It is because of our understanding of how deposits of complex-chain hydrocarbons are formed that we bloody know where to look for them.
This whole abiogenesis bullshit is no more valid science than the statement that "I believe there is a pink elephant orbiting Neptune, disprove me." Until the abiogenesis "proponents" (such and few as they are) produce a model capable of being tested (through drilling and subsequent discovery of deposits not predicted by current understanding) they are notscience - they are mental masturbaters exploring interesting concepts.
Their work should be overlooked until that point in time they collect some evidence.
A diverse ecosystem is good in theory but in practice I would rather the divergent choices competing against RIM and Apple (forget MS for the time being) congeal enough to encourage an alternative with significant App Mind Share.
I've currently got a clean Firefox 3.6.3 installation running at the moment on Linux. I haven't installed any plugins or extensions. Not even Flash.
It has only been running since this morning (about 6 hours ago), but top shows that it has 5644 MB resident. This is after some moderate browsing of some news sites, Slashdot, and then letting it sit until a few minutes ago.
FF 3.6.something has been running for 3 weeks here.
22 tabs open, 210 megs consumed.
Despite your claim either it is a pluggin issue, you're a liar, or you have some strange browsing habits.
email me the bookmark for all your current tabs (which cause 5664 MB of consumption) to SlashdotChallenge@cleansoap.org
Every aircraft we have, every cruise missile, launched at once, loaded with conventional bunker busters, would not make a dent in the north's 10,000 artillery tubes which are heavily fortified into the hills.
They don't need to "keep the lights on at night" to rain unimaginable hell down on the south.
Artillery is cheap, effective, and when behind three meters of reinforced concrete damn hard to kill.
More importantly, the USA is easily capable of using amazingly overpowered "conventional" munitions to respond to such threats.
While I agree strongly with most of what you have said, I think you're a bit mistaken here.
If North Korea were to start shelling Seoul, little in our arsenal short of nuclear weapons would be capable of taking out their heavily entrenched artillery before the south suffered horrific losses. (And I mean horrific. NK is believed to have 10,000 tubes aimed at Seoul. "Optimistic" losses start at numbers never seen before in history.)
Conventional weapons have largely met their match against fixed fortified positions. Pouring another few feet of reinforced concrete is a very cheap countermeasure and will always be so. Many of Iraq's bunkers needed round after round of bunker-busters to penetrate - dropping N+1 down N's hole. This takes a significant amount of time. One needs to wait for the dust to clear, to assess exactly where the penetration took place, and then to attempt the second strike. Time is not on the US's side in most the standing nuclear scenarios.
The problem I see with content creators using this new canvas is that it subtracts from the freedom of the reader's imagination. In other words, it replaces an idea (a story) with a specific representation of that idea,
I see no reason at all to think that an ebook need be more rigid in its presentation than a paper one. Might some be published which do "force" the consumer in the manner you describe? Sure. Just don't confuse the ability with the inevitability. The cut-up techniques of Burroughs and Gysin were linearly "forced" upon the reader through the two dimensional nature of bound paper, but electronic representation would have given them the chance to explore into the third (or greater).
Of all the recent discussions / ruminations on the apparently inevitable replacement of bound paper by ebooks I think this article is one of the more insightful. It is midway down in the article (around figures 7 and 8) where I think Craig really gets to the thrust of his argument. Few books (and no traditional novels that I am aware of) have attempted to break out of the "two page spread canvas" convention. The coming dawn of larger-format (and colour) "readers" of all sorts, however, will allow content creators to create nearly unlimited canvas types - even if only in abstraction.
The article in its entirety: Russian student back from North Korea had purchased a $5 OS disc and a $10 application disc. Based on Linux, looks like Korean version of Windows.
Interesting thought (if that is indeed how the "draft head in a can" works (as opposed to nitrogen in solution)), but Guinness targets a higher market and can afford to employ such technology in their cans and bottles. I doubt the stereotypical "Joe Sixpack" is as price-insensitive. Though, who knows, perhaps the idea of reduced hangover would enable brewers to increase margins even at the low end of the market.
I'm sold! I'll go check the local Uwajimaya (Asian superstore) for some of this. I don't even remember Soju being in liquor stores. Beer or sparkling wine have carbon dioxide, which it looks like doesn't count.
One goes to great lengths (for good reason) when bottling beverages to remove existing oxygen, and prevent introduction of new oxygen. If this technique for reducing hangovers becomes popular it will need to be done shortly before consumption. (Value-added service at the bar?)
Perhaps I am unusual (I suspect not), but I often chase authors, not genres, and therefore the book market is not one controlled by substitution, and we see that in it's price inelasticity. I do not see how this would be different if we had even a significantly larger number of publishers with smaller pieces of the pie.
There is an important word missing in your post, and therefore likely missing in your thoughts. "If the free and competitive market works, though,..." Publishing is not a fully competitive market because of imperfect substitution. Macro 101 axioms are too simplistic to describe such a market.
GGP said "manual shifting" which implies an automatic transmission with direct linkage 1st gear in this context (as noted elsewhere in the thread), as runaway acceleration is an easy problem to solve if you have a manual transmission.
For the topic at hand was Airport Security, and I was addressing your premise that a forged badge (the topic of the story) was a grave security hole, that it was the weak link which causes a chain to fail.
My point was that the badge is a known weak link and that policies and procedures (and not just liabilityless vendor-supplied turn-key "solutions", but structural elements) are in place (at least in American airports) to mitigate risk of a broken link leading to all-out chain failure.
The analogy of security being a chain is a flawed one, as it is nothing so linear in typical implementations.
Slashdot Mirror
IIUC the geotagging has been added in LR 3.
But for those of us still on LR 2 there is the [b]excellent[/b] plugin:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps
It is because of our understanding of how deposits of complex-chain hydrocarbons are formed that we bloody know where to look for them.
This whole abiogenesis bullshit is no more valid science than the statement that "I believe there is a pink elephant orbiting Neptune, disprove me." Until the abiogenesis "proponents" (such and few as they are) produce a model capable of being tested (through drilling and subsequent discovery of deposits not predicted by current understanding) they are not science - they are mental masturbaters exploring interesting concepts.
Their work should be overlooked until that point in time they collect some evidence.
A diverse ecosystem is good in theory but in practice I would rather the divergent choices competing against RIM and Apple (forget MS for the time being) congeal enough to encourage an alternative with significant App Mind Share.
Just because Apple's App Store = walled garden does not mean app store = walled garden.
FF 3.6.something has been running for 3 weeks here.
22 tabs open, 210 megs consumed.
Despite your claim either it is a pluggin issue, you're a liar, or you have some strange browsing habits.
email me the bookmark for all your current tabs (which cause 5664 MB of consumption) to SlashdotChallenge@cleansoap.org
Every aircraft we have, every cruise missile, launched at once, loaded with conventional bunker busters, would not make a dent in the north's 10,000 artillery tubes which are heavily fortified into the hills.
They don't need to "keep the lights on at night" to rain unimaginable hell down on the south.
Artillery is cheap, effective, and when behind three meters of reinforced concrete damn hard to kill.
While I agree strongly with most of what you have said, I think you're a bit mistaken here.
If North Korea were to start shelling Seoul, little in our arsenal short of nuclear weapons would be capable of taking out their heavily entrenched artillery before the south suffered horrific losses. (And I mean horrific. NK is believed to have 10,000 tubes aimed at Seoul. "Optimistic" losses start at numbers never seen before in history.)
Conventional weapons have largely met their match against fixed fortified positions. Pouring another few feet of reinforced concrete is a very cheap countermeasure and will always be so. Many of Iraq's bunkers needed round after round of bunker-busters to penetrate - dropping N+1 down N's hole. This takes a significant amount of time. One needs to wait for the dust to clear, to assess exactly where the penetration took place, and then to attempt the second strike. Time is not on the US's side in most the standing nuclear scenarios.
I'm all ears.
This isn't a defective item, and as demonstrated in the prior link they are treating this case differently.
You've said that before in this thread - and you were just as wrong then as you are now.
I see no reason at all to think that an ebook need be more rigid in its presentation than a paper one. Might some be published which do "force" the consumer in the manner you describe? Sure. Just don't confuse the ability with the inevitability. The cut-up techniques of Burroughs and Gysin were linearly "forced" upon the reader through the two dimensional nature of bound paper, but electronic representation would have given them the chance to explore into the third (or greater).
Of all the recent discussions / ruminations on the apparently inevitable replacement of bound paper by ebooks I think this article is one of the more insightful.
It is midway down in the article (around figures 7 and 8) where I think Craig really gets to the thrust of his argument. Few books (and no traditional novels that I am aware of) have attempted to break out of the "two page spread canvas" convention. The coming dawn of larger-format (and colour) "readers" of all sorts, however, will allow content creators to create nearly unlimited canvas types - even if only in abstraction.
Ahh Ha!
An actual article exists!
With photos!
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-01/north-korea-cyber-weapon.html?fullstory
The article in its entirety:
Russian student back from North Korea had purchased a $5 OS disc and a $10 application disc. Based on Linux, looks like Korean version of Windows.
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Interesting thought (if that is indeed how the "draft head in a can" works (as opposed to nitrogen in solution)), but Guinness targets a higher market and can afford to employ such technology in their cans and bottles. I doubt the stereotypical "Joe Sixpack" is as price-insensitive. Though, who knows, perhaps the idea of reduced hangover would enable brewers to increase margins even at the low end of the market.
One goes to great lengths (for good reason) when bottling beverages to remove existing oxygen, and prevent introduction of new oxygen.
If this technique for reducing hangovers becomes popular it will need to be done shortly before consumption. (Value-added service at the bar?)
Only if you're assuming energy cost is the primary cost.
I hope you mean 70+ MB/s.
Perhaps I am unusual (I suspect not), but I often chase authors, not genres, and therefore the book market is not one controlled by substitution, and we see that in it's price inelasticity. I do not see how this would be different if we had even a significantly larger number of publishers with smaller pieces of the pie.
There is an important word missing in your post, and therefore likely missing in your thoughts. ..."
"If the free and competitive market works, though,
Publishing is not a fully competitive market because of imperfect substitution.
Macro 101 axioms are too simplistic to describe such a market.
GGP said "manual shifting" which implies an automatic transmission with direct linkage 1st gear in this context (as noted elsewhere in the thread), as runaway acceleration is an easy problem to solve if you have a manual transmission.
Ineffective on a slush-box with an electronically controlled locking torque converter.
Do you really believe a 32 bit OS uses half the power of your 64-bit CPU?
Not a problem - I had taken no offense.
(bah, no "edit" button, so I continue here)
For the topic at hand was Airport Security, and I was addressing your premise that a forged badge (the topic of the story) was a grave security hole, that it was the weak link which causes a chain to fail.
My point was that the badge is a known weak link and that policies and procedures (and not just liabilityless vendor-supplied turn-key "solutions", but structural elements) are in place (at least in American airports) to mitigate risk of a broken link leading to all-out chain failure.
The analogy of security being a chain is a flawed one, as it is nothing so linear in typical implementations.