Watching our local and state election campaigns unfold, I saw numerous, very negative adds on TV made by third parties. It occured to me that the negative adds were paid for by establishment types trying to protect their status quo. I'm not particularly fond of the status quo in politics right now so I decided to not vote for the lesser of two evils like the establishment wanted but for the greater of two evils! Honestly nobody can be as evil as the PAC commercials make out the other guy to be. The next person I vote for for president is going to be the kind of person that clubs baby harp seals to death, trips little old ladies as they push their walkers down the isle and eats Sweetbread and Fava beans in front of Hanable Lecter without sharing; at least according to the PACs
A nation has three pillars of influence, diplomatic, economic and military; It used to be the the real purpose of War was to insure that countries would be preferentially amenable to the other two pillars of influence. Unfortunately the world is getting increasingly stupid and stubborn and unresponsive to diplomatic and economic pressure, and to be entirely honest the "pointless fucking wars the US has been waging for 40 years" have mostly been UN wars where the US and Great Britain have been stuck doing the heavy lifting and the 40 years would be more like 50 or 60 now.
Ubuntu probably thought it would have more time to become the king of the desktop before realizing that soon the desktop would be irrelevant and that *nix alternatives had already beaten it to the punch for being the kings of mobile.
At this point, he should probably start thinking further down the road to gesture and voice computing. My kinect tells me that it's almost time to stop touching devices at all, and I believe it.
Oh yeah like
Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005.[4] Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. It is a participant in the Open Handset Alliance.[5] Unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked first among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the second and third quarter of 2010,[6][7][8] with a third quarter market share of 43.6%.[9] Android
well honestly Android, a *nix OS isn't the big kahuna, but
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. Developed originally for the iPhone, it has since been shipped on the iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV as well. Apple does not permit the OS to run on third-party hardware. As of October 20, 2010 (2010 -10-20)[update], Apple's App Store contains more than 300,000 iOS applications[1], which have collectively been downloaded more than 7.5 billion times, as per a keynote on October 20, 2010. As of May 2010, it had a 15.4% share of the smartphone operating system market in terms of units sold,... iOS is derived from Mac OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation, and is therefore a Unix-like operating system by nature. iOS (Apple)
Your friends main problems will be first swelling in the hand and secondly nerve damage. I did a pretty good number on my hand, second degree burns and 3 day stay at the regonal burn center, my MD was surprised that I could feel anything on my thumb and fingers, I think I had about 50% sensation, but was lucky and it all most all came back over time. With 3rd degree burns he'll probably have permanent loss and need skin grafting, I just missed needing skin grafts. He probably will not be affected as much as you are assuming, most of the dexterity comes from the wrist and arm, I'm a dental technician and was able to write after a week, and work which involved intricate carving wax 6 weeks after the accident. while I was off work I was knitting chain maille to pass the time. As soon as they get him into a compression garment he'll know what he can and can't do any more.
Firefox user agent switcher, it reports to web sites that it is IE 6-8, Googlebot 2.1, MSNbot 1.1, Yahoo Slurp and Iphone 3.0, out of the box; and you can add any user agent you want too, even make up your own. I'll have to play with it more than I have, a lot of sites let Googlebots through their paywalls, but not user browsers.
Neutrinos interact so infrequently with normal matter that attenuation wouldn't be a problem, perhaps collimation would pose challenging. Right now Fermilab is shooting neutrinos through a 1000 kilometers of dirt and rock.
Artificial light gets my vote, poultry farmers even raise chickens under 24-7 light to decrease production time and increase egg production. The long exposure to light stimulates the pituitary gland, it's either that or cell phone radiation.
No they aren't, but I bet they have enough luminousity in their beam to make reconfirmation a bit easier. Maybe they'll shoot a neutrino beam at the detector;
* The neutrino beam is produced using 8 GeV protons from the Fermilab booster.
* The neutrinos are delivered in bursts lasting 1.5 millionths of a second, 5 times per second.
* The BooNE horn is used to focus the intense, high-energy particle beam and create an intense beam of neutrinos. The horn:
-operates at 170 kA for 150 millionths of a second;
-pulses five times per second;
-must be able to withstand these extreme conditions for 100 million pulses.
* The BooNE horn has already endured more pulses than any other horn ever!
* By switching the polarity of the horns, the neutrino beam can be converted into an anti-neutrino beam. About the BooNE neutrino beam
If 8Gev is interesting imagine how exiting 7Tev would be! It's not like many of the neutrinos are going to hit anything between CERN and FermiLab.
People used to think we was nuts for setting up the artic liners in our tents, until they went inside and discovered that the insulation that kept the heat in when it was cold also kept the heat out.
When the other business can defer costs and the local ones can't, it makes for an unfair trading scheme. The "fix" is to tax imported goods according to the standards (environmental, worker) in the country the product was made. That directly addresses one and indirectly addresses the other.
Many people would love that, but free trade treaties would get in the way. The only ones who would benefit would be the lawyers argueing the cases before the international courts, as usual.
You know the really sad part is that n-hexane isn't particularly toxic, it is esentually pureified gasoline, paint thinner or lighter fluid. A pair of nitrile glove would protect the workers from skin absorbtion and they cost U$ 6.95 per box of 100 by weight in case lots. You've got to be exposed boatloads of it to do damage, because it's not water soluble!
First it wasn't a power failure the caused the problem, it was a cable problem. I imagine those cables have intrusion protection, which if it's anything like the old 4-wire secure telephone lines they have a lot more false alarms than they have missed alarms. It would be like your server room's network shuts down any time a ping detects a signal reflection change to foil a man-in-the-middle attack or a snooping device.
Thumb of Michigan, the every station for kerosene would have been more accurately every station I go to. the kerosene pumps even have shortened hoses to make it difficult to fuel a motor vehicle with kerosene by mistake and dodge road use taxes Kerosene is used for heaters and lamps. Winter ice storms can knock out power for days in some rural places and it gets quite cold.
I'm not sure that the MEMS sensors used in hardrives would tell you anything useful, in seismology 60 Hz is high frequency and 0.01 Hz is low frequency and it seems that this would be well out of the MEMS band of sensitivity, the amplitudes aren't always that high either. Additionally a data center seems like it would have massive amounts of audio frequency vibrations from cooling fans, lots of 60Hz noise from AC power and lower frequency rumbles from the HVAC systems operation. This just seems like a computational nightmare. I've thought that a seismograph could be constructed using laser mice as the detectors, instead of magnetic coils. easier to work with using retired computers.
The thing is, they can't. As others have pointed out from actually reading TFA, the software is to help prioritize disaster relief efforts, not predict the unpredictable.
Let me know how your fortune telling pans out (even so-called weather prediction is actually just a forecast based on statistical models that generally do not hold up, hence why such "predictions" can only be made with a degree of certainty leading up to a probability of 0 (for a non-event) or 1 (for an event) at the time predicted.
Actually they are not predicting the event but are predicting the damage radius from the event. There is a damage zone where buildings look OK but really are dangerous to occupy, being able to predict how big this zone is would be very useful, you don't want to use a building that will fall down in the next after-shock as a shelter. The existing network has some serious latency, the last Earthquake I felt here in Michigan took an hour to get posted to IRIS.
I can't imagine a gas station that doesn't sell diesel fuel, diesel fueled vehicles aren't a majority yet in the US but they are by no means rare either. Mercedes have been selling diesel fueled cars in the US since Christ was a corporal, VW has been selling a boat load of TDIs and the big 3 have been selling almost as many diesel pickup trucks as gasoline. Hell around here even kerosene is at every gas station, which at 14:1 compression would probably run pretty well in that engine too.
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I know it seems that way but there are signs of change coming.
In a vote of 7-0, The most prolific climate revisionist editor ever at Wikipedia, with over 5400 article revisions has been banned from making any edits about climate related articles for six months.William Connolley, now “climate topic banned” at Wikipedia
So what was he banned for?
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Basically he doesn't play well with others, is rude to people who disagrees with him and most of the stuff that most of us have learned to not do by the time we got to kindergarten. So many people seem to be Narcissistic now and social media and wikipedia just gives them a new venues to bully others around.
It's not, but a 5 month interplanetary trip is a challenging dress rehearsal for interstellar. Going to the Moon we barely got out of the Earth's magnetosphere, going to Mars is going to be more like being in real outer space and a 6 month trip with a 6 month stay over is a lot more like a spaceship being in space as a steady state. Also going to another star is a one-way trip, the Twin paradox means once you get to another star there is no guarantee the Earth will still be habitable when you get back.
Adam and Jamie with a 2000 year old death-ray and a Secret Service Limo, means something is going to either catch on fire or blow up and I'll be waiting with bated breath.
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yes China, France and Russia, just roll over and play dead when we snap our fingers.
Watching our local and state election campaigns unfold, I saw numerous, very negative adds on TV made by third parties. It occured to me that the negative adds were paid for by establishment types trying to protect their status quo. I'm not particularly fond of the status quo in politics right now so I decided to not vote for the lesser of two evils like the establishment wanted but for the greater of two evils! Honestly nobody can be as evil as the PAC commercials make out the other guy to be. The next person I vote for for president is going to be the kind of person that clubs baby harp seals to death, trips little old ladies as they push their walkers down the isle and eats Sweetbread and Fava beans in front of Hanable Lecter without sharing; at least according to the PACs
A nation has three pillars of influence, diplomatic, economic and military; It used to be the the real purpose of War was to insure that countries would be preferentially amenable to the other two pillars of influence. Unfortunately the world is getting increasingly stupid and stubborn and unresponsive to diplomatic and economic pressure, and to be entirely honest the "pointless fucking wars the US has been waging for 40 years" have mostly been UN wars where the US and Great Britain have been stuck doing the heavy lifting and the 40 years would be more like 50 or 60 now.
Ubuntu probably thought it would have more time to become the king of the desktop before realizing that soon the desktop would be irrelevant and that *nix alternatives had already beaten it to the punch for being the kings of mobile.
At this point, he should probably start thinking further down the road to gesture and voice computing. My kinect tells me that it's almost time to stop touching devices at all, and I believe it.
Oh yeah like
well honestly Android, a *nix OS isn't the big kahuna, but
a *nix OS certainly is.
if I had mod points, I'd be torn between funny and insightful.
Your friends main problems will be first swelling in the hand and secondly nerve damage. I did a pretty good number on my hand, second degree burns and 3 day stay at the regonal burn center, my MD was surprised that I could feel anything on my thumb and fingers, I think I had about 50% sensation, but was lucky and it all most all came back over time. With 3rd degree burns he'll probably have permanent loss and need skin grafting, I just missed needing skin grafts. He probably will not be affected as much as you are assuming, most of the dexterity comes from the wrist and arm, I'm a dental technician and was able to write after a week, and work which involved intricate carving wax 6 weeks after the accident. while I was off work I was knitting chain maille to pass the time. As soon as they get him into a compression garment he'll know what he can and can't do any more.
"chrispederick.com,
The personal web site of Chris Pederick and home of the Web Developer browser extension"
Kind of like the "large Hardon Collider"
Firefox user agent switcher, it reports to web sites that it is IE 6-8, Googlebot 2.1, MSNbot 1.1, Yahoo Slurp and Iphone 3.0, out of the box; and you can add any user agent you want too, even make up your own. I'll have to play with it more than I have, a lot of sites let Googlebots through their paywalls, but not user browsers.
Neutrinos interact so infrequently with normal matter that attenuation wouldn't be a problem, perhaps collimation would pose challenging. Right now Fermilab is shooting neutrinos through a 1000 kilometers of dirt and rock.
Artificial light gets my vote, poultry farmers even raise chickens under 24-7 light to decrease production time and increase egg production. The long exposure to light stimulates the pituitary gland, it's either that or cell phone radiation.
Why, it pretty certain you wouldn't get flukes are a nasty virus from lab grown pate.
No they aren't, but I bet they have enough luminousity in their beam to make reconfirmation a bit easier. Maybe they'll shoot a neutrino beam at the detector;
If 8Gev is interesting imagine how exiting 7Tev would be! It's not like many of the neutrinos are going to hit anything between CERN and FermiLab.
People used to think we was nuts for setting up the artic liners in our tents, until they went inside and discovered that the insulation that kept the heat in when it was cold also kept the heat out.
When the other business can defer costs and the local ones can't, it makes for an unfair trading scheme. The "fix" is to tax imported goods according to the standards (environmental, worker) in the country the product was made. That directly addresses one and indirectly addresses the other.
Many people would love that, but free trade treaties would get in the way. The only ones who would benefit would be the lawyers argueing the cases before the international courts, as usual.
You know the really sad part is that n-hexane isn't particularly toxic, it is esentually pureified gasoline, paint thinner or lighter fluid. A pair of nitrile glove would protect the workers from skin absorbtion and they cost U$ 6.95 per box of 100 by weight in case lots. You've got to be exposed boatloads of it to do damage, because it's not water soluble!
First it wasn't a power failure the caused the problem, it was a cable problem. I imagine those cables have intrusion protection, which if it's anything like the old 4-wire secure telephone lines they have a lot more false alarms than they have missed alarms. It would be like your server room's network shuts down any time a ping detects a signal reflection change to foil a man-in-the-middle attack or a snooping device.
Thumb of Michigan, the every station for kerosene would have been more accurately every station I go to. the kerosene pumps even have shortened hoses to make it difficult to fuel a motor vehicle with kerosene by mistake and dodge road use taxes Kerosene is used for heaters and lamps. Winter ice storms can knock out power for days in some rural places and it gets quite cold.
I'm not sure that the MEMS sensors used in hardrives would tell you anything useful, in seismology 60 Hz is high frequency and 0.01 Hz is low frequency and it seems that this would be well out of the MEMS band of sensitivity, the amplitudes aren't always that high either. Additionally a data center seems like it would have massive amounts of audio frequency vibrations from cooling fans, lots of 60Hz noise from AC power and lower frequency rumbles from the HVAC systems operation. This just seems like a computational nightmare. I've thought that a seismograph could be constructed using laser mice as the detectors, instead of magnetic coils. easier to work with using retired computers.
The thing is, they can't. As others have pointed out from actually reading TFA, the software is to help prioritize disaster relief efforts, not predict the unpredictable.
Let me know how your fortune telling pans out (even so-called weather prediction is actually just a forecast based on statistical models that generally do not hold up, hence why such "predictions" can only be made with a degree of certainty leading up to a probability of 0 (for a non-event) or 1 (for an event) at the time predicted.
Actually they are not predicting the event but are predicting the damage radius from the event. There is a damage zone where buildings look OK but really are dangerous to occupy, being able to predict how big this zone is would be very useful, you don't want to use a building that will fall down in the next after-shock as a shelter. The existing network has some serious latency, the last Earthquake I felt here in Michigan took an hour to get posted to IRIS.
With a compression ratio of 14:1, the SKYACTIV-G will put out NOx in the diesel range.
I can't imagine a gas station that doesn't sell diesel fuel, diesel fueled vehicles aren't a majority yet in the US but they are by no means rare either. Mercedes have been selling diesel fueled cars in the US since Christ was a corporal, VW has been selling a boat load of TDIs and the big 3 have been selling almost as many diesel pickup trucks as gasoline. Hell around here even kerosene is at every gas station, which at 14:1 compression would probably run pretty well in that engine too.
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So what was he banned for?
Basically he doesn't play well with others, is rude to people who disagrees with him and most of the stuff that most of us have learned to not do by the time we got to kindergarten. So many people seem to be Narcissistic now and social media and wikipedia just gives them a new venues to bully others around.
Hundred Year Starship: An Apollo-like Push to the Stars? is a much better written article than the one linked to in the summary. Are you use chrome+/. on windows, I don't have problems in linux.
It's not, but a 5 month interplanetary trip is a challenging dress rehearsal for interstellar. Going to the Moon we barely got out of the Earth's magnetosphere, going to Mars is going to be more like being in real outer space and a 6 month trip with a 6 month stay over is a lot more like a spaceship being in space as a steady state. Also going to another star is a one-way trip, the Twin paradox means once you get to another star there is no guarantee the Earth will still be habitable when you get back.
Adam and Jamie with a 2000 year old death-ray and a Secret Service Limo, means something is going to either catch on fire or blow up and I'll be waiting with bated breath.