It's a problem with any discipline -- language is not exact.
What qualifies as meat? Does seafood count as meat? Not for Catholics.
What qualifies as a person? What about in utero? Maybe for manslaughter, but why not count that time for age restrictions?
What qualifies as blue? Is cyan blue enough? It depends on what you're using the category for.
Anyone who's tried to work on standardize terminology (eg, specialized thesauri, or even just a controlled vocabulary) will know that it is a long, exhasting process that takes years in some cases, and even then, is likely to change.
I play it with my roommate, neighbors, and with my neighbor's 6 year old. (I went through first and unlocked stuff, so he wouldn't get overly frustrated in trying to solve the puzzles)
X-Men Legends is another good one, but the parents of the 6yr old don't want him to play that violent of a game.
It was self regulating when access to the internet was more restricted.
If your grades went down too much, you lost your internet access, and your ability to mud -- so you had a vested interested in not failing all of your classes.
One little problem with your Superman / Airplane! argument:
Both of those were PG before PG-13 was created as a rating (1984).
So, it's possible that had such a rating existed back then, they might've been rated PG-13 and not PG.
Have social standards changed? Probably. (although, both would likely score below 'R' and above 'G', so it's hard to tell in this particular case if they'd be rated PG or PG-13).
If you don't know all of the details, it's impossible to draw an accurate conclusion.
First, NASA has different classes of missions, such as the Discovery Programs, which are intended to be lower cost, and more science focused. (I think STEREO falls under this, but I'm not sure). The cost is claimed to be $500mil, not the 'billions' that you claimed. Yes, it's still a lot, but not all of it comes from the US.
As for the 'movie' aspect -- the satellites will be able to generate 3D movies, but it's not what you think -- only for a limited time will the satellites be at an angular seperation that's similar to the human eyes trying to look at something. For the other times, it's still useful to the scientists, but not the general public looking for pretty movies.
So... why's it important? Well, read the FAQ. I mean, hell, wasn't just waiting for the hurricane to hit good enough? Why do we need to spend money on radar and doppler radar to actually give us advanced warning?
As for what NASA's been doing -- just read their website. (and there's lots of other breakthroughs that aren't even hard science -- technology to perform better science, etc.)
Now, as one is to the effective 'right' of the earth (Ahead), and one effectively 'left' (Behind), I don't know if the instruments are placed differently in relation to the antenna to communicate w/ earth, or if they just have one flipped over.
When you don't know the size of something, it's hard to tell if it's coming at you. And even if you could tell if it's approaching, and not just standing still, as it's changing in size, you can't tell how quickly it's moving 'till it actually hits you. (which is where we're at now)
With a single point of observation that's not in the path, you can tell it's moving to the left or right -- but you still don't know how close it is, so although you can tell how quickly it's moving across your field of view, you can't tell if or when it's going to hit something (eg, the earth) -- so you need the second frame of reference.
First, we'll assume that Apple actually wants to continue their high rate of growth, which may not be the case. (eg, Jaguar could take a bigger market if they licensed their name to Ford... um... okay, bad example)
The 40% margins are based on what? Because I would think that were Apple to get 20% of the market (over 3x what it is today), the individual costs of the OS are effectively 1/3 per machine in cost, comparatively. And the larger they get, the more sway they might have.
And let's not forget -- Apple on Intel is a form of advertising for Intel. Apple is very, very good at getting in the press, so Intel might be willing to take a smaller margin in exchange.
Although 40k as a wargame lacks a format, there is plenty of history from the storylines, and there are plenty of other Games Workshop games based in the universe --
There were also board game (eg. Space Hulk) and other games, but the important thing is the back history.
Personally, I haven't played much since high school -- I played Harlequins, which hasn't had a real army list in years. (but there was a harlequin in the Dawn of War expansion that just came out... unfortunately as part of the Eldar forces as not an independant army)
Yep, there's nothing women like better than the fine physique that comes from a diet consisting mainly of junk food and soda, combined with lack of sunlight and stress from unrealistic deadlines. (and for some -- lots of alcohol to deal with the stress)
(at least not like construction or farm work does)
You've never seen someone in the shape I've already described, decide that they're going to help re-rack a Sun E4500. I'd say Tom blew his back out at least every other week, if not more often.
I've seen the checklist used many, many times, and it's typically funny. But I'm not sure you've selected the correct values in this instance. Please provide details of why you selected the following:
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
Specifically, the article did take into account botnets, and they're just forcing good SMTP compliance. It shoudln't affect well-designed mailing list software, nor would it sabotage public networks.
So yes, there is the whole issue of the arms race -- people will just correct their botnets to handle this quirk. But your other categorizations are grossly unfair.
Pricing summary for the lazy:
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· Score: 3, Informative
Of the multitude of links, there wasn't one to Next Gen's summary. Here's a further condensed report:
$250 : main system, 1 Wii-mote, 1 nunchucks, Wii Sports
$40 : extra Wii-motes $20 : extra nunchucks
$50 or less : new Nintendo made games (no cap on third-party games) $5 : downloadable NES games $8 : downloadable SNES games $10 : downloadable N64 games $?? : Opera browser...
and the gamecube version of Zelda:TS will come out ~3 weeks after the Wii version; Metroid Prime 3, not 'till 2007.
Next Generation has posted a list of the 100 most influential women in the games industry. It's an exhaustive and nonsense-free take on a subject particularly important to the male-dominated world of videogames
(Emphasis added).
So if it's exhaustive, then there can't be a 101th member. Of course, it reads more like 'these are females that I know currently in the industry, or peripherally related'. Hell, Ada Byron probably had more influence than any of the ones on the list, even if it was indirect.
Besides the incident mentioned about the person whose ballot was already filled in, there was also this little paragraph about PG County:
Voting was delayed at about 15 or 20 polling places in Prince George's County as well, officials said, because new electronic voter authorization books either were not operable or had not been delivered when the polls opened, officials said.
Can you imagine what a Tickle Me Elmo would go for today (ex if it had happend in 2006 vs 1996), give then hype that surrounded it back then combined with the insane market that is ebay?
T.M.X (Tickle Me Elmo 10th Anniversary) comes out on the 19th.
Unless there's a whole lot more going on than the article says, based on what it's talking about, and the example images, it's nothing but a difference movie.
(you look at changes from one frame to the next, and make a movie of those changes).
There's nothing new about this -- scientists have been using it for years (if not decades) for instruments that they don't have enough data to fully calibrate (eg, those on spacecraft, where they might not be able to focus on fixed targets to calibrate it in its environment). It's also useful to tell when only small portions of the image are changing, or it's changing very slightly in relation to the whole image.
I was thinking the same thing, but Lister went on a bender and ended up on a spaceship _before_ he had a falling out with his girlfriend.
Actually, if memory serves, he ended up on a different planet, and took the job to get back... then met his girlfriend, and they had a falling out, and ended up millions of years from Earth.
So yes, all of the elements are there, but in a different order.
I picked up the first two seasons on DVD (region 1), and saw that it was the remastered, without the original model shots. (the campiness of the special effects fit the campiness of the rest of the show)
I haven't even bothered looking at which versions are on the later seasons. (hell, it'd cost 'em how much extra to put both versions on there? A few cents to press a disk, and some extra for a different container to fit 'em in?
Now, that's not to say that the remastered stuff wasn't funny in context w/ the special trailers they were running making fun of the Star Wars remastered, but the original was better.
Lots of companies make cabinets for large scale archiving for data centers and the like. They don't tend to be cheap, but they can pack them rather densely:
There are also moving shelf options, but they normally are for mixed media (tapes, cds, etc), and you have to buy the shelves, then fill it with media packs to hold the type of media you're storing:
If you're going for cheap and densely packed, I'd probably re-sleeve them and drop them into a drawered cabinet, but you'll need to make sure they're well organized if you expect to ever find them again.
Although Lovelace is a good example of a scientist (and one of the few famous historical females), there's the slight problem of name similarity that might be a problem in assignments for 10-12 year olds.
A true story -- I used to work at a university where all of the servers had various 'theme' names. One generation of the mail system was all named after scientists: (Einstein, Boltzman, Planck, Fermi, Faraday, Fourier, Laplace, Joule, Feynman, Hawking (which was mis-named 'Hawkins'), Fuchs, Newton, Curie, etc).
Anyway, we had some problems, and placed a couple of extra boxes to deal with spam and virus filtering, etc, and we just picked some names. The sysadmins explained to management what was going on, and one of the managers started getting all pissy, because we named one of the servers after a porn star. We had to explain to him who Ada Lovelace was.
After that, all production server names had to be approved by management. (We switched to names of elements for the next generation of mail servers, to avoid the problem).
There was also a movie called Series 7: The Contenders which was sort of making fun of reality TV. (in this one, the assumption was that the players ere all really trying to kill each other) I saw it during the height of Survivor and the like, so I don't know how well it holds up without that background.
Some of the advantages of composite materials is that you have have a protective coating around a material that might have problems. (eg, the concrete around steel columns helps provide a degree of insulation)
You also have to look at more than just absolute strength (even at a range of temperatures), and look at how it fails at different temperatures.
For instance -- steel at 'room temperatures' typically fails through plastic deformation -- it stretches, and we get a chance to notice that something's wrong before it explosively fails. However, it becomes brittle at cold temperatures, and a sudden impact can break it. (one of the theories of the Titanic disaster is that this is what happened).
Today's engineers don't just try to make the building strong, but to make sure that it fails in predicable ways. (eg, steel reinforced concrete is supposed to make sure the steel fails before the concrete... so you see sagging before the concrete explodes in a shower of chunks).
Another thing to remember is that the building codes list a set of conditions that the design has to be able to take -- it's not that a structure will never exceed those given loads, but that the probability of exceeding those conditions is low enough. (after all, we can't be 100% sure that the concrete was poured correctly, and that we'll get the exact properties that they got in lab conditions). The codes will list the stresses that it has to take, and the safety factors to use -- they often vary by area. (eg, in colder climates, you expect more total snow load, but don't have to design for as much variability).
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on these matters -- I have a bachelor's in civil engineering, but I'm not a practicing engineer. But I do trust that the majority of PEs (Professional Engineers) are going to look at these sorts of things ahead of time -- who wants to be known as 'the guy who built the $2billion bridge that fell down in 3 weeks and killed 2k people'. I also trust most safety inspectors are actually going to inspect the work as they're required to do. I'm going to assume that that unless something has completely broken down in the processes that these materials have been tested past the expected operating ranges they're expected to be used in, and the structures will be built to take more load and ecentricity than is expected.
Cable has a limited number of channels that it can have on at any one time. TechTV was already well established in many markets. By merging G4 and TechTV, they ended up placing G4 on a whole lot of cable networks that wouldn't have otherwise bought G4 from their competitor (Comcast), especially based on the quality of the programming.
They then cancel the TechTV programming, which got their costs back down to the original rate of expenditure, and for the cost of buying TechTV, they got their channel in all of the TechTV markets. And I'm guessing, that the cable operators have to pay them for the right to show their stuff, so they slowly make back their money from the purchase.
The lessons are that $4000 is not worth risking your life over
It showed nothing of the sort. It showed that a bad outcome occured, not that a bad decision was made.
If you owed a bookie $3k, and had a few of his 'associates' had come by to remind you that your payment was due at the end of the week, and you had to compare not risking the trial, vs. making $4k, even with death as a potential outcome may be a good decision.
...
Let's take the old look at the lottery -- typically playing the lottery is a bad decision, but it can be a good decision even if the payout doesn't hit the record amounts where it exceeds (cost * risk). Now, one of your loved ones (or yourself), needed a very expensive medical treatment, or you only had 2 months to live. The success rate of the procedure was 5% and cost $150k. You have $5k in savings. and can't get a loan -- it makes perfect sense to sink everything you have in the lottery. The odds of a bad outcome (losing everything in the lottery, or still not living after the procedure) are almost assured, but the potential for gain outweighs it.
So -- when you make a decision, you have to look every possible outcome from all aspects, not just monetary, and the odds of each outcome occuring. Sometimes, you won't know exact outcomes (stock market), or the exact chance of each outcome (stock market, medical testing), and might not even know what all of the possible outcomes are (medical testing), and determine if the risk of benefits vs. the cost are acceptable to you. Bad outcomes happen. Bad decisions only occur when ignore information that is important in the decision, or you don't recognize that you don't have all of the information that is necessary to make the decision. (you can still make a good decision on incomplete information, but it's an increased risk).
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It's a problem with any discipline -- language is not exact.
What qualifies as meat? Does seafood count as meat? Not for Catholics.
What qualifies as a person? What about in utero? Maybe for manslaughter, but why not count that time for age restrictions?
What qualifies as blue? Is cyan blue enough? It depends on what you're using the category for.
Anyone who's tried to work on standardize terminology (eg, specialized thesauri, or even just a controlled vocabulary) will know that it is a long, exhasting process that takes years in some cases, and even then, is likely to change.
Planets are not a classical category, and will be subject to prototype effects.
I only wish it were a 4 player game.
I play it with my roommate, neighbors, and with my neighbor's 6 year old. (I went through first and unlocked stuff, so he wouldn't get overly frustrated in trying to solve the puzzles)
X-Men Legends is another good one, but the parents of the 6yr old don't want him to play that violent of a game.
It was self regulating when access to the internet was more restricted.
...
If your grades went down too much, you lost your internet access, and your ability to mud -- so you had a vested interested in not failing all of your classes.
Then came the September that never ended
One little problem with your Superman / Airplane! argument:
Both of those were PG before PG-13 was created as a rating (1984).
So, it's possible that had such a rating existed back then, they might've been rated PG-13 and not PG.
Have social standards changed? Probably. (although, both would likely score below 'R' and above 'G', so it's hard to tell in this particular case if they'd be rated PG or PG-13).
If you don't know all of the details, it's impossible to draw an accurate conclusion.
... why's it important? Well, read the FAQ. I mean, hell, wasn't just waiting for the hurricane to hit good enough? Why do we need to spend money on radar and doppler radar to actually give us advanced warning?
First, NASA has different classes of missions, such as the Discovery Programs, which are intended to be lower cost, and more science focused. (I think STEREO falls under this, but I'm not sure). The cost is claimed to be $500mil, not the 'billions' that you claimed. Yes, it's still a lot, but not all of it comes from the US.
As for the 'movie' aspect -- the satellites will be able to generate 3D movies, but it's not what you think -- only for a limited time will the satellites be at an angular seperation that's similar to the human eyes trying to look at something. For the other times, it's still useful to the scientists, but not the general public looking for pretty movies.
So
As for what NASA's been doing -- just read their website. (and there's lots of other breakthroughs that aren't even hard science -- technology to perform better science, etc.)
As I understand it, the main difference is the coupling ring, as they're stacked together for transport, and only one has the rocket attached to it. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/multimedi a/stereo_stacked.html .
Now, as one is to the effective 'right' of the earth (Ahead), and one effectively 'left' (Behind), I don't know if the instruments are placed differently in relation to the antenna to communicate w/ earth, or if they just have one flipped over.
When you don't know the size of something, it's hard to tell if it's coming at you. And even if you could tell if it's approaching, and not just standing still, as it's changing in size, you can't tell how quickly it's moving 'till it actually hits you. (which is where we're at now)
With a single point of observation that's not in the path, you can tell it's moving to the left or right -- but you still don't know how close it is, so although you can tell how quickly it's moving across your field of view, you can't tell if or when it's going to hit something (eg, the earth) -- so you need the second frame of reference.
First, we'll assume that Apple actually wants to continue their high rate of growth, which may not be the case. (eg, Jaguar could take a bigger market if they licensed their name to Ford ... um ... okay, bad example)
The 40% margins are based on what? Because I would think that were Apple to get 20% of the market (over 3x what it is today), the individual costs of the OS are effectively 1/3 per machine in cost, comparatively. And the larger they get, the more sway they might have.
And let's not forget -- Apple on Intel is a form of advertising for Intel. Apple is very, very good at getting in the press, so Intel might be willing to take a smaller margin in exchange.
At least he's linking to the real source these days, as opposed to some summary on his site.
He also doesn't account for the high percentage of total stories that he used to.
- Epic (even larger scale battles)
- Battlefleet Gothic (ship combat)
- Necromunda (squad combat)
- Inquisitor (individual role playing)
There were also board game (eg. Space Hulk) and other games, but the important thing is the back history.Personally, I haven't played much since high school -- I played Harlequins, which hasn't had a real army list in years. (but there was a harlequin in the Dawn of War expansion that just came out
Yep, there's nothing women like better than the fine physique that comes from a diet consisting mainly of junk food and soda, combined with lack of sunlight and stress from unrealistic deadlines. (and for some -- lots of alcohol to deal with the stress)
You've never seen someone in the shape I've already described, decide that they're going to help re-rack a Sun E4500. I'd say Tom blew his back out at least every other week, if not more often.
Specifically, the article did take into account botnets, and they're just forcing good SMTP compliance. It shoudln't affect well-designed mailing list software, nor would it sabotage public networks.
So yes, there is the whole issue of the arms race -- people will just correct their botnets to handle this quirk. But your other categorizations are grossly unfair.
Of the multitude of links, there wasn't one to Next Gen's summary. Here's a further condensed report:
...
$250 : main system, 1 Wii-mote, 1 nunchucks, Wii Sports
$40 : extra Wii-motes
$20 : extra nunchucks
$50 or less : new Nintendo made games (no cap on third-party games)
$5 : downloadable NES games
$8 : downloadable SNES games
$10 : downloadable N64 games
$?? : Opera browser
and the gamecube version of Zelda:TS will come out ~3 weeks after the Wii version; Metroid Prime 3, not 'till 2007.
So if it's exhaustive, then there can't be a 101th member. Of course, it reads more like 'these are females that I know currently in the industry, or peripherally related'. Hell, Ada Byron probably had more influence than any of the ones on the list, even if it was indirect.
(you look at changes from one frame to the next, and make a movie of those changes).
There's nothing new about this -- scientists have been using it for years (if not decades) for instruments that they don't have enough data to fully calibrate (eg, those on spacecraft, where they might not be able to focus on fixed targets to calibrate it in its environment). It's also useful to tell when only small portions of the image are changing, or it's changing very slightly in relation to the whole image.
Here are some examples:
I was thinking the same thing, but Lister went on a bender and ended up on a spaceship _before_ he had a falling out with his girlfriend.
... then met his girlfriend, and they had a falling out, and ended up millions of years from Earth.
Actually, if memory serves, he ended up on a different planet, and took the job to get back
So yes, all of the elements are there, but in a different order.
I picked up the first two seasons on DVD (region 1), and saw that it was the remastered, without the original model shots. (the campiness of the special effects fit the campiness of the rest of the show)
I haven't even bothered looking at which versions are on the later seasons. (hell, it'd cost 'em how much extra to put both versions on there? A few cents to press a disk, and some extra for a different container to fit 'em in?
Now, that's not to say that the remastered stuff wasn't funny in context w/ the special trailers they were running making fun of the Star Wars remastered, but the original was better.
Lots of companies make cabinets for large scale archiving for data centers and the like. They don't tend to be cheap, but they can pack them rather densely:
. cfm
m m
http://www.russbassett.com/products/cabinets_disc
http://www.can-am.ca/cdvideo1.htm
There are also moving shelf options, but they normally are for mixed media (tapes, cds, etc), and you have to buy the shelves, then fill it with media packs to hold the type of media you're storing:
http://www.systems-supply.com/nms2k/edpstorage.ht
http://www.russbassett.com/media/products_disc.cf
If you're going for cheap and densely packed, I'd probably re-sleeve them and drop them into a drawered cabinet, but you'll need to make sure they're well organized if you expect to ever find them again.
Although Lovelace is a good example of a scientist (and one of the few famous historical females), there's the slight problem of name similarity that might be a problem in assignments for 10-12 year olds.
A true story -- I used to work at a university where all of the servers had various 'theme' names. One generation of the mail system was all named after scientists: (Einstein, Boltzman, Planck, Fermi, Faraday, Fourier, Laplace, Joule, Feynman, Hawking (which was mis-named 'Hawkins'), Fuchs, Newton, Curie, etc).
Anyway, we had some problems, and placed a couple of extra boxes to deal with spam and virus filtering, etc, and we just picked some names. The sysadmins explained to management what was going on, and one of the managers started getting all pissy, because we named one of the servers after a porn star. We had to explain to him who Ada Lovelace was.
After that, all production server names had to be approved by management. (We switched to names of elements for the next generation of mail servers, to avoid the problem).
A quick search on IMDB suggests you were thinking of Tag: The Assassination Game.
There was also a movie called Series 7: The Contenders which was sort of making fun of reality TV. (in this one, the assumption was that the players ere all really trying to kill each other) I saw it during the height of Survivor and the like, so I don't know how well it holds up without that background.
Some of the advantages of composite materials is that you have have a protective coating around a material that might have problems. (eg, the concrete around steel columns helps provide a degree of insulation)
You also have to look at more than just absolute strength (even at a range of temperatures), and look at how it fails at different temperatures. For instance -- steel at 'room temperatures' typically fails through plastic deformation -- it stretches, and we get a chance to notice that something's wrong before it explosively fails. However, it becomes brittle at cold temperatures, and a sudden impact can break it. (one of the theories of the Titanic disaster is that this is what happened).
Today's engineers don't just try to make the building strong, but to make sure that it fails in predicable ways. (eg, steel reinforced concrete is supposed to make sure the steel fails before the concrete ... so you see sagging before the concrete explodes in a shower of chunks).
Another thing to remember is that the building codes list a set of conditions that the design has to be able to take -- it's not that a structure will never exceed those given loads, but that the probability of exceeding those conditions is low enough. (after all, we can't be 100% sure that the concrete was poured correctly, and that we'll get the exact properties that they got in lab conditions). The codes will list the stresses that it has to take, and the safety factors to use -- they often vary by area. (eg, in colder climates, you expect more total snow load, but don't have to design for as much variability).
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on these matters -- I have a bachelor's in civil engineering, but I'm not a practicing engineer. But I do trust that the majority of PEs (Professional Engineers) are going to look at these sorts of things ahead of time -- who wants to be known as 'the guy who built the $2billion bridge that fell down in 3 weeks and killed 2k people'. I also trust most safety inspectors are actually going to inspect the work as they're required to do. I'm going to assume that that unless something has completely broken down in the processes that these materials have been tested past the expected operating ranges they're expected to be used in, and the structures will be built to take more load and ecentricity than is expected.
Cable has a limited number of channels that it can have on at any one time. TechTV was already well established in many markets. By merging G4 and TechTV, they ended up placing G4 on a whole lot of cable networks that wouldn't have otherwise bought G4 from their competitor (Comcast), especially based on the quality of the programming.
They then cancel the TechTV programming, which got their costs back down to the original rate of expenditure, and for the cost of buying TechTV, they got their channel in all of the TechTV markets. And I'm guessing, that the cable operators have to pay them for the right to show their stuff, so they slowly make back their money from the purchase.
It showed nothing of the sort. It showed that a bad outcome occured, not that a bad decision was made.
If you owed a bookie $3k, and had a few of his 'associates' had come by to remind you that your payment was due at the end of the week, and you had to compare not risking the trial, vs. making $4k, even with death as a potential outcome may be a good decision.
...
Let's take the old look at the lottery -- typically playing the lottery is a bad decision, but it can be a good decision even if the payout doesn't hit the record amounts where it exceeds (cost * risk). Now, one of your loved ones (or yourself), needed a very expensive medical treatment, or you only had 2 months to live. The success rate of the procedure was 5% and cost $150k. You have $5k in savings. and can't get a loan -- it makes perfect sense to sink everything you have in the lottery. The odds of a bad outcome (losing everything in the lottery, or still not living after the procedure) are almost assured, but the potential for gain outweighs it.
So -- when you make a decision, you have to look every possible outcome from all aspects, not just monetary, and the odds of each outcome occuring. Sometimes, you won't know exact outcomes (stock market), or the exact chance of each outcome (stock market, medical testing), and might not even know what all of the possible outcomes are (medical testing), and determine if the risk of benefits vs. the cost are acceptable to you. Bad outcomes happen. Bad decisions only occur when ignore information that is important in the decision, or you don't recognize that you don't have all of the information that is necessary to make the decision. (you can still make a good decision on incomplete information, but it's an increased risk).