Neither is in the pay of anyone, and have links to many, many more like themselves that are merely studying the science. This issue is big and important enough that it should be able to stand up in the full light of day.
So when 'believers' call someone at all skeptical of their beliefs a 'climate change denier' and say they're funded by Big Oil and Big Energy, that's also libel, right?....right?
Nice straw man. The scientists never made the defense that they were using the data for a similar analysis that the mathematician (PhD) wanted to perform. If they had simply said they were working on a paper with the data set, and would share the data once they had their paper accepted, everyone would have been happy! Or they could have collaborated, and gotten another paper out of the deal!
Instead, they flat out, over a period of years, denied him the information. While sharing it with other scientists (Mann) in the community. While ignoring the laws stating they had to share the information.
You're the ignorant fucking idiot here, not the person making the request.
The request was made back in 2007.
Mann et. al., in 2008, used Oak ring reconstructions, including several from this same group, freely for temperature reconstruction.
The paper saying the Oak rings don't correlate with temperature came out in 2009. Nary a peep that the Mann '08 paper was at all flawed as result!
So they not only shared data with some groups and not others, the request was relevant and would have remained relevant if responded to in a timely manner. The researchers did not even bother to reply that they were actively analyzing the same issues he wanted to examine, they just flat-out refused. If they had replied that they are planning on publishing a paper on the same topic, and given a time-line to share their data, this would have been a non-issue.
1.) % is a measure of how much more damage your shields take before they drop and you start having the ship explode.
2.) less consistently, shield % ALSO seems to measure how well the shields stop further impacts. 50% shields seem to shield less well than 100% shields, although this isn't a 1:1 correlation.
Actually, I used to use Azureus, and there were several patches made to fix 100% CPU utilization and RAM usage problems in the past. I can't recall if it were due to updates to JRE that caused this, but to say that Azureus has always been an efficient application is white-washing the program's history. I switched to uTorrent specifically because of these issues, and the vastly smaller memory usage led me to keep using uTorrent.
Cubes of the same size stack better than spheres. I think that's what the parent was implying, you deliberately misunderstood him.
More exactly, furniture with right angles fits in corners with right angles with zero waste. And you can buy that kind of furniture anywhere. Good luck finding furniture that fits the curve of the dome as well.
Farming is gimped (you lose money to train this skill) in the current patch, with promises of fixing farming as part of the economy (collection of resources, crafting of items) in a future patch. How dramatic are changes to the economy going to be in future patches, and are they meant to continue the grind towards mastery of crafting, to prevent gold farming, or to allow people to enjoy this aspect of the game while earning in-game money?
Virtues, stats, deeds? I love the deeds in LotR:O but there are too many to complete with one character. So I'm completing those that seem relevant to a specific class. But no forum knows what the effects of different stats are. Can we have more transparency on what statistics actually do (i.e. values for regeneration vs. base stats)? Could you admit comparisons between these statistics?
Unlike most MMORPG's, there is a definitive ending to the LotR:O plot, with no possibility of a sequel in this timeline. Once the regular content updates have reached the end of this timeline, are there any plans for future content updates? Specifically, will you explore earlier Ages of the Tolkien universe, freeze the servers with the provided content, or do you have another contingency plan in place?
A series has to evolve, but who judges whether it's evolution or revolution? Why can't a sequel change things up?
Grand Theft Auto 2 --> 3 ? Was the game mechanic "stealing cars" that had to be retained?
Super Mario World --> Mario 64 ? "Platformer" as the mechanic?
I'm sure you can think of other examples; a series can retain the essence of gameplay but change dramatically (the 2D-->3D examples were the most dramatic I could think of thoug). If people don't like TF 2, why not keep playing the original? Why not buy a game that's more similar to the original?
The Xbox 360 doesn't play iTunes stuff because of Apple's heavy-handed DRM usage, not from a lack of functionality on the 360. So I don't use iTunes, why do you?
I call bullshit on this. There has been NO Xbox 360 game out that requires a download-only patch to even RUN on the Xbox 360. Maybe you're thinking of an Xbox game which required a firmware upgrade for backwards compatibility. What game was this?
GBA:SP Backlit screen, new form factor, still in stores today? Massively successful upgraded successor.
DS:Lite Brighter screen, new form factor, still in stores today? Massively successful upgraded successor.
Where you may say "That's a mid-life kicker for the PS2, and the first time that's really happened in the videogame console market" it certainly isn't the last. I'm not sure which came first, GBA:SP or PS2 slimline, so let us not argue that point, unless someone wants to go look that up?
Hrm...selective breading of cats...wonder how that works. Extra crispy or regular? Corn flake or bread crumb or batter? How do they keep the cats from eating it?
("The BBC is running an article about how a US firm has successfully bred cats to reduce the production of the protein which causes an allergic reaction. Since the result was achieved through selective breading, there should not be any complaints from the anti-GM lobby." if they fix this one)
Yes, a sword is counterbalanced, so at rest there's little need to hold the sword tightly. I don't think it's at all like holding an umbalanced metal stick out in front of me. The point is when you MOVE the Wii controller, it's very different from moving a freakin' sword. The torque produced from quickly moving them and changing directions is different, because of that weight distribution, which is the whole point of my original post.
Ok, I'm game. I swung my arm in circles for about a minute. I don't feel ANYTHING. I'm not tired. Are you, when you did this?
You missed my point, you're not swinging heavy weights in large circles with the Wii controller. It seems to be more like a mouse, except you flick your wrist, or forearm, or entire arm, or entire body, to move it. You don't have to do the exact same motion each time, so you won't wear yourself out even if you did have to move it often.
You don't spend an hour of Zelda sword fighting; there are long stretches without battles, and even dungeons have a large element of exploration and puzzle solving. This isn't a FPS.
No, we don't know exactly what the swordfighting will be done. But I trust the game designers to actually try playing the game before release, and probably for long stretches at a time (imagine!), so it probably be enjoyable to most people or it wouldn't ship.
The Wii controller isn't a sword, there's not that much weight extended several feet from your arm. It's not going to take physical training for most people to use this. More importantly, given the motion detection and location detection described so far, a small twitch of your wrist should be enough to move the cursor across the screen.
So while you CAN pretend to really sword fight, you don't NEED to do so. Nothing to complain about here.
It's a matter of how good the output devices are. With a faster video card, you SEE more frames per second, at a higher resolution, with maximal detail. Monitors can easily show this. Almost everyone can see this easily.
Compare this to sound cards. Even if you have good speakers, and a quiet room, how many people can tell the difference between their onboard AC97 codec sound output or higher end cards? People still argue what bit rates are "CD-quality"!
The "first organisms" did not produce significant amounts of oxygen, and the atmosphere was a reducing atmosphere and environment (free hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide, etc). Even when the first oxygenic organisms arrived on the scene, it is believed to have taken a significant amount of time (I've never seen an estimate lower than millions of year) to produce enough oxygen to change the entire planet's atmosphere from reducing to something resembling today's conditions (nitrogen, oxygen, argon, a little carbon dioxide).
Therefore, the evolution of life almost certainly does NOT preculde another event occuring on primordial earth at all. Please get your science theories straight before posting off-the-hip.
Posvar Hall [ http://www.umc.pitt.edu/tour/tour-040.html ] (formerly Forbes Quad) at the University of Pittsburgh has just such "reconfigurable" floor plans, with moveable walls. It was originally designed in the 1970s so that rooms could be made and adjusted to fit the current needs of the university. Never were these walls moved once during my four years there (1997-2001). Also, this building is legendary for having under 30% usable floor space due in part to the idea that the movable walls would increase the utility of the remaining space!)
I think the idea of a public medical knowledge database is an idea long overdue. However, IMHO, there is no substituting the medical doctor's long-time familiarity with both real-life cases of these symptoms/diagnosis/diseases and much of the data contained within such a database. Also, dealing with a human being rather than a database can be rather reassuring in and of itself. Having a doctor confidently tell you a prognosis and treatment for it is alot more reassuring than seeing even those same words on a screen or piece of paper.
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One example can't be extended to all of 'em, logic fail. Please try again.
Try climateaudit.org or http://bishophill.squarespace.com/ in general.
Neither is in the pay of anyone, and have links to many, many more like themselves that are merely studying the science. This issue is big and important enough that it should be able to stand up in the full light of day.
Or talk to Judith Curry, one of the few climate scientists that are willing to point out the flaws in the current process, e.g. here: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/04/squeaky-clean.html?showComment=1271462868897#c1343322932444511542
So when 'believers' call someone at all skeptical of their beliefs a 'climate change denier' and say they're funded by Big Oil and Big Energy, that's also libel, right? ....right?
Nice straw man. The scientists never made the defense that they were using the data for a similar analysis that the mathematician (PhD) wanted to perform. If they had simply said they were working on a paper with the data set, and would share the data once they had their paper accepted, everyone would have been happy! Or they could have collaborated, and gotten another paper out of the deal!
Instead, they flat out, over a period of years, denied him the information. While sharing it with other scientists (Mann) in the community. While ignoring the laws stating they had to share the information.
You're the ignorant fucking idiot here, not the person making the request.
The request was made back in 2007.
Mann et. al., in 2008, used Oak ring reconstructions, including several from this same group, freely for temperature reconstruction.
The paper saying the Oak rings don't correlate with temperature came out in 2009. Nary a peep that the Mann '08 paper was at all flawed as result!
So they not only shared data with some groups and not others, the request was relevant and would have remained relevant if responded to in a timely manner. The researchers did not even bother to reply that they were actively analyzing the same issues he wanted to examine, they just flat-out refused. If they had replied that they are planning on publishing a paper on the same topic, and given a time-line to share their data, this would have been a non-issue.
1.) % is a measure of how much more damage your shields take before they drop and you start having the ship explode.
2.) less consistently, shield % ALSO seems to measure how well the shields stop further impacts. 50% shields seem to shield less well than 100% shields, although this isn't a 1:1 correlation.
1.) That's not addressing the current paper. They talk of glycerol, and this paper is about citrate utilization.
2.) The logic in that ID response, to put it nicely, is full of excrement.
Actually, I used to use Azureus, and there were several patches made to fix 100% CPU utilization and RAM usage problems in the past. I can't recall if it were due to updates to JRE that caused this, but to say that Azureus has always been an efficient application is white-washing the program's history. I switched to uTorrent specifically because of these issues, and the vastly smaller memory usage led me to keep using uTorrent.
Cubes of the same size stack better than spheres. I think that's what the parent was implying, you deliberately misunderstood him.
More exactly, furniture with right angles fits in corners with right angles with zero waste. And you can buy that kind of furniture anywhere. Good luck finding furniture that fits the curve of the dome as well.
Farming is gimped (you lose money to train this skill) in the current patch, with promises of fixing farming as part of the economy (collection of resources, crafting of items) in a future patch. How dramatic are changes to the economy going to be in future patches, and are they meant to continue the grind towards mastery of crafting, to prevent gold farming, or to allow people to enjoy this aspect of the game while earning in-game money?
Virtues, stats, deeds? I love the deeds in LotR:O but there are too many to complete with one character. So I'm completing those that seem relevant to a specific class. But no forum knows what the effects of different stats are. Can we have more transparency on what statistics actually do (i.e. values for regeneration vs. base stats)? Could you admit comparisons between these statistics?
Unlike most MMORPG's, there is a definitive ending to the LotR:O plot, with no possibility of a sequel in this timeline. Once the regular content updates have reached the end of this timeline, are there any plans for future content updates? Specifically, will you explore earlier Ages of the Tolkien universe, freeze the servers with the provided content, or do you have another contingency plan in place?
A series has to evolve, but who judges whether it's evolution or revolution? Why can't a sequel change things up?
Grand Theft Auto 2 --> 3 ? Was the game mechanic "stealing cars" that had to be retained?
Super Mario World --> Mario 64 ? "Platformer" as the mechanic?
I'm sure you can think of other examples; a series can retain the essence of gameplay but change dramatically (the 2D-->3D examples were the most dramatic I could think of thoug). If people don't like TF 2, why not keep playing the original? Why not buy a game that's more similar to the original?
Imagine that, playing a game for fun instead of as a "sport". What is the world coming to?
The Xbox 360 doesn't play iTunes stuff because of Apple's heavy-handed DRM usage, not from a lack of functionality on the 360. So I don't use iTunes, why do you?
I call bullshit on this. There has been NO Xbox 360 game out that requires a download-only patch to even RUN on the Xbox 360. Maybe you're thinking of an Xbox game which required a firmware upgrade for backwards compatibility. What game was this?
GBA:SP Backlit screen, new form factor, still in stores today? Massively successful upgraded successor.
DS:Lite Brighter screen, new form factor, still in stores today? Massively successful upgraded successor.
Where you may say "That's a mid-life kicker for the PS2, and the first time that's really happened in the videogame console market" it certainly isn't the last. I'm not sure which came first, GBA:SP or PS2 slimline, so let us not argue that point, unless someone wants to go look that up?
Hrm...selective breading of cats...wonder how that works. Extra crispy or regular? Corn flake or bread crumb or batter? How do they keep the cats from eating it?
("The BBC is running an article about how a US firm has successfully bred cats to reduce the production of the protein which causes an allergic reaction. Since the result was achieved through selective breading, there should not be any complaints from the anti-GM lobby." if they fix this one)
Yes, a sword is counterbalanced, so at rest there's little need to hold the sword tightly. I don't think it's at all like holding an umbalanced metal stick out in front of me. The point is when you MOVE the Wii controller, it's very different from moving a freakin' sword. The torque produced from quickly moving them and changing directions is different, because of that weight distribution, which is the whole point of my original post.
1up.com had a week long look (like the Okami story also posted today) at Q Entertainment earlier this summer: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3152290&did=3
Ok, I'm game. I swung my arm in circles for about a minute. I don't feel ANYTHING. I'm not tired. Are you, when you did this?
You missed my point, you're not swinging heavy weights in large circles with the Wii controller. It seems to be more like a mouse, except you flick your wrist, or forearm, or entire arm, or entire body, to move it. You don't have to do the exact same motion each time, so you won't wear yourself out even if you did have to move it often.
You don't spend an hour of Zelda sword fighting; there are long stretches without battles, and even dungeons have a large element of exploration and puzzle solving. This isn't a FPS.
No, we don't know exactly what the swordfighting will be done. But I trust the game designers to actually try playing the game before release, and probably for long stretches at a time (imagine!), so it probably be enjoyable to most people or it wouldn't ship.
The Wii controller isn't a sword, there's not that much weight extended several feet from your arm. It's not going to take physical training for most people to use this. More importantly, given the motion detection and location detection described so far, a small twitch of your wrist should be enough to move the cursor across the screen.
So while you CAN pretend to really sword fight, you don't NEED to do so. Nothing to complain about here.
It's a matter of how good the output devices are. With a faster video card, you SEE more frames per second, at a higher resolution, with maximal detail. Monitors can easily show this. Almost everyone can see this easily.
Compare this to sound cards. Even if you have good speakers, and a quiet room, how many people can tell the difference between their onboard AC97 codec sound output or higher end cards? People still argue what bit rates are "CD-quality"!
The "first organisms" did not produce significant amounts of oxygen, and the atmosphere was a reducing atmosphere and environment (free hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide, etc). Even when the first oxygenic organisms arrived on the scene, it is believed to have taken a significant amount of time (I've never seen an estimate lower than millions of year) to produce enough oxygen to change the entire planet's atmosphere from reducing to something resembling today's conditions (nitrogen, oxygen, argon, a little carbon dioxide).
Therefore, the evolution of life almost certainly does NOT preculde another event occuring on primordial earth at all. Please get your science theories straight before posting off-the-hip.
-Microbiology Grad Student
Posvar Hall [ http://www.umc.pitt.edu/tour/tour-040.html ] (formerly Forbes Quad) at the University of Pittsburgh has just such "reconfigurable" floor plans, with moveable walls. It was originally designed in the 1970s so that rooms could be made and adjusted to fit the current needs of the university. Never were these walls moved once during my four years there (1997-2001).
Also, this building is legendary for having under 30% usable floor space due in part to the idea that the movable walls would increase the utility of the remaining space!)
I think the idea of a public medical knowledge database is an idea long overdue. However, IMHO, there is no substituting the medical doctor's long-time familiarity with both real-life cases of these symptoms/diagnosis/diseases and much of the data contained within such a database.
Also, dealing with a human being rather than a database can be rather reassuring in and of itself. Having a doctor confidently tell you a prognosis and treatment for it is alot more reassuring than seeing even those same words on a screen or piece of paper.