The map is showing the deviation from an ideal spheroid that would result in the observed gravity variation. So, positive meters basically means that if the Earth were made of stuff of a uniform density, the surface of the earth would be this many meters above the ideal surface (gravity is weaker here than expected). Conversely, negative meters means gravity is stronger here than expected, and so correlates to a "low" (low elevation being closer to the center of mass of the earth, meaning stronger gravity).
The map is essentially showing what the surface of the earth would look like if all variation in gravity (what they observed) was due to variation in the shape of the earth, rather than density. At least, I think that is what they are showing - I don't think the article actually states if this is raw data or if it has been processed (to apply a free-air correction, for example, which would remove variability due to the actual variations in elevation of the earth's surface).
Make sense? It isn't as complicated as my half-assed explanation might make it seem (well, it is complicated, but the concept is simple).
As long as I can continue to purchase and download software as normal I couldn't care less about an MS app store. The second they try to lock down Windows so you must use their app store, I'll be gone from the Windows platform and won't look back.
So, whatever. Don't care. If Microsoft decides to shoot themselves in the foot trying to push this, they are easily replaceable.
... I doubt they lose that much money in early termination due to deceased individuals.
For the record they do loose that much money. If you got a top end phone for "free" with your contract, it cost the phone company the full wholesale price.
I'm not sure they do. I haven't seen a "top-end" phone offered for free by any of the big cell companies lately. According to iSupply, the new iPhone costs about $190 to make (parts only, say $250 with labor and shipping). Assuming they make a nice profit, I'm guessing they sell them for around $350 to AT&T (yes, I realize that AT&T is not Verizon and Verizon does not sell the iPhone, but it is the newest phone on the market so probably illustrative of worst-case costs). AT&T then turns around and sells it (with contract) for $199, meaning AT&T ate $151 which they need to make up over the 2-year contract (24 months, so about $6.30 a month).
Just found this indicating that the Motorola Droid was about the same cost on release, suggesting the cost is pretty consistent for top-end phones. So, barring some outrageous profits for the phone makers (which seems possible for the iPhone, less-so for Android makers), it seems extremely unlikely that Verizon comes anywhere close to incurring $350 for an early termination for a single device. They probably try to justify this by using the imaginary "full retail price" (I think it is $500 or so for the Droid) as their cost basis.
High frequency trading allows rapid price normalization between exchanges, which is good, and while the rate of the fluctuations is faster, that doesn't necessarily change the average value over time.
(emphasis mine)
No, it doesn't. High frequency trading requires rapid price normalization between exchanges, because otherwise the high-frequency traders rapidly exploit the differences (as the article suggests happened here). What allows rapid price normalization between exchanges is the ability of the system to handle a high volume of trades executed very quickly - which sounds like "high frequency trading," and indeed this would be a good description of it, if the term as used here didn't mean something else.
The HF traders basically take advantage of "large" orders hitting one exchange, then rapidly buying or selling (depending on the order or trend of orders) on the other exchanges before those exchanges have a chance to react (and, if the article is to be believed, apparently giving themselves more time to execute their shorts and longs on these temporary, artificial differences by bogging down the central exchange with unnecessary quote requests).
The HF traders are basically middlemen, taking advantage of their position to eat up a miniscule portion of the difference between offered sell and buy prices for essentially all the trades that occur. They create the illusion of increased liquidity in the market, but by design they don't really result in increased liquidity - ideally (for them), the only time they buy is when a buyer has already been identified that will buy from them at a marginally higher price (the opposite for selling).
No kidding. I didn't even really notice it until everyone started making a big deal out of it. Just background noise. It's a nice improvement over the craptastic ESPN commentary, anyway (though this seems to have maybe kinda sorta gotten better in the last couple games).
Fusion is relatively easy to achieve on a small scale. What's extremely hard to achieve, judged on the efforts of various organizations over the past 60 years, is fusion that produces more power than it consumes.
Not easy maybe, but certainly been done numerous times before...
Doubt it. It turns out users like the inability to install viruses along with all the crappy screensavers and free games they want to install. Yes, the walls keep the users in; but they also keep the device secure.*
* More secure than an open desktop with a user who wants to browse the Internet for silly software (esheep, blinking lights, free screensavers, etc. etc.)
Who cares if the system is secure if all you are doing is browsing for blinking sheep screensavers?
I had a Macintosh Performa 6300 that was being used as a shared family computer back then. At Ease allowed me to set up a relatively safe and secure way to share that computer with our kids, without giving them access to absolutely everything.
I never understood this point of view. Why wouldn't you want the system wide open and available for your kids to tinker with? How are they going to learn anything if you keep them confined to this walled garden? What would it have been like for our generation if our Commodores or Apple IIs or whatnot didn't let us do anything but run those idiotic learning games that schools tried to force on us? I sure as hell wouldn't have developed an appreciation for or interest in computers while being confined to a few "permitted" applications with no access to the underpinnings of the system.
I could perhaps understand this if you had one computer at home that you use for ultra-important tasks, but I really can't think of anyone with this limitation. Anyone whose life or livelihood is that dependent on a working computer at home has one dedicated to this ultra-important task and one (or more) for the kids and others to screw around with - it isn't like kids that are likely to screw up your system are really going to need the latest and greatest hardware.
First get rid of that ridiculous Imperial system and then we'll talk. The English invented it and even they gave it up. The US is the last country left that uses Imperial - why not join the rest of the world in the modern era?
Haven't you been paying attention for the last 112 years or so? We like the imperial system.
Just because the British gave up on being Imperial over the last 60 years or so doesn't mean we have to.
Non-magnetic? Like what? Writable CD-R's are only good for about two years. (not snarky, just curious)
Sssh! Don't tell that to my still-working 13-year-old CD-Rs!
Actually I haven't checked my oldest ones recently, but as of a year or two ago the oldest writeables in my collection were still working fine (of course being music CDs they could be pretty significantly screwed up and I wouldn't necessarily notice).
So, at a guess, 4 x 60Hz streams (so a 240 Hz display). Pretty impressive that they can shift the image that quickly, though I guess that might be part of the reason that it is limited to a 20 degree viewing angle - in addition to limits on how far the lens can probably shift the image (coherently), it may also take non-trivial amount of time to shift from one extreme to the other.
Brings up some more questions... assuming my 4 x 60Hz guess is correct, do they do person 1 eye 1, p1e2, p2e1, p2e2, p1e1,... or do they go p1e1, p2e1, p1e2, p2e2, p1e1, and so on? Seems there would be trade-offs either way.
I can't imagine it being all that effective as there is bound to be significant leakage to the "wrong" eye for each frame (especially for those of us with relatively close-spaced eyes).
That's "dampers", unless you're talking about devices that make the bridge slightly moist when the ship is subject to acceleration.
We call those red-shirts around here.
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The US doesn't support people becoming educated, and this is just one more aspect of the problem. When I was in school I thought of going all the way to PhD. But come on! Spend all that money and live in poverty for so many years. Combined with the fact that doing this stuff is difficult and time consuming, it seemed like an incredibly masocistic exercise. I love science and math and would love to bury myself in it, but I am a slave to economic realities.
Live in poverty? I wasn't exactly flush with cash in grad school, but as a young, single (or even young and married, as I was most of my time in grad school) person I was able to live quite comfortably on my stipend of ~$1500 per month. About $700 for housing (yeah, you're not going to be able to live on your own - if you consider having a housemate to be living in poverty, then i guess maybe I was), maybe $100 for books and ancillaries (though I think I only had to buy a couple of textbooks during my grad school career - most classes were taught out of current papers), and that leaves plenty for food, internet, and most important: beer money. Of course, it helped that I didn't have any undergrad debt to worry about. My wife managed to do all that and buy a new car her first year of grad school, fairly comfortably making the payments plus all the rest (it was a VW Golf GLS 1.8T which we still have, so not exactly a cheapo car either).
I know a lot of people I went to grad school with also complained of not having enough money and barely scraping by; I could understand this if they had children to feed, or if they had some medical issue that cost a significant amount of money, but that never seemed to be the case. I guess some people just think it is living in poverty if you can't buy a 60-inch TV, a boat, and go on a European vacation every year.
All the people who refuse to use science (i.e. Obser-fucking-vation) to form policy, guide their actions, and make decisions, and would rather use tea leaves, bones, or the dingle-berries they pick out of their ass, need to FUCKING DIE!
Preferably, of brain cancer.
Sadly, they are immune to brain cancer (for reasons that should be obvious).
To open the secret cow level, all you need to do is put Wirt's leg and a tome of book portal in the cube.
Or you can give Wirt's leg to Cynthia, and she'll give you a copy of Blueshift on CD! (Never mind that you had half the tracks already from Redshift, and the rest from MP3s found online from a leaked review copy...)
Oh, believe me, I gave Cynthia Wirt's leg. If you know what I mean.
But then that furry came up spewing some nonsense about killing Rathy. Who the hell is Rathy?
Plug a xbox controller into your PC and use the Windows control panel (if you're using windows, never plugged a joystick into a unix box myself) to see how jumpy it is.
Off topic, but I once played Falcon 3.0 under Solaris. The Air Force's Red Force (Red Flag?) software group was playing around with it when I was visiting once (I want to say around '93 or so).
I don't know - at least 30% of the daily ass-hattery I see comes from motorcycle riders... like the dumbass I saw this morning doing a wheelie down an on-ramp, or the numerous riders every day that seem to think that if traffic slows down more then 10 mph below their desired speed then they should go riding between the lanes of traffic.
Not to say I disagree with you - I'm sure riding a motorcycle makes you very aware of the idiocy of the drivers around you. But idiots do seem to be rather over-represented among motorcycle riders.
Once upon a time the History Channel actually have good, interesting historical programming. I used to love the History Channel. Now every time I flip over to it, it is either Aliens/UFOs, ghosts, or some other from of BS non-educational, non-interesting, non-historical crapfest. Utterly pathetic.
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The map is showing the deviation from an ideal spheroid that would result in the observed gravity variation. So, positive meters basically means that if the Earth were made of stuff of a uniform density, the surface of the earth would be this many meters above the ideal surface (gravity is weaker here than expected). Conversely, negative meters means gravity is stronger here than expected, and so correlates to a "low" (low elevation being closer to the center of mass of the earth, meaning stronger gravity).
The map is essentially showing what the surface of the earth would look like if all variation in gravity (what they observed) was due to variation in the shape of the earth, rather than density. At least, I think that is what they are showing - I don't think the article actually states if this is raw data or if it has been processed (to apply a free-air correction, for example, which would remove variability due to the actual variations in elevation of the earth's surface).
Make sense? It isn't as complicated as my half-assed explanation might make it seem (well, it is complicated, but the concept is simple).
As long as I can continue to purchase and download software as normal I couldn't care less about an MS app store.
The second they try to lock down Windows so you must use their app store, I'll be gone from the Windows platform and won't look back.
So, whatever. Don't care. If Microsoft decides to shoot themselves in the foot trying to push this, they are easily replaceable.
... I doubt they lose that much money in early termination due to deceased individuals.
For the record they do loose that much money. If you got a top end phone for "free" with your contract, it cost the phone company the full wholesale price.
I'm not sure they do. I haven't seen a "top-end" phone offered for free by any of the big cell companies lately. According to iSupply, the new iPhone costs about $190 to make (parts only, say $250 with labor and shipping). Assuming they make a nice profit, I'm guessing they sell them for around $350 to AT&T (yes, I realize that AT&T is not Verizon and Verizon does not sell the iPhone, but it is the newest phone on the market so probably illustrative of worst-case costs). AT&T then turns around and sells it (with contract) for $199, meaning AT&T ate $151 which they need to make up over the 2-year contract (24 months, so about $6.30 a month).
Just found this indicating that the Motorola Droid was about the same cost on release, suggesting the cost is pretty consistent for top-end phones. So, barring some outrageous profits for the phone makers (which seems possible for the iPhone, less-so for Android makers), it seems extremely unlikely that Verizon comes anywhere close to incurring $350 for an early termination for a single device. They probably try to justify this by using the imaginary "full retail price" (I think it is $500 or so for the Droid) as their cost basis.
I wonder if this will spark Anonymous into trolling them? I mean more than they are already.
An dhow long before some poor confused old mullah declares a fatwah agains the ENTIRE western world?
No problem. We'll just switch the prime meridian and the 180th meridian really quick, so his followers end up wiping out themselves.
High frequency trading allows rapid price normalization between exchanges, which is good, and while the rate of the fluctuations is faster, that doesn't necessarily change the average value over time.
(emphasis mine)
No, it doesn't. High frequency trading requires rapid price normalization between exchanges, because otherwise the high-frequency traders rapidly exploit the differences (as the article suggests happened here). What allows rapid price normalization between exchanges is the ability of the system to handle a high volume of trades executed very quickly - which sounds like "high frequency trading," and indeed this would be a good description of it, if the term as used here didn't mean something else.
The HF traders basically take advantage of "large" orders hitting one exchange, then rapidly buying or selling (depending on the order or trend of orders) on the other exchanges before those exchanges have a chance to react (and, if the article is to be believed, apparently giving themselves more time to execute their shorts and longs on these temporary, artificial differences by bogging down the central exchange with unnecessary quote requests).
The HF traders are basically middlemen, taking advantage of their position to eat up a miniscule portion of the difference between offered sell and buy prices for essentially all the trades that occur. They create the illusion of increased liquidity in the market, but by design they don't really result in increased liquidity - ideally (for them), the only time they buy is when a buyer has already been identified that will buy from them at a marginally higher price (the opposite for selling).
No kidding. I didn't even really notice it until everyone started making a big deal out of it. Just background noise.
It's a nice improvement over the craptastic ESPN commentary, anyway (though this seems to have maybe kinda sorta gotten better in the last couple games).
Fusion is relatively easy to achieve on a small scale. What's extremely hard to achieve, judged on the efforts of various organizations over the past 60 years, is fusion that produces more power than it consumes.
Not easy maybe, but certainly been done numerous times before...
Apparently Apple's testers discovered some new way of using phones that does not include holding it in your hand.
Also;
You mean you have to use your hands?
That's like a baby's toy!
Doubt it. It turns out users like the inability to install viruses along with all the crappy screensavers and free games they want to install. Yes, the walls keep the users in; but they also keep the device secure.*
* More secure than an open desktop with a user who wants to browse the Internet for silly software (esheep, blinking lights, free screensavers, etc. etc.)
Who cares if the system is secure if all you are doing is browsing for blinking sheep screensavers?
I had a Macintosh Performa 6300 that was being used as a shared family computer back then. At Ease allowed me to set up a relatively safe and secure way to share that computer with our kids, without giving them access to absolutely everything.
I never understood this point of view. Why wouldn't you want the system wide open and available for your kids to tinker with? How are they going to learn anything if you keep them confined to this walled garden? What would it have been like for our generation if our Commodores or Apple IIs or whatnot didn't let us do anything but run those idiotic learning games that schools tried to force on us? I sure as hell wouldn't have developed an appreciation for or interest in computers while being confined to a few "permitted" applications with no access to the underpinnings of the system.
I could perhaps understand this if you had one computer at home that you use for ultra-important tasks, but I really can't think of anyone with this limitation. Anyone whose life or livelihood is that dependent on a working computer at home has one dedicated to this ultra-important task and one (or more) for the kids and others to screw around with - it isn't like kids that are likely to screw up your system are really going to need the latest and greatest hardware.
80% of Android apps not working as designed.
First get rid of that ridiculous Imperial system and then we'll talk. The English invented it and even they gave it up. The US is the last country left that uses Imperial - why not join the rest of the world in the modern era?
Haven't you been paying attention for the last 112 years or so? We like the imperial system.
Just because the British gave up on being Imperial over the last 60 years or so doesn't mean we have to.
Non-magnetic? Like what? Writable CD-R's are only good for about two years. (not snarky, just curious)
Sssh! Don't tell that to my still-working 13-year-old CD-Rs!
Actually I haven't checked my oldest ones recently, but as of a year or two ago the oldest writeables in my collection were still working fine (of course being music CDs they could be pretty significantly screwed up and I wouldn't necessarily notice).
So, at a guess, 4 x 60Hz streams (so a 240 Hz display). Pretty impressive that they can shift the image that quickly, though I guess that might be part of the reason that it is limited to a 20 degree viewing angle - in addition to limits on how far the lens can probably shift the image (coherently), it may also take non-trivial amount of time to shift from one extreme to the other.
Brings up some more questions... assuming my 4 x 60Hz guess is correct, do they do person 1 eye 1, p1e2, p2e1, p2e2, p1e1,...
or do they go p1e1, p2e1, p1e2, p2e2, p1e1, and so on? Seems there would be trade-offs either way.
I can't imagine it being all that effective as there is bound to be significant leakage to the "wrong" eye for each frame (especially for those of us with relatively close-spaced eyes).
That's "dampers", unless you're talking about devices that make the bridge slightly moist when the ship is subject to acceleration.
We call those red-shirts around here.
The US doesn't support people becoming educated, and this is just one more aspect of the problem. When I was in school I thought of going all the way to PhD. But come on! Spend all that money and live in poverty for so many years. Combined with the fact that doing this stuff is difficult and time consuming, it seemed like an incredibly masocistic exercise. I love science and math and would love to bury myself in it, but I am a slave to economic realities.
Live in poverty? I wasn't exactly flush with cash in grad school, but as a young, single (or even young and married, as I was most of my time in grad school) person I was able to live quite comfortably on my stipend of ~$1500 per month. About $700 for housing (yeah, you're not going to be able to live on your own - if you consider having a housemate to be living in poverty, then i guess maybe I was), maybe $100 for books and ancillaries (though I think I only had to buy a couple of textbooks during my grad school career - most classes were taught out of current papers), and that leaves plenty for food, internet, and most important: beer money. Of course, it helped that I didn't have any undergrad debt to worry about. My wife managed to do all that and buy a new car her first year of grad school, fairly comfortably making the payments plus all the rest (it was a VW Golf GLS 1.8T which we still have, so not exactly a cheapo car either).
I know a lot of people I went to grad school with also complained of not having enough money and barely scraping by; I could understand this if they had children to feed, or if they had some medical issue that cost a significant amount of money, but that never seemed to be the case. I guess some people just think it is living in poverty if you can't buy a 60-inch TV, a boat, and go on a European vacation every year.
I'm thinking wikidiots or wikidolts.
Maybe wookiedolts or wookiediots, just to get into the whole malamanteau thing.
Though I'd have to say, I'd probably just create it as a redirect to this.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
All the people who refuse to use science (i.e. Obser-fucking-vation) to form policy, guide their actions, and make decisions, and would rather use tea leaves, bones, or the dingle-berries they pick out of their ass, need to FUCKING DIE!
Preferably, of brain cancer.
Sadly, they are immune to brain cancer (for reasons that should be obvious).
I don't know, I think she's one v short of vi.
To open the secret cow level, all you need to do is put Wirt's leg and a tome of book portal in the cube.
Or you can give Wirt's leg to Cynthia, and she'll give you a copy of Blueshift on CD! (Never mind that you had half the tracks already from Redshift, and the rest from MP3s found online from a leaked review copy...)
Oh, believe me, I gave Cynthia Wirt's leg. If you know what I mean.
But then that furry came up spewing some nonsense about killing Rathy. Who the hell is Rathy?
Plug a xbox controller into your PC and use the Windows control panel (if you're using windows, never plugged a joystick into a unix box myself) to see how jumpy it is.
Off topic, but I once played Falcon 3.0 under Solaris. The Air Force's Red Force (Red Flag?) software group was playing around with it when I was visiting once (I want to say around '93 or so).
I don't know - at least 30% of the daily ass-hattery I see comes from motorcycle riders... like the dumbass I saw this morning doing a wheelie down an on-ramp, or the numerous riders every day that seem to think that if traffic slows down more then 10 mph below their desired speed then they should go riding between the lanes of traffic.
Not to say I disagree with you - I'm sure riding a motorcycle makes you very aware of the idiocy of the drivers around you. But idiots do seem to be rather over-represented among motorcycle riders.
Once upon a time the History Channel actually have good, interesting historical programming. I used to love the History Channel. Now every time I flip over to it, it is either Aliens/UFOs, ghosts, or some other from of BS non-educational, non-interesting, non-historical crapfest. Utterly pathetic.
Ah yes, Trumpet Winsock... brings up great memories of Saturday morning Warcraft 2-fests against/with my mac-loving friend across town.
I don't recall needing it to get on the internet, but I may have been doing more BBSes than internet back then.