I figure if google can offer me 6 gigs in exchange for advertisements, facebook can toss me some storage space in exchange for my social profile. It would be nice though, I agree.
A friend tried to build a scale model once and wanted to divide the angles by the scaling factor too. He didn't think his cunning plan all the way through.
How is the conversion hard? Convert the foot+inches measurement into inches, then do your cosines and tangents. It's the exact same as using mm, except you have to convert the feet first.
It costs fucking money. That's the big deal. It's not just labeling things, it's all the tools we have set up in imperial units. You need to work on something that's made in the US, you'll often need a US wrench set. The manufacturers make things with US units because everyone has US tools that work with it.
We're gonna throw out all that equipment for what? Just to say, "wheee, we use the metric system now!" The reason we havn't done it is that we don't have a reason to.
Does it integrate with the core photo app so that when you hit the 'photos of xxx' or 'photos of you and xxx' button it shows both the core photos and the big photos? Can you tag users that don't have the bigphoto app? If not, then it just won't fly.
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You don't have to go from metropolis to metropolis. I was in germany recently and took a high speed train from bamberg (a town of about 70,000) to frankfurt (a giant town). Even small hamlets have stations with semi-regular stops.
Yeah, it would be retarded to take a train directly from chicago to NYC (unless you just really liked the view), it's just like the interstate system. I-40 goes from east coast to west coast. Nobody takes it all the way, but all the little towns that are served derive a benefit. A nice advantage of trains over airplanes is that they can stop fairly frequently. In Germany, the trains stop at smaller towns for only 2-3 minutes, so they can stop pretty often (Of course, there's a tradeoff between how long it takes total and how many stops you end up taking)
The population distribution of both bavaria and central/eastern tennessee are similar: Tiny hamlets surrounded by an asston of empty space. It works great for them, and I think, as infrastructure, is probably something that's helped them out immensely.
Their current photos have a maximum dimension of 604(ish) pixels on its longest side. Maybe increase by a factor of 4 or 9? Even 4.5PB isn't out of the realm of feasibility, it's only 4,500 1TB drives:)
(I know I know about the drives and the difference between server drives and consumer drives, and how contention on individual drives could bring the thing to a grinding halt)
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god damnit, I hate snide little 'proverbs' like that.
It's not an issue of taking time off. I've traveled to either Brazil or Europe (sometimes both) every year since 2002 (around the age I could travel on my own). I very nearly am going to need new pages in my passport.
I take time off, I'm a student, I get breaks. But given that I have a finite amount of time to take off, I would MUCH rather spend that time with my family than sitting on a boat with a bunch of strangers.
What kind of point were you trying to make, anyway?
That's the big thing. I'd knock something together myself, but if they are storing full resolution images in the DB, they're not exposed to the API
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They don't have the money to get the trans-american highway to be passable throughout central/south america, what makes you think they will be able to engineer a high speed rail line that works right?
Wait, I don't get it. Why would I want to be on a boat somewhere near rio with your family and friends. I want to be OFF a boat IN rio with MY family and friends.
>>I can hardly believe that the router mentioned was using 8 watts, what is the time period there?
8 Watts is probably about 8 Joules / Second. You know, in that ballpark.
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Really?
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They upgraded the eurostar line and you can make the trip from london->paris in 2hr 15min
I agree with the rest though. There's a lot of 'sister cities', even in the south that could stand to have transportation from one to another.
Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama or maybe Nashville/Knoxville/Chattanooga, Tennessee could use a system like that.
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If by "heavy obligations" you mean, "graduate school" then yes.
My family lives in Brazil (I'm a dual citizen), if it would take me a month each way, (two weeks being generous) to get me from nashville, TN to Rio de Janeiro, I would never get to see my family.
>> getting there is supposed to be half the fun
When you're flying to Rio de Janeiro, I'd much rather be there and on the beach with family/friends than sitting on a boat.
>> Aside from the fact that most photos on facebook are blurry drunken crap
If they were blurry and drunken, I wouldn't want them. I'm thinking things like graduation group photos or pictures from study abroad type stuff.
>> copyright issues They could make it opt-in or add it to the privacy settings "Allow [GROUP OF PEOPLE] to print photos". Or not even have the photo printing, just offer an 'original resolution' option. There's a number of ways they could work around that issue, the problem is that their upload APIs right now require that the images be prescaled before they're stored in the backened, so even if they did change the site, it would only work for photos uploaded using th enew API.
A friend of mine made a killing just going around to parties on the weekend (I went to a heavily greek-centered university) with a nice camera, taking pictures of people and uploading them to (I think) snapfish. I would think it would be a market facebook would want to expand to.
Trust me, I do ask my friends for them, and they usually get around to it. With all the drive space they have at facebook and as fat as internet connections are for my friends (either at home or at school), the extra space/time would be insignificant compared to the utility of just being able to go, "print". Besides, if facebook integrated it in the site, they could probably make a killing on letting people print directly from the interface (and take a cut along the way)
There is already a site where my friends post cool pictures from events, conveniently commented on and indexed by the people in the picture. Why should they post to another site just for a higher resolution image.
Besides, get in a big enough group, and the person who has the picture you want invariably is the laziest person ever, who just won't do it, regardless of prodding.
I wish that facebook wouldn't resize its images on the backend. My friends all post pictures from parties/trips, etc.. there, and I'd love to be able to just download the full res version to send off to be printed, but facebook resizes the largest dimension to be ~600px, which is pretty worthless for printing.
Yeah yeaj. there's other sites that don't, and I post my stuff there (to flickr, personally), but convincing that one person who took the nice photo of you to do it too is near impossible.
From (apparently poor) explanations I've dug up on the internet.
I never said they had negative mass, I was just thinking that if you have a black hole and it is losing mass, it's more important that antiparticles fall in because they will annihilate themselves and cause the black hole to lose mass as opposed to regular particles which will cause a net gain in mass.
I'm a physicist (working on my PhD), but I've had one nagging question about hawking radiation noone's been able to answer (satisfactorially)
So, the process of hawking radiation can be thought of as a particle/anti-particle pair being created near the event horizon. Suppose that one of them is juusssttt close enough to the event horizon that it falls in and the other one remains outside. We assume that (to conserve total energy) the antiparticle falls in, annihilates a regular particle trapped within the black hole and the regular particle that was just far enough away escapes. From the outside, it appears the black hole is radiating mass.
Fair enough, I can follow that.
But, I fail to follow the assumption that "in order to conserve mass, the antiparticle falls in". What does the antiparticle care? How does it 'know' it's actions? I have two things that make me question that.
A) I would think that there would be an equal probability distribution of which particle is closer to the event horizon. However, if that were the case then there would be an equal probability that normal/anti particles would fall in, and that would cause the black holes to not evaporate. We know they do, so I don't know how to rectify that. What makes the antiparticle more likely to be closer to the event horizon?
B) Suppose you were able to accrete enough antimatter that you could produce a black hole with it. Virtual particles are created on the outside. In this instance, the normal particles must fall in and the anti-particles must escape to conserve total energy. How does that happen? How can the particles see beyond the event horizon to know that's what's within?
They're probably real naiive questions, but it's not my field of study, so go easy on me:)
>Honestly, it really is worth the effort to switch.
Really? I'm a physicist and spend all my professional time working in m/s/kg units, but outside of that, what does it matter? We changed over the easier things, but the bit that's left (espcially feet/inches) don't justify the amount it would cost us to retool everything to use metric.
I never did get the obsession other people have with the units we use in the states.
My mom uses XP under a VM, and I put her disk image under the 'ignore' tree on time machine to ignore the main image, but not ignore the snapshots folder. It's not automatic, but that way it'd still be possible to go back to a snapshot if you lost the main drive.
There's health service in many countries, but it's arguable if it's the panacea makes it out to be. I just got back from being an expat in the UK. Hearing them bitch and tell horror stories about NI makes our discourse look tame by comparison.
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I figure if google can offer me 6 gigs in exchange for advertisements, facebook can toss me some storage space in exchange for my social profile. It would be nice though, I agree.
A friend tried to build a scale model once and wanted to divide the angles by the scaling factor too. He didn't think his cunning plan all the way through.
How is the conversion hard? Convert the foot+inches measurement into inches, then do your cosines and tangents. It's the exact same as using mm, except you have to convert the feet first.
It costs fucking money. That's the big deal. It's not just labeling things, it's all the tools we have set up in imperial units. You need to work on something that's made in the US, you'll often need a US wrench set. The manufacturers make things with US units because everyone has US tools that work with it.
We're gonna throw out all that equipment for what? Just to say, "wheee, we use the metric system now!" The reason we havn't done it is that we don't have a reason to.
It's not me that's the problem, it's my friends.
Does it integrate with the core photo app so that when you hit the 'photos of xxx' or 'photos of you and xxx' button it shows both the core photos and the big photos? Can you tag users that don't have the bigphoto app? If not, then it just won't fly.
You don't have to go from metropolis to metropolis. I was in germany recently and took a high speed train from bamberg (a town of about 70,000) to frankfurt (a giant town). Even small hamlets have stations with semi-regular stops.
Yeah, it would be retarded to take a train directly from chicago to NYC (unless you just really liked the view), it's just like the interstate system. I-40 goes from east coast to west coast. Nobody takes it all the way, but all the little towns that are served derive a benefit. A nice advantage of trains over airplanes is that they can stop fairly frequently. In Germany, the trains stop at smaller towns for only 2-3 minutes, so they can stop pretty often (Of course, there's a tradeoff between how long it takes total and how many stops you end up taking)
The population distribution of both bavaria and central/eastern tennessee are similar: Tiny hamlets surrounded by an asston of empty space. It works great for them, and I think, as infrastructure, is probably something that's helped them out immensely.
Their current photos have a maximum dimension of 604(ish) pixels on its longest side. Maybe increase by a factor of 4 or 9? Even 4.5PB isn't out of the realm of feasibility, it's only 4,500 1TB drives :)
(I know I know about the drives and the difference between server drives and consumer drives, and how contention on individual drives could bring the thing to a grinding halt)
god damnit, I hate snide little 'proverbs' like that.
It's not an issue of taking time off. I've traveled to either Brazil or Europe (sometimes both) every year since 2002 (around the age I could travel on my own). I very nearly am going to need new pages in my passport.
I take time off, I'm a student, I get breaks. But given that I have a finite amount of time to take off, I would MUCH rather spend that time with my family than sitting on a boat with a bunch of strangers.
What kind of point were you trying to make, anyway?
That's the big thing. I'd knock something together myself, but if they are storing full resolution images in the DB, they're not exposed to the API
They don't have the money to get the trans-american highway to be passable throughout central/south america, what makes you think they will be able to engineer a high speed rail line that works right?
Wait, I don't get it. Why would I want to be on a boat somewhere near rio with your family and friends. I want to be OFF a boat IN rio with MY family and friends.
>>I can hardly believe that the router mentioned was using 8 watts, what is the time period there?
8 Watts is probably about 8 Joules / Second. You know, in that ballpark.
Really?
They upgraded the eurostar line and you can make the trip from london->paris in 2hr 15min
I agree with the rest though. There's a lot of 'sister cities', even in the south that could stand to have transportation from one to another.
Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama or maybe Nashville/Knoxville/Chattanooga, Tennessee could use a system like that.
If by "heavy obligations" you mean, "graduate school" then yes.
My family lives in Brazil (I'm a dual citizen), if it would take me a month each way, (two weeks being generous) to get me from nashville, TN to Rio de Janeiro, I would never get to see my family.
>> getting there is supposed to be half the fun
When you're flying to Rio de Janeiro, I'd much rather be there and on the beach with family/friends than sitting on a boat.
>> Aside from the fact that most photos on facebook are blurry drunken crap
If they were blurry and drunken, I wouldn't want them. I'm thinking things like graduation group photos or pictures from study abroad type stuff.
>> copyright issues
They could make it opt-in or add it to the privacy settings "Allow [GROUP OF PEOPLE] to print photos". Or not even have the photo printing, just offer an 'original resolution' option. There's a number of ways they could work around that issue, the problem is that their upload APIs right now require that the images be prescaled before they're stored in the backened, so even if they did change the site, it would only work for photos uploaded using th enew API.
A friend of mine made a killing just going around to parties on the weekend (I went to a heavily greek-centered university) with a nice camera, taking pictures of people and uploading them to (I think) snapfish. I would think it would be a market facebook would want to expand to.
Trust me, I do ask my friends for them, and they usually get around to it. With all the drive space they have at facebook and as fat as internet connections are for my friends (either at home or at school), the extra space/time would be insignificant compared to the utility of just being able to go, "print". Besides, if facebook integrated it in the site, they could probably make a killing on letting people print directly from the interface (and take a cut along the way)
There is already a site where my friends post cool pictures from events, conveniently commented on and indexed by the people in the picture. Why should they post to another site just for a higher resolution image.
Besides, get in a big enough group, and the person who has the picture you want invariably is the laziest person ever, who just won't do it, regardless of prodding.
I wish that facebook wouldn't resize its images on the backend. My friends all post pictures from parties/trips, etc.. there, and I'd love to be able to just download the full res version to send off to be printed, but facebook resizes the largest dimension to be ~600px, which is pretty worthless for printing.
Yeah yeaj. there's other sites that don't, and I post my stuff there (to flickr, personally), but convincing that one person who took the nice photo of you to do it too is near impossible.
Man, you have got to invest in a 'y' key. 'u' isn't a word.
Also: spellcheck
From (apparently poor) explanations I've dug up on the internet.
I never said they had negative mass, I was just thinking that if you have a black hole and it is losing mass, it's more important that antiparticles fall in because they will annihilate themselves and cause the black hole to lose mass as opposed to regular particles which will cause a net gain in mass.
I'm a physicist (working on my PhD), but I've had one nagging question about hawking radiation noone's been able to answer (satisfactorially)
So, the process of hawking radiation can be thought of as a particle/anti-particle pair being created near the event horizon. Suppose that one of them is juusssttt close enough to the event horizon that it falls in and the other one remains outside. We assume that (to conserve total energy) the antiparticle falls in, annihilates a regular particle trapped within the black hole and the regular particle that was just far enough away escapes. From the outside, it appears the black hole is radiating mass.
Fair enough, I can follow that.
But, I fail to follow the assumption that "in order to conserve mass, the antiparticle falls in". What does the antiparticle care? How does it 'know' it's actions? I have two things that make me question that.
A) I would think that there would be an equal probability distribution of which particle is closer to the event horizon. However, if that were the case then there would be an equal probability that normal/anti particles would fall in, and that would cause the black holes to not evaporate. We know they do, so I don't know how to rectify that. What makes the antiparticle more likely to be closer to the event horizon?
B) Suppose you were able to accrete enough antimatter that you could produce a black hole with it. Virtual particles are created on the outside. In this instance, the normal particles must fall in and the anti-particles must escape to conserve total energy. How does that happen? How can the particles see beyond the event horizon to know that's what's within?
They're probably real naiive questions, but it's not my field of study, so go easy on me :)
When you convert lengths, you don't scale the angles too, right?
>Honestly, it really is worth the effort to switch.
Really? I'm a physicist and spend all my professional time working in m/s/kg units, but outside of that, what does it matter? We changed over the easier things, but the bit that's left (espcially feet/inches) don't justify the amount it would cost us to retool everything to use metric.
I never did get the obsession other people have with the units we use in the states.
I find it convenient to have a whole-disk image that I can drop onto a fresh drive and continue where I left off if I need to.
My mom uses XP under a VM, and I put her disk image under the 'ignore' tree on time machine to ignore the main image, but not ignore the snapshots folder. It's not automatic, but that way it'd still be possible to go back to a snapshot if you lost the main drive.
There's health service in many countries, but it's arguable if it's the panacea makes it out to be. I just got back from being an expat in the UK. Hearing them bitch and tell horror stories about NI makes our discourse look tame by comparison.