Sometimes Americans call administration "Chapter 11". This is different to bankruptcy, which is known as "Chapter 7". It's not really good international communication to use chapter numbers from a specific country's civil code, so they instead used the correct English words.
Really? I could have swarn I heard something about the Chinese being the good guys on China Central Television last night. I think one of the key points of the Chinese position is that the government and party is responsible for all harmony, peace, flowers and puppies that exist on this planet.
And in Rwanda, it was very nearly this. People went to war over a classification system that was WHAT DUTCH PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY LOOKED LIKE.
Yes, and those of the race that the Germans/Belgians considered savages brutally murdered roughly 50 percent of the entire race that the Germans/Belgians considered to be civilized. Thank God the Tutsis were able to defend themselves against a foe that outnumbered them many times over, otherwise they would have been wiped out completely.
I'm just going to go ahead and trust the German and Belgian Imperial offices' assessment of African ethnic politics over the word of someone who can't tell the difference between Belgium and the Netherlands.
On Slashdot, your sig defines who you are, nobody remembers your username. Your's criticises Obama, so that's what you are an embodyment of on this particular website. There is no difference in this case between playing the man and the ball, since nobody on the Internet ever will see any more of the man than the text at the end of his post.
Anyway, I like my sig better, strangely relevant to this.
No, Obama is responsible for killing those women and children. If Yemen wants to take hostages in retaliation, that's their own action. Anyway, your sig proves you're a pathelogical idiot that insists on blaming one American for America's failings, likely because that American is not you.
All 3d rendering is based on maths, unfortunately ray tracing involves repeatedly traversing large data sets, something that any co-processor which is a long way from the main system memory bus is going to be shockingly bad at.
Same "qi" as "qi gong", but different "chi" to "tai chi". In Hanyu Pinyin, the system that uses the spelling "qi", "tai chi" is spelled "taiji". The two words are quite different in pronunciation.
This isn't doubles tennis. Two people of different nationalities rarely make appropriate running mates as they are both only eligible for government in different countries. That said, American politician King O'Malley had a great career in Australian politics after pretending he was from Canada and thus a subject of the crown, so there may be hope for them yet.
...are represented by stylus motions of less than an ultraviolet wavelength (1/100,000,000 of a meter)—a dimension approaching the size of a complex organic molecule.
Yep, just relying on a few assumptions:
Vinyl can be cut 3 times more precisely with record presses than Intel can than silicon (32nm, 3.2/100,000,000 of a meter) with multi billion dollar factories.
This movement, after being transferred through you multiple millimetre long stylus, then into the magnetic coil, then through a meter non-zero impedance analogue cable and into your pre-amp, this signal will be stronger than the radiation caused by a star in another galaxy.
There exists a cleaning method that can remove all dust, germs, water drops, micro-organisms from vinyl without putting a 10nm scratch into it.
Mastering for cars is important. I hate music with high dynamic range because it cannot be used consistently to drown out other things. If I have some classical music (which is almost always mastered with lots of dynamic range), then I generally have to quickly skip it, otherwise the office/plane background noise that I'm trying to mute just annoys me too much.
I've got this song on my iPhone called "Map of the Problematique" by Muse, it has almost no dynamic range and seems to saturate the high through low frequency ranges with something very loud, all the time. I found it when I was on a long flight from Beijing to Toronto, it was on my playlist and it was like the engines fell silent when it played. When I need to seriously concentrate, I just put it on loop. That song is a masterpiece.
Red 5 had a majority stake bought by a company called "The9", or "Di Jiu Chengshi" which is the former operator of World of Warcraft in China, based in Shanghai.
They are famous for two things:
- Inability to work with Chinese government departments
- An abundance of attractive young women.
They're front desk has maybe 5 model quality ladies just sitting there, signing for packages, etc. I know someone who was a lead programmer there, she's slamming hot and wears tight jeans and towering heels. This is the investor for sexy girls and Red 5 seems to be catching the windfall.
People make fun of marketing folks, not because it is unimportant, but because it is extremely important and so many people who do it drop the ball so heavily. A big problem is when a CEO from a tech background gets it in his head that marketing guys are stupid/sleezy/of-dubious-use and hires a marketing guy who fits in with his stereotypes.
Marketing is about products, a marketing guy needs to know what product we're selling to consumers and can either tell consumers why they want it, or explain the development team why consumers can't be made to want it and help them make it something that consumers do want. Idiot marketers cannot do either, since they just don't care what the company does and consider brand identity as well as product a blank slate to fill with their own delusions.
In the real world, you meet both types, sadly, most engineers treat the concept of having customers with such contempt that most good marketing people would probably avoid having to work with them, leaving the dregs forced to come to tech companies.
Think about it this way. If Australia contributes any money or expertise to the project at all after this point, that is regarded as being a good sport. From now on, Australia just needs to make a minimal contribution and keep its mouth shut and either wait for South Africa to fuck up badly or the data rolls in.
Australia is one of the richest countries on earth, with law and order and ocassionally effective government services, wheras South Africa is a violent hellhole with a government who's one trick is apparently blaming their own incompetance on the fact that they can't abolish rule of law like Robert Mugabe did. Think about the last time anyone thought of South Africa, they got the world cup, got knocked out in the group stage and tried to socially contextualise those stupid plastic horns as being an integral part of African culture, despite their invention less than a decade earlier. This is South Africa, a land of under-achievement and excuses. It is no secret the world looks down on South Africa and this is a great project to make everyone feel better about themselves, the only loser here is science, but science always finds a way.
I bet I could take a blurry 12-megapixel picture, resize it to 1-megapixel and sharpen it, and it will look just as good.
No you can't. You just think that because you don't understand how an aperture works.
Camera lenses focus by directing light through a small hole. At the point of focus, any light which bounces off an object then hits the lens will be directed in such a way that it hits the sensor in exactly the same place as it would have if it had bounced exactly at the center of that hole to begin with, meaning all light from that position hits the same place, giving a sharp image. Away from the point of focus, light bounces off the object, then when it hits the lens, it bends either too far, or too little, giving a soft edge. Thus when an image is out of focus, then the light projecting onto the sensor is actually wrong, no amount of sensitivity will fix that. This is why optics and focus have always been the most important part of getting a nice image out of any digital camera.
A light field camera fixes this by capturing the direction of the light and reconstructing an image of where the light actually came from, not just where it hits the sensor. Thus it can calculate a 100% in focus image covering the entire depth range without having to focus. Previously, only a relatively small range of distances could be kept in focus, and for that it was required to have a small apature and either a long exposure or a grainy image (cellphone style). Now you can have a sharp image with a wide range of focus without motion blur or grain and that's fantastic.
Resizing a 12 megapixel image into 1 megapixel will give you the same image, with less grain, exactly the same image as if you had stuck a 1 megapixel sensor in to begin with (lower resolution sensors of the same size format give less grain because of larger size per pixel and lower photosensitivity). It will never be any better than the image projected on the sensor to begin with, so it doesn't get you anywhere.
Shia Islam is sort of like 'we'll call Ahura Mazda "Allah" and the Arabs will leave us alone', it is very Persian and un-Arabic in its doctrine and mindset. That part of the world is still very much business as usual, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei are no crazier than Xerxes, and it is the exact same form of crazy. These are the same guys that Crassus and Leonidas fell to and that's the problem, while many Arabs tend to be a little bit on the thick side, I have never met a stupid Iranian and I've met quite a few. Also, while smart Arabs tend to be not particularly religious or crazy, I've met an Iranian engineer who used the phrase "praise Allah" multiple times during his doctoral defense at a top western university and got his PhD anyway.
Rommel lost in Africa and France for the same reason Germany lost the war, completely outnumbered and out gunned. Germany had to garrison a hostile empire in Europe and fight on the eastern front while Britain, which was in every way a comperable military power had all of the resources from both its metropole and empire available to make life difficult from Germany in Africa and the Middle East.
In France, American and British forces were storming over the beaches in massive numbers, while the Red Army had most of the Wermacht tied up in a costly war in Russia that had already killed pretty much all of Germany's best soldiers.
The fault was wholly Hitler's for getting into that stupid, unwinnable war to begin with.
Then again, it is still better than a government run system, as I at least have choices of carriers and coverage.
UK, Australia, NZ, Canada all have some degree of government run healthcare systems, two of those countries have lower tax rates than the US, the other two have tax rates not much higher meaning you still have money left to buy private health insurance, it costs much less and it still gives you your choice of doctor and hospital. Government healthcare is just a service, it doesn't cost all your money and you don't have to use it if you want a different treatment. Plus, if the government is not willing to pay for elective surgery, you can still go to its hospital as a private patient and it's still way cheaper since you just have to pay a surgeon their hourly rate. Oh, and you can buy medicine from a regular store for the same price that HMOs pay since the government collectively bargains.
I personally doubt any magistrate would actually give this order. TFL can ask for the guys to be hang drawn and quartered if they like, it doesn't mean the bench will agree.
Internal ballistics is a technical issue, gun violence is a social issue. Guns are not intrinsically tools of evil, they're good for hunting and pest control too, but I can't help but think that there would be less killing and genocide in this world if guns weren't so damn effective at what they do. Digital distribution is the same, not nasty in of itself, but facilitates nastiness if misused, and it seems that it can be misused quite effectively.
"Metrics" tend to be shallow at the best of times. What the teaching profession needs is a culture of being accountable to one's peers on the quality of teaching provided. Problem is, it seems that in public education that very rarely happens. I think it is because when one teacher drops the ball, the others do not really have to take up the slack in the way that occurs in other industries, there are no goals or projects, just an endless pipeline of students that moves through according to time, rather than by degree of attainment.
The unions are part of the problem, unlike productive professional associations, teacher's unions rarely reward excellence, it seems they aspire to lower standards and protect the incompetent. In my school the most pro-union teachers were always the ones I learned the least from and the few good teachers I had were openly scathing of it. The local union rep was completely and utterly useless as a teacher, nothing but pointless personal anecdotes and copying notes from his textbook onto the board (in admittedly lovely handwriting).
I went through state schools all the way, no way would I do that to my children.
I recommend the arse cleaning hoses found in Malaysia. They don't have the size or expense of a seperate bidet and they're not resident in the unhygenic toilet pot like Japanese integrated bidets. You just lift it off its hook on the wall, point the spray nozzle at your butthole, twist the tap and bam, no more shit on your o-ring. But either way, the European bidet has existed for a century now, there's always been that option at home, the Malaysian hose is the only option small, cheap and simple enough for institutional toilets.
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Whats the different between an Iranian Tomcat and a modern US military system?
40 years?
Sometimes Americans call administration "Chapter 11". This is different to bankruptcy, which is known as "Chapter 7". It's not really good international communication to use chapter numbers from a specific country's civil code, so they instead used the correct English words.
Australia's GDP in 2012 is $1.57 Trillion according to the IMF.
It's insane to compare a country with a company. But still, Australia does have 15 times the economy of Apple.
The Chinese never claimed to be the good guys
Really? I could have swarn I heard something about the Chinese being the good guys on China Central Television last night. I think one of the key points of the Chinese position is that the government and party is responsible for all harmony, peace, flowers and puppies that exist on this planet.
And in Rwanda, it was very nearly this. People went to war over a classification system that was WHAT DUTCH PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY LOOKED LIKE.
Yes, and those of the race that the Germans/Belgians considered savages brutally murdered roughly 50 percent of the entire race that the Germans/Belgians considered to be civilized. Thank God the Tutsis were able to defend themselves against a foe that outnumbered them many times over, otherwise they would have been wiped out completely.
I'm just going to go ahead and trust the German and Belgian Imperial offices' assessment of African ethnic politics over the word of someone who can't tell the difference between Belgium and the Netherlands.
On Slashdot, your sig defines who you are, nobody remembers your username. Your's criticises Obama, so that's what you are an embodyment of on this particular website. There is no difference in this case between playing the man and the ball, since nobody on the Internet ever will see any more of the man than the text at the end of his post.
Anyway, I like my sig better, strangely relevant to this.
No, Obama is responsible for killing those women and children. If Yemen wants to take hostages in retaliation, that's their own action. Anyway, your sig proves you're a pathelogical idiot that insists on blaming one American for America's failings, likely because that American is not you.
Umm, ray tracing is math.
All 3d rendering is based on maths, unfortunately ray tracing involves repeatedly traversing large data sets, something that any co-processor which is a long way from the main system memory bus is going to be shockingly bad at.
Same "qi" as "qi gong", but different "chi" to "tai chi". In Hanyu Pinyin, the system that uses the spelling "qi", "tai chi" is spelled "taiji". The two words are quite different in pronunciation.
how you say irony in chinese?
I'd tell you, but slashdot still doesn't support unicode. It's pronounced "fanfeng" or there abouts.
This isn't doubles tennis. Two people of different nationalities rarely make appropriate running mates as they are both only eligible for government in different countries. That said, American politician King O'Malley had a great career in Australian politics after pretending he was from Canada and thus a subject of the crown, so there may be hope for them yet.
From your quoted article
...are represented by stylus motions of less than an ultraviolet wavelength (1/100,000,000 of a meter)—a dimension approaching the size of a complex organic molecule.
Yep, just relying on a few assumptions:
Vinyl can be cut 3 times more precisely with record presses than Intel can than silicon (32nm, 3.2/100,000,000 of a meter) with multi billion dollar factories.
This movement, after being transferred through you multiple millimetre long stylus, then into the magnetic coil, then through a meter non-zero impedance analogue cable and into your pre-amp, this signal will be stronger than the radiation caused by a star in another galaxy.
There exists a cleaning method that can remove all dust, germs, water drops, micro-organisms from vinyl without putting a 10nm scratch into it.
Mastering for cars is important. I hate music with high dynamic range because it cannot be used consistently to drown out other things. If I have some classical music (which is almost always mastered with lots of dynamic range), then I generally have to quickly skip it, otherwise the office/plane background noise that I'm trying to mute just annoys me too much.
I've got this song on my iPhone called "Map of the Problematique" by Muse, it has almost no dynamic range and seems to saturate the high through low frequency ranges with something very loud, all the time. I found it when I was on a long flight from Beijing to Toronto, it was on my playlist and it was like the engines fell silent when it played. When I need to seriously concentrate, I just put it on loop. That song is a masterpiece.
I can hear the difference listening to Dave Brubeck on original vinyl vs. modern CD.
Yes, but we're talking mp3 here, nobody's claiming a 256kbps mp3 is as lossy or distorted as vinyl.
Red 5 had a majority stake bought by a company called "The9", or "Di Jiu Chengshi" which is the former operator of World of Warcraft in China, based in Shanghai.
They are famous for two things:
They're front desk has maybe 5 model quality ladies just sitting there, signing for packages, etc. I know someone who was a lead programmer there, she's slamming hot and wears tight jeans and towering heels. This is the investor for sexy girls and Red 5 seems to be catching the windfall.
People make fun of marketing folks, not because it is unimportant, but because it is extremely important and so many people who do it drop the ball so heavily. A big problem is when a CEO from a tech background gets it in his head that marketing guys are stupid/sleezy/of-dubious-use and hires a marketing guy who fits in with his stereotypes.
Marketing is about products, a marketing guy needs to know what product we're selling to consumers and can either tell consumers why they want it, or explain the development team why consumers can't be made to want it and help them make it something that consumers do want. Idiot marketers cannot do either, since they just don't care what the company does and consider brand identity as well as product a blank slate to fill with their own delusions.
In the real world, you meet both types, sadly, most engineers treat the concept of having customers with such contempt that most good marketing people would probably avoid having to work with them, leaving the dregs forced to come to tech companies.
Think about it this way. If Australia contributes any money or expertise to the project at all after this point, that is regarded as being a good sport. From now on, Australia just needs to make a minimal contribution and keep its mouth shut and either wait for South Africa to fuck up badly or the data rolls in.
Australia is one of the richest countries on earth, with law and order and ocassionally effective government services, wheras South Africa is a violent hellhole with a government who's one trick is apparently blaming their own incompetance on the fact that they can't abolish rule of law like Robert Mugabe did. Think about the last time anyone thought of South Africa, they got the world cup, got knocked out in the group stage and tried to socially contextualise those stupid plastic horns as being an integral part of African culture, despite their invention less than a decade earlier. This is South Africa, a land of under-achievement and excuses. It is no secret the world looks down on South Africa and this is a great project to make everyone feel better about themselves, the only loser here is science, but science always finds a way.
No you can't. You just think that because you don't understand how an aperture works.
Camera lenses focus by directing light through a small hole. At the point of focus, any light which bounces off an object then hits the lens will be directed in such a way that it hits the sensor in exactly the same place as it would have if it had bounced exactly at the center of that hole to begin with, meaning all light from that position hits the same place, giving a sharp image. Away from the point of focus, light bounces off the object, then when it hits the lens, it bends either too far, or too little, giving a soft edge. Thus when an image is out of focus, then the light projecting onto the sensor is actually wrong, no amount of sensitivity will fix that. This is why optics and focus have always been the most important part of getting a nice image out of any digital camera.
A light field camera fixes this by capturing the direction of the light and reconstructing an image of where the light actually came from, not just where it hits the sensor. Thus it can calculate a 100% in focus image covering the entire depth range without having to focus. Previously, only a relatively small range of distances could be kept in focus, and for that it was required to have a small apature and either a long exposure or a grainy image (cellphone style). Now you can have a sharp image with a wide range of focus without motion blur or grain and that's fantastic.
Resizing a 12 megapixel image into 1 megapixel will give you the same image, with less grain, exactly the same image as if you had stuck a 1 megapixel sensor in to begin with (lower resolution sensors of the same size format give less grain because of larger size per pixel and lower photosensitivity). It will never be any better than the image projected on the sensor to begin with, so it doesn't get you anywhere.
Shia Islam is sort of like 'we'll call Ahura Mazda "Allah" and the Arabs will leave us alone', it is very Persian and un-Arabic in its doctrine and mindset. That part of the world is still very much business as usual, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei are no crazier than Xerxes, and it is the exact same form of crazy. These are the same guys that Crassus and Leonidas fell to and that's the problem, while many Arabs tend to be a little bit on the thick side, I have never met a stupid Iranian and I've met quite a few. Also, while smart Arabs tend to be not particularly religious or crazy, I've met an Iranian engineer who used the phrase "praise Allah" multiple times during his doctoral defense at a top western university and got his PhD anyway.
Rommel lost in Africa and France for the same reason Germany lost the war, completely outnumbered and out gunned. Germany had to garrison a hostile empire in Europe and fight on the eastern front while Britain, which was in every way a comperable military power had all of the resources from both its metropole and empire available to make life difficult from Germany in Africa and the Middle East.
In France, American and British forces were storming over the beaches in massive numbers, while the Red Army had most of the Wermacht tied up in a costly war in Russia that had already killed pretty much all of Germany's best soldiers.
The fault was wholly Hitler's for getting into that stupid, unwinnable war to begin with.
Then again, it is still better than a government run system, as I at least have choices of carriers and coverage.
UK, Australia, NZ, Canada all have some degree of government run healthcare systems, two of those countries have lower tax rates than the US, the other two have tax rates not much higher meaning you still have money left to buy private health insurance, it costs much less and it still gives you your choice of doctor and hospital. Government healthcare is just a service, it doesn't cost all your money and you don't have to use it if you want a different treatment. Plus, if the government is not willing to pay for elective surgery, you can still go to its hospital as a private patient and it's still way cheaper since you just have to pay a surgeon their hourly rate. Oh, and you can buy medicine from a regular store for the same price that HMOs pay since the government collectively bargains.
I personally doubt any magistrate would actually give this order. TFL can ask for the guys to be hang drawn and quartered if they like, it doesn't mean the bench will agree.
Internal ballistics is a technical issue, gun violence is a social issue. Guns are not intrinsically tools of evil, they're good for hunting and pest control too, but I can't help but think that there would be less killing and genocide in this world if guns weren't so damn effective at what they do. Digital distribution is the same, not nasty in of itself, but facilitates nastiness if misused, and it seems that it can be misused quite effectively.
"Metrics" tend to be shallow at the best of times. What the teaching profession needs is a culture of being accountable to one's peers on the quality of teaching provided. Problem is, it seems that in public education that very rarely happens. I think it is because when one teacher drops the ball, the others do not really have to take up the slack in the way that occurs in other industries, there are no goals or projects, just an endless pipeline of students that moves through according to time, rather than by degree of attainment.
The unions are part of the problem, unlike productive professional associations, teacher's unions rarely reward excellence, it seems they aspire to lower standards and protect the incompetent. In my school the most pro-union teachers were always the ones I learned the least from and the few good teachers I had were openly scathing of it. The local union rep was completely and utterly useless as a teacher, nothing but pointless personal anecdotes and copying notes from his textbook onto the board (in admittedly lovely handwriting).
I went through state schools all the way, no way would I do that to my children.
I recommend the arse cleaning hoses found in Malaysia. They don't have the size or expense of a seperate bidet and they're not resident in the unhygenic toilet pot like Japanese integrated bidets. You just lift it off its hook on the wall, point the spray nozzle at your butthole, twist the tap and bam, no more shit on your o-ring. But either way, the European bidet has existed for a century now, there's always been that option at home, the Malaysian hose is the only option small, cheap and simple enough for institutional toilets.