I can understand your point of view, I once shared it. But my view has changed, due to either advancing age or evolving tastes. I've come to realize that I will never have the time (or money) to play every game I'm interested in. But I enjoy good storytelling through this medium, dazzling graphics, and innovative concepts. I first watched a run through Dante's Inferno, a game I had no interest in investing money in, but a subject matter that I had previously enjoyed (various adaptations of the Divine Comedy, in particular the X-Men saving Nightcrawler from the 10th circle of Hell). Watching it gave me my fix, at no cost, and minimal time invested (I jumped through grinding sessions to boss battles and game dialogue). Lately I've enjoyed watching Fortnite, for which my child has criticized me. I feel this is the same concept as watching sports; watching people better than you doing something you can't (or choose not to do).
The last time I was in a Best Buy was to buy my current Huawei Honor 8, 2 years ago. They won my business over Amazon (I have Prime) and Ebay by the fact that the color I wanted was in stock locally. It still took the sales associate over 1 hour to find time for me and to search there stock 3 times to finally find my phone. Before that I hadn't been in a Best Buy in over 5 years (looking for a computer component they apparently no longer sold at that time).
And here I thought the US was a capitalist country. There are dead communists laughing at us from the grave.
And this would help how? Every OS has security holes. Every. Single. One. Without exception. Why? Because no matter how clever we are, these are all created by fallible humanity, and there is some way to circumvent, interrupt, override, overpower, or simply break it (even if it's just with a well aimed rock). Windows was the biggest and the most installed, and thus it had the most people attacking it and finding flaws, holes, and weak points of every kind. If all the Windows OS systems were scrapped today, the brains behind these attacks would simply move to the next most profitable target and do the same again. Microsoft and Windows have obvious issues, but they are not unique or limited to themselves. All you can do is try to make it too hard for the criminals to turn a profit (or gain whatever power they seek).
I'm a tech in the education sector with a background in science (geology). I specialize in large format graphics and on-the-ground tech support for an implant print shop. I have no need to learn business at this time. Woop woop woop!
When my very old Samsung Galaxy S4 stopped working well with modern applications last year, I wanted to find a decent cellphone at a good price, without going to used. I took a chance on the Huawei Honor 8 for $400. It's been a great phone, timely with updates, and more than just another flavor of android running on a Chinese apple knockoff. It's a beautiful and well made device that has served me well. While their earlier software had some unusual features/bad designs, when they moved up to Android 7.0 they abandoned many of their failed ideas and kept improving their software.
This is not a cheap knockoff company, I'd expect them to easily rival Samsung and Apple in the US, if not pass them entirely for market share.
I've been using the Huawei Honor 8 for about 6 months now, and it's an impressive phone, especially with it's $400 retail price tag (Best Buy, Amazon, etc). Mine just updated to their version of Android 7.0, and I fell like I just got a new phone again (in all the positive ways). It's less expensiv, faster, and has more features than many competitors, and stands up very well against it's Samsung and Apple competition. This is not a "el-cheapo", it's a high quality and well manufactured phone.
The process in this scenario is called Adaptive Radiation. It occurs after every mass extinction event. Many geologic time periods end with a mass extinction and begins with an adaptive radiation. This shows in the strata (layers of rock) as a sudden change in fossils, as one set of species dies off and another takes it place. Note that these can occur both globally or locally, depending on the niche.
The research in this article is simply pointing out which events (out of many hundreds) precipitated and supported avian evolution.
Seems like a good time to show that friendship (or events) is magic and bring in the pony. Should be enough brony coders out there to create an equestrian curriculum.
If Hasbro only understood board games then there would be no brony (My Little Pony) fandom. Any nebulous subject needs to be approached in a similar way to Hasbro's reboot of it's 80's (and much smaller and trite) property.
1. Find someone with both talent and passion for the subject.
2. Give them time to develop concept/treatment, allowing them to grow their own team.
3. Keep the restrictions minimal, and follow their lead
4, Avoid tailoring the project to fit merchandising, but let the merchandising follow the project closely.
5. At almost any cost, have the community there for each step, and keep the IP lawyers on a very short leash.
Allow profit to come in from licensing, sales, and make sure everyone involved never stops listening to the community. Not just doing what the community wants, but interacting with them and explain why major choices were made, whether popular or not.
The subduction zone may be located out to sea, but the subducted plate extends under the continental crust for a fairly long distance, and at even greater depths. The eastern boundary of the subducted plate can only be "mapped" by comparing hundreds of seismic images and estimating density, temperature, and composition to determine what is still there to fracture and what has been sufficiently reabsorbed into the mantle.
Note that the current subduction system with a transverse zone to the south has been in place since the Pacific Plate made contact with the American Plate around 30 million years ago, dividing (and fracturing) the old Farallon Plate (of which Juan de Fuca is one remnant).
And as for potential worse-case scenarios, look at the Chilean subduction zone, and the 1960 Valdivia earthquake . The subducted Nazca Plate there is the southern remnant of the old Farallon Plate.
Since the diameter of the earth is 7 926.3352 miles, this could conceivably remove any need for repeaters. I still bet it will not improve fiber rollout by big telcos in the U.S.
I work in the education industry in a large-format print environment. PowerPoint is one of the main pieces of software chosen to make large academic posters (36" x 48" commonly, but I've had larger than 60"x 96" designed in PowerPoint). It is also the main reason there are delays and errors with said posters.
Our department strongly recommends that faculty and students use either Adobe Illustrator or the free open source Inkscape to create their posters. Less than 1% of posters created in these programs have any issues with the format, while PowerPoint currently has issues in roughly 50% of the files we have received in the past, with PowerPoint in an OSX system being by far the worse offender. The problem has been somewhat mitigated with requiring all submissions be in PDF (which works well with our proprietary ripping software), but has only reduced the issues, not eliminated them.
It should be noted that various other office suites and other programs have been used to generate the posters we print, but nothing is quite as bad as those coming from the Microsoft Office suite (don't get me started on Publisher). And to those suggesting a raster export (jpg, tif, png, bmp, etc) the files quickly become to large for an average user to move them easily (less an issue today than 5-10 years ago) and text/finer elements often become fuzzy and plugged in all but the highest resolution files.
So yes, please, let's all kill PowerPoint (and throw Publisher on the pyre while we're at it).
"Alternatively, it might suggest that the government just doesn't care about legal authorization."
As a resident of San Bernardino county (for 15+ years) who has personally known many members of the Sheriff's Department, I'd suggest that this is indeed the case. This county is the largest in the nation and has population widely dispersed throughout a vast majority of it's area, making deployment difficult. The attitude I saw most prevalent was one of "I don't care, just get it done". A perceived relative lack of equipment and manpower coupled with this attitude means that corners get cut and protocols are ignored.
They do, however, and more often then not, get the job done.
Plot wise, transparency wasn't the issue (although it was a selling point to get the stuff made), it was to reduce the material thickness required to hold the water from 6" thick to 1" thick, and to barter the knowledge of it's creation for the requisite material.
Try living in the area and building in the area before you start speaking of things you seem to know nothing about.
Well, my home is within 10 miles of the San Andreas Fault, and my work is built entirely within the historical San Andreas fault zone (my office lies less than 1/2 mile from the current southern branch). I am a native Californian and have ridden out many earthquakes, both in and out of school.
And to address other concerns, the Field Act is insufficient for the high end for potential quakes. It it designed to handle M7 quakes, while historical data shows that a M7.9 has occurred in California. Note that the strongest quakes since 1933 were 2 M7.3. My research in getting my BA in geology showed that up to about a M9 could theoretically be possible, and that the historical data may be underestimated (the 1812 Wrightwood-area earthquake had one report suggesting a possible M9.2).
Also, I was generally estimating the design, but I was also referring to low one story buildings, as opposed to multiple floor structures. Larger buildings require a very different approach to their foundations (in order to reduce oscillation). The original statement said "withstand a 8.0 without structural damage" and while a M8.0 off a subduction zone is no where near as powerful as a M8.0 off a transverse zone at the surface, I seriously doubt that any country has the economics to build to such a high standard across the board.
Laws requiring all structures to withstand an 8.0? Let's move past the enforcement nightmare that would be and look at the reality of building that strong, It would cost close to million US dollars to build a single floor, single family dwelling to those specifications. You would need a foundation between 36"-48", fully steel enforced, likely 6"x12" studs throughout 16" on center and 12'x12' or larger corner posts. The roof structure would weigh 5 to 7 times what a normal roof would, and every single wood joint would have to be reinforced with 1" thick steel plate, bolted through the stud and beam centers.
In California structural laws are designed to preserve human life, and structures are designed to survive the shaking enough to allow people to exit, but we take the Japanese mentality that natural disasters will do damage, and it's better to rebuild every few decades.
Besides, California is a transverse zone (primarily, north of Mendocino is subduction with divergent off shore, and some divergence from the Salton Sea south) and we deal with shallow M7-M9 earthquakes, while Chile runs along a subduction zone, with deep M15+ quakes. Your quakes have much more energy dispersed over a larger area, while ours tend to be more localized and focused. We get at most 3-5 minutes of shaking, with less than a minute of intense damaging waves, while you can have 5min+ of building-toppling destruction,
Do we not have to worry the most when the faint objects do *not* move at all, between pictures? Then they are heading straight for us.
Incorrect, we are judging their movement as compared to the background stars, which are (relatively) fixed in position while we move. An object on collision course with us will not be heading straight the position we are at when it is observed, but it's trajectory will have to carry it into the path of our orbit, at the same time that we occupy that same point. If an object appears in the same fixed position as the starts around it, it is either too distant to concern us, or it is in a concentric orbit at the same angular velocity as us and not an issue (although this would be an extremely interesting discovery).
Even something on a perfect spiral trajectory on the elliptical and matching our angular velocity would be detectable due to observations at different times of the night (as we rotate around the Earth's axis) and the different Doppler shift compared to much more distant stars.
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It's like they have Atlantis Complex.
I can understand your point of view, I once shared it. But my view has changed, due to either advancing age or evolving tastes.
I've come to realize that I will never have the time (or money) to play every game I'm interested in. But I enjoy good storytelling through this medium, dazzling graphics, and innovative concepts. I first watched a run through Dante's Inferno, a game I had no interest in investing money in, but a subject matter that I had previously enjoyed (various adaptations of the Divine Comedy, in particular the X-Men saving Nightcrawler from the 10th circle of Hell). Watching it gave me my fix, at no cost, and minimal time invested (I jumped through grinding sessions to boss battles and game dialogue).
Lately I've enjoyed watching Fortnite, for which my child has criticized me. I feel this is the same concept as watching sports; watching people better than you doing something you can't (or choose not to do).
The last time I was in a Best Buy was to buy my current Huawei Honor 8, 2 years ago. They won my business over Amazon (I have Prime) and Ebay by the fact that the color I wanted was in stock locally. It still took the sales associate over 1 hour to find time for me and to search there stock 3 times to finally find my phone. Before that I hadn't been in a Best Buy in over 5 years (looking for a computer component they apparently no longer sold at that time).
And here I thought the US was a capitalist country. There are dead communists laughing at us from the grave.
And this would help how? Every OS has security holes.
Every. Single. One.
Without exception.
Why? Because no matter how clever we are, these are all created by fallible humanity, and there is some way to circumvent, interrupt, override, overpower, or simply break it (even if it's just with a well aimed rock).
Windows was the biggest and the most installed, and thus it had the most people attacking it and finding flaws, holes, and weak points of every kind. If all the Windows OS systems were scrapped today, the brains behind these attacks would simply move to the next most profitable target and do the same again.
Microsoft and Windows have obvious issues, but they are not unique or limited to themselves. All you can do is try to make it too hard for the criminals to turn a profit (or gain whatever power they seek).
I'm a tech in the education sector with a background in science (geology). I specialize in large format graphics and on-the-ground tech support for an implant print shop. I have no need to learn business at this time. Woop woop woop!
I am unfamiliar with YoY as a term and had to google it.
All I could think was "Zoidberg is happy!"
When my very old Samsung Galaxy S4 stopped working well with modern applications last year, I wanted to find a decent cellphone at a good price, without going to used. I took a chance on the Huawei Honor 8 for $400. It's been a great phone, timely with updates, and more than just another flavor of android running on a Chinese apple knockoff. It's a beautiful and well made device that has served me well. While their earlier software had some unusual features/bad designs, when they moved up to Android 7.0 they abandoned many of their failed ideas and kept improving their software.
This is not a cheap knockoff company, I'd expect them to easily rival Samsung and Apple in the US, if not pass them entirely for market share.
Thank you! I thought of this immediately and had to see if anyone else had thought of it! If I had mod points I would have used them on you!
The scary thing is just how prophetic this movie could be with this.
I've been using the Huawei Honor 8 for about 6 months now, and it's an impressive phone, especially with it's $400 retail price tag (Best Buy, Amazon, etc). Mine just updated to their version of Android 7.0, and I fell like I just got a new phone again (in all the positive ways). It's less expensiv, faster, and has more features than many competitors, and stands up very well against it's Samsung and Apple competition. This is not a "el-cheapo", it's a high quality and well manufactured phone.
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On a side note I discovered the MLP show and community from
The process in this scenario is called Adaptive Radiation. It occurs after every mass extinction event. Many geologic time periods end with a mass extinction and begins with an adaptive radiation. This shows in the strata (layers of rock) as a sudden change in fossils, as one set of species dies off and another takes it place. Note that these can occur both globally or locally, depending on the niche.
The research in this article is simply pointing out which events (out of many hundreds) precipitated and supported avian evolution.
Seems like a good time to show that friendship (or events) is magic and bring in the pony.
Should be enough brony coders out there to create an equestrian curriculum.
If Hasbro only understood board games then there would be no brony (My Little Pony) fandom. Any nebulous subject needs to be approached in a similar way to Hasbro's reboot of it's 80's (and much smaller and trite) property.
1. Find someone with both talent and passion for the subject.
2. Give them time to develop concept/treatment, allowing them to grow their own team.
3. Keep the restrictions minimal, and follow their lead
4, Avoid tailoring the project to fit merchandising, but let the merchandising follow the project closely.
5. At almost any cost, have the community there for each step, and keep the IP lawyers on a very short leash.
Allow profit to come in from licensing, sales, and make sure everyone involved never stops listening to the community. Not just doing what the community wants, but interacting with them and explain why major choices were made, whether popular or not.
The best way to deal with a security hole is to patch it and be done with it, not constantly doing maintenance on the damage that comes as a result.
Easier said than done, to be sure.
Pro Tip: Make the decision not to cheat before you begin any relationship. Once in a relationship, learn to not let your eyes wander.
The subduction zone may be located out to sea, but the subducted plate extends under the continental crust for a fairly long distance, and at even greater depths. The eastern boundary of the subducted plate can only be "mapped" by comparing hundreds of seismic images and estimating density, temperature, and composition to determine what is still there to fracture and what has been sufficiently reabsorbed into the mantle.
Note that the current subduction system with a transverse zone to the south has been in place since the Pacific Plate made contact with the American Plate around 30 million years ago, dividing (and fracturing) the old Farallon Plate (of which Juan de Fuca is one remnant).
And as for potential worse-case scenarios, look at the Chilean subduction zone, and the 1960 Valdivia earthquake . The subducted Nazca Plate there is the southern remnant of the old Farallon Plate.
Just comparing for scale, others did it better than me below.
Since the diameter of the earth is 7 926.3352 miles, this could conceivably remove any need for repeaters. I still bet it will not improve fiber rollout by big telcos in the U.S.
I work in the education industry in a large-format print environment. PowerPoint is one of the main pieces of software chosen to make large academic posters (36" x 48" commonly, but I've had larger than 60"x 96" designed in PowerPoint). It is also the main reason there are delays and errors with said posters.
Our department strongly recommends that faculty and students use either Adobe Illustrator or the free open source Inkscape to create their posters. Less than 1% of posters created in these programs have any issues with the format, while PowerPoint currently has issues in roughly 50% of the files we have received in the past, with PowerPoint in an OSX system being by far the worse offender. The problem has been somewhat mitigated with requiring all submissions be in PDF (which works well with our proprietary ripping software), but has only reduced the issues, not eliminated them.
It should be noted that various other office suites and other programs have been used to generate the posters we print, but nothing is quite as bad as those coming from the Microsoft Office suite (don't get me started on Publisher). And to those suggesting a raster export (jpg, tif, png, bmp, etc) the files quickly become to large for an average user to move them easily (less an issue today than 5-10 years ago) and text/finer elements often become fuzzy and plugged in all but the highest resolution files.
So yes, please, let's all kill PowerPoint (and throw Publisher on the pyre while we're at it).
"Alternatively, it might suggest that the government just doesn't care about legal authorization."
As a resident of San Bernardino county (for 15+ years) who has personally known many members of the Sheriff's Department, I'd suggest that this is indeed the case. This county is the largest in the nation and has population widely dispersed throughout a vast majority of it's area, making deployment difficult. The attitude I saw most prevalent was one of "I don't care, just get it done". A perceived relative lack of equipment and manpower coupled with this attitude means that corners get cut and protocols are ignored.
They do, however, and more often then not, get the job done.
Plot wise, transparency wasn't the issue (although it was a selling point to get the stuff made), it was to reduce the material thickness required to hold the water from 6" thick to 1" thick, and to barter the knowledge of it's creation for the requisite material.
Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Try living in the area and building in the area before you start speaking of things you seem to know nothing about.
Well, my home is within 10 miles of the San Andreas Fault, and my work is built entirely within the historical San Andreas fault zone (my office lies less than 1/2 mile from the current southern branch). I am a native Californian and have ridden out many earthquakes, both in and out of school.
And to address other concerns, the Field Act is insufficient for the high end for potential quakes. It it designed to handle M7 quakes, while historical data shows that a M7.9 has occurred in California. Note that the strongest quakes since 1933 were 2 M7.3. My research in getting my BA in geology showed that up to about a M9 could theoretically be possible, and that the historical data may be underestimated (the 1812 Wrightwood-area earthquake had one report suggesting a possible M9.2).
Also, I was generally estimating the design, but I was also referring to low one story buildings, as opposed to multiple floor structures. Larger buildings require a very different approach to their foundations (in order to reduce oscillation). The original statement said "withstand a 8.0 without structural damage" and while a M8.0 off a subduction zone is no where near as powerful as a M8.0 off a transverse zone at the surface, I seriously doubt that any country has the economics to build to such a high standard across the board.
Laws requiring all structures to withstand an 8.0? Let's move past the enforcement nightmare that would be and look at the reality of building that strong, It would cost close to million US dollars to build a single floor, single family dwelling to those specifications. You would need a foundation between 36"-48", fully steel enforced, likely 6"x12" studs throughout 16" on center and 12'x12' or larger corner posts. The roof structure would weigh 5 to 7 times what a normal roof would, and every single wood joint would have to be reinforced with 1" thick steel plate, bolted through the stud and beam centers.
In California structural laws are designed to preserve human life, and structures are designed to survive the shaking enough to allow people to exit, but we take the Japanese mentality that natural disasters will do damage, and it's better to rebuild every few decades.
Besides, California is a transverse zone (primarily, north of Mendocino is subduction with divergent off shore, and some divergence from the Salton Sea south) and we deal with shallow M7-M9 earthquakes, while Chile runs along a subduction zone, with deep M15+ quakes. Your quakes have much more energy dispersed over a larger area, while ours tend to be more localized and focused. We get at most 3-5 minutes of shaking, with less than a minute of intense damaging waves, while you can have 5min+ of building-toppling destruction,
Do we not have to worry the most when the faint objects do *not* move at all, between pictures? Then they are heading straight for us.
Incorrect, we are judging their movement as compared to the background stars, which are (relatively) fixed in position while we move. An object on collision course with us will not be heading straight the position we are at when it is observed, but it's trajectory will have to carry it into the path of our orbit, at the same time that we occupy that same point. If an object appears in the same fixed position as the starts around it, it is either too distant to concern us, or it is in a concentric orbit at the same angular velocity as us and not an issue (although this would be an extremely interesting discovery).
Even something on a perfect spiral trajectory on the elliptical and matching our angular velocity would be detectable due to observations at different times of the night (as we rotate around the Earth's axis) and the different Doppler shift compared to much more distant stars.
This is why I still play RuneScape.