Does anybody remember this game? The best point was the news between the missions, when playing for the different sides. Was the civilian village you burned down really camouflaged terrorists (as the mission instruction said) or was it a civilian village (as the propaganda said when you played the other side). Was the war really about freedom like you are told in the beginning? Or was it just about power?
Thats exactly what i thought. The original poster should be careful in finding the right balance. I understand his wish to record anything in HD, but the most important thing is what his wife thinks and wishes. I on my behalf would not like be recorded constantly while dying, even the less if i would have kids; i would rather prefer to write something down for them which can help them to remember me when they wish. Also one needs to think about the future life - as bitter and distant the thought may be. Building a picture of the mother which never fades for the children may affect their ability to adopt to the new situation. Sure, you can take enough video material that you can watch another movie each day - and start over when you are finished. Think if you really want that.
Regarding remembering ancestors and family members who died, i actually like the Japanese traditions - obon is a very bright and happy festival. What i also like is that there is actually a sequence of times when to hold memorial services - (depends on the local traditions, but e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Buddhas); what i like about it is that it gives guidance to reduce the number of visits, which decrease with time. One should also mention Japanese houses may have a small shine, which as far as i understand also serves the memory of the ancestors.
That being said, i wish the the original poster and his family the strength to go through this hard time.
And if you do it then don't hide it using a solution which makes you could also hide some dirty business. How is anybody going to distinct between you sending out secret company info to a friend or helping the family to steal money in one or the other way if you encrypt you emails/documents stored outside the company.
That pushes it over the line from "ohh the guy mails hid wife" to "We have no idea what going on, there is no way to check, but could be work related"; besides you would obviously circumvent archiving regulations by that, which could get the company delisted from the stock market if it is a common accepted practice there to have "off the record documents". So my predictions is: they will ignore personal stuff (obviously they do), but start using a service for encrypted storage from you workplace storing data *outside the companies property* without their permission, they should go mad in zero seconds.
Investments are something which should bring you a return. If everybody invests in 3D movies, the novelty effect will wear off so fast that nobody earns something from that investment. And its fucking complicated (and expensive) to change something as fundamental as that in the film making process. It is no coincidence that the first 3D movies are produced fully in 3D computer graphics (because many 2D techniques in movies dont play well or at all with 3D).
In average from the Nature paper to you being able to buy it in the store it should be usually 5-15 years, if its applied research. 5y is unlikely (developing and testing an industrialized process for thin film technology wiht composite technologies takes easily 2-3 years) and if its going to be more than 15y it may mean that it is to difficult, to expensive or has some other disadvantage - or something else is better.
This guy knows *COBOL* and he thinks for career reasons about new languages? As fas as i understood that COBOL coders are right now (or in a few years) worth their weight in gold; I hold a phd in physics, programmed in nearly all "post-c" languages, (and some non post-c languages) and i was thinking about learning COBOL to earn money.
I mean it could be that he got some offers by now.... (maybe posting to./ was just a way of applying for a job?).
The main shortcoming consists in the idea of still giving lecture the old way (at a given time 1 professor, 80 students). Using tech to spice the lecture up a little is a waste of time. To be fair thats from somebody who believes lectures are a waste of time. I learned better in the library, from a book. The idea of having a *good* interactive book where you can run simulations of an experiment and change the real experimental parameters for sure is intriguing. The class of exercises you could do with that is a completely different one from the exercises you can do now. But i acknowledge that some of my fellow students enjoyed going to lectures for reasons not obvious to me, as a kind of social event. So no, i think the professor should not be forced to use "clickers" or something. Every course should have a forum in the web, where students can discuss, the exercise supervisors can help, and one time per week the professor should meet informally with small groups of those interested to explain the biggest questions which arose. So no, io dont think lectures need to change. Lectures need to stop.
As long as you consider technology to make a better video player of a better quiz, you are not using the full potential.
-need to store large amounts of energy for winter/space trip/subparine -make nuclear weapons research/technology a little more economical -you sit on a lot of uranium -you are wiling to waste a piece of land for the nuclear waste
How many of the school board are trained biologists? When do they start to change math not to contain such modern things as 0 or the empty set? Will they teach an old form of English grammar because the school board believes in it? How about Geography? Still drawing communists countries, because they just hide and lie?
Yes. My favourite desater report on that issue is the Harriburg/Three mile island nuclear reactor incident.
The chain of event which happened there is incredible. It read like an endless *that would not have been so bad, wouldnt they have ignored the following....*. If anybody would tell you that you declare him mad. (Which doenst excuse most of the points whihc happened).
Yes, but i meant the company deciding to continue the series or not. I honestly enjoy that e.g. Nokia usually has *slightly* updated models a few years after a new series (e.h. E71 -> E63/E72). As we can see you cant expect that from many companies. Will HTC decide to make another Nexus? Or will the mobile providers not like it? Will Google be still in the mobile business? If yes-will they still make phones? Nobody can answer that.
I thought this meme would have been put to rest by all the nice DOS-Application which overall ran better the Ajax/Flash/heads in the clouds programs advertised now.
No. dropping one call per hundred without going trough a tunnel/being of the basement of a building or behind a mountain is *not* acceptable. And this even includes the fact that people who have the habit oh holding the phone in a certain way have a higher drop rate, while a large part will be fine. And no, its even more unacceptable that 10% of the customers should have a 10% drop rate. This is a joke.
All of my phones (mainly Nokias) had consistent displays of the signal strength - i even observe the display is pessimistic, that is *if* the lowest bar is visible its ok. None of them dropped a call without a good cause (read as: battery empty, me walking in a shielded room in the lab, going underground on a train), being in a large steel-concrete building which is not well covered (mountain area, signal already weak).
So no, a drop rate between 1% and 10% is completely ridiculous. Try to sell this to somebody who talks regularly to customers by phone or has a lot of calls....
And the solution is insulting. If they know that building a phone which such a design yields an unreliable device, then they should not use that design. end of the story.
Did i get it right? if i take the difference in distance into account naively, then the radioation itensity at the source was 10^12 times higher than the brightest source we see normally?
Wait is this meant to advertise for the iphone? Any of my previous mobile phones dropped calls iff I vanish in a tunnel/building or behind a mountain. I remember only a very few call dropping unexpectedly/unexplained - for sure nothing you could measure in dropped calls per hundred calls.
Anyway: if i would have bought an iphone because of the size i would be a little pissed if I would have to make it larger to work.
i also did not get together the rest the nubers. 1.2milliNewton is not.11g for a 310kg probe. Its sad its not even possible to figure it out, because the y-axis on the speed plot is not labeled (km/h, m/s, mph/s, foot/second). Its absurd that they usually talk about a 700pound probe with a 3000sqfeet sail and then use SI units for the force. Sadly thats also on the mission web page in that way. I have send supervised students away to redo their report when they showed that style.
Its funny that all point to China *now* about *this*. To be clear on that Chins *has* human rights problems, but when it comes to surveillance and giving up privacy in telecommunications, the west should watch itself a little bit better. Mobile phones are mandatory registered (although its not always enforced) in *many* countries. And the Idea that the Internet gets better if everybody would use the real name is not genuinely Chinese (Hello, Blizzard). In some countries the people who print out emails see this actually as the solution to many problems - stimulated by the idea that there are many "criminals" (ranging in their mind somewhere in the undefined range between software pirate and pedophile) and that it will be easier to "catch" them if they use their real names and that internet in general will be much more thrustworthy. At the same time they are complaining Facebook is bad for the privacy of people.
Dear Politicians above 35,
i address some of the most common arguments given by you for such an idea
a) Criminals: Bad people will find a way to circumvent the obligation to give their real name. They also manage this with ID cards.
b) The Nazi/Violent Communist/or whatever is completely unacceptable to you has his right to say his opinion. I may not like it. I may disrespect him. I may contradict him. However forcing people into samiszdat usually does not work (in the way you want). To the extremists this gives just the argument that they are "really suppressed".
c) The solution to kids posing naked on the internet is *not* to enforce open names for everybody. The solution is to make kids feel in a way that there is no pressure from society to pose naked on the internet by *not* imposing on them a overly sexualized picture of the world (And *no* this can not be achieved by censorship, but only by a responsible society taking care and giving respect). Catching the sick pervert commenting on the picture may make *you* feel better, but it does not solve the problem.
d) School shootings will not be prevented by that. Many school shooters posted aggressive thoughts under well known identities. Fuck, many were even known in real life to be strange and alone. Nobody cared.
e) Can we save more people committing suicide? Possibly. But possibly they care the least about using their real name.
f) Terrorists. Sure. They will be totally afraid not only to posses to try to prepare to kill thousands of people, but to violate the rules for blogs. You'll really have them if, on top of the 20 times lifelong sentence you can give them 1 month jail time for not registering correctly.
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Does anybody remember this game? The best point was the news between the missions, when playing for the different sides. Was the civilian village you burned down really camouflaged terrorists (as the mission instruction said) or was it a civilian village (as the propaganda said when you played the other side). Was the war really about freedom like you are told in the beginning? Or was it just about power?
Yes, and store it in a human readable form.
Thats exactly what i thought. The original poster should be careful in finding the right balance. I understand his wish to record anything in HD, but the most important thing is what his wife thinks and wishes. I on my behalf would not like be recorded constantly while dying, even the less if i would have kids; i would rather prefer to write something down for them which can help them to remember me when they wish. Also one needs to think about the future life - as bitter and distant the thought may be. Building a picture of the mother which never fades for the children may affect their ability to adopt to the new situation. Sure, you can take enough video material that you can watch another movie each day - and start over when you are finished. Think if you really want that.
Regarding remembering ancestors and family members who died, i actually like the Japanese traditions - obon is a very bright and happy festival. What i also like is that there is actually a sequence of times when to hold memorial services - (depends on the local traditions, but e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Buddhas); what i like about it is that it gives guidance to reduce the number of visits, which decrease with time. One should also mention Japanese houses may have a small shine, which as far as i understand also serves the memory of the ancestors.
That being said, i wish the the original poster and his family the strength to go through this hard time.
They don't separate critical from non-critical systems? *AND* run some systems under windows? wow.
I would have hoped that the reason for "motor does not turn on" can not be "entertainment system crashed", but what do i know.....
And if you do it then don't hide it using a solution which makes you could also hide some dirty business. How is anybody going to distinct between you sending out secret company info to a friend or helping the family to steal money in one or the other way if you encrypt you emails/documents stored outside the company.
That pushes it over the line from "ohh the guy mails hid wife" to "We have no idea what going on, there is no way to check, but could be work related"; besides you would obviously circumvent archiving regulations by that, which could get the company delisted from the stock market if it is a common accepted practice there to have "off the record documents". So my predictions is: they will ignore personal stuff (obviously they do), but start using a service for encrypted storage from you workplace storing data *outside the companies property* without their permission, they should go mad in zero seconds.
Investments are something which should bring you a return. If everybody invests in 3D movies, the novelty effect will wear off so fast that nobody earns something from that investment. And its fucking complicated (and expensive) to change something as fundamental as that in the film making process. It is no coincidence that the first 3D movies are produced fully in 3D computer graphics (because many 2D techniques in movies dont play well or at all with 3D).
Thats the reason i now consider something else. Getting hands-on experience on the systems/environments running cobol would be unreasonable difficult.
In average from the Nature paper to you being able to buy it in the store it should be usually 5-15 years, if its applied research. 5y is unlikely (developing and testing an industrialized process for thin film technology wiht composite technologies takes easily 2-3 years) and if its going to be more than 15y it may mean that it is to difficult, to expensive or has some other disadvantage - or something else is better.
Parent is definitively right.
This guy knows *COBOL* and he thinks for career reasons about new languages? As fas as i understood that COBOL coders are right now (or in a few years) worth their weight in gold; I hold a phd in physics, programmed in nearly all "post-c" languages, (and some non post-c languages) and i was thinking about learning COBOL to earn money.
I mean it could be that he got some offers by now.... (maybe posting to ./ was just a way of applying for a job?).
The main shortcoming consists in the idea of still giving lecture the old way (at a given time 1 professor, 80 students). Using tech to spice the lecture up a little is a waste of time. To be fair thats from somebody who believes lectures are a waste of time. I learned better in the library, from a book. The idea of having a *good* interactive book where you can run simulations of an experiment and change the real experimental parameters for sure is intriguing. The class of exercises you could do with that is a completely different one from the exercises you can do now. But i acknowledge that some of my fellow students enjoyed going to lectures for reasons not obvious to me, as a kind of social event. So no, i think the professor should not be forced to use "clickers" or something. Every course should have a forum in the web, where students can discuss, the exercise supervisors can help, and one time per week the professor should meet informally with small groups of those interested to explain the biggest questions which arose. So no, io dont think lectures need to change. Lectures need to stop.
As long as you consider technology to make a better video player of a better quiz, you are not using the full potential.
Nuclear power is good when:
-need to store large amounts of energy for winter/space trip/subparine
-make nuclear weapons research/technology a little more economical
-you sit on a lot of uranium
-you are wiling to waste a piece of land for the nuclear waste
asides from that, it's a fail....
i will overclock it. Live fast. Die young.
How many of the school board are trained biologists? When do they start to change math not to contain such modern things as 0 or the empty set? Will they teach an old form of English grammar because the school board believes in it? How about Geography? Still drawing communists countries, because they just hide and lie?
I am lucky i am not there.
Yes. My favourite desater report on that issue is the Harriburg/Three mile island nuclear reactor incident.
The chain of event which happened there is incredible. It read like an endless *that would not have been so bad, wouldnt they have ignored the following....*. If anybody would tell you that you declare him mad. (Which doenst excuse most of the points whihc happened).
Yes, but i meant the company deciding to continue the series or not. I honestly enjoy that e.g. Nokia usually has *slightly* updated models a few years after a new series (e.h. E71 -> E63/E72). As we can see you cant expect that from many companies. Will HTC decide to make another Nexus? Or will the mobile providers not like it? Will Google be still in the mobile business? If yes-will they still make phones? Nobody can answer that.
However i usually buy them from companies focusing on HW.
i always thought of the Dell bios as a total as an unwanted extra....
I thought this meme would have been put to rest by all the nice DOS-Application which overall ran better the Ajax/Flash/heads in the clouds programs advertised now.
It wont run on an iphone - its in pascal. Emulation or non-native/transpiled programs are forbidden, i heard.
No. dropping one call per hundred without going trough a tunnel/being of the basement of a building or behind a mountain is *not* acceptable. And this even includes the fact that people who have the habit oh holding the phone in a certain way have a higher drop rate, while a large part will be fine. And no, its even more unacceptable that 10% of the customers should have a 10% drop rate. This is a joke.
All of my phones (mainly Nokias) had consistent displays of the signal strength - i even observe the display is pessimistic, that is *if* the lowest bar is visible its ok. None of them dropped a call without a good cause (read as: battery empty, me walking in a shielded room in the lab, going underground on a train), being in a large steel-concrete building which is not well covered (mountain area, signal already weak).
So no, a drop rate between 1% and 10% is completely ridiculous. Try to sell this to somebody who talks regularly to customers by phone or has a lot of calls....
And the solution is insulting. If they know that building a phone which such a design yields an unreliable device, then they should not use that design. end of the story.
Did i get it right? if i take the difference in distance into account naively, then the radioation itensity at the source was 10^12 times higher than the brightest source we see normally?
octave:13> 100*(5e9/50e3)^2
ans = 1.0000e+12
glad i am far away!
Wait is this meant to advertise for the iphone? Any of my previous mobile phones dropped calls iff I vanish in a tunnel/building or behind a mountain. I remember only a very few call dropping unexpectedly/unexplained - for sure nothing you could measure in dropped calls per hundred calls.
Anyway: if i would have bought an iphone because of the size i would be a little pissed if I would have to make it larger to work.
i also did not get together the rest the nubers. 1.2milliNewton is not .11g for a 310kg probe. Its sad its not even possible to figure it out, because the y-axis on the speed plot is not labeled (km/h, m/s, mph/s, foot/second). Its absurd that they usually talk about a 700pound probe with a 3000sqfeet sail and then use SI units for the force. Sadly thats also on the mission web page in that way. I have send supervised students away to redo their report when they showed that style.
Its funny that all point to China *now* about *this*. To be clear on that Chins *has* human rights problems, but when it comes to surveillance and giving up privacy in telecommunications, the west should watch itself a little bit better. Mobile phones are mandatory registered (although its not always enforced) in *many* countries. And the Idea that the Internet gets better if everybody would use the real name is not genuinely Chinese (Hello, Blizzard). In some countries the people who print out emails see this actually as the solution to many problems - stimulated by the idea that there are many "criminals" (ranging in their mind somewhere in the undefined range between software pirate and pedophile) and that it will be easier to "catch" them if they use their real names and that internet in general will be much more thrustworthy. At the same time they are complaining Facebook is bad for the privacy of people.
Dear Politicians above 35,
i address some of the most common arguments given by you for such an idea
a) Criminals: Bad people will find a way to circumvent the obligation to give their real name. They also manage this with ID cards.
b) The Nazi/Violent Communist/or whatever is completely unacceptable to you has his right to say his opinion. I may not like it. I may disrespect him. I may contradict him. However forcing people into samiszdat usually does not work (in the way you want). To the extremists this gives just the argument that they are "really suppressed".
c) The solution to kids posing naked on the internet is *not* to enforce open names for everybody. The solution is to make kids feel in a way that there is no pressure from society to pose naked on the internet by *not* imposing on them a overly sexualized picture of the world (And *no* this can not be achieved by censorship, but only by a responsible society taking care and giving respect). Catching the sick pervert commenting on the picture may make *you* feel better, but it does not solve the problem.
d) School shootings will not be prevented by that. Many school shooters posted aggressive thoughts under well known identities. Fuck, many were even known in real life to be strange and alone. Nobody cared.
e) Can we save more people committing suicide? Possibly. But possibly they care the least about using their real name.
f) Terrorists. Sure. They will be totally afraid not only to posses to try to prepare to kill thousands of people, but to violate the rules for blogs. You'll really have them if, on top of the 20 times lifelong sentence you can give them 1 month jail time for not registering correctly.
Before i claim the opposite, i would like to see your mathematical proof that a "useful" API can not protect against intentional abuse. (Citation?)