I don't see anything in the comment you replied to that indicates poster meant she was attractive or was in any way objectifying or sexist.
In fact quite the opposite when you read who is other two top females are, his mom and the Queen, women he presumably respects for reasons other than sexist reasons.
It read to me like he checked out her significant credentials in her chosen field and was very appropriately impressed.
On windows, try SpeedyFox, it will compress and remove cruft from the ff db files that hold things like history and such. http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox And/or defrag your harddrive or at least the ff prefs folder. Both of those things have helped me with long start up times for ff on windows.
I think it will fail because it is probably the most complicated robotic landing sequence ever attempted in the history of robotic space missions.
I also see no evidence they tested other than via simulation the heat shield blowing off, the parachute separation, the rocket hovering and the lowering of the rover from the hovering rocket platform.
I don't blame them for not testing it, I understand it is next to impossible to test those things, but that doesn't change the fact they are untested.
Hopefully I'll have egg on my face come Aug 6th, I am rooting harder than ever for NASA to pull this off, I am just really pessimistic about it succeeding.
Considering how complicated this landing is going to be, all the different parts that come into play, and the inability to really test the full blown procedure, I just don't think this is going to be a successful landing.
I understand literally some of the best minds in the world are working on this project, but that still doesn't negate the inherent difficultly of having such a complicated system work perfectly.
I really want this to succeed, but I just don't see the landing working out. The bad part is, this is a 2.5 billion dollar bet and if it fails I think it will be a serious set back to the funding that is so desperately needed for space research.
The law regarding this type of thing here in Switzerland drives me crazy.
You are out in public, you should have no expectation of privacy. Period, end of story.
What is next? Legislating that no one can look at anyone else in public? We all have to walk with our heads down so we don't accidentally see anyone else out on the street?
I am all for private data staying private, but when I am out in public, it is, get this: public information.
Go right ahead and pass your law, but don't look the feds and the rest of the country to subsidies your insurance or your losses when there is a disaster of some sort.
"The case that has brought the issue to international attention is the Sept. 30, 2011, drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, who United States officials say was part of Al Qaedaâ(TM)s command structure. Another American was killed in the strike, and Mr. Awlakiâ(TM)s 16-year-old son, also an American citizen, was killed in an attack two weeks later."
(turn down your sound, I am not video editor so the sound track is still in there and loud)
Drones are cool, but really not as safe regularly controlled RC Aircraft and even if you do get into drones you should really have regular RC aircraft experience so a set up like mine would be a very reasonable first step. The air frame I use is often used for diy drones so your investment will not be wasted if you start with a more traditional set up.
I thought the same thing, but reading the article they present the example of contracting to purchase new chips of a certain type and what they were delivered were old recycled chips from the 80's and 90's that were salvaged from discarded equipment, ground down and remarked as the new chip the contract required.
You are mistaken. The pathogenic contributions to atherosclerosis are not well understood, but there are clear indications they are at least related and quite possibly a contributing factor.
For example this article, but you can find others as well:
To say the employment of the handicapped declined after passage of the ADA is a great oversimplification.
For example there was a concomitant reclassification of non-disabled people as disable for a number of reasons, the major one being the cutting of welfare benefits which encouraged non-employable people to seek out disabled classification.
That made it look like there was a decrease in employment for employed handicapped folks but that actually turns out not to be the case. The level of employment for previously employed handicapped folks stayed the same or possible increased slightly.
As with most things it is not as simple as a half sentence talking point.
I definitely understand what you are saying, however I have two points:
1. What seems like continued action against them is really just 1 action against them. This is just how long it takes and what it looks like. They are going to lose customers and have their reputation trashed over this bad decision, it just doesn't happen all in one day. The boycott and moving of domains is just one event, it just happens to take a few months for it to play out.
2. This sets a precedent and acts as an example to other companies. Making poor, anti consumer, anti freedom type decisions that don't take your customers into account hurts. A lot. And it will continue to hurt for as long as the people you dumped on can make it hurt. Other companies should pay heed to what this incident can teach them. They should seriously consider their customers points of view if they are thinking of taking big public stands on issues.
My domains are moving as soon as I figure out a good place to move them to, that is the only reason it hasn't happened yet.
While the things you quoted are in fact totally false, it does not mean that the right wing, sci denying echo chamber some of these folks live in, doesn't repeat them all over and over even in direct contradiction to the original data and recent explanations of why those assertions are wrong.
So no, unfortunately he didn't make that up, he probably does keep hearing those things, lies though they be.
The Border Patrol claims to be authorized to operate anywhere within 100 miles of the border. Conveniently, considering coast line, this covers a great deal of the population of the USA.
The ACLU calls it "Living in a Constitution Free Zone"
I only have 1 anecdote, but for sure I would not spend money on buying TV series on DVD if I didn't download some of the series first.
I have spent hundreds on TV series in the past 4 years that was only spent because I could preview the show via download.
I had never spent a dime on a DVD and didn't intend to until I started downloading.
So for some people at least, the industry don't lose one red cent of money from downloading, but instead makes money it would have never made if downloading didn't exist.
The 1 trillion on welfare is just trying to rile up dislike for the poor and is wrong. It is more like 200 billion. And if you don't want to spend that money on trying to help people back to work or preventing them from being homeless, it will cost you a lot more down the road when you are suffering the losses from crime, the lost property values and the costs to incarcerate people among other things. It is in our best interest to have programs to help those in poverty as we will pay one way or another eventually.
For a much more accurate analysis of spending on welfare programs, well sourced please see:
You know he plagiarized portions of it from the Ted Kaczynski manifesto, the so called Unabomber right?
Who knows where else he copied from. I wouldn't give him any credit for any of the writing.
This guy is a murderous loon. He strikes me as nothing more than a wanna be something, I suspect his "codes" will turn out to be nothing just like him.
You are totally wrong, robotics are mention as sort of a "wow, great teaching tool, bet we could use that in our robotics"
From the foundation website:
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing.
We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.
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I don't see anything in the comment you replied to that indicates poster meant she was attractive or was in any way objectifying or sexist.
In fact quite the opposite when you read who is other two top females are, his mom and the Queen, women he presumably respects for reasons other than sexist reasons.
It read to me like he checked out her significant credentials in her chosen field and was very appropriately impressed.
On windows, try SpeedyFox, it will compress and remove cruft from the ff db files that hold things like history and such. http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox
And/or defrag your harddrive or at least the ff prefs folder.
Both of those things have helped me with long start up times for ff on windows.
I think it will fail because it is probably the most complicated robotic landing sequence ever attempted in the history of robotic space missions.
I also see no evidence they tested other than via simulation the heat shield blowing off, the parachute separation, the rocket hovering and the lowering of the rover from the hovering rocket platform.
I don't blame them for not testing it, I understand it is next to impossible to test those things, but that doesn't change the fact they are untested.
Hopefully I'll have egg on my face come Aug 6th, I am rooting harder than ever for NASA to pull this off, I am just really pessimistic about it succeeding.
Considering how complicated this landing is going to be, all the different parts that come into play, and the inability to really test the full blown procedure, I just don't think this is going to be a successful landing.
I understand literally some of the best minds in the world are working on this project, but that still doesn't negate the inherent difficultly of having such a complicated system work perfectly.
I really want this to succeed, but I just don't see the landing working out. The bad part is, this is a 2.5 billion dollar bet and if it fails I think it will be a serious set back to the funding that is so desperately needed for space research.
There is a reason this info is not encrypted: People need to know where airplanes are in the sky, especially other planes, including private aircraft.
You don't really want airplanes location in the sky to be a secret or you literally run in to serious trouble.
One possibility is http://dansguardian.org/
It is filtering based and there are community maintained blacklists and whitelists for it for different audiences.
Good luck and as much involvement as you can have in their internet use to teach sensible web use will be beneficial as well.
The law regarding this type of thing here in Switzerland drives me crazy.
You are out in public, you should have no expectation of privacy. Period, end of story.
What is next? Legislating that no one can look at anyone else in public? We all have to walk with our heads down so we don't accidentally see anyone else out on the street?
I am all for private data staying private, but when I am out in public, it is, get this: public information.
This 1000 times.
Go right ahead and pass your law, but don't look the feds and the rest of the country to subsidies your insurance or your losses when there is a disaster of some sort.
Quote from the NYT:
"The case that has brought the issue to international attention is the Sept. 30, 2011, drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, who United States officials say was part of Al Qaedaâ(TM)s command structure. Another American was killed in the strike, and Mr. Awlakiâ(TM)s 16-year-old son, also an American citizen, was killed in an attack two weeks later."
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/the-power-to-kill.html
Someone up thread and also myself are looking for recommendations for a good seed box provider. Suggestions?
I have a regular RC Aircraft that I use to take aerial videos and they work out pretty well.
Here is an example:
http://vimeo.com/4400759
(turn down your sound, I am not video editor so the sound track is still in there and loud)
Drones are cool, but really not as safe regularly controlled RC Aircraft and even if you do get into drones you should really have regular RC aircraft experience so a set up like mine would be a very reasonable first step. The air frame I use is often used for diy drones so your investment will not be wasted if you start with a more traditional set up.
I thought the same thing, but reading the article they present the example of contracting to purchase new chips of a certain type and what they were delivered were old recycled chips from the 80's and 90's that were salvaged from discarded equipment, ground down and remarked as the new chip the contract required.
You are mistaken. The pathogenic contributions to atherosclerosis are not well understood, but there are clear indications they are at least related and quite possibly a contributing factor.
For example this article, but you can find others as well:
Bacteria Eyed for Possible Role in Atherosclerosis
We have yet to see how well Curiosity Rover will do once it reaches Mars.
The system they have devised to land the device on Mars is pretty complicated and there are a lot of places for something to go wrong.
To say the employment of the handicapped declined after passage of the ADA is a great oversimplification.
For example there was a concomitant reclassification of non-disabled people as disable for a number of reasons, the major one being the cutting of welfare benefits which encouraged non-employable people to seek out disabled classification.
That made it look like there was a decrease in employment for employed handicapped folks but that actually turns out not to be the case. The level of employment for previously employed handicapped folks stayed the same or possible increased slightly.
As with most things it is not as simple as a half sentence talking point.
This 2002 follow up (PDF alert) to the MIT 2001 paper that made the claim in the first place, examines in greater detail what possibly occurred:
http://people.virginia.edu/~sns5r/microwkshp/EmpADA_3_02.pdf
I definitely understand what you are saying, however I have two points:
1. What seems like continued action against them is really just 1 action against them. This is just how long it takes and what it looks like. They are going to lose customers and have their reputation trashed over this bad decision, it just doesn't happen all in one day. The boycott and moving of domains is just one event, it just happens to take a few months for it to play out.
2. This sets a precedent and acts as an example to other companies. Making poor, anti consumer, anti freedom type decisions that don't take your customers into account hurts. A lot. And it will continue to hurt for as long as the people you dumped on can make it hurt. Other companies should pay heed to what this incident can teach them. They should seriously consider their customers points of view if they are thinking of taking big public stands on issues.
My domains are moving as soon as I figure out a good place to move them to, that is the only reason it hasn't happened yet.
The customer certainly started out about as polite and reasonable as one could possibly expect for any situation. I don't see him as a dbag at all.
While the things you quoted are in fact totally false, it does not mean that the right wing, sci denying echo chamber some of these folks live in, doesn't repeat them all over and over even in direct contradiction to the original data and recent explanations of why those assertions are wrong.
So no, unfortunately he didn't make that up, he probably does keep hearing those things, lies though they be.
The Border Patrol claims to be authorized to operate anywhere within 100 miles of the border. Conveniently, considering coast line, this covers a great deal of the population of the USA.
The ACLU calls it "Living in a Constitution Free Zone"
http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone
I only have 1 anecdote, but for sure I would not spend money on buying TV series on DVD if I didn't download some of the series first.
I have spent hundreds on TV series in the past 4 years that was only spent because I could preview the show via download.
I had never spent a dime on a DVD and didn't intend to until I started downloading.
So for some people at least, the industry don't lose one red cent of money from downloading, but instead makes money it would have never made if downloading didn't exist.
The most certainly do take donations but they encourage donations to the EFF as well if you want to instead of donating to cyanogen.
But they still accept donations if you want to give them to cyanogen team:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
And scroll down to the bottom of the page, lower right hand side.
The 1 trillion on welfare is just trying to rile up dislike for the poor and is wrong. It is more like 200 billion. And if you don't want to spend that money on trying to help people back to work or preventing them from being homeless, it will cost you a lot more down the road when you are suffering the losses from crime, the lost property values and the costs to incarcerate people among other things. It is in our best interest to have programs to help those in poverty as we will pay one way or another eventually.
For a much more accurate analysis of spending on welfare programs, well sourced please see:
http://www.ourdime.us/102/budgetinfo/how-much-do-we-spend-on-welfare/
Slashdot has contributed a great deal to our world.
You know he plagiarized portions of it from the Ted Kaczynski manifesto, the so called Unabomber right?
Who knows where else he copied from. I wouldn't give him any credit for any of the writing.
This guy is a murderous loon. He strikes me as nothing more than a wanna be something, I suspect his "codes" will turn out to be nothing just like him.
You are totally wrong, robotics are mention as sort of a "wow, great teaching tool, bet we could use that in our robotics"
From the foundation website:
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing.
We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=2