... two mods who think this post is insightful, and two posts showing it is wrong, and still no one has figured out that this is a joke making fun of the global warming deniers... sigh, yup, which ever of these groups you side with the answer is the same: no one gets it and at this point we're pretty much screwed.
$ apt-cache show djvulibre-bin ... Description: Utilities for the DjVu image format
Executables including utilities for conversion between DjVu and other
formats.
Source TAR.GZ djvulibre-3.5.22.tar.gz Binary Packages Fedora/Redhat Available from Fedora. Mandriva Available from Mandrake Club. Suse Available from OpenSuse. Debian Available from Debian (apt-get!) Ubuntu Available from Ubuntu (apt-get!) SGI Irix 6.5 (mips) djvulibre-3.5.5-irix6.5-mips.tar.gz Solaris 6 (sparc) djvulibre-3.5.5-solaris6-sparc.tar.gz Cygwin (x86) djvulibre-3.5.17-1.tar.bz2 OS/2 (x86) Available on Hobbes Windows (x86) Available on Sourceforge MacOS (x86,ppc) Available on Sourceforge
which is why observing what happens in 5 years time (when the solar cycle may peak again) will be very intesting. If the current rise is actually being held back, what's it going to look like at the other end of the cycle when it isn't? No one knows the answer to that, but either way I'm glad the cycle is short enough to fit into humanity's notoriously short term memory.
Once again someone is comparing a codec to H264 using some small as hell resolution. Welcome to 2010, if it's not encoded at 1080p nobody cares.
Because Google didn't buy this, YouTube doesn't exist, and the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, RIM, HP, and Amazon aren't falling over each other to position themselves as the portable media convergence device leader.
college students copying blue ray discs of the latest crappy Hollywood flick is the only market the codec industry is aiming to win.
same here, but there is 1 PC dedicated to each bit of equipment and it is *strictly* not used for anything else. So that PC becomes part of the instrument and ages with it. Often the equipment & software can be 15-20 years old and still calibratable & in active operation. Finding old PCs that stay alive that long with a real UART etc. gets harder and harder, but here's to hoping that virtualization saves the day. Got an old Win98 laptop on the shelf for one machine which just has a DOS interface, but keeps on chugging.
But really you are just talking about a data logger for a very expensive sensor. All the real day to day use, formal analysis, and number crunching happens on some flavor of UNIX (Linux/MacOSX/Solais).
Maybe because they would have to remove the siphon they have running and stop collecting oil? Just let it spill out into the ocean while the scientists futz around with their equipment?
besides the post facto aspect of your argument (they've had weeks) and the fact that you could sum the volumes of the siphoned and measured split, standard acoustic flow rate monitors clamp around the tube and can be placed well upstream of the siphon tube.
I am not sure of the exact tech they plan(ned) to use, only that it's the same as they use to measure outflow from Black Smokers at the mid-ocean ridge. And I can assure you that they are just as adept wih their ROVs as the oil guys are with theirs. The science guys operate in a lot deeper water than this and have much less bottom time to work with so futzing around is not a fair comment.
Unless they were 'climate change' science experts, then its okay to make absolutist statements.
[reputable] citation needed
seriously. and not just a "journalist's" paraphrasing, partial quote, or misquote. I want to see the actual peer reviewed journal article or technical report they based their article on, stated by a real climate change scientist.
Other experts are a little more cautious: "We know the oil has not entered the Loop Current," Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said at a news conference Monday afternoon. "A leading edge sheen is getting close to it, but it has not entered the Loop Current. The larger volume of oil is several miles from the Loop Current."
I think you got a word wrong there. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry is not an other expert in this area at all. Any other [scientific] expert would never make such an absolutist statement, and a few miles is within a hour or two's drift (*spread is not necessarily the same rate as the water currents) so by the time her statement hit the papers it would already be false. And who knows what the hell's going on subsurface where the satellites don't see?
"Dispersal" of a slick into a cloud of droplets does not mean the cloud-plume itself has or will dispersed.
And why has the US gov't not put its foot down and demanded that the invited but then uninvited (by BP the day before they thought the dome would work) Wood's Hole team be allowed to measure the flow rate with the instruments that BP claimed did not exist? [NY Times 16 May] Even if there's nothing much we can do with that number now, by having better data about the size of the spill and measuring the effects over the coming months and years we can better understand and plan future responses. I see what BP has to lose by that number being properly established, but why aren't they being forced to establish it anyway?
well what do you expect them to do? the mayor's got the chief's ass in a sling over this damn it! (well seriously, the mayor [aka the voters] loves those inflated arrest stats)
Now, I can't help but wonder if both sides are really just one side...
I hear this all the time and the generalization is ridiculous. The two dominant parties are obviously not the black and white "polar" opposites the news always talks about, but do you really think the world would be in the position it is today if the SCOUS had seated Gore instead of Bush jr?
where I live the major hydro generation company also owns a fleet of nearby wind turbines. when the wind is blowing within minutes they slow down or speed up the dams. when the wind isn't blowing they turn the dams on full flow. no wasteful pumping water upstream, just slow down your existing dams and conserve the lake water until you need it, and they can spin up or down the dams with the daily demand cycle too (as I guess nuclear can too, but not fossil fuel burning plants). the laws of thermodynamics tells us that "efficiency is the only thing that is 100% efficient".
Using energy storage to allow nuclear and hydro to run most economically is a far better choice than using it to level the output of wind power.
you have fallen into a false dichotomy. it doesn't have to be one or the other, you can have it satisfy a mix of both needs when appropriate.
(1) the research demonstrating the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard is sparse and methodologically suspect;
which has no effect on the truth of the matter, just that it isn't as solidly proven as previously thought. "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and all that.
(2) a sizable body of work suggests that in fact the Dvorak offers little practical advantage over the QWERTY;
aka many studies show that it is better in a statistically significant way, but not by a great deal. but that's still above the noise level!
(3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands; and
see point (1), but replace Dvorak with QWERTY. (I question their methods and bias of pre-trained qwerty typists used in the study) Point (2) indicates that there are many studies saying Dvorak is slightly better, whereas there is only this 1 saying QWERTY is better.
(4) the QWERTY keyboard did not become a standard overnight but beat out several competing keyboards over a period of years.
in large part due to the "good enough" factor and clever marketing as much as anything else...
my advice: use whatever the hell you want. learning dvorak prevents brain-rot, in a similar way as shaving with your non-dominant hand does.
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probably not, the pathways are too long. perhaps along the lines of an extra node on a local cluster, but that's pushing it.
... two mods who think this post is insightful, and two posts showing it is wrong, and still no one has figured out that this is a joke making fun of the global warming deniers ... sigh, yup, which ever of these groups you side with the answer is the same: no one gets it and at this point we're pretty much screwed.
GPL'd version: djvulibre
$ apt-cache show djvulibre-bin
...
Description: Utilities for the DjVu image format
Executables including utilities for conversion between DjVu and other
formats.
$ file /usr/bin/djvumake
/usr/bin/djvumake: ELF 32-bit LSB executable
http://djvu.sourceforge.net/
Source TAR.GZ djvulibre-3.5.22.tar.gz
Binary Packages
Fedora/Redhat Available from Fedora.
Mandriva Available from Mandrake Club.
Suse Available from OpenSuse.
Debian Available from Debian (apt-get!)
Ubuntu Available from Ubuntu (apt-get!)
SGI Irix 6.5 (mips) djvulibre-3.5.5-irix6.5-mips.tar.gz
Solaris 6 (sparc) djvulibre-3.5.5-solaris6-sparc.tar.gz
Cygwin (x86) djvulibre-3.5.17-1.tar.bz2
OS/2 (x86) Available on Hobbes
Windows (x86) Available on Sourceforge
MacOS (x86,ppc) Available on Sourceforge
etc.
you sound like you could use a bit of cheering up. here's a kitten to help brighten your mood.
http://redders.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/president-bush-eats-kitten-1259.jpg
You are in luck: http://djvu.org/
All the best (non-Adobe) PDF viewers already support it. It's what the Internet Archive uses for archival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
which is why observing what happens in 5 years time (when the solar cycle may peak again) will be very intesting. If the current rise is actually being held back, what's it going to look like at the other end of the cycle when it isn't? No one knows the answer to that, but either way I'm glad the cycle is short enough to fit into humanity's notoriously short term memory.
Because Google didn't buy this, YouTube doesn't exist, and the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, RIM, HP, and Amazon aren't falling over each other to position themselves as the portable media convergence device leader.
college students copying blue ray discs of the latest crappy Hollywood flick is the only market the codec industry is aiming to win.
uh huh.
same here, but there is 1 PC dedicated to each bit of equipment and it is *strictly* not used for anything else. So that PC becomes part of the instrument and ages with it. Often the equipment & software can be 15-20 years old and still calibratable & in active operation. Finding old PCs that stay alive that long with a real UART etc. gets harder and harder, but here's to hoping that virtualization saves the day. Got an old Win98 laptop on the shelf for one machine which just has a DOS interface, but keeps on chugging.
But really you are just talking about a data logger for a very expensive sensor. All the real day to day use, formal analysis, and number crunching happens on some flavor of UNIX (Linux/MacOSX/Solais).
hear hear
And once they suck all the oxygen out of the water everything dies. It's called anoxia.
Louisiana: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/05/18/us/18spill_CA1.html
Again, Louisiana: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.html
besides the post facto aspect of your argument (they've had weeks) and the fact that you could sum the volumes of the siphoned and measured split, standard acoustic flow rate monitors clamp around the tube and can be placed well upstream of the siphon tube.
I am not sure of the exact tech they plan(ned) to use, only that it's the same as they use to measure outflow from Black Smokers at the mid-ocean ridge. And I can assure you that they are just as adept wih their ROVs as the oil guys are with theirs. The science guys operate in a lot deeper water than this and have much less bottom time to work with so futzing around is not a fair comment.
[reputable] citation needed
seriously. and not just a "journalist's" paraphrasing, partial quote, or misquote. I want to see the actual peer reviewed journal article or technical report they based their article on, stated by a real climate change scientist.
I think you got a word wrong there. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry is not an other expert in this area at all. Any other [scientific] expert would never make such an absolutist statement, and a few miles is within a hour or two's drift (*spread is not necessarily the same rate as the water currents) so by the time her statement hit the papers it would already be false. And who knows what the hell's going on subsurface where the satellites don't see?
"Dispersal" of a slick into a cloud of droplets does not mean the cloud-plume itself has or will dispersed.
And why has the US gov't not put its foot down and demanded that the invited but then uninvited (by BP the day before they thought the dome would work) Wood's Hole team be allowed to measure the flow rate with the instruments that BP claimed did not exist? [NY Times 16 May] Even if there's nothing much we can do with that number now, by having better data about the size of the spill and measuring the effects over the coming months and years we can better understand and plan future responses. I see what BP has to lose by that number being properly established, but why aren't they being forced to establish it anyway?
never fear, opinions on the matter may swing back in favor of the big crunch at some time in the future. if you get my meaning.
well what do you expect them to do? the mayor's got the chief's ass in a sling over this damn it!
(well seriously, the mayor [aka the voters] loves those inflated arrest stats)
or put another way, the dark matter doesn't bend light -- it bends space. (!)
hint: it's not the current rate, it's the rate of change which is important.
if the thing has a pc speaker you can (with a bit of work) and a noisy export via modulated audio.
of course if you have access to a serial port controller that's easily the simplest method.
Docs:
Doxygen
PR: /. etc
I hear this all the time and the generalization is ridiculous. The two dominant parties are obviously not the black and white "polar" opposites the news always talks about, but do you really think the world would be in the position it is today if the SCOUS had seated Gore instead of Bush jr?
where I live the major hydro generation company also owns a fleet of nearby wind turbines. when the wind is blowing within minutes they slow down or speed up the dams. when the wind isn't blowing they turn the dams on full flow. no wasteful pumping water upstream, just slow down your existing dams and conserve the lake water until you need it, and they can spin up or down the dams with the daily demand cycle too (as I guess nuclear can too, but not fossil fuel burning plants). the laws of thermodynamics tells us that "efficiency is the only thing that is 100% efficient".
you have fallen into a false dichotomy. it doesn't have to be one or the other, you can have it satisfy a mix of both needs when appropriate.
which has no effect on the truth of the matter, just that it isn't as solidly proven as previously thought. "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and all that.
aka many studies show that it is better in a statistically significant way, but not by a great deal. but that's still above the noise level!
see point (1), but replace Dvorak with QWERTY. (I question their methods and bias of pre-trained qwerty typists used in the study)
Point (2) indicates that there are many studies saying Dvorak is slightly better, whereas there is only this 1 saying QWERTY is better.
in large part due to the "good enough" factor and clever marketing as much as anything else ...
my advice: use whatever the hell you want. learning dvorak prevents brain-rot, in a similar way as shaving with your non-dominant hand does.
shrug. sure, if you want it, take it, it's yours.
I realized a second after I hit submit that I missed a word. I should have written
ps- if you haven't read it since school,
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html
> (is there an actual name for it?)
"group hug" (in the peace-train sense of people of the world, join hands)