Visit spaceweather.com daily for a month or two, and keep an eye on the various Sun images on the left side. One is used to point out coronal holes, and you'll quickly realize how common they are. This may be related to the approaching solar maximum, though don't quote me on that.
I'm much more concerned about flare and mass ejection frequency. With all the satellites and poorly-shielded electrical circuits we rely upon, one or two wicked ejections aimed at Earth could turn a lot of gear into expensive junk.
It's not obvious in the video, but a photographer captured a shot of the provocateurs on the ground... wearing the same standard-issue boots as the riot police. Oops.
Incidentally, Montebello's a nice little town. I think I was at the media centre dumping audio at the time this happened.
As for your comment on the interface, I'm curious what computer graphics knowledge you have that makes you think "solid colors, simple text" with advanced animations (such as the ones that happen when you enter or leave the Start screen) are easier to do than the iOS or Android "grid of static icons" with simple translation animation
I didn't realize simple rectangle rotations and transforms with one or two mapped textures/images was "advanced". It looked neat, but it also looked optimized for the available hardware, and the loading speed made me wonder how much of it relies on simply dumping everyhing into RAM on startup and hoping no one runs too much else at any given time.
I noticed the line at the end of the BBC article and couldn't believe what I was reading - does WP7 actually lack copy-n-paste capabilities? Apple took some justified shit for waiting years to include that capability in iPhoneOS. If that's for real, then WP7 deserves its unpopularity.
I had a chance to play with a WP7 device at a big box tech retailer on NYE (oddly, mere moments before getting an iPhone after a spontaneous discussion with my partner about my former piece-o-junk phone[0]). The interface was snappy, but it was pretty obvious why - solid colours, simple text. I have to wonder how well a WP7 device would operate under load with some third-party software installed.
[0] An LG Neon TE365F. Go ahead and laugh, I deserve it for purchasing such a turd.
It's going to suck mightily for them if unlimited data plans go the way that unlimited home broadband plans are, and if the end of network neutrality makes it possible to charge extra for packets exchanged with a site owned by a company that hasn't signed some kind of deal with your ISP. That cloud stuff's not going to seem so neat when a user has to pay extra fees just to use basic features of their devices.
Correct - the laws of physics do not enforce or encode any ethics or morals, only cause and effect. Sentient lifeforms can create those rules as they develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them, and the effect their actions have upon it.
Reality will operate as it does - meanwhile, we can choose to act better toward each other, and toward other lifeforms. No one will judge us but us - now, how would you like to be viewed by our descendants, or the descendants of other, possibly sapient organisms?
If dolphins have rights, we won't be able to use them in genetic experiments to make them smarter.
We could ask if individuals would like to participate, but that requires a form of descriptive, common communication between hominids and delphinids, which in and of itself could be a worthy project, and certainly a prerequisite to seeking consent for a genetic manipulation project.
Perhaps the capability to perceive intelligence and self-awareness in other lifeforms should also invoke a responsibility to treat other lifeforms as we would wish to be treated.
Think about it - if there were an intelligent predator that used us as lunch, and the relationship was stable, how would you wish to be treated by that lifeform prior to consumption?
I'm one of those nuts that thinks we need to treat our brain-possessing food sources much better anyway, and that we can choose to act better than we do.
What's scary about recognizing the right of other lifeforms to be treated with dignity and respect, anyway? Much of our intellectual evolution concerned refraining from doing things we are perfectly capable of doing, or developing more ethical methods of doing things; this is no different, in my view.
...ok, you know there is a difference between a lockout and a strike, right? The employer initiates a lockout, the workers/bargaining unit initiates a strike.
So you're saying the plant management should be declared terrorists? I just want to make sure I, and possibly you, understand what you're typing.
Am I the only person outside of South Africa who wasn't annoyed with the sound of vuvuzelas? CBC seemed capable of keeping them low, but audible, in the live mix.
That said, disabling game functions strikes me as preferable to draconian DRM schemes that end up causing unnecessary frustration for paying players.
I once read of a fictional solid rocket motor design that used small fuel pellets fed into a combustion chamber instead of a big ol' rubbery chunk of fueI to allow for restart capability, among other things. Not being a rocket scientist, I'm unable to perceive the technological and physical obstacles to building such a system, but I do wonder if such a system is possible.
if the student does know that the test will be drawn from a publicly available pool of questions, and that therefore many other students will be looking at it beforehand, it only makes sense to even out the playing field by looking for oneself.
Playing field... as if this were a zero-sum game or something, which I suppose it might very well be if the students are graded on a curve. I went to a postsecondary institution that, at the time, appeared to discourage such grading practices; top-flight work was graded as such, regardless of how many students managed to accomplish it.
Sure, the system is broken, but when it's a person's future prospects we're talking about, can we really blame them for not being the one to stand up and try to fix it when they know they have a near 100% chance of failure?
Welcome to my frustration. Don't worry, after the revolution the socialist meritocracy will solve everything. And give you a pony.
Not to cheat on a test, no. I guess using practice questions to test their own understanding of the material prior to the actual test is too much to hope for, though if someone's willing to engage in boring rote memorization of an answer key, why not make the job even easier and actually try to understand enough of the subject to do well on a test without trying to recall, under pressure, which letter is the correct one?
Goodness, if you're not in school to learn, get out. If employers demand a university degree without actually being concerned about the quality of that credential, that just means our educational and labour assignment structures need serious improvement, not that it's OK to cheat on a test for the sake of getting a degree demanded by employers, whether it means a damn thing or not. Frankly, the increasing emphasis on postsecondary credentials as unnecessary qualifications for jobs is a symptom of too much reliance on automation in hiring processes (goodness forbid enough people should be employed to actually go through resumes; let's just scan for keywords and names!), along with the belittlement and delegitimization of non-institutional education and skills development. Goodness, does every paper-pusher and junior account executive need an MBA? Don't even get me started on the subject of social service agencies that worry more about the presence of the letters "BSW" or "MSW" in a resume than whether the person can actually handle working with people in crisis, without sufficient time or resources, on a daily basis, as that's something I hear about at home on a regular basis.
I'm not sure what to make of your equivalence between a minimum of support for those who don't possess property and resources, and the profligate waste and destruction of property and resources.
I doubt these will replace established institutions, but instead complement them and bring advanced education to communities that might otherwise treat expanded knowledge as something to suspect, even suppress.
Wow. I feel like I'm reading a summary from 2000 to, say, 2003, during the good ol' days of emergency patches for zero-day IIS holes and Outlook Express-exploiting worms.
Thanks for the memories, MS. Apple may one day produce bigger security holes, but you did it with pathetic panache and stack-smashing style.
If I pulled the same stunt, my home would be raided, my computers would be seized, and my name would be splashed all over the media as a professional pirate. I might even score jail time.
The big four labels in CRIA? Barely a whimper in the press. I hope they get smacked in the courts.
Brilliant - let's get one up on the Iranians by messing with their nuclear reactor controls! What could possibly go wrong?
If true, this is reckless endangerment, and the people involved - government-backed or lone wolves - should be prosecuted. Just because the Iranian government is full of militaristic and theocratic jerks does not give anyone the right to endanger the lives of any old (or young) person living or working in and around that facility. Indeed, it's the kind of stunt that can only push their ruling class farther into paranoia and fear, the kind tha leads to... nuclear weapons development.
He also seems to specifically target the US and only the US, as if no other country is currently doing dubious shit.
A quick glance at the "Latest disclosures" section puts that claim to rest.
On top of that, a sizable number of the United States pages are related to large leaks, such as a huge Iraq order of battle leak from 2007 where each unit receives an individual page. The country tags also include analysis and news articles, not just leaks, so if the news media isn't discussing it, and no one involved with WikiLeaks notices it, it doesn't get linked and included in the category. Therefore, while the US does receive an inordinate amount of attention, that may have more to do with its status as superpower and present primary occupier of two countries.
There's clearly more to WikiLeaks than Julian Assange, though I wonder why some people want so badly to make the whole thing about him, his own self-promotion aside...
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Visit spaceweather.com daily for a month or two, and keep an eye on the various Sun images on the left side. One is used to point out coronal holes, and you'll quickly realize how common they are. This may be related to the approaching solar maximum, though don't quote me on that.
I'm much more concerned about flare and mass ejection frequency. With all the satellites and poorly-shielded electrical circuits we rely upon, one or two wicked ejections aimed at Earth could turn a lot of gear into expensive junk.
For most people, all that matters is that a kilogram is a reasonably consistent measure of mass.
For mathematicians, physicists, and other scientists requiring precise mass measurements, this matters quite a bit.
It's not obvious in the video, but a photographer captured a shot of the provocateurs on the ground... wearing the same standard-issue boots as the riot police. Oops.
Incidentally, Montebello's a nice little town. I think I was at the media centre dumping audio at the time this happened.
As for your comment on the interface, I'm curious what computer graphics knowledge you have that makes you think "solid colors, simple text" with advanced animations (such as the ones that happen when you enter or leave the Start screen) are easier to do than the iOS or Android "grid of static icons" with simple translation animation
I didn't realize simple rectangle rotations and transforms with one or two mapped textures/images was "advanced". It looked neat, but it also looked optimized for the available hardware, and the loading speed made me wonder how much of it relies on simply dumping everyhing into RAM on startup and hoping no one runs too much else at any given time.
I noticed the line at the end of the BBC article and couldn't believe what I was reading - does WP7 actually lack copy-n-paste capabilities? Apple took some justified shit for waiting years to include that capability in iPhoneOS. If that's for real, then WP7 deserves its unpopularity.
I had a chance to play with a WP7 device at a big box tech retailer on NYE (oddly, mere moments before getting an iPhone after a spontaneous discussion with my partner about my former piece-o-junk phone[0]). The interface was snappy, but it was pretty obvious why - solid colours, simple text. I have to wonder how well a WP7 device would operate under load with some third-party software installed.
[0] An LG Neon TE365F. Go ahead and laugh, I deserve it for purchasing such a turd.
It's going to suck mightily for them if unlimited data plans go the way that unlimited home broadband plans are, and if the end of network neutrality makes it possible to charge extra for packets exchanged with a site owned by a company that hasn't signed some kind of deal with your ISP. That cloud stuff's not going to seem so neat when a user has to pay extra fees just to use basic features of their devices.
Correct - the laws of physics do not enforce or encode any ethics or morals, only cause and effect. Sentient lifeforms can create those rules as they develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them, and the effect their actions have upon it.
Reality will operate as it does - meanwhile, we can choose to act better toward each other, and toward other lifeforms. No one will judge us but us - now, how would you like to be viewed by our descendants, or the descendants of other, possibly sapient organisms?
If dolphins have rights, we won't be able to use them in genetic experiments to make them smarter.
We could ask if individuals would like to participate, but that requires a form of descriptive, common communication between hominids and delphinids, which in and of itself could be a worthy project, and certainly a prerequisite to seeking consent for a genetic manipulation project.
Perhaps the capability to perceive intelligence and self-awareness in other lifeforms should also invoke a responsibility to treat other lifeforms as we would wish to be treated.
Think about it - if there were an intelligent predator that used us as lunch, and the relationship was stable, how would you wish to be treated by that lifeform prior to consumption?
I'm one of those nuts that thinks we need to treat our brain-possessing food sources much better anyway, and that we can choose to act better than we do.
What's scary about recognizing the right of other lifeforms to be treated with dignity and respect, anyway? Much of our intellectual evolution concerned refraining from doing things we are perfectly capable of doing, or developing more ethical methods of doing things; this is no different, in my view.
Get your relatives copies of Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World".
Honesty.
...ok, you know there is a difference between a lockout and a strike, right? The employer initiates a lockout, the workers/bargaining unit initiates a strike.
So you're saying the plant management should be declared terrorists? I just want to make sure I, and possibly you, understand what you're typing.
Am I the only person outside of South Africa who wasn't annoyed with the sound of vuvuzelas? CBC seemed capable of keeping them low, but audible, in the live mix.
That said, disabling game functions strikes me as preferable to draconian DRM schemes that end up causing unnecessary frustration for paying players.
Wake me when there is independent confirmation of this claim reported somewhere other than arXiv.
I once read of a fictional solid rocket motor design that used small fuel pellets fed into a combustion chamber instead of a big ol' rubbery chunk of fueI to allow for restart capability, among other things. Not being a rocket scientist, I'm unable to perceive the technological and physical obstacles to building such a system, but I do wonder if such a system is possible.
if the student does know that the test will be drawn from a publicly available pool of questions, and that therefore many other students will be looking at it beforehand, it only makes sense to even out the playing field by looking for oneself.
Playing field... as if this were a zero-sum game or something, which I suppose it might very well be if the students are graded on a curve. I went to a postsecondary institution that, at the time, appeared to discourage such grading practices; top-flight work was graded as such, regardless of how many students managed to accomplish it.
Sure, the system is broken, but when it's a person's future prospects we're talking about, can we really blame them for not being the one to stand up and try to fix it when they know they have a near 100% chance of failure?
Welcome to my frustration. Don't worry, after the revolution the socialist meritocracy will solve everything. And give you a pony.
Not to cheat on a test, no. I guess using practice questions to test their own understanding of the material prior to the actual test is too much to hope for, though if someone's willing to engage in boring rote memorization of an answer key, why not make the job even easier and actually try to understand enough of the subject to do well on a test without trying to recall, under pressure, which letter is the correct one?
Goodness, if you're not in school to learn, get out. If employers demand a university degree without actually being concerned about the quality of that credential, that just means our educational and labour assignment structures need serious improvement, not that it's OK to cheat on a test for the sake of getting a degree demanded by employers, whether it means a damn thing or not. Frankly, the increasing emphasis on postsecondary credentials as unnecessary qualifications for jobs is a symptom of too much reliance on automation in hiring processes (goodness forbid enough people should be employed to actually go through resumes; let's just scan for keywords and names!), along with the belittlement and delegitimization of non-institutional education and skills development. Goodness, does every paper-pusher and junior account executive need an MBA? Don't even get me started on the subject of social service agencies that worry more about the presence of the letters "BSW" or "MSW" in a resume than whether the person can actually handle working with people in crisis, without sufficient time or resources, on a daily basis, as that's something I hear about at home on a regular basis.
There must be a better way.
I'm not sure what to make of your equivalence between a minimum of support for those who don't possess property and resources, and the profligate waste and destruction of property and resources.
Elements of this make me think of the Anarchist Free University.
I doubt these will replace established institutions, but instead complement them and bring advanced education to communities that might otherwise treat expanded knowledge as something to suspect, even suppress.
Wow. I feel like I'm reading a summary from 2000 to, say, 2003, during the good ol' days of emergency patches for zero-day IIS holes and Outlook Express-exploiting worms.
Thanks for the memories, MS. Apple may one day produce bigger security holes, but you did it with pathetic panache and stack-smashing style.
Those were the days...
Incredible.
If I pulled the same stunt, my home would be raided, my computers would be seized, and my name would be splashed all over the media as a professional pirate. I might even score jail time.
The big four labels in CRIA? Barely a whimper in the press. I hope they get smacked in the courts.
Hence why someone should investigate.
Brilliant - let's get one up on the Iranians by messing with their nuclear reactor controls! What could possibly go wrong?
If true, this is reckless endangerment, and the people involved - government-backed or lone wolves - should be prosecuted. Just because the Iranian government is full of militaristic and theocratic jerks does not give anyone the right to endanger the lives of any old (or young) person living or working in and around that facility. Indeed, it's the kind of stunt that can only push their ruling class farther into paranoia and fear, the kind tha leads to... nuclear weapons development.
He also seems to specifically target the US and only the US, as if no other country is currently doing dubious shit.
A quick glance at the "Latest disclosures" section puts that claim to rest.
On top of that, a sizable number of the United States pages are related to large leaks, such as a huge Iraq order of battle leak from 2007 where each unit receives an individual page. The country tags also include analysis and news articles, not just leaks, so if the news media isn't discussing it, and no one involved with WikiLeaks notices it, it doesn't get linked and included in the category. Therefore, while the US does receive an inordinate amount of attention, that may have more to do with its status as superpower and present primary occupier of two countries.
There's clearly more to WikiLeaks than Julian Assange, though I wonder why some people want so badly to make the whole thing about him, his own self-promotion aside...
I'm sure Reagan would have tolerated PATCO and airport managers halting service to demand early elections seven months after a coup attempt.