An article that decries all the valuable, important stuff that could have been brought up, but then doesn't bother to bring them up and/or discuss them in any detail?
This article was a waste of my time. I wish Slashdot had a thumbs up/down on articles.
THis is why there is room for comments. Care to add anything or just bemoan the lack of further info?
I was past San Onofre within the last month and can tell you their security is still active and keeping a fierce eye out for lollygaggers, loiterers, slow-poke drivers and the generally curious. They didn't bother me, but made their presence known.
and you'll have most of them home when it suddenly goes BOOM without warning.
Hos is that different than not warning at all?
Effectively what we know as the 'cry wolf' example. California is no stranger to people who like their name in the news for predicting the next big quake, but when it doesn't happen they're shamed for a bit and then drop into anonimity. People stop listening to doom projectors - next thing you know, someone knew what they were talking about because they heard the seismic precursors and they get ignored as yet-another crackpot.
At their peak, just before they blow, these "screams" get to a high enough frequency that humans could hear them. Of course, to us it would sound like a low frequency rumble.
In other words, if you are standing on a volcano, and start to hear it grumble, get away. Fast.
About 12 years ago there were swarms of tremors around the Long Valley, near Mammoth Mountain, California. 600-800 earthquakes per day from sub 1.0 to 3.0+ and elevation changes around the caldera indicated pressure was building. Then suddenly nothing happened and they subsides. Still a few here and there, but some activity took place and then ended. Massive false alarm or very long range warning? You scare a lot of people with eruption talk, which doesn't materialize, and you'll have most of them home when it suddenly goes BOOM without warning.
hard is merely the fact that often, the theories and equations taught are quite abstract. It is very important to have a solid grasp of concepts, but in the end, the material could be improved with visual and/or tangible results which have some values and/or association to the abstract concepts.
I've had dozens of college profs and the ones which stood out were the ones who were good listeners as well and perceptive of what students struggle over. Generally I found when I thought a course was 'hard' I knew 80% or more of the material or concepts, but I was struggling over one or two things which blocked conceptual understanding of things further on.
Subbing, as a TA once in a programming class I was perplexed how people couldn't wrap their heads around the idea of a Variable (think of it as a name on a bucket, into which I add or remove apples, yet they were still stumped).
Things do tend to be more 'hard' when the student spends more time listening to their nay-saying peers than their instructors. When you actually believe Math, Chemistry or Physics is 'hard' your belief is your own largest obstacle to learning.
Microsoft's big reorganization has begun. Rumors had persisted for weeks that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was planning a massive, once-in-a-lifetime reorganization of the company he's been ruining for quite some time.
To be fair, the company once had a rather singular approach the the market, but through expansion and growth it ended up looking like bloated octopus.
Expect some housecleaning to be a part of this re-org as redundancy is cut out, empires reigned in.
Since previous versions of windows and all other OS already 'support' 3d printing anyway, what exactly are they supporting? a 3d printer is just another peripheral you plug in via USB.
What?!? You can't see it?
NEW! Windows 8.1! with more Marketing Buzz than other leading Windows versions!
I'm confused. Everything supports 3D printing. There's probably a Linux application for it. You just have the company write a driver, install 3D software that works with it, and hit print. The operating system is irrelevant. All they're doing is putting a big "sue me, I have the most money" sign on them with a picture of a 3D printed gun under it. Now they're just getting desperate. I thought 8.1 was a rush fix like Windows 7 from Vista but nope. Hopefully THIS TIME heads will roll and they'll replace clueless morons with reasonable design leads at MS.
Well, duh, but by sticking their toe into it they enable themselves to come up with their own protocols, languages, interfaces, in short, circumvent all the development in 3D printing up to this point and attempt to make it their own.
Orson Scott Card is pleading for tolerance? That's rich.
Yeah, nothing quite like the intolerant pleading for tolerance. I can feel the irony rays bouncing off the outer walls of the building, thought it was a tremor.
My 2000 Honda insight has a curb weight of 1,880 lbs, While I can't touch 262mpg I still get about 69 mpg, and that's in a car with most modern safety features, over a decade old, and at a not unreasonable price....
Adapt it for motorcycle wheels and you'll get better mileage.
I live in California, which is a Helmet state, but incredibly it allows for Lane Splitting, which really was about noodling between stationary vehicles, not racing between moving traffic.
When I worked in the Bay area there wasn't a day that went by where traffic reports didn't tell of at least one motorcycle down somewhere in the area.
I enjoyed riding on back roads in Michigan, but hated riding in California so sold my motorbike.
No it's because we had a working system and didn't need a new one. Long may it live!
Yeah... Nothing I enjoyed more than doing conversions of miles, feet, inches, tenths of inches, pounds, ounces (avoirdupois), gallons, fluid ounces and all that muck during Math, Chemistry and Physics classes, all the while there were these lovely decimal systems just itching to make everything much easier.
Basically. The vehicle's so lightly built that a fricking DODGE OMNI will tear through you like you were toilet paper.
Over in Germany, if someone spatters themselves on (or by the side of) the road, it's the driver's fault for not knowing their car.
Here in the US, it's the manufacturer's fault for not making the car crash-survivable.
Never mind the willingness of people in Pickup Trucks to drive 70, 80 or 90 MPH in them. Remember when a Pickup was a farm or construction vehicle and could scarcely get over 55?
Sadly enough, someone is sabotaging this country and there is little anyone can do about it; Wait until next year.
When the sabotage will continue...
I miss having real leadership in the Capitol. The current and past presidents have demonstrated remarkably little ability to get things done which need to be and considerable ability to accomplish things which in the long run don't amount to much.
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I will miss that pair of breasts I ogle whenever I drive down to San Diego...
Guess they architects didn't see it like that, or did and had a massive laugh when they were built.
An article that decries all the valuable, important stuff that could have been brought up, but then doesn't bother to bring them up and/or discuss them in any detail?
This article was a waste of my time. I wish Slashdot had a thumbs up/down on articles.
THis is why there is room for comments. Care to add anything or just bemoan the lack of further info?
I was past San Onofre within the last month and can tell you their security is still active and keeping a fierce eye out for lollygaggers, loiterers, slow-poke drivers and the generally curious. They didn't bother me, but made their presence known.
and you'll have most of them home when it suddenly goes BOOM without warning.
Hos is that different than not warning at all?
Effectively what we know as the 'cry wolf' example. California is no stranger to people who like their name in the news for predicting the next big quake, but when it doesn't happen they're shamed for a bit and then drop into anonimity. People stop listening to doom projectors - next thing you know, someone knew what they were talking about because they heard the seismic precursors and they get ignored as yet-another crackpot.
Acoustic levitation is nothing new, what they've done is found a way to move stuff around while it's levitating.
And here's a decent link for those who don't feel like contributing to someone's page counter.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/07/10/1301860110
I move things around on a regular basis, but only when I have a ready supply of beans.
Apple knows which side of the iPad the butter goes.
At their peak, just before they blow, these "screams" get to a high enough frequency that humans could hear them. Of course, to us it would sound like a low frequency rumble.
In other words, if you are standing on a volcano, and start to hear it grumble, get away. Fast.
About 12 years ago there were swarms of tremors around the Long Valley, near Mammoth Mountain, California. 600-800 earthquakes per day from sub 1.0 to 3.0+ and elevation changes around the caldera indicated pressure was building. Then suddenly nothing happened and they subsides. Still a few here and there, but some activity took place and then ended. Massive false alarm or very long range warning? You scare a lot of people with eruption talk, which doesn't materialize, and you'll have most of them home when it suddenly goes BOOM without warning.
So, it's like a teapot when it gets boiling?
Would that you could get thousands of atmospheres of pressure in your teapot.
I tend to think of it as the Earth doing its own version of Fracking. Without so much as a permit or 'By your leave, good people of the lands.'
Krakatoa must have had some pitch before it popped, which it will do again some day, such is its activity cycle.
Whats needed is good educators, like Richard Feynman was. What passes for "good educator" these days is pathetic.
We could certainly do with a lot less people going around saying Math is hard. That's defeatist thinking. Math is easy!
hard is merely the fact that often, the theories and equations taught are quite abstract. It is very important to have a solid grasp of concepts, but in the end, the material could be improved with visual and/or tangible results which have some values and/or association to the abstract concepts.
I've had dozens of college profs and the ones which stood out were the ones who were good listeners as well and perceptive of what students struggle over. Generally I found when I thought a course was 'hard' I knew 80% or more of the material or concepts, but I was struggling over one or two things which blocked conceptual understanding of things further on.
Subbing, as a TA once in a programming class I was perplexed how people couldn't wrap their heads around the idea of a Variable (think of it as a name on a bucket, into which I add or remove apples, yet they were still stumped).
Things do tend to be more 'hard' when the student spends more time listening to their nay-saying peers than their instructors. When you actually believe Math, Chemistry or Physics is 'hard' your belief is your own largest obstacle to learning.
Bullshit, pencil shavings get into equipment and short circuit things
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Me holding up dripping keyboard: "Were you drinking coffee around this thing?"
Secretary: "No."
Were this an ideal world, her nose would have grown out about 2 inches.
I suspect having a device that has only one purpose, as compared to a computer, it is much less likely to be compromised and much easier to detect.
^This.
^That.
^The other thing.
^ Down with this sort of thing
^Poppadom?
Pre-flight instructions for passengers about to depart Russian airports:
Please turn off all electronic devices, including mobile phones, laptop computers, tablet computers and electric typewriters...
Microsoft's big reorganization has begun. Rumors had persisted for weeks that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was planning a massive, once-in-a-lifetime reorganization of the company he's been ruining for quite some time.
To be fair, the company once had a rather singular approach the the market, but through expansion and growth it ended up looking like bloated octopus.
Expect some housecleaning to be a part of this re-org as redundancy is cut out, empires reigned in.
They'll also make it so you can 3D print by waving your Windows Phone around in the air.
"I left my phone in my jacket when I put it in the drier. It must have turned on and printed this..."
"Strange! But it looks like a bulky, bald executive throwing a chair."
Since previous versions of windows and all other OS already 'support' 3d printing anyway, what exactly are they supporting?
a 3d printer is just another peripheral you plug in via USB.
What?!? You can't see it?
NEW! Windows 8.1! with more Marketing Buzz than other leading Windows versions!
I'm confused. Everything supports 3D printing. There's probably a Linux application for it. You just have the company write a driver, install 3D software that works with it, and hit print. The operating system is irrelevant. All they're doing is putting a big "sue me, I have the most money" sign on them with a picture of a 3D printed gun under it. Now they're just getting desperate. I thought 8.1 was a rush fix like Windows 7 from Vista but nope. Hopefully THIS TIME heads will roll and they'll replace clueless morons with reasonable design leads at MS.
Well, duh, but by sticking their toe into it they enable themselves to come up with their own protocols, languages, interfaces, in short, circumvent all the development in 3D printing up to this point and attempt to make it their own.
As for the re-org, I see it's on.
I wonder what new division label Steve will assign this group - Co-opting Industry Standards And Setting Them Back 10 Years
Or is it some of the same strategy which is leading up to it - sticking their nose in everyone else's market where they have no core competency?
Now network failures can cripple more of my devices. So long productivity!
Let alone the massive lag of loading or storing anything of size.
Actually, the Russians can make quality products, provided they are paid what they are owed and on time.
I bet there was some "extra payment" that was not paid... and whoops, you know things happen...
That may be, but consider this - do you want to
It won't be a lump of coal he will be bringing.
Orson Scott Card is pleading for tolerance? That's rich.
Yeah, nothing quite like the intolerant pleading for tolerance. I can feel the irony rays bouncing off the outer walls of the building, thought it was a tremor.
My 2000 Honda insight has a curb weight of 1,880 lbs, While I can't touch 262mpg I still get about 69 mpg, and that's in a car with most modern safety features, over a decade old, and at a not unreasonable price....
Adapt it for motorcycle wheels and you'll get better mileage.
I live in California, which is a Helmet state, but incredibly it allows for Lane Splitting, which really was about noodling between stationary vehicles, not racing between moving traffic.
When I worked in the Bay area there wasn't a day that went by where traffic reports didn't tell of at least one motorcycle down somewhere in the area.
I enjoyed riding on back roads in Michigan, but hated riding in California so sold my motorbike.
No it's because we had a working system and didn't need a new one. Long may it live!
Yeah... Nothing I enjoyed more than doing conversions of miles, feet, inches, tenths of inches, pounds, ounces (avoirdupois), gallons, fluid ounces and all that muck during Math, Chemistry and Physics classes, all the while there were these lovely decimal systems just itching to make everything much easier.
Basically. The vehicle's so lightly built that a fricking DODGE OMNI will tear through you like you were toilet paper.
Over in Germany, if someone spatters themselves on (or by the side of) the road, it's the driver's fault for not knowing their car.
Here in the US, it's the manufacturer's fault for not making the car crash-survivable.
Never mind the willingness of people in Pickup Trucks to drive 70, 80 or 90 MPH in them. Remember when a Pickup was a farm or construction vehicle and could scarcely get over 55?
Sadly enough, someone is sabotaging this country and there is little anyone can do about it; Wait until next year.
When the sabotage will continue...
I miss having real leadership in the Capitol. The current and past presidents have demonstrated remarkably little ability to get things done which need to be and considerable ability to accomplish things which in the long run don't amount to much.