In a statistic I just made up (but base on personal experience with friends & family at the firing range), the average person's aim is a foot or so off at that distance, unless they're carefully aiming. I doubt protection from snipers is the target demographic, so careful aiming and being shot in the back are considerably less likely. If you're holding the clipboard at a 45 degree angle in front of you to read/write on it, they have roughly a 1:3 chance of hitting it (and about a 1:6 chance of missing you entirely), if they're aiming for your chest. Most inexperienced shooters will aim for the chest, as it's a bigger target than the head. So yeah, I'd say that a 30% risk reduction is worth it.
Click Dash, then "Sort" (I think, I'm currently booted to Windows to play a game =-P, so this is from memory), choose your category, then click the "show all" link above installed programs. It's possible, but man, it's a lot of extra clicks/time. The other thing that bothers me about Unity is that you never have a button for each window, just a button for each application. When you're working with images/coding/whatever, it's a real pain. But I'm gradually learning to live with it.
As long as it's simple to install on a variety of easy-to-obtain unlocked smartphones, I'll be happy. The whole reason I don't have a smartphone yet is because I'm nervous about entering anyone's walled garden. This has been a long time coming, and I'm thrilled that it's finally here.
IMHO, Facebook passed MS a long time ago. And that's saying something. At least MS is primarily evil because of their thirst for money and control -- Facebook sees that and raises them the desire to know absolutely everything about everyone on earth, then sell it to anyone who wants it. If Zuckerberg were CEO of MS, registering Windows would be mandatory, and would require everything down to your underwear size and medical history. And there'd be text ads on the start menu that would be chosen based on what websites you visited last night or what medications might appeal to you.
The positive thing about this that surpasses the other advancements of this nature is that they are actually performing trials with more than one lucky person. Some day this may actually become feasible treatment. And that, my friends, is what makes science worthwhile.
Or, in my case, I've installed Ubuntu on all my family's machines. I'd rather spend time explaining how to use Software Center and Gnome quirks than spend even more time removing viruses. For my dad, who is particularly uninterested in change, i set up a VM running Ubuntu that automatically starts a fullscreen Opera instance, and that's his 'browser'. It does everything that he would do in any other browser (except copy & paste to his windows desktop -- which he doesn't care about anyway), and the startup time is about 8 seconds, so it really doesn't bog him down at all. One way or another, getting my family to use Ubuntu for their web interface has been the best decision I could have made. It's completely secure against online junk, and for those who boot Ubuntu, it actually makes their computer faster than windows without AV.
While I know I'm feeding a troll, the bottom of the ocean is far from 'empty'. I (and many others) feel that there should be as much energy expended on exploring it as there has been for exploring space.
On that note, I wonder how this 'power beaming' could work underwater. There is a great deal of power loss with AC electricity underwater... would insulated light have less loss?
Oh, by the way, we're also developing better zeppelins right now -- for military uses. For the Congress.
Hey, I don't have anything new to say that another commenter hasn't already said, but man you created a web site that I visit more than any other website (including my netvibes homepage)... my hat's off to you, and I wish you all the best in your future pursuits.
To be fair, these scientists aren't 'coming out' -- this organization has existed since its inception as a means to try to convince Fundamentalists of Evolution and/or anything else they want them to believe that the Bible doesn't support.
In other news, Focus on the Family is coming out now and saying sex before marriage is wrong.
One simple reason why this new camera is so awesome: speed. Try shooting something out of the sky when it's moving at 2 - 4 mph. Not that hard (heck, a skeet it moving a lot faster than that). Besides, try getting it 500 feet into enemy territory in 8 seconds. Something shooting at the speed of a grenade launcher has such obvious superiorities. Granted, the whole 'one time use' thing kinda sucks, but they're the military; they're used to using it once and replacing it.
Although I do have to say... you're totally right when it comes to civilian uses. I really can't think of a time when civilians would benefit more from the firefly than from the UAV you linked to.
This is insightful simply because nobody seems to notice that Ron Paul is the one who performed this audit. I do have to say that this is good timing for his political campaign -- perhaps he planned it that way?
Something else that is very sad is that you will often actually receive more radiation from the digital x-rays than you would have with the old-fashioned developed x-rays, because with those, you took the x-rays once and you were done. With the digital x-rays, since they're visible to the DDS immediately upon being taken, if something's not perfect, they'll often tell the assistant to re-take the film. In the clinic I used to work, films were often retaken two or three times. Every time, they told the patient that it was okay, because they were receiving a low dose of radiation, but instead of the recommended 5 films/year, patients were often receiving 10 or 12 films/year. With the old x-rays, if a film wasn't perfect, the DDS just made due, because by the time it was developed, they were ready to walk the patient out the door.
I used to work for a dentist, and the other X-Ray technician always told patients that the Digital x-rays we used were "about 1/100th of the radiation of those old X-Rays". I was actually instructed by the DDS to tell patients the same thing. In actual practice, though, it was exactly the same dose of radiation, for exactly half the amount of time. I would take that to mean 1/2 the radiation. Just because someone is trained doesn't mean they're honest. Anyone who thinks they can trust anyone with something to gain by convincing them is naive at best. Any time someone tells you something, ask yourself; "do they have something to gain by my belief?" If they do, you should fully vett everything they say. Especially if they have more than 2 years of college, or work for the government.
A large rare-earth magnet bolted to the bottom of a bicycle will do the trick. Just be sure to paint it or put it into a plastic container or something, as it will rust pretty quickly.
I don't mind the new layout, but what I really hate is the lack of genre information in the mouseover. A movie with a picture of an alien on the cover could be Scifi, Horror, Action, or even a Children's Program. Usually the description is not conclusive proof of which genre it falls into. When I'm looking over the 'new movies', I hate having to click the expanded description page to see if it's something I'd be interested in (Scifi & Action), and having then to hit back and then wait for the list to scroll back to where I was if it was a Horror or Children's film. I don't care about the rest of it... but having that hassle is really annoying.
~just my two cents.
I think this comment thread is a good simulation of 'quantum errors'. Once you start getting that many errors, the best thing is just to not bother reading further. So I guess, for comparison, they're saying that the test showed that the computer didn't have as many errors as this thread has spam, so maybe it wasn't so bad. Only one out of three bits was a 'goat'.
This is the most sensible comment on this article. The problem was started by the big businesses, infuriated by the governments, then retaliated by the people. They may go too far with retaliation, but the problem here didn't start with the protesters.
I still have yet to try Unity (although my mother uses it, and I've seen enough on her computer to dislike it), but Ubuntu 6.4-10.10 (yes, I've only been actively using Linux for 5 years... *covers face in shame*) crash rather often. 9.10 was probably the most stable version.
Of course, I'm typing this from my dual-booting tablet (10.10 & Vista), and I only have Vista because my job requires it. Ubuntu may crash, but I'm never going back to m$.
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In a statistic I just made up (but base on personal experience with friends & family at the firing range), the average person's aim is a foot or so off at that distance, unless they're carefully aiming. I doubt protection from snipers is the target demographic, so careful aiming and being shot in the back are considerably less likely. If you're holding the clipboard at a 45 degree angle in front of you to read/write on it, they have roughly a 1:3 chance of hitting it (and about a 1:6 chance of missing you entirely), if they're aiming for your chest. Most inexperienced shooters will aim for the chest, as it's a bigger target than the head. So yeah, I'd say that a 30% risk reduction is worth it.
Click Dash, then "Sort" (I think, I'm currently booted to Windows to play a game =-P, so this is from memory), choose your category, then click the "show all" link above installed programs. It's possible, but man, it's a lot of extra clicks/time. The other thing that bothers me about Unity is that you never have a button for each window, just a button for each application. When you're working with images/coding/whatever, it's a real pain. But I'm gradually learning to live with it.
Why do I never have mod points when I need them?
As long as it's simple to install on a variety of easy-to-obtain unlocked smartphones, I'll be happy. The whole reason I don't have a smartphone yet is because I'm nervous about entering anyone's walled garden. This has been a long time coming, and I'm thrilled that it's finally here.
You've got a good point.
Maybe Netflix payed them to send people back into the fold?
IMHO, Facebook passed MS a long time ago. And that's saying something. At least MS is primarily evil because of their thirst for money and control -- Facebook sees that and raises them the desire to know absolutely everything about everyone on earth, then sell it to anyone who wants it. If Zuckerberg were CEO of MS, registering Windows would be mandatory, and would require everything down to your underwear size and medical history. And there'd be text ads on the start menu that would be chosen based on what websites you visited last night or what medications might appeal to you.
Would that be hosted with cloud storage? If not, I'm not sure what the benefit would be. If it will be, then who will be carrying the tab?
The positive thing about this that surpasses the other advancements of this nature is that they are actually performing trials with more than one lucky person. Some day this may actually become feasible treatment. And that, my friends, is what makes science worthwhile.
Or, in my case, I've installed Ubuntu on all my family's machines. I'd rather spend time explaining how to use Software Center and Gnome quirks than spend even more time removing viruses. For my dad, who is particularly uninterested in change, i set up a VM running Ubuntu that automatically starts a fullscreen Opera instance, and that's his 'browser'. It does everything that he would do in any other browser (except copy & paste to his windows desktop -- which he doesn't care about anyway), and the startup time is about 8 seconds, so it really doesn't bog him down at all. One way or another, getting my family to use Ubuntu for their web interface has been the best decision I could have made. It's completely secure against online junk, and for those who boot Ubuntu, it actually makes their computer faster than windows without AV.
While I know I'm feeding a troll, the bottom of the ocean is far from 'empty'. I (and many others) feel that there should be as much energy expended on exploring it as there has been for exploring space.
On that note, I wonder how this 'power beaming' could work underwater. There is a great deal of power loss with AC electricity underwater... would insulated light have less loss?
Oh, by the way, we're also developing better zeppelins right now -- for military uses. For the Congress.
umm... okay?
That, my friend, was the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Hey, I don't have anything new to say that another commenter hasn't already said, but man you created a web site that I visit more than any other website (including my netvibes homepage)... my hat's off to you, and I wish you all the best in your future pursuits.
To be fair, these scientists aren't 'coming out' -- this organization has existed since its inception as a means to try to convince Fundamentalists of Evolution and/or anything else they want them to believe that the Bible doesn't support. In other news, Focus on the Family is coming out now and saying sex before marriage is wrong.
One simple reason why this new camera is so awesome: speed. Try shooting something out of the sky when it's moving at 2 - 4 mph. Not that hard (heck, a skeet it moving a lot faster than that). Besides, try getting it 500 feet into enemy territory in 8 seconds. Something shooting at the speed of a grenade launcher has such obvious superiorities. Granted, the whole 'one time use' thing kinda sucks, but they're the military; they're used to using it once and replacing it.
Although I do have to say... you're totally right when it comes to civilian uses. I really can't think of a time when civilians would benefit more from the firefly than from the UAV you linked to.
This is insightful simply because nobody seems to notice that Ron Paul is the one who performed this audit. I do have to say that this is good timing for his political campaign -- perhaps he planned it that way?
Something else that is very sad is that you will often actually receive more radiation from the digital x-rays than you would have with the old-fashioned developed x-rays, because with those, you took the x-rays once and you were done. With the digital x-rays, since they're visible to the DDS immediately upon being taken, if something's not perfect, they'll often tell the assistant to re-take the film. In the clinic I used to work, films were often retaken two or three times. Every time, they told the patient that it was okay, because they were receiving a low dose of radiation, but instead of the recommended 5 films/year, patients were often receiving 10 or 12 films/year. With the old x-rays, if a film wasn't perfect, the DDS just made due, because by the time it was developed, they were ready to walk the patient out the door.
You might save one aircraft over the next 100 years - not really worth the extra bullshit.
Hey, that's pretty good -- in the last 10 years, they haven't saved any aircraft at all with any of the TSA's efforts.
I used to work for a dentist, and the other X-Ray technician always told patients that the Digital x-rays we used were "about 1/100th of the radiation of those old X-Rays". I was actually instructed by the DDS to tell patients the same thing. In actual practice, though, it was exactly the same dose of radiation, for exactly half the amount of time. I would take that to mean 1/2 the radiation. Just because someone is trained doesn't mean they're honest. Anyone who thinks they can trust anyone with something to gain by convincing them is naive at best. Any time someone tells you something, ask yourself; "do they have something to gain by my belief?" If they do, you should fully vett everything they say. Especially if they have more than 2 years of college, or work for the government.
A large rare-earth magnet bolted to the bottom of a bicycle will do the trick. Just be sure to paint it or put it into a plastic container or something, as it will rust pretty quickly.
I don't mind the new layout, but what I really hate is the lack of genre information in the mouseover. A movie with a picture of an alien on the cover could be Scifi, Horror, Action, or even a Children's Program. Usually the description is not conclusive proof of which genre it falls into. When I'm looking over the 'new movies', I hate having to click the expanded description page to see if it's something I'd be interested in (Scifi & Action), and having then to hit back and then wait for the list to scroll back to where I was if it was a Horror or Children's film. I don't care about the rest of it... but having that hassle is really annoying. ~just my two cents.
I think this comment thread is a good simulation of 'quantum errors'. Once you start getting that many errors, the best thing is just to not bother reading further. So I guess, for comparison, they're saying that the test showed that the computer didn't have as many errors as this thread has spam, so maybe it wasn't so bad. Only one out of three bits was a 'goat'.
This is the most sensible comment on this article. The problem was started by the big businesses, infuriated by the governments, then retaliated by the people. They may go too far with retaliation, but the problem here didn't start with the protesters.
I still have yet to try Unity (although my mother uses it, and I've seen enough on her computer to dislike it), but Ubuntu 6.4-10.10 (yes, I've only been actively using Linux for 5 years... *covers face in shame*) crash rather often. 9.10 was probably the most stable version. Of course, I'm typing this from my dual-booting tablet (10.10 & Vista), and I only have Vista because my job requires it. Ubuntu may crash, but I'm never going back to m$.