At this University at least, PR for specific projects is driven by the PIs themselves. Anything in a University press release has been provided by the PI and drafts of the press release have been fact checked by the PI. In other words, if there's a problem or a exaggerated claim, blame the scientist.
Go ahead and boycott Flash. Boycott everything but apple.com for all I care. It's your option. When you start telling me that I'm not allowed the freedom to choose, that's when we have a problem.
Given the high profile nature of the debate over Flash, that Adobe released something that performs this poorly is really pretty bad, they're simply underlining Apple's points.
The inconsistency in Apple's position is, like it or not, without Flash the web doesn't "just work." A large fraction of it just doesn't work. Let's see "work slowly" or "work not at all." I know which one I pick.
I think you're confused. Adobe provides Flash for Android. That means Adobe supports Flash on Android. Saying Windows supports flash is saying that Microsoft needed to make changes to Windows especially for the purpose of allowing Adobe to port flash to it. Windows doesn't support Flash. Flash supports Windows.
Add what support? Android doesn't "support" flash, it allows the user the option to install it. Likewise, Apple doesn't remove support for flash, it removes the option to install flash.
I think you've experienced some sort of brain trauma that is distorting your memories of what you learned in school. You also seem to think that we have state run media, when in fact we have a media run state.
Corporations probably provide more funding to NPR than the individuals do, at least I gather they do based upon the commercials during "Morning Edition." So much for independence.
It's unlikely that they actually need GPS for that. Most apps I've seen that serve local ads use the coarse location from the cell system or external IP address (if on wifi). Locating you within a cell or city is usually enough to send you local ads. And, of course, you can always turn off your GPS receiver when you aren't using it for navigation. Last time I checked, power control was a separate set of permission.
1998 was the hottest year despite the rising population and therefore, the increase of the greenhouse gases. CO2 is a greenhouse gas - that's proven scientifically, but that does not mean it is the sole factor in the climate systems.
Have you been asleep for a decade? 2009 was the second hottest year in the hottest decade on record. 2010 has, thus far been the hottest year on record. I think you took a few years of relatively stable temperatures in the early parts of the 2000-2009 decade as a trend, and haven't looked since. AGW does not predict continuous monotonic temperature increase. That's because one or two years temperature isn't climate.
Of course these points (1998 being warmest, hockey stick being "falsified") have been refuted again and again, but AGW skeptics seem to think that saying them again like they are true "unrefutes" them. But what can you expect from an AC.
The bulk of the list is a combination of "I don't understand relativity therefore it is wrong," "relativity is incompatible with my religion therefore it is wrong," "I think this effect (which may be due to a non-relativistic cause) in not in the theory of relativity therefore relativity is wrong" and "scientists can't reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity therefore relativity is wrong." The whole "relativity leads to moral relativism" idea is also a laugh.
The lists on arguments against evolution and an old earth are equally laughable.
That's the problem with the conservative movement in the US, anyone who is not a white Christian young earth creationist who believes that non-white socialists are the cause of every problem and international corporations are the solution need not apply.
There are a couple reasons not to. This wasn't an open records request. This was a subpoena. When that happens the University lawyers get involved and their first instinct is to not comply. It's usually a good instinct, because someone serving a subpoena has an agenda which is probably against the interests of the University. Second, the professor in question is no longer at the University that was subpoenaed. It's likely, if not certain that he took is research records with him. The University of Virginia probably only has accounting records for the grant in question, and (probably) backups of emails. Penn State, on the other hand, doesn't have much to fear from a Virginia prosecutor with delusions of grandeur.
I don't have a problem with providing any information requested about my research, provided what is requested actually exists. But when it comes to my emails... show me the subpoena.
In the good old days computer keyboards used to have a "compose" key. Hitting compose followed by 'a' and 'e' would give you æ. Hitting compose followed by 'o' and ':' would give you ö. And so on. It was actually possible to use character sets that weren't on your keyboard. But it never occurred to Microsoft that something like that would be a useful feature.
What happens to the water between the time it is "ozonized" and filtered and the time it gets to the bottle. What kind of machine does it go through? What is it and its pipes made of? What is it lubricated with? What were the bottles washed with? How often do they clean the machine? What plasticising chemicals were used in the production of the bottle? How many complex hydrocarbon will leach out? They can't filter those out. Same with the bottle cap. What happens when the machine breaks down? You'd be safer going to San Bernardino and drinking kool-aid made with the tap water.
Have you had your bottled water tested for MTBE? You might not like the results. Your tap water is continuously monitored for that and some other substances. Bottled water plants are not tested very often, because they are run by people who would rather not spend money, and testing takes time and money. And the rule for bottled water is if (the last time the plant was tested) it would be acceptable as tap water, then you can sell it. Most of them are just selling tap water anyway. The filter is the better choice, especially for children if there is significant lead in the water. But for adults, city tap water is just fine. The only thing the filter will do is it might make it taste better by getting rid of minerals. In cities with good water, a filter might make the water taste worse by getting rid of minerals.
And Democratic party strongholds tend to be urban or near urban. That also happens to be where many wealthy people live. That doesn't mean that the wealthy people are the one who vote Democratic.
You do realize that the "rich and moneyed" overwhlemingly vote for Democrats, right? That the richest people in politics in the U.S. are Democrats?
It's more a matter of education than of wealth. People without a high school diploma tend to vote Democratic. People with a high school diploma or a college diploma tend to vote Republican. People with a graduate degree tend to vote Democratic.
It also depends upon where you draw the "rich and moneyed" line. Fortune 500 CEOs and corporate board members tend to be Republican. The 500 richest people in the country, also predominately Republican. From there to the mere millionaires, you might have a democratic majority.
Yes, you are right in the Republican base, and judging from your post, the Republican party has you thoroughly duped.
The first plank of the Republican economic platform is that your salary is too high. Free market reforms, allowing wages to plummet to whatever level the international labor market would allow, are the first solution to the "middle class problem". The "middle class problem" being that there is a middle class. There's a congressman waiting right outside your place of work with a pile of H-1B applications to help the process along. If that's not enough, maybe some guest worker visas will help.
The next step is to get rid of the social safety next that props up the middle class. Unemployment benefits are communistic. What person wouldn't give up productive work for $1200 a month for 6 months? Minimum wage? It just keeps wages from dropping to Somali levels. Social Security? It just encourages lazy old people to quit their jobs. Medicare? Health care? We have ample workers without needing to spend money on the unhealthy. If we just let the unemployed and the old die we'll soon be back to full employment.
The following step is a single 20% tax bracket for everyone. But we'll keep the deductions the rich rely on. And of course no taxation of dividends or capital gains or estates. How will an heiress eat if she needs to pay taxes? What? A rate of 20% won't pay for the endless wars against half of the Islamic countries on the planet? We'll have to raise it to 50% "temporarily."
And after that we'll be back to the ideal feudal society led by a fundamentalist Christian theocratic emperor. We won't have to worry about the middle class with their ideas that they could join the ruling class. The peasantry will look upon us and know that it is by God's favor and our own virtue that we hold these high positions. Our wealth itself is an obvious sign of our merit.
Any change like this will result in someone's software breaking. Hopefully it will not break in a disastrous manner. If leap seconds are dropped
1. UTC and UT1 (the time according to the orientation of the earth) will drift apart. That might break software that assumes that abs(UTC-UT1) is less than 1 second.
2. GPS time will be fixed at 15 seconds ahead of UTC.
3. UTC will, I assume, be fixed at 34 seconds behind TAI.
4. Loran-C time will be fixed at 24 seconds ahead of UTC.
5. Sidereal time calculations based on UT1 should not change, but codes to calculate based upon UTC may have approximations that break down if the UT1-UTC value gets large.
6. Decisions will eventually need to be made about whether Julian dates will follow UTC or UT1.
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At this University at least, PR for specific projects is driven by the PIs themselves. Anything in a University press release has been provided by the PI and drafts of the press release have been fact checked by the PI. In other words, if there's a problem or a exaggerated claim, blame the scientist.
The Android browser already has the option for "touch to launch" plugins.
Go ahead and boycott Flash. Boycott everything but apple.com for all I care. It's your option. When you start telling me that I'm not allowed the freedom to choose, that's when we have a problem.
Given the high profile nature of the debate over Flash, that Adobe released something that performs this poorly is really pretty bad, they're simply underlining Apple's points.
The inconsistency in Apple's position is, like it or not, without Flash the web doesn't "just work." A large fraction of it just doesn't work. Let's see "work slowly" or "work not at all." I know which one I pick.
I think you're confused. Adobe provides Flash for Android. That means Adobe supports Flash on Android. Saying Windows supports flash is saying that Microsoft needed to make changes to Windows especially for the purpose of allowing Adobe to port flash to it. Windows doesn't support Flash. Flash supports Windows.
Add what support? Android doesn't "support" flash, it allows the user the option to install it. Likewise, Apple doesn't remove support for flash, it removes the option to install flash.
I think you've experienced some sort of brain trauma that is distorting your memories of what you learned in school. You also seem to think that we have state run media, when in fact we have a media run state.
Corporations probably provide more funding to NPR than the individuals do, at least I gather they do based upon the commercials during "Morning Edition." So much for independence.
It's unlikely that they actually need GPS for that. Most apps I've seen that serve local ads use the coarse location from the cell system or external IP address (if on wifi). Locating you within a cell or city is usually enough to send you local ads. And, of course, you can always turn off your GPS receiver when you aren't using it for navigation. Last time I checked, power control was a separate set of permission.
Have you been asleep for a decade? 2009 was the second hottest year in the hottest decade on record. 2010 has, thus far been the hottest year on record. I think you took a few years of relatively stable temperatures in the early parts of the 2000-2009 decade as a trend, and haven't looked since. AGW does not predict continuous monotonic temperature increase. That's because one or two years temperature isn't climate.
Of course these points (1998 being warmest, hockey stick being "falsified") have been refuted again and again, but AGW skeptics seem to think that saying them again like they are true "unrefutes" them. But what can you expect from an AC.
Look at the talk page. People have argued against it, yet it is still there.
I'm sure the bible describes how microsecond resolution absolute timings were made that prove instantaneous effect.
The bulk of the list is a combination of "I don't understand relativity therefore it is wrong," "relativity is incompatible with my religion therefore it is wrong," "I think this effect (which may be due to a non-relativistic cause) in not in the theory of relativity therefore relativity is wrong" and "scientists can't reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity therefore relativity is wrong." The whole "relativity leads to moral relativism" idea is also a laugh.
The lists on arguments against evolution and an old earth are equally laughable.
That's the problem with the conservative movement in the US, anyone who is not a white Christian young earth creationist who believes that non-white socialists are the cause of every problem and international corporations are the solution need not apply.
There are a couple reasons not to. This wasn't an open records request. This was a subpoena. When that happens the University lawyers get involved and their first instinct is to not comply. It's usually a good instinct, because someone serving a subpoena has an agenda which is probably against the interests of the University. Second, the professor in question is no longer at the University that was subpoenaed. It's likely, if not certain that he took is research records with him. The University of Virginia probably only has accounting records for the grant in question, and (probably) backups of emails. Penn State, on the other hand, doesn't have much to fear from a Virginia prosecutor with delusions of grandeur.
I don't have a problem with providing any information requested about my research, provided what is requested actually exists. But when it comes to my emails... show me the subpoena.
Maybe a contempt citation would convince Cuccinelli to do his.
In the good old days computer keyboards used to have a "compose" key. Hitting compose followed by 'a' and 'e' would give you æ. Hitting compose followed by 'o' and ':' would give you ö. And so on. It was actually possible to use character sets that weren't on your keyboard. But it never occurred to Microsoft that something like that would be a useful feature.
What happens to the water between the time it is "ozonized" and filtered and the time it gets to the bottle. What kind of machine does it go through? What is it and its pipes made of? What is it lubricated with? What were the bottles washed with? How often do they clean the machine? What plasticising chemicals were used in the production of the bottle? How many complex hydrocarbon will leach out? They can't filter those out. Same with the bottle cap. What happens when the machine breaks down? You'd be safer going to San Bernardino and drinking kool-aid made with the tap water.
Have you had your bottled water tested for MTBE? You might not like the results. Your tap water is continuously monitored for that and some other substances. Bottled water plants are not tested very often, because they are run by people who would rather not spend money, and testing takes time and money. And the rule for bottled water is if (the last time the plant was tested) it would be acceptable as tap water, then you can sell it. Most of them are just selling tap water anyway. The filter is the better choice, especially for children if there is significant lead in the water. But for adults, city tap water is just fine. The only thing the filter will do is it might make it taste better by getting rid of minerals. In cities with good water, a filter might make the water taste worse by getting rid of minerals.
Neither CNN or Fox News are in the habit of reporting minor local incidents (unless they need a little filler).
Unless a 20 year old white woman is hurt/missing/dead.
You've got them too far apart. The second one should be "Slashdot later today"
The SETI league is a good place to find info on doing your own SETI observations.
Citation please...
And Democratic party strongholds tend to be urban or near urban. That also happens to be where many wealthy people live. That doesn't mean that the wealthy people are the one who vote Democratic.
You do realize that the "rich and moneyed" overwhlemingly vote for Democrats, right? That the richest people in politics in the U.S. are Democrats?
It's more a matter of education than of wealth. People without a high school diploma tend to vote Democratic. People with a high school diploma or a college diploma tend to vote Republican. People with a graduate degree tend to vote Democratic.
It also depends upon where you draw the "rich and moneyed" line. Fortune 500 CEOs and corporate board members tend to be Republican. The 500 richest people in the country, also predominately Republican. From there to the mere millionaires, you might have a democratic majority.
Yes, you are right in the Republican base, and judging from your post, the Republican party has you thoroughly duped.
The first plank of the Republican economic platform is that your salary is too high. Free market reforms, allowing wages to plummet to whatever level the international labor market would allow, are the first solution to the "middle class problem". The "middle class problem" being that there is a middle class. There's a congressman waiting right outside your place of work with a pile of H-1B applications to help the process along. If that's not enough, maybe some guest worker visas will help.
The next step is to get rid of the social safety next that props up the middle class. Unemployment benefits are communistic. What person wouldn't give up productive work for $1200 a month for 6 months? Minimum wage? It just keeps wages from dropping to Somali levels. Social Security? It just encourages lazy old people to quit their jobs. Medicare? Health care? We have ample workers without needing to spend money on the unhealthy. If we just let the unemployed and the old die we'll soon be back to full employment.
The following step is a single 20% tax bracket for everyone. But we'll keep the deductions the rich rely on. And of course no taxation of dividends or capital gains or estates. How will an heiress eat if she needs to pay taxes? What? A rate of 20% won't pay for the endless wars against half of the Islamic countries on the planet? We'll have to raise it to 50% "temporarily."
And after that we'll be back to the ideal feudal society led by a fundamentalist Christian theocratic emperor. We won't have to worry about the middle class with their ideas that they could join the ruling class. The peasantry will look upon us and know that it is by God's favor and our own virtue that we hold these high positions. Our wealth itself is an obvious sign of our merit.