He was dismissing the paper because one author appears to not be formally trained as a meteorologist.
Again, this is more about data analysis than weather. You have hundreds (thousands?) of different stations of different quality. Some records are incomplete. Records stop and start at different times. Measurement devices change. Measurement times change.
There is not much in the way of climate science in this, just putting data together. There are implications for climate science, however.
The problem is to put all that data together intelligently. The current paper says the traditional methods are biased to the warming side. If this is not true, it should be refuted.
If you followed the climategate issues, you might realize some established climate scientists appear to have biased their own work to fit an agenda. Some also say they have also worked the peer review system to unduly suppress opposition opinions.
Attack the work, not the man or his (lack of) credentials.
AFAIK, the work is relatively simple statistical analysis of time series data. No advanced science required. I have not looked in detail, but they claim that the adjustments made to climate data are biased.
If this is an erroneous claim, it should be easy to demonstrate.
I was wondering about the advantage to using multiple constellations, since the Russians have one and the Europeans/Chinese are putting up their own.
Looks like some GPS chips are currently capable of using the Russian GLONASS. I wonder if they actually exploit that capability? I wonder if they are future ready for Galileo?
Could you put static GPS transponders inside spaces that act like stationary satellites? Might make sense in a stadium or similar.
Funny, the AT goes through Deliverance country in North Georgia.
They have small huts along the AT. On the southern end they are spaced about every 5-10 miles along the trail. You can stop and camp there on a "cot" without having to make a fire pit or pitch a tent.
After a long day we came up to a hut that was occupied. An older dirty man was there and looked like he had been there for a while. He asked us for food and we sold him some stuff cheap that we were getting rid of, as we were near a town. (Cream of Wheat, who eats that stuff?)
The creepy part was that the man had a doll collection. Just doll heads, all arranged nicely in a row. With their hair cut off.
We decided to just keep on hiking that night and take our chanced a few miles down the trail.
This was the same time that Eric Rudolph was on the loose in the same area, living out in the wild. We never saw him, but we saw a few unoccupied camps off the beaten trail.
After HS a buddy and I went camping in the mountains for a couple of weeks. It was awesome.
The summer my brother graduated from HS and I graduated from undergrad (before grad school) we hiked on the Appalachian Trail for a month. It was a life changing experience for me.
Camping does not cost much and you get some fresh air. Backpacking pushes your body and gives you time to think / reflect.
You forgot to factor in distance to the screen. 100dpi on a monitor 24" away is like 300dpi on a phone 8" away.
It is all about how much the eye can resolve. Closer, you need a higher dpi/resolution or you see more pixelation. Further away, you can get away with less dpi without pixelation.
The title of the post is about pixel resolution, asking where all the high resolution displays are.
Resolution and pixel density are two different things.
Distance plays a role too. A 9" display at less than a foot from your eyes will be different from a 30" display sitting two feet away. You don't need the same density at longer distances.
Maybe the anti-social introverts of the slashdot crowd are not the typical audience for facebook. For a lot of people, we don't mind having folks we knew 25 years ago in our friend list.
I have people in my list that I knew very well in elementary and pre-school. We drifted apart in middle school / high school but there is no reason I can't still call them a friend. Seeing a small tidbit of their life does not take much of my time and when we do meet again we are already somewhat caught up and have some reference to each other. These are folks I would not call or email, but would talk to and catch up with if I saw them at a bar or event.
Same goes for former college buddies. I have a few that I would email / call periodically, but a good many that facebook is plenty. But it also facilitates things like reunions.
Same for my students. Now I see students cycle through every few years. I knew them but we were never best buds. But it doesn't hurt anyone to see their facebook feed and know what they are up to.
Most people enjoy / appreciate that level of social interaction. Maybe that is why they were able to grow their user base and make millions and billions. Not just for farmville and privacy invasions.
My FB feed seems to be going that way. I don't know if people are dropping it, friends are blocking me, I am just losing interest, or FB is editing posts out with some algorithm. It is just not that interesting anymore.
Email took off and stayed established because it was an open interface and anyone could set up a server.
IM did well, but there were issues on the server side. At least you could write your own client. Later clients would handle a variety of servers.
I think twitter clients are fairly open, but you are still stuck with a limited server.
Where is social media going? G+ is a ghostland. I think twitter is too rapid/technically limited for a lot of people. There has to be a way to get decent interoperability for folks.
Back in the TRS 80 / Sinclair days, you generally had to copy games from a magazine into the basic interpreter. Not really programming, but you learned something from it.
I also took a few courses in elementary school, but did not program anything for real until middle / high school.
After judging FLL Middle School robotics for a while, the lack of anything on the programming side scares me a lot. They all seem to use very simple programs without any real structure or even sensor feedback. It worries me.
Don't care how thick the laptop is. I currently carry a 19" dual HD 1080P 15 lb monster laptop that comes with a note saying "Not for use on lap." Seriously.
If you are going to make a monster, why not just put a real desktop keyboard in it. What is another 1/2 inch? Heck, go ahead and slant the keyboard and make it a whole inch thicker. What do I care? I used to lug a Compaq 40 lb suitcase around. That definitely was not for laptop use.
I use LyX a lot. I always map a shortcut like ctrl-d to view-PDF so that a document preview is not very far away. Larger documents take a few seconds to render, bigger documents not so much.
It seems like you could write something to periodically export your lyx file to pdf and render in a side window, next to your editing window. How hard could that be?
Matlab has an interpreter too. And their latest editor is pretty slick, it lets you know which lines of code have syntax errors before you even try to run them. (warnings too). Plus memory trace and debug tools are pretty decent now as well. Not sure what python has along those lines, but I assume there are a few options.
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I do know how printers work. I don't understand why they can't have a hard copy paper trail.
You use the machine to cast your vote, you get a hard copy to review and put in a pile.
Audit a given number of sites to see that the machine count and paper count match.
You get the benefits of the automated system that can be reviewed by a human.
Cleanshaven, save goatee.
I accidentally read this as goatse. Not. the. same.
If I don't do online assignment submission and I hand back graded tests in class, why should I use blackboard?
A simple web page with a few pdfs seems to suffice for me but I am waiting to be convinced otherwise.
I have resisted using blackboard for over a decade.
Toady I polled my class and they unanimously did not like it.
I will continue to distribute course materials from an online web page. I will continue to email the class.
And I will continue to edit pages in vi until the day I die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CeiPJaHuoQ/
He was dismissing the paper because one author appears to not be formally trained as a meteorologist.
Again, this is more about data analysis than weather. You have hundreds (thousands?) of different stations of different quality. Some records are incomplete. Records stop and start at different times. Measurement devices change. Measurement times change.
There is not much in the way of climate science in this, just putting data together. There are implications for climate science, however.
The problem is to put all that data together intelligently. The current paper says the traditional methods are biased to the warming side. If this is not true, it should be refuted.
If you followed the climategate issues, you might realize some established climate scientists appear to have biased their own work to fit an agenda. Some also say they have also worked the peer review system to unduly suppress opposition opinions.
Attack the work, not the man or his (lack of) credentials.
AFAIK, the work is relatively simple statistical analysis of time series data. No advanced science required. I have not looked in detail, but they claim that the adjustments made to climate data are biased.
If this is an erroneous claim, it should be easy to demonstrate.
I was wondering about the advantage to using multiple constellations, since the Russians have one and the Europeans/Chinese are putting up their own.
Looks like some GPS chips are currently capable of using the Russian GLONASS. I wonder if they actually exploit that capability? I wonder if they are future ready for Galileo?
Could you put static GPS transponders inside spaces that act like stationary satellites? Might make sense in a stadium or similar.
Funny, the AT goes through Deliverance country in North Georgia.
They have small huts along the AT. On the southern end they are spaced about every 5-10 miles along the trail. You can stop and camp there on a "cot" without having to make a fire pit or pitch a tent.
After a long day we came up to a hut that was occupied. An older dirty man was there and looked like he had been there for a while. He asked us for food and we sold him some stuff cheap that we were getting rid of, as we were near a town. (Cream of Wheat, who eats that stuff?)
The creepy part was that the man had a doll collection. Just doll heads, all arranged nicely in a row. With their hair cut off.
We decided to just keep on hiking that night and take our chanced a few miles down the trail.
This was the same time that Eric Rudolph was on the loose in the same area, living out in the wild. We never saw him, but we saw a few unoccupied camps off the beaten trail.
tldr: no deliverance but some nutty folks.
After HS a buddy and I went camping in the mountains for a couple of weeks. It was awesome.
The summer my brother graduated from HS and I graduated from undergrad (before grad school) we hiked on the Appalachian Trail for a month. It was a life changing experience for me.
Camping does not cost much and you get some fresh air. Backpacking pushes your body and gives you time to think / reflect.
And you can meet some interesting folks...
Do you have some right to privacy when you are talking with someone in a public space?
They are not recording folks in their home. You have privacy in private place. Maybe there is some relation between the two?
It is like having a nosy person listen in on the bus. Don't want folks listening in? Find a private place for your conversation.
You read articles? You must be new here.
I don't think we call them articles anymore, they are slashvertisements. RTFS
He is correct.
You forgot to factor in distance to the screen. 100dpi on a monitor 24" away is like 300dpi on a phone 8" away.
It is all about how much the eye can resolve. Closer, you need a higher dpi/resolution or you see more pixelation. Further away, you can get away with less dpi without pixelation.
The title of the post is about pixel resolution, asking where all the high resolution displays are.
Resolution and pixel density are two different things.
Distance plays a role too. A 9" display at less than a foot from your eyes will be different from a 30" display sitting two feet away. You don't need the same density at longer distances.
Here the TV chart, they don't have detail at the low end. http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charted-viewing-distance-to-screen-size/
Where are the 2k and 4k displays? Maybe they are waiting for that resolution since you can just double or quadruple things?
What are you talking about? I have been using a 2560x1600 30" for years. It runs 1080p in a little window.
IBM had a super hi-res (3kx2k?) a decade ago, but they pulled it. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
Maybe the anti-social introverts of the slashdot crowd are not the typical audience for facebook. For a lot of people, we don't mind having folks we knew 25 years ago in our friend list.
I have people in my list that I knew very well in elementary and pre-school. We drifted apart in middle school / high school but there is no reason I can't still call them a friend. Seeing a small tidbit of their life does not take much of my time and when we do meet again we are already somewhat caught up and have some reference to each other. These are folks I would not call or email, but would talk to and catch up with if I saw them at a bar or event.
Same goes for former college buddies. I have a few that I would email / call periodically, but a good many that facebook is plenty. But it also facilitates things like reunions.
Same for my students. Now I see students cycle through every few years. I knew them but we were never best buds. But it doesn't hurt anyone to see their facebook feed and know what they are up to.
Most people enjoy / appreciate that level of social interaction. Maybe that is why they were able to grow their user base and make millions and billions. Not just for farmville and privacy invasions.
My FB feed seems to be going that way. I don't know if people are dropping it, friends are blocking me, I am just losing interest, or FB is editing posts out with some algorithm. It is just not that interesting anymore.
Email took off and stayed established because it was an open interface and anyone could set up a server.
IM did well, but there were issues on the server side. At least you could write your own client. Later clients would handle a variety of servers.
I think twitter clients are fairly open, but you are still stuck with a limited server.
Where is social media going? G+ is a ghostland. I think twitter is too rapid/technically limited for a lot of people. There has to be a way to get decent interoperability for folks.
For years I have used rsync scripts.
My problem was syncing a desktop and a laptop. So I made upload_to and download_from scripts to sync as needed.
I also try to keep a third master backup copy on a different server so all three are synced.
One problem comes when trying to work on both desktop and laptop simultaneously. Just map a drive and modify files on one side.
Back in the TRS 80 / Sinclair days, you generally had to copy games from a magazine into the basic interpreter. Not really programming, but you learned something from it.
I also took a few courses in elementary school, but did not program anything for real until middle / high school.
After judging FLL Middle School robotics for a while, the lack of anything on the programming side scares me a lot. They all seem to use very simple programs without any real structure or even sensor feedback. It worries me.
Don't care how thick the laptop is. I currently carry a 19" dual HD 1080P 15 lb monster laptop that comes with a note saying "Not for use on lap." Seriously.
If you are going to make a monster, why not just put a real desktop keyboard in it. What is another 1/2 inch? Heck, go ahead and slant the keyboard and make it a whole inch thicker. What do I care? I used to lug a Compaq 40 lb suitcase around. That definitely was not for laptop use.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a laptop with deep key press? Most laptops and even a lot of desktops (apple) have very little key motion.
I know the Tandy Model 100 was pretty good, but that is a little dated technology-wise.
I think that is the only laptop I have ever seen with a real full-depth keypress keyboard. I sometimes wish I had picked one up...
I use LyX a lot. I always map a shortcut like ctrl-d to view-PDF so that a document preview is not very far away. Larger documents take a few seconds to render, bigger documents not so much.
It seems like you could write something to periodically export your lyx file to pdf and render in a side window, next to your editing window. How hard could that be?
Matlab has an interpreter too. And their latest editor is pretty slick, it lets you know which lines of code have syntax errors before you even try to run them. (warnings too). Plus memory trace and debug tools are pretty decent now as well. Not sure what python has along those lines, but I assume there are a few options.
If my math is close, if you double the g you cut the length required in half.
Still, a 500 mile long tube 20 miles in the air seems a bit silly.
10-20 miles long seems more reasonable, but the g forces get a little nutty.