Is it true that the next eruption of Yellowstone is overdue?
No. The fact that two eruptive intervals (2.1 million to 1.3 million and 1.3 million to 640,000 years ago) are of similar length does not mean that the next eruption will necessarily occur after another similar interval. The physical mechanisms may have changed with time. Furthermore, any inferences based on these two intervals would take into account too few data to be statistically meaningful. To say that an eruption that might happen in ten's or hundred's of thousand's of years is "overdue" would be a gross overstatement. On the other hand we cannot discount the possibility of such an event occurring some time in the future, given Yellowstone's volcanic history and the continued presence of magma beneath the Yellowstone caldera.
The problem with your analogy is that TV screens are all the same resolution. Web-sites DO scale to fit 14-inch or 32-inch monitors, as long as they are all at the same resolution. The problem is the inherent multi-purpose background of the PC, which gives the user the ability to customize far more than is possible than with television.
TV content authors only have to design for a very small set of possible end-user configurations; PAL or NTSC, HD or non-HD. Web content authors have to design for literally millions of possible configurations, and without some kind of standards separate from any individual display mechanisms (IE, Mozilla) this would never be possible. Praise be the w3c.
The key distribution problem can be partially solved by quantum mechanics using the idea of quantum key distribution (QKD). The first and best-known protocol, usually called "BB84" because it was published in 1984 by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard,6 is described in the box below. In a prototypical QKD protocol, Alice sends some nonorthogonal quantum states to Bob, who makes some measurements. Then, by talking on the phone (which need not be secure), they decide if Eve has tampered with the quantum states. If not, they have a shared key that is guaranteed to be secret. Note that Alice and Bob must share some authentication information to begin with; otherwise, Bob has no way to know that the person on the phone is really Alice, and not a clever mimic. The key generated by QKD can subsequently be used for both encryption and authentication, thus achieving two major goals in cryptography.
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Actually I never caught why Slashdot is so anit-Amazon.com, could somone perhaps post a summary or a like to an article of the issue-in-question? And yes, I tried the search, it came up with hundreds of results which would take hours to wade through to have even a basic understanding. A concise paragraph and a link to a Slashdot article would be nice. Thanks!
You forgot the 'backlash' stage where the original fans are in outrage at the decapitation of our beloved fandom. This is exactly why I don't want to ever see an anime network. No not even if it was all un-cut and subtitled (I hate dubs). It would still be commercialized to hell, and I just couldn't take it. Right now I wish the mainstream had never heard of anime, and my friends and I would still be watching it fansubbed in small groups and enjoying it like we always did. I love anime, and that's exactly why I DON'T want to see an all anime channel.
The first part of Memories is really fantastic, and I'd love to see it on a big screen, nevermind if it's a bit older. My advice to anybody luck enough to be able to attend this is to watch the first portion ("Magnetic Rose") and then don't bother with parts 2 and 3 ("Stink Bomb" and "Cannon Fodder"). But back to Magnetic Rose for a second, I wish the whole movie had been Magnetic Rose, it could have stood to be a lot longer. Some may scream blasphemy for my saying this, but I would even like to see it as a Western, live action, feature film. I think Western and Eastern audiances both would love it, so why not?
My younger sister is an AVA, or Amateur Voice Actress online. There's quite a community of voice actors, who frequently produce original radio plays, and those based on books, movies, anime or TV.
Fanfiction is perhaps the most popular form of online voice acting, as the producers and actors are able to take more liberties. Fandubs (generally the fan-dubbing of anime) are quite popular, as are rewriting books into script-format and recording them.
These generally turn out fairly well, sometimes better than professional dubs, and the actors record their lines in their own homes, without ever having met the rest of the cast.
The most popular site for AVA's is FLAVA (Fun Lovin' Aspiring Voice Actors).
The VAA (Voice Acting Alliance) is a very good place to learn more about how these productions are made.
One of the most popular original online radio plays, which is beautifully mixed, is Legacy of a Hero, and definitely sets the standard for amateur producing and acting. LoaH is highly recommended listening.
In short, online voice acting, in people's homes, mixed with lines of other cast members whom they've never met, can work out incredibly well, and have been doing so for several years.
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Be careful--new moon tonight.
From the US Geological Survey's Yellowstone Page.
Yeah, the first one's always free, then you're hooked.
My favourite programmer is myself.
The problem with your analogy is that TV screens are all the same resolution. Web-sites DO scale to fit 14-inch or 32-inch monitors, as long as they are all at the same resolution. The problem is the inherent multi-purpose background of the PC, which gives the user the ability to customize far more than is possible than with television.
TV content authors only have to design for a very small set of possible end-user configurations; PAL or NTSC, HD or non-HD. Web content authors have to design for literally millions of possible configurations, and without some kind of standards separate from any individual display mechanisms (IE, Mozilla) this would never be possible. Praise be the w3c.
DNA was a well-known and outspoken Mac user, and he was British as all get-out.
I survived Trilogy Tuesday and all I got was this Ring...
Which was meta-modded as 'Funny'.
welcome our new machine overlords.
There -is- a God Particle!
Agreed, I'm glad the reason it's moving so slowly is 'so it can do more measurements' instead of 'it broke'.
Waoh, the rumours of the daystar are TRUE!
The key distribution problem can be partially solved by quantum mechanics using the idea of quantum key distribution (QKD). The first and best-known protocol, usually called "BB84" because it was published in 1984 by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard,6 is described in the box below. In a prototypical QKD protocol, Alice sends some nonorthogonal quantum states to Bob, who makes some measurements. Then, by talking on the phone (which need not be secure), they decide if Eve has tampered with the quantum states. If not, they have a shared key that is guaranteed to be secret. Note that Alice and Bob must share some authentication information to begin with; otherwise, Bob has no way to know that the person on the phone is really Alice, and not a clever mimic. The key generated by QKD can subsequently be used for both encryption and authentication, thus achieving two major goals in cryptography.
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Actually I never caught why Slashdot is so anit-Amazon.com, could somone perhaps post a summary or a like to an article of the issue-in-question? And yes, I tried the search, it came up with hundreds of results which would take hours to wade through to have even a basic understanding. A concise paragraph and a link to a Slashdot article would be nice. Thanks!
You forgot the 'backlash' stage where the original fans are in outrage at the decapitation of our beloved fandom. This is exactly why I don't want to ever see an anime network. No not even if it was all un-cut and subtitled (I hate dubs). It would still be commercialized to hell, and I just couldn't take it. Right now I wish the mainstream had never heard of anime, and my friends and I would still be watching it fansubbed in small groups and enjoying it like we always did. I love anime, and that's exactly why I DON'T want to see an all anime channel.
The first part of Memories is really fantastic, and I'd love to see it on a big screen, nevermind if it's a bit older. My advice to anybody luck enough to be able to attend this is to watch the first portion ("Magnetic Rose") and then don't bother with parts 2 and 3 ("Stink Bomb" and "Cannon Fodder"). But back to Magnetic Rose for a second, I wish the whole movie had been Magnetic Rose, it could have stood to be a lot longer. Some may scream blasphemy for my saying this, but I would even like to see it as a Western, live action, feature film. I think Western and Eastern audiances both would love it, so why not?
My younger sister is an AVA, or Amateur Voice Actress online. There's quite a community of voice actors, who frequently produce original radio plays, and those based on books, movies, anime or TV.
Fanfiction is perhaps the most popular form of online voice acting, as the producers and actors are able to take more liberties. Fandubs (generally the fan-dubbing of anime) are quite popular, as are rewriting books into script-format and recording them.
These generally turn out fairly well, sometimes better than professional dubs, and the actors record their lines in their own homes, without ever having met the rest of the cast.
The most popular site for AVA's is FLAVA (Fun Lovin' Aspiring Voice Actors).
The VAA (Voice Acting Alliance) is a very good place to learn more about how these productions are made.
One of the most popular original online radio plays, which is beautifully mixed, is Legacy of a Hero, and definitely sets the standard for amateur producing and acting. LoaH is highly recommended listening.
My sister's AVA resume will give an example of the range of productions.
In short, online voice acting, in people's homes, mixed with lines of other cast members whom they've never met, can work out incredibly well, and have been doing so for several years.
C'mon, we all know what the real use of a mood-sensing computer is. Can you say ren'ai? That's dating / romance sim games for you Westerners!
"Look, when I smile at Kimiko-chan, she smiles back..."