those. Humphrey suggested that we commission a new survey, not for the Party but for the Ministry of Defence. We did so. He invented the question there and then:
"Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
"Yes," I said quite honestly.
"Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?"
"Yes."
"Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
"Yes."
"Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?"
"Yes."
"Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?" I'd said "Yes" before I'd even realized it, d'you see?
Humphrey was crowing with delight. "You see, Bernard," he said to me," "you're the perfect Balanced Sample."
Weirdly, reviewing the table - the opposite effects seem to be occurring for two crimes - and two crimes only: Human trafficking and Kidnapping. Now, the evidence isn't strong here (at all!), but it's still odd they were able to detect such a strong trend with the other crimes, but not here.
I wonder if it's the case that these are strong statistics in countries bucking the trends, or is there some sort of a they're not real people/we don't deserve punishment for this at play?...or nothing at all.
"At 9.3mm, Surface for Windows RT is just thin enough to still sport a full sized USB port."
So if it was any thicker, it couldn't have such a port?? I know they don't want to say it is thick, but no need to murder the English language in the process.
Funnily enough, our penguins are the second of that name. The originals (now often referred to as Great Auks) lived in the northern hemisphere, and were eaten by polar bears. Unfortunately, they were also eaten by humans - who drove them to extinction.
Liquid crystal molecules (e.g., the cyanobiphenyls with aliphatic tails which form E7) have lengths of ca. 2 nm. These definitely respond to external electric or magnetic fields to spin and reorient (otherwise, you'd likely be looking at a fairly boring screen right now...)
The novelty here is that the researchers have formed a pivot about which the structure rotates. Further, they seem to have overcome any electrostatic attraction to the surface which would act to lock the molecule in place.
Browsing further, the Science article seems to address this and indicates that they were fully viviparous (like us, I guess). Just reading the abstract now, unfortunately - though interested if anyone can chime in on the science?
Very interesting. I suppose it makes logical sense that sea living creature would find it difficult to safeguard eggs, and with its size these would be very noticeable (and nutritious!). I guess it is similar to whale sharks nowadays, which are ovoviviparous in their reproduction (wikipedia link as below): the "embryos develop inside eggs that are retained within the mother's body until they are ready to hatch. Ovoviviparous animals are similar to viviparous species in that there is internal fertilization and the young are born live, but differ in that there is no placental connection and the unborn young are nourished by egg yolk; the mother's body does provide gas exchange (respiration), but that is largely necessary for oviparous animals as well."
However, the comment about single young is even more interesting - as whale sharks are even bearing very many (live) young. Maybe different again? (no expert here, just curious!)
I've just been over at the Met Eireann website, and stumbled across this interesting service recording lightning strikes each day. If I am reading it right, it seems there about 11 near Dublin over that day. Indeed, quite targeted to hit Amazon! Someone has been irritating Greek deities...
Yep, and from what I am reading this happened on Sunday (amazon.co.uk's accounts section was down then too, I guess it was related). We had surprisingly good weather yesterday - considering the forecast. No giant electrical discharges from the sky that I saw!
Given a a Boeing 737-400 jet (short international flights, likely a significant underestimation if most of his travel was inside the country), this gives a fuel use of 36.6 g/passenger km: so he has personally required used ca. 585,600 kg of fuel.
CO2 emissions? 101 g/passenger km: 1,616,000 kg of gas personally generated.
At sea level pressure / 25 degC, 1kg of CO2 gas = 556 L volume. So, we are talking 898 million liters of CO2 gas.
Or, the equivalent of a cube with sides of about 100 m, about the length of a football field.
Caveat emptor - these are all back of the envelope calculations - and likely gross underestimations.
Apologies, just checked the web and it seems the improvement was mainly in 4.1, not 4.2 - so you should have the benefits of it already. Your phone is likely as fast as it it is going to get in the 4.x cycle, though (in my experience) none of the later updates slowed it down again. 3g is incompatible with iOS 5.0, so there will be no option to install that (thankfully).
I know the slowdown affected different phones differently, maybe something to do with their batches of RAM?
In any case, phone-calls and texts would take minutes to make or crash the phone, I'd usually never be able to answer the phone as it would freeze for longer than it would ring for, and crashes galore.
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The guy was razor sharp, and at times almost prescient.
From around 6 minutes in this interview, he talks re. the music industry's rot, and predicts much of the internet's climb over the last decade and a half. All to Paxman's skepticism...
We have an emptier world today
Heavy use of compressed air tubes for postal mail (these remain only used in special settings like moving samples around hospitals, although my supermarket has one for money, weirdly)
Here in Europe, most supermarkets seem to use those, which has led to some ingeniously inventive heists in France, as previously reported here.
Ahem, if you're going to point out a grammar mistake, it might be worthwhile checking your own correction:
"Cybercriminals Had Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Call Police" (Cybercriminals call the police)
Or:
"Cybercriminal Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police" (Cybercriminal calls the police)
I'd guess that most of the direct injuries happened when people ran to their windows to watch the flare and contrail. Looking at the videos, the sonic boom happened at least 27 seconds later: right when people would be clustered in front of the glass.
It is similar to Tsunamis, where a lot of the fatalities happen to people who chase the receding sea...
Or, as so well put in "Yes, Minister":
I was somewhat naive in those days. I did not understand
how the voters could be both for it and against it. Dear old
Humphrey showed me how it's done.
The secret is that when the Man In The Street is approached
by a nice attractive young lady with a clipboard, he is
asked a "series" of questions. Naturally the Man In The
Street doesn't wants to make a good impression and doesn't
want to make a fool of himself. So the market researcher
asks questions designed to elicit "consistent" answers.
Humphrey demonstrated the system on me. "Mr. Woolley, are
you worried about the rise in crime among teen-agers?"
"Yes," I said.
"Do you think there is a lack of discipline and vigorous
training in our Comprehensive Schools?"
"Yes."
"Do they respond to a challenge?"
"Yes."
"Might you be in favor of reintroducing National Service?"
"Yes."
Well, naturally I said yes. One could hardly have said
anything else without looking inconsistent. Then what
happens is that the Opinion Poll publishes only the last
question and answer.
Of course, the reputable polls didn't conduct themselves
like that. But there weren't too many of those. Humphrey
suggested that we commission a new survey, not for the Party
but for the Ministry of Defence. We did so. He invented the
question there and then:
"Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
"Yes," I said quite honestly.
"Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?"
"Yes."
"Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns
and teaching them how to kill?"
"Yes."
"Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms
against their will?"
"Yes."
"Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
I'd said "Yes" before I'd even realized it, d'you see?
Humphrey was crowing with delight. "You see, Bernard," he
said to me," "you're the perfect Balanced Sample."
Weirdly, reviewing the table - the opposite effects seem to be occurring for two crimes - and two crimes only: Human trafficking and Kidnapping. Now, the evidence isn't strong here (at all!), but it's still odd they were able to detect such a strong trend with the other crimes, but not here.
I wonder if it's the case that these are strong statistics in countries bucking the trends, or is there some sort of a they're not real people/we don't deserve punishment for this at play? ...or nothing at all.
From the Microsoft release:
"At 9.3mm, Surface for Windows RT is just thin enough to still sport a full sized USB port."
So if it was any thicker, it couldn't have such a port?? I know they don't want to say it is thick, but no need to murder the English language in the process.
...but April only has 30 days?!
(for those with a logical "day -> month" progression)
Crystal meth is Methamphetamine (pure, in a crystalline form).
Desoxyn is also Methamphetamine ((S)-N,-dimethylbenzeneethanamine hydrochloride).
No essential difference (apart from dose).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Funnily enough, our penguins are the second of that name. The originals (now often referred to as Great Auks) lived in the northern hemisphere, and were eaten by polar bears. Unfortunately, they were also eaten by humans - who drove them to extinction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk
Exactly!
"One, two, three, for..."
Did we?? Neither this nor the previous version seem accessible...
Liquid crystal molecules (e.g., the cyanobiphenyls with aliphatic tails which form E7) have lengths of ca. 2 nm. These definitely respond to external electric or magnetic fields to spin and reorient (otherwise, you'd likely be looking at a fairly boring screen right now...)
The novelty here is that the researchers have formed a pivot about which the structure rotates. Further, they seem to have overcome any electrostatic attraction to the surface which would act to lock the molecule in place.
Interesting stuff.
Browsing further, the Science article seems to address this and indicates that they were fully viviparous (like us, I guess). Just reading the abstract now, unfortunately - though interested if anyone can chime in on the science?
Very interesting. I suppose it makes logical sense that sea living creature would find it difficult to safeguard eggs, and with its size these would be very noticeable (and nutritious!). I guess it is similar to whale sharks nowadays, which are ovoviviparous in their reproduction (wikipedia link as below): the "embryos develop inside eggs that are retained within the mother's body until they are ready to hatch. Ovoviviparous animals are similar to viviparous species in that there is internal fertilization and the young are born live, but differ in that there is no placental connection and the unborn young are nourished by egg yolk; the mother's body does provide gas exchange (respiration), but that is largely necessary for oviparous animals as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovoviviparity
However, the comment about single young is even more interesting - as whale sharks are even bearing very many (live) young. Maybe different again? (no expert here, just curious!)
I've just been over at the Met Eireann website, and stumbled across this interesting service recording lightning strikes each day. If I am reading it right, it seems there about 11 near Dublin over that day. Indeed, quite targeted to hit Amazon! Someone has been irritating Greek deities...
http://www.met.ie/climate/lightning.asp?ReportDate=06/08/2011
Yep, and from what I am reading this happened on Sunday (amazon.co.uk's accounts section was down then too, I guess it was related). We had surprisingly good weather yesterday - considering the forecast. No giant electrical discharges from the sky that I saw!
I live in Dublin, and that was some seriously targeted lightning. No sign of storms here, that I saw...
I know what I'm asking Santa for this Christmas...
"...the 2012 budget still has to be voted on my the House and Senate"
Should be:
"...the 2012 budget still has to be voted on by the House and Senate"
Unless the author owns them, which would be awesome.
The real question is: have they also inhibited their ability to migrate to other planets using the Tandoka Scale?
29 years, almost 6,000 flights... that's about 207 flights a year - or approaching one flight per day for 2/3 of his last 29 years.
Assuming they are talking about the circumference of the earth - that is about 16 million kilometers, or 10 million miles.
[Brief Google searching to: http://www.carbonindependent.org/sources_aviation.htm%5D
Given a a Boeing 737-400 jet (short international flights, likely a significant underestimation if most of his travel was inside the country), this gives a fuel use of 36.6 g/passenger km: so he has personally required used ca. 585,600 kg of fuel.
CO2 emissions? 101 g/passenger km: 1,616,000 kg of gas personally generated.
At sea level pressure / 25 degC, 1kg of CO2 gas = 556 L volume. So, we are talking 898 million liters of CO2 gas.
Or, the equivalent of a cube with sides of about 100 m, about the length of a football field.
Caveat emptor - these are all back of the envelope calculations - and likely gross underestimations.
Well, at least he didn't try to trade it.
Just wait, soon there will be Watson powered answering machines.
And soon after, we'll have these AI cold-callers interacting with same AI answering machines...
And what conversations will they have, on phones unmonitored by humans?
Apologies, just checked the web and it seems the improvement was mainly in 4.1, not 4.2 - so you should have the benefits of it already. Your phone is likely as fast as it it is going to get in the 4.x cycle, though (in my experience) none of the later updates slowed it down again. 3g is incompatible with iOS 5.0, so there will be no option to install that (thankfully).
I know the slowdown affected different phones differently, maybe something to do with their batches of RAM?
In any case, phone-calls and texts would take minutes to make or crash the phone, I'd usually never be able to answer the phone as it would freeze for longer than it would ring for, and crashes galore.
Happy. Fun. Times.