Search engines were a disaster in the late 90s and early 2000s when Google rose to prominence. They weren't very clever, indexed only a subset of the Internet (when it was tiny by today's standards), and were full of spam links because their algorithms were easily gamed. Look up PageRank. It was a big deal.
Not surprisingly the scientists that work on weather models care very much about their accuracy. The GFS model's peformance is constantly reviewed: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/G...
HRRR means they just run WRF very frequently (http://ruc.noaa.gov/hrrr/). I think it's to help with short range forecasts specifically. As far as I know, they still use GFS primarily (http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.php?branch=GFS).
Or, hospitals don't have the billions of dollars of profit at their disposal that financial companies do. I think this is a sad reflection of our society's priorities, not on hospitals' planning efforts.
That list has 121 items on it and you took issue with thirty of them. Assuming you are 100 percent right, that still leaves 75 percent of what the OP said on the table...
Agreed. I had a Windows Mobile phone way back in the day and I trashed it for only two shortcomings:
1. The scroll bar on the contact list would get messed up, so that you could not scroll to the top anymore, so your top 5 contacts were inaccessible. 2. The phone would appear to have signal and be working properly, but it actually had fallen off the network.
Rebooting fixed both these issues in standard fashion:-)
Every e-mail client I've used in recent times doesn't load images by default. I generally assume that I am being tracked if I choose to load the images.
I used to work in IT at a medical school and your characterization of HIPAA is not accurate. HIPAA is not strict at all unless you've intentionally divulged protected health information. Your employer is going to a lot worse things to you (i.e. fire you) than any federal prosecutor.
I feel your pain and I was also quite disappointed by this thread, though this reaction is not uncommon. I get similar, but less juvenile reactions in real life when I try to talk to people about anime. Illustrated books and animation have been pretty much exclusively been marketed to children in the US (as well as many other parts of the world) and lots of people can't get past that.
I started to watch anime because it happened to be on after Futurama during the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network. I was impressed with what I saw in some series (Full Metal Alchemist and Paranoia Agent) and started seeking out more of it on my own. Some anime is as good or better than any independent cinema you can find. There's some really unique stuff and just a lot of really good and interesting storytelling. You can develop a lot more depth in ten hours of content than you can in two hours and some anime takes advantage of this fact.
Anime is shown during primetime on major television networks in Japan. Manga is read by just about everyone in Japan. Forty percent of the books published in Japan are manga. There are tons of educational manga like the one reviewed in this post. Given the wide viewership and readership in Japan, a considerable range of manga and anime are created.
Illustrated books and animation are just two other art forms. Most Americans can't get past their limited use in the US. Too bad for them.
gilgongo, "The English political reaction to the IRA was markedly different to the way the Americans reacted to 9/11 though. There was no security theatre - if anything rather the opposite. [...] So we just put up some road blocks in London and deployed armed police around sensitive areas."
That just doesn't represent the facts of the situation. The political reaction was this massive government intrusion into privacy which persists and expands 15 years later. I'd say the rhetoric used is a lot less relevant than the actions taken and their lasting effects. The US government and media present themselves to their constituents in wildly different ways than their respective UK counterparts, so I would say it's ill-advised to use it as a basis of comparison.
I have numerous friends and family who live and work in NYC. None of them are or were scared and no one they know are or were scared. I've never been scared for them.
You claim you experienced the Bishopgate bombings firsthand and I'll take you at your word. You did not experience the WTC attacks firsthand and you're not an American. You're comparing two different events from two completely different frames of reference. It's ethnocentric, it's elitist, and it's rude.
Wow, did you even read the wikipedia article you linked? Riiiight, you were too busy being a British elitist ass to concern yourself with reality!
The wikipedia article states this incident started the massive CCTV surveillance project which now permeates the UK. If 4.2 million cameras (most with vehicle tracking and some with facial recognition) isn't a reaction, I'm not sure what qualifies.
There's some truth to this... check out the last graph. Since Clinton FBI prosecutions have changed in a big way: child pornography prosecutions doubled, white collar crime prosecutions halved, organized crime prosecutions halved...
Much of the simulation is CFD (computational fluid dynamics). The formulas governing fluid movement have been well established for a long time. They make a 3D grid of cells, then when something (air, water) moves over the boundary of a cell, the equations have to be calculated. The equations are computationally expensive though. You can always use a smaller cell size, which will increase the accuracy of the model. A good example of this is turbulence. It's not directly numerically computed even though it can be because it would be too much compute time. I don't know if turbulence is relevant to climate prediction, but its effect is more significant with low speed flows, so it seems possible.
I'm not a climate scientest or an expert on CFD though. I maintained a cluster that was used for CFD (indoor air flow and turbo machinery) for a number of years, so that's where I picked this up.
Investors cannot make appropriate decisions regarding their investments if they're being deceived. There are laws on the disclosure of such information and if the law was being broken, then the appropriate actions should be taken.
If Nvidia continued to sell a product they knew to be flawed, then they should be punished according to any applicable consumer laws. Their reputation will likely be harmed now which could very well be more damaging.
The US economy is falling apart due to poor regulation. People were lying and breaking the law at all levels making short-term gains in the mortgage market and now everyone will pay the price of their selfishness. Capitalism would let dying companies die or be swallowed up by better companies.
They put them in parks where largely homeless people and drug users hang out. The original idea as stated in the article was to keep drug dealers and so on out of the bathrooms of businesses, so I'm not really sure why anyone was surprised that the people who ended up there were just who they intended.
Their anti-fraud measures seem inadequate. My account was hacked a year or so ago. I hadn't used to sell in over a year and I hadn't used it to buy anything in almost as long. All of a sudden someone posted several hundred iPods on my account. I'd never sold items on my account in this manner. Just a few, different items here and there, like most individuals. I was surprised that a company like eBay wouldn't have fraud prevention software. Anyway, I canceled my account and I'll never use eBay again.
I totally agree. I live less than 15 miles (driving distance, probably ten as the crow flies) from the center of Seattle, but I have one broadband option, Comcast.
I wish he would self-censor, as most reasonable people do. Saying Oprah is a fat bitch does nothing to further the discourse on her affect on American society. If that's the manner in which he wants to present himself, well, it should come as no surprise that he'll be judged based on that presentation. I can't imagine why any company would want to employ someone who thinks that's an appropriate way to speak about another person in a public forum.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from judgement. It's freedom from being put in jail, fined, and so on _by the goverment_. Even legally though, you cannot just say whatever you want, it opens you up to liability. You can't say something which is false like, Company X uses rat droppings as a filler in their Y food product. You could, but then Company X could sue you and prevent you from continuing to say it since it's not true. They could also sue you for damages to their reputation. Freedom of speech is also not freedom to be heard. Besides standing on a street corner downtown, there aren't too many outlets for expression that are not controlled by someone else. Even the Internet is largely controlled by private companies who can prevent you from serving content to it if they want.
I think it's soundly a lack of integrity that caused him to post something like that at all. I really can't see how ridiculing Oprah's weight (for example) as a method of diminishing her really has any merit. Whether he's willing to put his name to it or not, I'd rather he just keep it to himself. I certainly wouldn't want someone working for me who thinks that's an acceptable way to disagree with someone.
His post regarding her and the people who watch her show is extremely inflammatory and derogatory. There's critisism and then there's just ranting in a disrespectful manner. His post was soundly the latter. Not really wise to post something like that under your own name where anyone can read it.
"Note that 'CMYK' colors are immediately translated into RGB when used; GIMP does not have any built-in support CMYK mixtures that cannot be represented in RGB, such as rich blacks, though they can be simulated to a limited extent with third-party add-ons.)"
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Search engines were a disaster in the late 90s and early 2000s when Google rose to prominence. They weren't very clever, indexed only a subset of the Internet (when it was tiny by today's standards), and were full of spam links because their algorithms were easily gamed. Look up PageRank. It was a big deal.
Not surprisingly the scientists that work on weather models care very much about their accuracy. The GFS model's peformance is constantly reviewed: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/G...
HRRR means they just run WRF very frequently (http://ruc.noaa.gov/hrrr/). I think it's to help with short range forecasts specifically. As far as I know, they still use GFS primarily (http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.php?branch=GFS).
It seems incredibly stupid to me not to just use the web. Why limit it to people who just have a device of a certain OS? Oh right, making money.
Or, hospitals don't have the billions of dollars of profit at their disposal that financial companies do. I think this is a sad reflection of our society's priorities, not on hospitals' planning efforts.
That list has 121 items on it and you took issue with thirty of them. Assuming you are 100 percent right, that still leaves 75 percent of what the OP said on the table...
Agreed. I had a Windows Mobile phone way back in the day and I trashed it for only two shortcomings:
1. The scroll bar on the contact list would get messed up, so that you could not scroll to the top anymore, so your top 5 contacts were inaccessible.
2. The phone would appear to have signal and be working properly, but it actually had fallen off the network.
Rebooting fixed both these issues in standard fashion :-)
Every e-mail client I've used in recent times doesn't load images by default. I generally assume that I am being tracked if I choose to load the images.
I used to work in IT at a medical school and your characterization of HIPAA is not accurate. HIPAA is not strict at all unless you've intentionally divulged protected health information. Your employer is going to a lot worse things to you (i.e. fire you) than any federal prosecutor.
I feel your pain and I was also quite disappointed by this thread, though this reaction is not uncommon. I get similar, but less juvenile reactions in real life when I try to talk to people about anime. Illustrated books and animation have been pretty much exclusively been marketed to children in the US (as well as many other parts of the world) and lots of people can't get past that.
I started to watch anime because it happened to be on after Futurama during the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network. I was impressed with what I saw in some series (Full Metal Alchemist and Paranoia Agent) and started seeking out more of it on my own. Some anime is as good or better than any independent cinema you can find. There's some really unique stuff and just a lot of really good and interesting storytelling. You can develop a lot more depth in ten hours of content than you can in two hours and some anime takes advantage of this fact.
Anime is shown during primetime on major television networks in Japan. Manga is read by just about everyone in Japan. Forty percent of the books published in Japan are manga. There are tons of educational manga like the one reviewed in this post. Given the wide viewership and readership in Japan, a considerable range of manga and anime are created.
Illustrated books and animation are just two other art forms. Most Americans can't get past their limited use in the US. Too bad for them.
I hope the irony of posting such a comment as an "Anonymous Coward" is not lost on you.
gilgongo, "The English political reaction to the IRA was markedly different to the way the Americans reacted to 9/11 though. There was no security theatre - if anything rather the opposite. [...] So we just put up some road blocks in London and deployed armed police around sensitive areas."
That just doesn't represent the facts of the situation. The political reaction was this massive government intrusion into privacy which persists and expands 15 years later. I'd say the rhetoric used is a lot less relevant than the actions taken and their lasting effects. The US government and media present themselves to their constituents in wildly different ways than their respective UK counterparts, so I would say it's ill-advised to use it as a basis of comparison.
I have numerous friends and family who live and work in NYC. None of them are or were scared and no one they know are or were scared. I've never been scared for them.
You claim you experienced the Bishopgate bombings firsthand and I'll take you at your word. You did not experience the WTC attacks firsthand and you're not an American. You're comparing two different events from two completely different frames of reference. It's ethnocentric, it's elitist, and it's rude.
Wow, did you even read the wikipedia article you linked? Riiiight, you were too busy being a British elitist ass to concern yourself with reality!
The wikipedia article states this incident started the massive CCTV surveillance project which now permeates the UK. If 4.2 million cameras (most with vehicle tracking and some with facial recognition) isn't a reaction, I'm not sure what qualifies.
There's some truth to this ... check out the last graph. Since Clinton FBI prosecutions have changed in a big way: child pornography prosecutions doubled, white collar crime prosecutions halved, organized crime prosecutions halved ...
Much of the simulation is CFD (computational fluid dynamics). The formulas governing fluid movement have been well established for a long time. They make a 3D grid of cells, then when something (air, water) moves over the boundary of a cell, the equations have to be calculated. The equations are computationally expensive though. You can always use a smaller cell size, which will increase the accuracy of the model. A good example of this is turbulence. It's not directly numerically computed even though it can be because it would be too much compute time. I don't know if turbulence is relevant to climate prediction, but its effect is more significant with low speed flows, so it seems possible.
I'm not a climate scientest or an expert on CFD though. I maintained a cluster that was used for CFD (indoor air flow and turbo machinery) for a number of years, so that's where I picked this up.
Investors cannot make appropriate decisions regarding their investments if they're being deceived. There are laws on the disclosure of such information and if the law was being broken, then the appropriate actions should be taken.
If Nvidia continued to sell a product they knew to be flawed, then they should be punished according to any applicable consumer laws. Their reputation will likely be harmed now which could very well be more damaging.
The US economy is falling apart due to poor regulation. People were lying and breaking the law at all levels making short-term gains in the mortgage market and now everyone will pay the price of their selfishness. Capitalism would let dying companies die or be swallowed up by better companies.
The motto is, "Working hard now sometimes pays off later, but procrastinating now always pays off now."
They put them in parks where largely homeless people and drug users hang out. The original idea as stated in the article was to keep drug dealers and so on out of the bathrooms of businesses, so I'm not really sure why anyone was surprised that the people who ended up there were just who they intended.
Their anti-fraud measures seem inadequate. My account was hacked a year or so ago. I hadn't used to sell in over a year and I hadn't used it to buy anything in almost as long. All of a sudden someone posted several hundred iPods on my account. I'd never sold items on my account in this manner. Just a few, different items here and there, like most individuals. I was surprised that a company like eBay wouldn't have fraud prevention software. Anyway, I canceled my account and I'll never use eBay again.
I totally agree. I live less than 15 miles (driving distance, probably ten as the crow flies) from the center of Seattle, but I have one broadband option, Comcast.
I wish he would self-censor, as most reasonable people do. Saying Oprah is a fat bitch does nothing to further the discourse on her affect on American society. If that's the manner in which he wants to present himself, well, it should come as no surprise that he'll be judged based on that presentation. I can't imagine why any company would want to employ someone who thinks that's an appropriate way to speak about another person in a public forum.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from judgement. It's freedom from being put in jail, fined, and so on _by the goverment_. Even legally though, you cannot just say whatever you want, it opens you up to liability. You can't say something which is false like, Company X uses rat droppings as a filler in their Y food product. You could, but then Company X could sue you and prevent you from continuing to say it since it's not true. They could also sue you for damages to their reputation. Freedom of speech is also not freedom to be heard. Besides standing on a street corner downtown, there aren't too many outlets for expression that are not controlled by someone else. Even the Internet is largely controlled by private companies who can prevent you from serving content to it if they want.
I think it's soundly a lack of integrity that caused him to post something like that at all. I really can't see how ridiculing Oprah's weight (for example) as a method of diminishing her really has any merit. Whether he's willing to put his name to it or not, I'd rather he just keep it to himself. I certainly wouldn't want someone working for me who thinks that's an acceptable way to disagree with someone.
His post regarding her and the people who watch her show is extremely inflammatory and derogatory. There's critisism and then there's just ranting in a disrespectful manner. His post was soundly the latter. Not really wise to post something like that under your own name where anyone can read it.
From your link. Yey for reading!
"Note that 'CMYK' colors are immediately translated into RGB when used; GIMP does not have any built-in support CMYK mixtures that cannot be represented in RGB, such as rich blacks, though they can be simulated to a limited extent with third-party add-ons.)"
The ACLU sponsored a poll asking this very question among other interesting ones. Check it out.