Most of your electricity may come from burning fossil fuels. Most of mine (and everyone within 500 miles in my part of the country) comes from gravity. Amazingly enough we do have excess gravity, which could be used to produce even more electricity.
You capture electricity from falling meteorites?
I assume you're talking about something like hydro, your electricity comes from the sun, not from "gravity".
Any word on whether it will work in Linux? Natively, through WINE, none of the above?
I grew up with Civ and Civ 2. Civ 3 made me install windows onto my computer to play it. I've not tried Civ4, I assume it's too graphically intensive to run in wine or virtualbox, and probably even if I found a spare gig or two for a windows partition, especially on my old laptop (core due 1.2, Intel 945GM graphics). Love to hear otherwise.
Just because the NBA players don't have incentive to study doesn't mean they couldn't be genius level scholars. They could all have powerful brains that would put us all to shame.
Like Bubblegum Tate -- senior lecturer of physics at Globetrotter U?
What happens is the governments send in hundreds of heavily armed, highly trained, soldiers that will kill or capture anyone who is involved, or perhaps just as likely simply destroys the building they are in with a well placed smart bomb from a bomber you cannot see.
Why should we have classes on religions? Discussing ethics and morality is obviously of paramount importance, while adding dogma to this discourse is not. Should there be entire classes on Scientology and ancient religions or just the ones you personally think contain validity? The graveyard of dead deities we call mythology are gods and religions that people once took as seriously as you do in your religion. It is 2010. The majority of intelligent people are just being polite and trying to not to hurt religious peoples' feelings at this point.
Don't see why not. I had classes on mythology in high school, things like the Iliad, Hercules, etc. Didn't make me worship any of those gods.
Had classes on religion too, recognising the fundamental parts of various religions, even if it's something simple like not offering a Jew some pork, or a Muslim alcohol.
I guess one problem (for some) with teaching religion in school is it challenges the beliefs that kids are indoctrinated with by their families and communities. They're told there's "One True Religion", but if they learn there are plenty of people that believe all sorts of wacky stuff, it might put's their own beliefs into perspective, and possibly breed tolerance.
And yes, Scientology should be taught in schools. Exactly what scientologists believe, why they believe it, what actions their religion performs, etc. Starting off with that South Park episode would be good.
Knowlege is power. In these days of fundamentalism, it's very useful knowledge to have. You could argue that you should learn about this particular part of humanity outside of school, but the same argument equally applies to chemistry. You could argue there's not enough time to teach religion, but I'd argue it's more relevant to most people than something like Chemistry. Knowledge of global cultures and religions is probably more important than learning a single non-English language. Wherever I go, from Tokyo to Lima, Singapore to Kinshasha, people speak English, but they've all got different cultural/relgious sensibilities that I don't want to offend (especially in dangerous countries like Dubai)
If you intend to edit the HD content, you might like it to be more than 100Mbps.
I might, however corporate strategy has settles on dvcpro-100 as the base codec. As it's news, a lot of the footage coming in has been squished through a satellite in any case, or at very best been shot on a 35 or 50mbit camera.
And the problem is, where do you find raw, uncompressed video? About the only place you will find it is if you are transferring an analog source to a dedicated internal capture card. Virtually everything else uses some form of MPEG or H.264 compression.
You don't. I work in the TV industry and don't get much access to uncompressed video, not from a camera anyway. In the SD world, the camera gets dropped down to a 270mbit stream (165mbit of video data), which uses YUV, compressing the chroma, and uses interlaced video, compressing the vertical resolution. We use anamorphic pictures too, so horizontal res is compressed. Even graphics tend to be a yuv422 stream. That's about the closest I get to uncompressed.
In the HD world it's a similar issue, with 1080i at 1.5gbit (I've never seen 3gbit outside of IBC).
While codecs exist for higher bitrates (2:1, 3:1 etc, upto about 80mbit), most of our SD work is 50mbt d10, 30mbit d10, and even dv25, giving a massive amount of compression before it even gets onto the editing system. HD tends to be 100mbit at most.
In construction zones on British Motorways there are often "average speed cameras", which measure vehicle speed over the whole length of the zone. It's not possible to cheat that, and IME it's quite relaxing to sit at 40mph (or whatever) without having people jostling to go a few mph faster.
Assuming a 50mph limit, most drivers will err on the side of caution, and their speedo will read 48. They'll be constantly checking it too, rather than the road conditions.
While their speedo says 48, in reality the car's probably doing about 45, 10% below the limit.
You then get an eastern european lorry barrelling up the outside lane at 60+, immune from the cameras, so you have a large speed differential with a large vehicle, people not watching the road, and raised tempers everywhere.
In the civilized world, we know that the death of another person is wrong. But sometimes, exceptions must be made for those who've renounced their humanity voluntarily and commit egregious crimes. It doesn't mean that we have to be barbaric in the process of carrying out an execution however.
So Canada, France, Switzerland, the UK aren't civilized? China, Iran, Saudi Arabia are?
The U.S. is in a very select group of nations, could you enlighten us on what other countries are in your "civilized world"?
Sure, it's lacking some features (such as process-per-tab, über-fast javascript execution) that chrome has, but it's still well ahead of Opera and IE. I've still never seen this "crash prone-ness" that people talk about with regard to firefox, maybe because I've always used adblock plus? In any event I suspect it will go away with 3.6.4, which pulls flash and other plugins out of the browser process.
All it takes is some dodgy dns issue, and firefox grinds to a halt across all tabs (although I can't repeat it on demand, it happens enough to make me use chrome for most things).
On the other hand, firefox allows me to change my proxy details without restarting the browser.
They were unusable because the act of walking down the road staring at the phone was unworkable. There was also the fact you looked stupid, and without headphones both sides of the conversation were public.
It's revolutionary when someone else fails to start a revolution with their idea and it just languishes until you take it up and start a revolution in the industry with it.
We'll see. When 3G first launched in the UK, the carriers tried to sell the phones based around video calling. All the phones had front facing, or swivell, cameras, and threw in lots of minutes. They really didn't take off. If anyone can do it, apple can, but I'm not convinced.
Having said that, skype have since made video calls on computers easy and common, so perhaps the time is right. Gah.
Well since you'd have to cross the equator with it, that clock would have traveled faster, and experienced less time. Then it would actually read ever-so-slightly slower when it got back to Europe. See twins paradox. Plus your clock would get wet if you walked it.
Not if you travelled through a direct line through the core, but even so that would be measured in a matter of nanosecnds difference, nowhere near the apparent difference of multiple milliseconds
To someone in Austrailia, the clock in Europe appears to be running slow, but it's not. It hasn't travelled backwards in time, because the observer knows the distance, and can calculate the reality of the situation, not what his eyes tell him.
So I get two very accurate clocks, leave one in Europe, and walk with one to Austrailia. An observer in Europe sees the austrailian one running a few ms slow, and vice versa, but both clocks are accurate. Walk austrailia clock back to Europe, both clocks are still the same time. As such, I'm confident that the clock is ' absolute time'. Anywhere I go, I take the clock with me, and ifnore all other sources. I then go to the moon, I see the clock in both aus and Europe running the same, but I know the distance, and know the time is 1500ms slow, so I adjust my watch based on that. Return to earth, walk to a clock, watch is the right time.
I have. With the same browser, on the same machine, several times over the last few weeks. Each time I've come up "unique", which suggests to me something is fishy.
(There's also the further irony that one very commercial corporation, google, has taken the academic approach and provided free email with a stable address to anyone who fills out their form. But I guess they're not what anyone would call a typical corporation.;-)
Yahoo and hotmail also offer it, and have for much longer.
In the UK, at least my old uni, my email address was taken off me after graduation:(
The Napster/Grokster lawsuits spawned BitTorrent. Killing suprnova caused a bloom of (better) torrent aggregator sites.
Indeed. I missed a fringe episode the other day as Sky One changed the time it was on. Wikipedia told me the name of the episode, a google for "fringe jacksonville torrent" gave me a link to one which downloaded quickly, all was saved, and we can now continue to watch the recorded episodes later in the week.
And to be honest, I have never seen a complaint about one of our iPhone apps written in MonoTouch (and we have several complex ones) - people cannot notice the difference between one and a native app.
Meh. Don't build your apps for a platform where this can happen, any company that bets on the iphone is reliant on the whims of apple, if Apple Inc decide to delete all the apps from the store, or change the terms to give them 90% of the sales, or give them copyright over the app, they can do that, and you can bend over more and say "thank you sir".
We have ~ 60 ubuntu servers internally (at least those are the ones I know of). They don't have any access to the outside world even if they had ntp.ubuntu.com in their ntp setup, but the preseed file sets to our internal ntp server cluster. Everything goes through our repository cache, and naturally we don't participate in the count (darn infosec). I wonder how many people have this sort of setup.
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Most of your electricity may come from burning fossil fuels. Most of mine (and everyone within 500 miles in my part of the country) comes from gravity. Amazingly enough we do have excess gravity, which could be used to produce even more electricity.
You capture electricity from falling meteorites?
I assume you're talking about something like hydro, your electricity comes from the sun, not from "gravity".
Sean and his son Jonathon are reported banged up but okay.
They've been arrested? Bit harsh isn't it?
Any word on whether it will work in Linux? Natively, through WINE, none of the above?
I grew up with Civ and Civ 2. Civ 3 made me install windows onto my computer to play it. I've not tried Civ4, I assume it's too graphically intensive to run in wine or virtualbox, and probably even if I found a spare gig or two for a windows partition, especially on my old laptop (core due 1.2, Intel 945GM graphics). Love to hear otherwise.
Just because the NBA players don't have incentive to study doesn't mean they couldn't be genius level scholars. They could all have powerful brains that would put us all to shame.
Like Bubblegum Tate -- senior lecturer of physics at Globetrotter U?
What happens is the governments send in hundreds of heavily armed, highly trained, soldiers that will kill or capture anyone who is involved, or perhaps just as likely simply destroys the building they are in with a well placed smart bomb from a bomber you cannot see.
Caught Bin Laden yet? Stopped Al-Qaeda yet?
Why should we have classes on religions? Discussing ethics and morality is obviously of paramount importance, while adding dogma to this discourse is not. Should there be entire classes on Scientology and ancient religions or just the ones you personally think contain validity? The graveyard of dead deities we call mythology are gods and religions that people once took as seriously as you do in your religion. It is 2010. The majority of intelligent people are just being polite and trying to not to hurt religious peoples' feelings at this point.
Don't see why not. I had classes on mythology in high school, things like the Iliad, Hercules, etc. Didn't make me worship any of those gods.
Had classes on religion too, recognising the fundamental parts of various religions, even if it's something simple like not offering a Jew some pork, or a Muslim alcohol.
I guess one problem (for some) with teaching religion in school is it challenges the beliefs that kids are indoctrinated with by their families and communities. They're told there's "One True Religion", but if they learn there are plenty of people that believe all sorts of wacky stuff, it might put's their own beliefs into perspective, and possibly breed tolerance.
And yes, Scientology should be taught in schools. Exactly what scientologists believe, why they believe it, what actions their religion performs, etc. Starting off with that South Park episode would be good.
Knowlege is power. In these days of fundamentalism, it's very useful knowledge to have. You could argue that you should learn about this particular part of humanity outside of school, but the same argument equally applies to chemistry. You could argue there's not enough time to teach religion, but I'd argue it's more relevant to most people than something like Chemistry. Knowledge of global cultures and religions is probably more important than learning a single non-English language. Wherever I go, from Tokyo to Lima, Singapore to Kinshasha, people speak English, but they've all got different cultural/relgious sensibilities that I don't want to offend (especially in dangerous countries like Dubai)
If you intend to edit the HD content, you might like it to be more than 100Mbps.
I might, however corporate strategy has settles on dvcpro-100 as the base codec. As it's news, a lot of the footage coming in has been squished through a satellite in any case, or at very best been shot on a 35 or 50mbit camera.
270mbit stream (165mbit of video data)
And I should add, that as it's interlaced, ffmpeg's x264 encode/decode unfortunately wins out against both vp8 and dirac at around 4mbit.
And the problem is, where do you find raw, uncompressed video? About the only place you will find it is if you are transferring an analog source to a dedicated internal capture card. Virtually everything else uses some form of MPEG or H.264 compression.
You don't. I work in the TV industry and don't get much access to uncompressed video, not from a camera anyway. In the SD world, the camera gets dropped down to a 270mbit stream (165mbit of video data), which uses YUV, compressing the chroma, and uses interlaced video, compressing the vertical resolution. We use anamorphic pictures too, so horizontal res is compressed. Even graphics tend to be a yuv422 stream. That's about the closest I get to uncompressed.
In the HD world it's a similar issue, with 1080i at 1.5gbit (I've never seen 3gbit outside of IBC).
While codecs exist for higher bitrates (2:1, 3:1 etc, upto about 80mbit), most of our SD work is 50mbt d10, 30mbit d10, and even dv25, giving a massive amount of compression before it even gets onto the editing system. HD tends to be 100mbit at most.
In construction zones on British Motorways there are often "average speed cameras", which measure vehicle speed over the whole length of the zone. It's not possible to cheat that, and IME it's quite relaxing to sit at 40mph (or whatever) without having people jostling to go a few mph faster.
Assuming a 50mph limit, most drivers will err on the side of caution, and their speedo will read 48. They'll be constantly checking it too, rather than the road conditions.
While their speedo says 48, in reality the car's probably doing about 45, 10% below the limit.
You then get an eastern european lorry barrelling up the outside lane at 60+, immune from the cameras, so you have a large speed differential with a large vehicle, people not watching the road, and raised tempers everywhere.
Yea, cause OSM is better than ... well no other data source actually.
Take a look at somewhere like Jerusalem in google, or worse, bing. Then look at Gaza and Islamabad. Now compare to OSM.
Perhaps google is better in your tiny corner of the world, but OSM gives me a more usable view on a global scale.
In the civilized world, we know that the death of another person is wrong. But sometimes, exceptions must be made for those who've renounced their humanity voluntarily and commit egregious crimes. It doesn't mean that we have to be barbaric in the process of carrying out an execution however.
So Canada, France, Switzerland, the UK aren't civilized? China, Iran, Saudi Arabia are?
The U.S. is in a very select group of nations, could you enlighten us on what other countries are in your "civilized world"?
Sure, it's lacking some features (such as process-per-tab, über-fast javascript execution) that chrome has, but it's still well ahead of Opera and IE. I've still never seen this "crash prone-ness" that people talk about with regard to firefox, maybe because I've always used adblock plus? In any event I suspect it will go away with 3.6.4, which pulls flash and other plugins out of the browser process.
All it takes is some dodgy dns issue, and firefox grinds to a halt across all tabs (although I can't repeat it on demand, it happens enough to make me use chrome for most things).
On the other hand, firefox allows me to change my proxy details without restarting the browser.
Unless you've got power
They were unusable because the act of walking down the road staring at the phone was unworkable. There was also the fact you looked stupid, and without headphones both sides of the conversation were public.
It's revolutionary when someone else fails to start a revolution with their idea and it just languishes until you take it up and start a revolution in the industry with it.
We'll see. When 3G first launched in the UK, the carriers tried to sell the phones based around video calling. All the phones had front facing, or swivell, cameras, and threw in lots of minutes. They really didn't take off. If anyone can do it, apple can, but I'm not convinced.
Having said that, skype have since made video calls on computers easy and common, so perhaps the time is right. Gah.
Well since you'd have to cross the equator with it, that clock would have traveled faster, and experienced less time. Then it would actually read ever-so-slightly slower when it got back to Europe. See twins paradox. Plus your clock would get wet if you walked it.
Not if you travelled through a direct line through the core, but even so that would be measured in a matter of nanosecnds difference, nowhere near the apparent difference of multiple milliseconds
To someone in Austrailia, the clock in Europe appears to be running slow, but it's not. It hasn't travelled backwards in time, because the observer knows the distance, and can calculate the reality of the situation, not what his eyes tell him.
So I get two very accurate clocks, leave one in Europe, and walk with one to Austrailia. An observer in Europe sees the austrailian one running a few ms slow, and vice versa, but both clocks are accurate. Walk austrailia clock back to Europe, both clocks are still the same time. As such, I'm confident that the clock is ' absolute time'. Anywhere I go, I take the clock with me, and ifnore all other sources. I then go to the moon, I see the clock in both aus and Europe running the same, but I know the distance, and know the time is 1500ms slow, so I adjust my watch based on that. Return to earth, walk to a clock, watch is the right time.
As someone who has read English literature for the last 400 years
Bloody hell you're an old bugger. Or did you mean from the last 400 years?
Test yourself here if you haven't already.
I have. With the same browser, on the same machine, several times over the last few weeks. Each time I've come up "unique", which suggests to me something is fishy.
(There's also the further irony that one very commercial corporation, google, has taken the academic approach and provided free email with a stable address to anyone who fills out their form. But I guess they're not what anyone would call a typical corporation. ;-)
Yahoo and hotmail also offer it, and have for much longer.
In the UK, at least my old uni, my email address was taken off me after graduation :(
The Napster/Grokster lawsuits spawned BitTorrent. Killing suprnova caused a bloom of (better) torrent aggregator sites.
Indeed. I missed a fringe episode the other day as Sky One changed the time it was on. Wikipedia told me the name of the episode, a google for "fringe jacksonville torrent" gave me a link to one which downloaded quickly, all was saved, and we can now continue to watch the recorded episodes later in the week.
And to be honest, I have never seen a complaint about one of our iPhone apps written in MonoTouch (and we have several complex ones) - people cannot notice the difference between one and a native app.
Meh. Don't build your apps for a platform where this can happen, any company that bets on the iphone is reliant on the whims of apple, if Apple Inc decide to delete all the apps from the store, or change the terms to give them 90% of the sales, or give them copyright over the app, they can do that, and you can bend over more and say "thank you sir".
My work phonecontract is $3 per MB, unless abroad when it's $6/mb!
We have ~ 60 ubuntu servers internally (at least those are the ones I know of). They don't have any access to the outside world even if they had ntp.ubuntu.com in their ntp setup, but the preseed file sets to our internal ntp server cluster. Everything goes through our repository cache, and naturally we don't participate in the count (darn infosec). I wonder how many people have this sort of setup.