At some point, shouldn't we as a society consider doing something else with our capacity for building infrastructure, other than laying fiber to transmit ever higher resolution TV to every eyeball? Roads and bridges are still nice to have.
This third book in The Body Problem trilogy by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu came out in paperback this month. The first two books, The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest, are possibly the best SF I have ever read.
I've wanted to see a total solar eclipse since I was 10 years old. It took 51 years. Flew to family in KC. Drove to friends in Hebron, NE. Camped out in a church. Chased sunshine for 3 hours to Ravenna, NE, pop. 1360. Pop. increased by several hundred with people from every state, Europe, China, Argentina.... It was awesome (too bad that word is so over-used.) Pictures can't capture it.
Search - much better with digital notes.
I used Daytimer for decades at work. Great for secure areas where devices were forbidden. But I remember talking to a guy named "Dave"-something a few years ago. Would like to look him up. Maybe someday during a blizzard I'll spend the hours flipping through a file cabinet full of old Daytimers.
I use Keep but if there were a non-Google alternative that was as handy I would use it.
One of the big reasons to spend $600 on an iphone instead of $100 on an Android is privacy and security. I need a smartphone about $100 worth, but I was just about to bite the bullet and get an iphone because of the phone's built-in encryption and Apple's pro-privacy policy. Now I'm going to wait and see. A backdoor into iphone makes me less likely to fork over the extra money, to the good of Apple's competitors.
Crossover software runs Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, at least) just fine, allowing me to function freely in Linux Mint. So for about $40 there are no worries about how good LIbreOffice is. I found Libre serviceable for generating a Powerpoint presentation that I generate and show. Libre broke down when I exchanged Office documents with collegues using Windows. (Libre version about a year ago)
(If the headline is sensational and a question, the answer is always 'no'.)
TFA is saying that, in the future, submarines may go from "operat(ing) largely with impunity" to actually being detectable in coastal areas. So (obsolete) carrier battle groups can't count 100% on submarines to protect them. It's carriers that are obsolete, not submarines. TFA itself says a solution to the problem is building submarines to do the job of carrier battle groups. Submarines are not obsolete.
Advances in passive detection have gained ground as the limits of quieting are reached, but submarines remain hard to hear in a really big ocean. Wake detection from the air and active sonar may detect a submarine in a sneaking war, but once you get into a shooting war, those detection assets will get destroyed.
Submarines kick ass and will continue to do so, maybe not with "impunity", but with something close to it.
I use progressives for computer work and they work great for me. I move my head slightly to keep things in focus, which has become second nature to me. I had something of a head start in that before progressives I got by with monovision, where the non-dominant eye is under-corrected for close vision and the brain adjusts. (No glasses or contacts; it was done via surgery.) That took fully a couple of months to get used to, including mild headaches. But I enjoyed over ten years with no glasses or contacts at all, and my brain got used to adapting. (The surgery corrected 17 diopters (!) of near-sightedness, so no glasses or contacts was life changing; i.e., I was highly motivated to put up with a couple of months of mild headaches.)
Since I don't like to play computer games, it must be true that anyone who does is a time-wasting loser.
Seriously? You're 'refuting' that this guy likes to play golf with this friends?
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) design (state of the art 1986) shuts down safely in the event of a sudden, complete power failure. It uses nuclear waste as fuel, reprocessing until there is orders of magnitude less long life nuclear waste than with a light water reactor, the design they propose to float. IFR is an inherently safer design that largely solves our nuclear waste problem. Why are we dreaming of ways to build more light water reactors?
It's real at my child's elementary school in Vermont. I made the school board do the numbers. Assume that
1) All students, special needs plus regular, benefit equally from the general budget
2) Only special needs kids benefit from the special needs budget, so their per capita spending is derived from the general budget plus the special needs budget.
3) At my school there is no gifted program.
In our case, spending on special needs kids is between 3 and 4 times that for regular kids. Nothing extra for gifted.
As for a "Roku-style box", Roku is great and beautifully simple. Plex works seamlessly with Roku; it installs as a channel just like Netflix. Plex, as you learned, is not as simple but is does more - tradeoff. You can send videos from the web to Plex for watching on your TV with a click but that feature doesn't always work, depending on the site; works for youtube.
The hardest thing about Plex for me was port forwarding but in the end I found I didn't need it. I think the only think I give up is sharing my media library with devices and other people.
Working at a defense research lab, I went from a papered to a paperless office as I moved to projects with higher levels of national security classification. At the highest security levels, printing something involves writing a paper log entry, attaching cover and back sheets, entering the document into accountability and storing it in a safe. I used to like the mulling-over of data images that paper seemed to make more comfortable but I got over it. We all did. Even today I can see the degree of paperless-ness go up as I go from the areas of the building doing unclassified work to the locked vaults where we keep the dead aliens.
I'm a Baptist turned Atheist so I guess we have the same qualifications. Reading Dawkins' The God Delusion was like coming out of the closet for me. We need more leaders willing to take on religion, proudly and confidently pointing out the BS, with the same pride and confidence that preachers/politicians try to feed us the BS.
Based on your rec, I ordered two $12 bulbs as a test. Cool, I thought, only $1.98 in shipping. How civilized. Wrong. That was tax. Oh, but the next day I get an invoice. Apparently 1000bulb.com let's you go through the order process like every other online merchant, but just to get your credit card number. You'll find out later how much they want to charge you. The tax increased to $2.76, and they added $9.50 for shipping. So after I hit Submit thinking I had placed a $26 order, they turned it into a $36 order behind my back.
Nice, really nice. Thanks for the rec.
"Lacie makes their 1 terabyte firewire (943 gigabyte formatted) drive."
We have used a lot of the LaCie FireWire drives (500 and 250 GB flavors) at our shop, and have observed a disturbingly high failure rate. Come in one day, plug it in, and 500 GB of data are gone. LaCie does not acknowledge the problem. I would avoid LaCie and go with simple IDEs in external enclosures.
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At some point, shouldn't we as a society consider doing something else with our capacity for building infrastructure, other than laying fiber to transmit ever higher resolution TV to every eyeball? Roads and bridges are still nice to have.
Quantum sig! Hah!
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet? https://theintercept.com/2017/...
This third book in The Body Problem trilogy by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu came out in paperback this month. The first two books, The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest, are possibly the best SF I have ever read.
I've wanted to see a total solar eclipse since I was 10 years old. It took 51 years. Flew to family in KC. Drove to friends in Hebron, NE. Camped out in a church. Chased sunshine for 3 hours to Ravenna, NE, pop. 1360. Pop. increased by several hundred with people from every state, Europe, China, Argentina.... It was awesome (too bad that word is so over-used.) Pictures can't capture it.
I also questioned the survey just because I thought the number was high. I'd bet a third of the adults I know don't know what a torrent is.
Search - much better with digital notes. I used Daytimer for decades at work. Great for secure areas where devices were forbidden. But I remember talking to a guy named "Dave"-something a few years ago. Would like to look him up. Maybe someday during a blizzard I'll spend the hours flipping through a file cabinet full of old Daytimers. I use Keep but if there were a non-Google alternative that was as handy I would use it.
... it is a pretty ballsy move to have your OS serve you ads....
Actually more "me too" than ballsy. Ever heard of Android.
One of the big reasons to spend $600 on an iphone instead of $100 on an Android is privacy and security. I need a smartphone about $100 worth, but I was just about to bite the bullet and get an iphone because of the phone's built-in encryption and Apple's pro-privacy policy. Now I'm going to wait and see. A backdoor into iphone makes me less likely to fork over the extra money, to the good of Apple's competitors.
Crossover software runs Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, at least) just fine, allowing me to function freely in Linux Mint. So for about $40 there are no worries about how good LIbreOffice is. I found Libre serviceable for generating a Powerpoint presentation that I generate and show. Libre broke down when I exchanged Office documents with collegues using Windows. (Libre version about a year ago)
(If the headline is sensational and a question, the answer is always 'no'.)
TFA is saying that, in the future, submarines may go from "operat(ing) largely with impunity" to actually being detectable in coastal areas. So (obsolete) carrier battle groups can't count 100% on submarines to protect them. It's carriers that are obsolete, not submarines. TFA itself says a solution to the problem is building submarines to do the job of carrier battle groups. Submarines are not obsolete.
Advances in passive detection have gained ground as the limits of quieting are reached, but submarines remain hard to hear in a really big ocean. Wake detection from the air and active sonar may detect a submarine in a sneaking war, but once you get into a shooting war, those detection assets will get destroyed.
Submarines kick ass and will continue to do so, maybe not with "impunity", but with something close to it.
I use progressives for computer work and they work great for me. I move my head slightly to keep things in focus, which has become second nature to me. I had something of a head start in that before progressives I got by with monovision, where the non-dominant eye is under-corrected for close vision and the brain adjusts. (No glasses or contacts; it was done via surgery.) That took fully a couple of months to get used to, including mild headaches. But I enjoyed over ten years with no glasses or contacts at all, and my brain got used to adapting. (The surgery corrected 17 diopters (!) of near-sightedness, so no glasses or contacts was life changing; i.e., I was highly motivated to put up with a couple of months of mild headaches.)
Since I don't like to play computer games, it must be true that anyone who does is a time-wasting loser. Seriously? You're 'refuting' that this guy likes to play golf with this friends?
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) design (state of the art 1986) shuts down safely in the event of a sudden, complete power failure. It uses nuclear waste as fuel, reprocessing until there is orders of magnitude less long life nuclear waste than with a light water reactor, the design they propose to float. IFR is an inherently safer design that largely solves our nuclear waste problem. Why are we dreaming of ways to build more light water reactors?
Yes. The one-stop model is cable TV, where we pay for tons of crap we don't want. A la carte is what we have been screaming for.
It's real at my child's elementary school in Vermont. I made the school board do the numbers. Assume that 1) All students, special needs plus regular, benefit equally from the general budget 2) Only special needs kids benefit from the special needs budget, so their per capita spending is derived from the general budget plus the special needs budget. 3) At my school there is no gifted program. In our case, spending on special needs kids is between 3 and 4 times that for regular kids. Nothing extra for gifted.
As for a "Roku-style box", Roku is great and beautifully simple. Plex works seamlessly with Roku; it installs as a channel just like Netflix. Plex, as you learned, is not as simple but is does more - tradeoff. You can send videos from the web to Plex for watching on your TV with a click but that feature doesn't always work, depending on the site; works for youtube. The hardest thing about Plex for me was port forwarding but in the end I found I didn't need it. I think the only think I give up is sharing my media library with devices and other people.
Working at a defense research lab, I went from a papered to a paperless office as I moved to projects with higher levels of national security classification. At the highest security levels, printing something involves writing a paper log entry, attaching cover and back sheets, entering the document into accountability and storing it in a safe. I used to like the mulling-over of data images that paper seemed to make more comfortable but I got over it. We all did. Even today I can see the degree of paperless-ness go up as I go from the areas of the building doing unclassified work to the locked vaults where we keep the dead aliens.
I'm a Baptist turned Atheist so I guess we have the same qualifications. Reading Dawkins' The God Delusion was like coming out of the closet for me. We need more leaders willing to take on religion, proudly and confidently pointing out the BS, with the same pride and confidence that preachers/politicians try to feed us the BS.
Scientist have believed the Martian polar cap are water ice since 2003: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-water-science-03c.html
Based on your rec, I ordered two $12 bulbs as a test. Cool, I thought, only $1.98 in shipping. How civilized. Wrong. That was tax. Oh, but the next day I get an invoice. Apparently 1000bulb.com let's you go through the order process like every other online merchant, but just to get your credit card number. You'll find out later how much they want to charge you. The tax increased to $2.76, and they added $9.50 for shipping. So after I hit Submit thinking I had placed a $26 order, they turned it into a $36 order behind my back. Nice, really nice. Thanks for the rec.
Yep. And if you bring in army men to fight them, and they breed out of control, what then?
"Lacie makes their 1 terabyte firewire (943 gigabyte formatted) drive."
We have used a lot of the LaCie FireWire drives (500 and 250 GB flavors) at our shop, and have observed a disturbingly high failure rate. Come in one day, plug it in, and 500 GB of data are gone. LaCie does not acknowledge the problem. I would avoid LaCie and go with simple IDEs in external enclosures.
Our shop is fond of Dell dual Pentium Precision 650s. I have to put my ear against the tower to tell it's on.
I don't think so. DVDs don't cost $30 because of the cost of plastic.