Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
So basically, the fix for the education system in the U.S. is... entirely outside the reach of teacher's and the education system itself: families and family values?
I believe the point is that if you quit burdening schools with extra crap that should be taught at home (such as respect for leaders, and no I don't mean unquestioning followers, just respect) then real education could come back to schools.
There are circumstances where it's good not to have your laptop, tablet, phone, etc, all occupying your space. Consider August 2, 2005, Air France Flight 358.
This is true. Let's be honest, though. The ban on them being turned on just means that they're turned off and in your space. People rarely put them away. (at least, not on the flights I've been on)
If the average person is sat down and told how much of their life is spent in front of the TV or playing video games, I would expect them to have a breakdown. It's one thing to know "I watch TV for 2 hours a day" but it's completely different when you're told "In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV." It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime.:)
A coin flip is exactly as probabilistic an event as this possible impact.
Erm, nope. A coin flip is an exact statement about the probability of a random event, the chance of an asteroid impact represents our ignorance of the true state. One is frequentist probability, the other is a Bayesian posterior probability.
If you could account for and control every variable in a coin flip, such as upward force, spin rate, air temperature, humidity, air drag, landing surface, and the duration of flight, you could predict how a coin would end up because it would be the same every time.
A coin flip is perceived as random because the number of variables that go in to it is too complex and there values too hard to define in advance.
I view the "1 in 625 chance" as the odds that there is something out there that will happen to alter the course to cause collision with Earth. Of course, that's also why the article says it's so hard to predict their orbits more than a couple years in advance; there's a ton of stuff we don't know about.
I'll admit I'm no doctor, but I don't think I'm that out of touch to have missed an announcement like being able to splice/repair nerves.
*starts timer to see how quickly I'm proven to be out of touch*
Unless you are going 60-70 mph when you run into a windshield full of #6 Birdshot that is raining down on the highway because someone figured it wouldn't matter.
Did you watch the video? If you're going 70 down that "highway" you'll have far bigger concerns, like the condition of the road, and any wildlife that may decide to walk across it. Now I will give you that even going 55 mph and hitting falling bird shot will likely destroy your windshield, you also have to acknowledge the fact that during the several minutes of the video, there is not a single car that drives by on the road (you would hear it in the audio). This is not a busy highway, it's an aged country road.
Then there's also the fact that at 1:10 in the video you can hear that the drone makes a rough landing back on the road. When they show the damage on the drone, it basically consists of one blade damaged on both ends. Such damage would be consistent with coming in for an uneven landing and having one corner get too low and that spinning blade hits the ground.
I'm not saying the hunters would be right for carelessly shooting, but all we know is that they sent the drone up, there were gunshots (we don't know the direction they shot), the drone had a rough landing and at the end, there was a minimal amount of damage to the drone. Given that both sides were being assholes you can't trust anyone enough to know what really happened.
Watermarking is a good thing, but it suffers the same problems that all the other schemes do: The code can be bypassed by editing the executable. CRC checks against the executable's size (to see if there have been changes) also get edited out.
This is what crackers ofter do, literally change the executable to not execute functions, or change the evaluation results of a license check - this prevents the watermark or dongle failures.
If anyone is that interested in cracking your software, they're going to do it. Who you want to target is the copy downloaders. If there is a fully functional and easy to access version (and no advertisements for the paid version) readily available on the software producer's site, then people will just download it there, as opposed to finding some cracked version to avoid a digital watermark that doesn't have any impact on the display. People always go for the easiest route. Downloading an illegal copy is easier than earning $10,000 to buy the real one, but downloading a legal copy is easier than downloading an illegal copy (because there's no perceived risk).
Marketing doesn't sell products, marketing sells marketing. I am not saying ads don't work but rather that the constant overloading of ads, does not work.
Some does, and some doesn't, but I'll admit when they print off one of those $0.50 off Pizza Hut coupons, I stop and buy one because it gives me an excuse to do so. They know my weakness! STOP THE COUPONS!
This storage limit translates into 114,9 years of life simulation.
This by itself wouldn't be too much of a problem except that it wraps and starts overwriting from the beginning where we have things like "Remember to keep heart beating"
A lot of work has been done lately on getting very smooth aerodynamic surfaces, because when you promote laminar flow, you can get very significant decreases in drag. Wouldn't this additional surface roughness mess that up?
This is pretty much dead on. The reduced erosion is due to air flow disruption, which is definitely going to cause additional drag.
Back in the 80's there were a few manufacturers who also had a direct retail channel. What they did was constantly sell everything at a rate higher than what any retail store was selling it for. It made it really easy for them to maintain their focus on manufacturing instead of on retail. Of course, it didn't give you the extremely cheap option that you envision yourself as suddenly getting when the manufacturer would sell to you directly, but hey, you got what you asked for. You'll probably say this doesn't pass your end user non-discriminatory clause but the only way you can really claim that is if you were to go to the manufacturer and offer to buy the same amount of drives with the same frequency as an OEM and not get a similar if not identical price.
So by reacting with your emotions, I think you'll end up making things even worst. "Cutting off your nose to spite your face", so to speak.
Obviously your opinions about Obama's second term versus Romney/Gingrich's first might differ, but at least make sure you've thought them through before you vote.
You know, a good idea might be to get involved with the primaries and get your say in on who should be the candidate. The more people who just sit back and wait for the November election, the more extreme candidates we're going to get (because only the extremists care enough to show up to the primaries). My state hasn't had its primary yet, but when it does, I intend to vote for someone who is not among the front runners. Will my vote "count?" Yes, because it's one more vote out there that says "I'm in favor of this guy over these career politicians." It may not mean much yet, but as more people say that, it will.
OP is correct. Going into an experiment with a preconceived bias isn't science, it's politics:
as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up.
But from TFA:
So taking into account the gains and the losses, Dr Smith reckons the Earth is getting about 50,000 tonnes lighter a year.
So AGW isn't happening, then?
Now you're just sounding desperate. They consider AGW to be a factor in the equasion, and that it adds mass annually. However there are still other factors that are affecting the mass and those have a larger value, so they outweigh AGW. It's called math (or maths depending on where you live).
But they spend money locally as well. They also buy ipads, toilet paper and food, like everybody else.
Yeah, and you know who else would? Any American that they hired. You can never advocate for importing workers by claiming they stimulate the economy, because they won't be able to stimulate it more than a local worker.
I'd be more impressed if someone found a way to NOT get into space with a helium filled weather balloon.
Maintaining a constant altitude, and thus preventing the balloon bursting, would be very cool.
That happened just about a month and a half ago, with a balloon flight from California to the Mediterranean sea. The short version is that eventually the UV at that altitude will degrade the balloon's integrity and it will pop, but it did last several days.
Yes, but why? You just spent thousands on your TV, sound system, storage devices, etc. Why can't you spend more than $25 on the media player?
Not everyone spends thousands on their home theater area, because we have other priorities in life. (heck I don't even have cable/satellite TV) It would be nice to have an affordable option to watch movies when we wish to.
If the safe is locked with a combination, they must crack open the safe if they want its contents. Obviously this is less feasible with modern encryption technology.
Not really. Just toss them in jail for obstruction while you try to brute force the decryption. Wait, what's that? Brute forcing the decryption will take longer than a human lives? Well it sounds like you just found motivation to talk.
Pwn2Own requires an entirely new exploit (otherwise I'm sure IE would be down in a number of nanoseconds)
Actually that's one of the changes, they no longer require a zero day:
In a new twist, Pwn2Own 2012 will also be taking aim at known vulnerabilities. These are browser issues that were disclosed at some point in the past year, but do not yet have a public exploit. The researchers will need to actually exploit the given vulnerability in order to score additional points.
So if an vulnerability exists but has not been shown to be exploitable, if you can show that it is, you get points.
While it may be admirable to see some reviewers give failing ratings due to DRM, what that really does is make them a single-point reviewer. That will be the place to go to find out if it has DRM. However, most people are actually looking for a review of how the game will perform on their hardware, and thus they will leave that reviewer and find one that does actually find a way to provide a review.
I certainly think the DRM should be called out, but I think that it shouldn't serve as a litmus test for the review.
PSI is even less likely. 400 PSI would mean that a 200 pound person is having their entire load supported by a half-square-inch surface area. Highly unlikely while sitting.
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Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
So basically, the fix for the education system in the U.S. is... entirely outside the reach of teacher's and the education system itself: families and family values?
I believe the point is that if you quit burdening schools with extra crap that should be taught at home (such as respect for leaders, and no I don't mean unquestioning followers, just respect) then real education could come back to schools.
There are circumstances where it's good not to have your laptop, tablet, phone, etc, all occupying your space. Consider August 2, 2005, Air France Flight 358.
This is true. Let's be honest, though. The ban on them being turned on just means that they're turned off and in your space. People rarely put them away. (at least, not on the flights I've been on)
Because it's pro-woman.
If the average person is sat down and told how much of their life is spent in front of the TV or playing video games, I would expect them to have a breakdown. It's one thing to know "I watch TV for 2 hours a day" but it's completely different when you're told "In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV." It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime. :)
A coin flip is exactly as probabilistic an event as this possible impact.
Erm, nope. A coin flip is an exact statement about the probability of a random event, the chance of an asteroid impact represents our ignorance of the true state. One is frequentist probability, the other is a Bayesian posterior probability.
If you could account for and control every variable in a coin flip, such as upward force, spin rate, air temperature, humidity, air drag, landing surface, and the duration of flight, you could predict how a coin would end up because it would be the same every time.
A coin flip is perceived as random because the number of variables that go in to it is too complex and there values too hard to define in advance.
I view the "1 in 625 chance" as the odds that there is something out there that will happen to alter the course to cause collision with Earth. Of course, that's also why the article says it's so hard to predict their orbits more than a couple years in advance; there's a ton of stuff we don't know about.
I'll admit I'm no doctor, but I don't think I'm that out of touch to have missed an announcement like being able to splice/repair nerves. *starts timer to see how quickly I'm proven to be out of touch*
Unless you are going 60-70 mph when you run into a windshield full of #6 Birdshot that is raining down on the highway because someone figured it wouldn't matter.
Did you watch the video? If you're going 70 down that "highway" you'll have far bigger concerns, like the condition of the road, and any wildlife that may decide to walk across it. Now I will give you that even going 55 mph and hitting falling bird shot will likely destroy your windshield, you also have to acknowledge the fact that during the several minutes of the video, there is not a single car that drives by on the road (you would hear it in the audio). This is not a busy highway, it's an aged country road.
Then there's also the fact that at 1:10 in the video you can hear that the drone makes a rough landing back on the road. When they show the damage on the drone, it basically consists of one blade damaged on both ends. Such damage would be consistent with coming in for an uneven landing and having one corner get too low and that spinning blade hits the ground.
I'm not saying the hunters would be right for carelessly shooting, but all we know is that they sent the drone up, there were gunshots (we don't know the direction they shot), the drone had a rough landing and at the end, there was a minimal amount of damage to the drone. Given that both sides were being assholes you can't trust anyone enough to know what really happened.
Watermarking is a good thing, but it suffers the same problems that all the other schemes do: The code can be bypassed by editing the executable. CRC checks against the executable's size (to see if there have been changes) also get edited out.
This is what crackers ofter do, literally change the executable to not execute functions, or change the evaluation results of a license check - this prevents the watermark or dongle failures.
If anyone is that interested in cracking your software, they're going to do it. Who you want to target is the copy downloaders. If there is a fully functional and easy to access version (and no advertisements for the paid version) readily available on the software producer's site, then people will just download it there, as opposed to finding some cracked version to avoid a digital watermark that doesn't have any impact on the display. People always go for the easiest route. Downloading an illegal copy is easier than earning $10,000 to buy the real one, but downloading a legal copy is easier than downloading an illegal copy (because there's no perceived risk).
Marketing doesn't sell products, marketing sells marketing. I am not saying ads don't work but rather that the constant overloading of ads, does not work.
Some does, and some doesn't, but I'll admit when they print off one of those $0.50 off Pizza Hut coupons, I stop and buy one because it gives me an excuse to do so. They know my weakness! STOP THE COUPONS!
This storage limit translates into 114,9 years of life simulation.
This by itself wouldn't be too much of a problem except that it wraps and starts overwriting from the beginning where we have things like "Remember to keep heart beating"
A lot of work has been done lately on getting very smooth aerodynamic surfaces, because when you promote laminar flow, you can get very significant decreases in drag. Wouldn't this additional surface roughness mess that up?
This is pretty much dead on. The reduced erosion is due to air flow disruption, which is definitely going to cause additional drag.
Oh you mean like a prototype version of the next iPhone?
Back in the 80's there were a few manufacturers who also had a direct retail channel. What they did was constantly sell everything at a rate higher than what any retail store was selling it for. It made it really easy for them to maintain their focus on manufacturing instead of on retail. Of course, it didn't give you the extremely cheap option that you envision yourself as suddenly getting when the manufacturer would sell to you directly, but hey, you got what you asked for. You'll probably say this doesn't pass your end user non-discriminatory clause but the only way you can really claim that is if you were to go to the manufacturer and offer to buy the same amount of drives with the same frequency as an OEM and not get a similar if not identical price.
So by reacting with your emotions, I think you'll end up making things even worst. "Cutting off your nose to spite your face", so to speak.
Obviously your opinions about Obama's second term versus Romney/Gingrich's first might differ, but at least make sure you've thought them through before you vote.
You know, a good idea might be to get involved with the primaries and get your say in on who should be the candidate. The more people who just sit back and wait for the November election, the more extreme candidates we're going to get (because only the extremists care enough to show up to the primaries). My state hasn't had its primary yet, but when it does, I intend to vote for someone who is not among the front runners. Will my vote "count?" Yes, because it's one more vote out there that says "I'm in favor of this guy over these career politicians." It may not mean much yet, but as more people say that, it will.
OP is correct. Going into an experiment with a preconceived bias isn't science, it's politics:
as the temperature of the Earth goes up, energy is added to the system, so the mass must go up.
But from TFA:
So taking into account the gains and the losses, Dr Smith reckons the Earth is getting about 50,000 tonnes lighter a year.
So AGW isn't happening, then?
Now you're just sounding desperate. They consider AGW to be a factor in the equasion, and that it adds mass annually. However there are still other factors that are affecting the mass and those have a larger value, so they outweigh AGW. It's called math (or maths depending on where you live).
Too many people use paper to doodle, or write notes to their friends. It's completely distracting!
But they spend money locally as well. They also buy ipads, toilet paper and food, like everybody else.
Yeah, and you know who else would? Any American that they hired. You can never advocate for importing workers by claiming they stimulate the economy, because they won't be able to stimulate it more than a local worker.
Nah, you just need some really big mirrors.
I'd be more impressed if someone found a way to NOT get into space with a helium filled weather balloon.
Maintaining a constant altitude, and thus preventing the balloon bursting, would be very cool.
That happened just about a month and a half ago, with a balloon flight from California to the Mediterranean sea. The short version is that eventually the UV at that altitude will degrade the balloon's integrity and it will pop, but it did last several days.
Yes, but why? You just spent thousands on your TV, sound system, storage devices, etc. Why can't you spend more than $25 on the media player?
Not everyone spends thousands on their home theater area, because we have other priorities in life. (heck I don't even have cable/satellite TV) It would be nice to have an affordable option to watch movies when we wish to.
Well when you consider that they keep two thirds of their profits/cash offshore, it's pretty easy to say that they don't pay as much as they should.
If the safe is locked with a combination, they must crack open the safe if they want its contents. Obviously this is less feasible with modern encryption technology.
Not really. Just toss them in jail for obstruction while you try to brute force the decryption. Wait, what's that? Brute forcing the decryption will take longer than a human lives? Well it sounds like you just found motivation to talk.
Pwn2Own requires an entirely new exploit (otherwise I'm sure IE would be down in a number of nanoseconds)
Actually that's one of the changes, they no longer require a zero day:
In a new twist, Pwn2Own 2012 will also be taking aim at known vulnerabilities. These are browser issues that were disclosed at some point in the past year, but do not yet have a public exploit. The researchers will need to actually exploit the given vulnerability in order to score additional points.
So if an vulnerability exists but has not been shown to be exploitable, if you can show that it is, you get points.
While it may be admirable to see some reviewers give failing ratings due to DRM, what that really does is make them a single-point reviewer. That will be the place to go to find out if it has DRM. However, most people are actually looking for a review of how the game will perform on their hardware, and thus they will leave that reviewer and find one that does actually find a way to provide a review.
I certainly think the DRM should be called out, but I think that it shouldn't serve as a litmus test for the review.
PSI is even less likely. 400 PSI would mean that a 200 pound person is having their entire load supported by a half-square-inch surface area. Highly unlikely while sitting.