Huh, it appears the Firefox version does offer that, whereas the Chrome version does not. I am on Mac. The version number of FlashBlock is 1.5.17, vs. 0.9.34 on Chrome - even after I go into chrome under chrome://extensions/ then check "developer mode" and "update extensions now."
The Shiite militias and ISIS both include plenty of Iraqis and fight to the death/suicide against superior forces (ourselves for example) all the time. I think they run from their government posts because they identify more along religious / ethnic lines rather than with the unified Iraqi state. We tried to institute secular government but now it is backsliding into Shiite (al-Maliki), Sunni (Isis etc), and Kurdish.
I don't think "overrun" really covers the situation in this case. The basic problem is we are are fighting on both sides of the war. We're not just giving out weapons to our allies, we're handing them out to make allies. A few months ago the big push was to give weapons to anti-Syrian fighters. Some of those are more western-friendly (or act that way to our face), some are not, including ISIS. The reason parts of Iraq were so easily overrun was because the Iraqi soldiers in question had divided loyalties, at best.
Why isn't flashblock doing it for me? I have used it for a long time, but lately some sites including slate.com still seem to be able to auto-play videos on me? Anybody else have this problem?
I think Tesla is accomplishing something amazing and revolutionary. At the same time, the selection of a site for this factory has been WAY over-reported (at least here in NM, which was on the list), and watching the states trip over each other to "give away the store" in luring Tesla is just sad, and especially unfair to regular companies who don't have this kind of pull and will never get such sweetheart deals.
I personally want the equipment geared better for interactive gaming
What is wrong with this for interactive gaming? The list of what they did makes it look very well suited for gaming:
Enabling real time scheduled multithreaded application processes at guaranteed clock rates
Context prioritized GPU rendering, enabling asynchronous time warp
Facilitating completely unbuffered display surfaces for minimal latency
Supporting low-persistence display mode for improved comfort, visual stability, and reduced motion blur / judder
variations of the Oculus Tracker and firmware built into the headset for extremely accurate, ultra low-latency 3DOF tracking.
sub-20 millisecond motion-to-photons latency, roughly equivalent to the most highly optimized experiences on DK2.
A 1440p AMOLED display and cutting-edge GPU are the ideal building blocks for a self-contained VR headset, and using your cellphone to power it should make it much cheaper than any comparable alternative.
My main concern, on the other hand, would be the weight of the phone hanging out at the front like that.
Here is your answer, the A20 is freakishly slow compared to anything Intel would put their name on.
Granted, you can build a tablet to do specific tasks (like decoding video codecs) around a really slow processor and some special-purpose DSPs. But perhaps the companies in that business aren't making enough profit to interest Intel.
But you didn't respond to my suggestion that the video be retrievable only by court order. Don't you think that would mitigate a lot of the issues you mentioned?
the Federal government's control reaches into the crooks and nannies it was never supposed to reach
"Supposed" by whom? Some long-dead people?
I do think there is some misalignment between laws as written vs. current practice. But you should realize that bringing them together would most certainly result in more changes to the law, than to how they are practiced. For example, Social Security may or may not be particularly Constitutional, but it will get written into the Constitution long before it will be repealed. Most people want it.
I would say, no thanks. And that employees in the performance of their duty are in a different situation than ordinary people going about their private business (even if in a public space). I can't think of any good reason not to make this distinction.
That said I also think that access to "Cop-Cams" should be by court-order only. I don't think the police should be able to selectively choose whatever video supports their case, nor feel that they are being needless monitored constantly.
On a theoretical level, you're correct. On a personal level, the nose thing is pretty convincing. Give it a go, you'll see what I mean.
At some instant you are reeling from a punch to the face, and you have an awareness (a memory) of having asked for it 5 seconds previously in a heated philosophical argument. The problem is you have no way of directly experiencing those previous events from 5 seconds ago. It could be that the universe is just a snapshot of this precise moment, which includes sensations of memory, the appearance of slashdot, and the fear of being punched in the face.
There is no disproving this. But it also doesn't matter, since if nothing else the present does contain the perception of continuity, which is all that drives our choices even if continuity does exist. If we somehow discovered that we're just a dream or computer simulation, what does that actually change? What previous theory of existence does it displace?
"The focus should always be on how to think rather than a list of facts."
That has been the conventional wisdom for a few decades now, but a big problem is that you can't measure things like "critical thinking" in the abstract. Thus the movement towards standardized testing. Nobody says to himself, "we should study lists of facts instead of how to think!" but they do see other nations pulling ahead of the US in standardized tests, and panic. Next thing you know, music and PE classes disappear, end education tends to become rather narrow. And of course, dropping standards does not really transform the *average* classroom into a scene from Dead Poets Society with people standing on the desks and being inspired.
Another day, another overblown headline. Quoting from the article, the questionable phrase is: "; focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; "
This is wide open to interpretation. Obviously it would be insane not to teach the scientific process. I think there are some who feel education has strayed too far from mastering basic facts into abstraction, such as "new math" instead of mastering times tables.
Anyway this is just one guy's brain fart and not a law. I am kind of curious what he meant by it though.
But he was right of course. There is no way to prove ground truth, such as the continuity of existence - it's just assumptions. Some people never grasp that, most others tire of thinking about it and move on. But not because they solved or proved anything.
Butting into somebody else's conversation just to blurt out that you don't understand it is silly.
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I took my son on a motorcycle trip through North Cascades National Park this summer and it was fantastic.
My kids have practically no concept of TV, not because they're too good for it, but because it has been replaced by youtube.
The point of pumping the water back uphill is so you can re-generate power from the same water over and over.
The Hoover dam seems like an ideal candidate for pumped-storage hydro, turning it into the world's largest "battery" for renewable energy.
Huh, it appears the Firefox version does offer that, whereas the Chrome version does not. I am on Mac. The version number of FlashBlock is 1.5.17, vs. 0.9.34 on Chrome - even after I go into chrome under chrome://extensions/ then check "developer mode" and "update extensions now."
The Shiite militias and ISIS both include plenty of Iraqis and fight to the death/suicide against superior forces (ourselves for example) all the time. I think they run from their government posts because they identify more along religious / ethnic lines rather than with the unified Iraqi state. We tried to institute secular government but now it is backsliding into Shiite (al-Maliki), Sunni (Isis etc), and Kurdish.
I don't think "overrun" really covers the situation in this case. The basic problem is we are are fighting on both sides of the war. We're not just giving out weapons to our allies, we're handing them out to make allies. A few months ago the big push was to give weapons to anti-Syrian fighters. Some of those are more western-friendly (or act that way to our face), some are not, including ISIS. The reason parts of Iraq were so easily overrun was because the Iraqi soldiers in question had divided loyalties, at best.
Why isn't flashblock doing it for me? I have used it for a long time, but lately some sites including slate.com still seem to be able to auto-play videos on me? Anybody else have this problem?
I think Tesla is accomplishing something amazing and revolutionary. At the same time, the selection of a site for this factory has been WAY over-reported (at least here in NM, which was on the list), and watching the states trip over each other to "give away the store" in luring Tesla is just sad, and especially unfair to regular companies who don't have this kind of pull and will never get such sweetheart deals.
What is wrong with this for interactive gaming? The list of what they did makes it look very well suited for gaming:
A 1440p AMOLED display and cutting-edge GPU are the ideal building blocks for a self-contained VR headset, and using your cellphone to power it should make it much cheaper than any comparable alternative.
My main concern, on the other hand, would be the weight of the phone hanging out at the front like that.
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Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps says a story about him consuming 12,000 calories a day while training for the Beijing Olympics just isn't true.
"I never ate that much," Phelps said. "It's all a myth. I've never eaten that many calories."
Seacrest replied: "Good because I was starting to loathe you, that you could really eat all this."
Said Phelps: "I wish. It's too much though. It's pretty much impossible."
The truth is, they just don't care because they'll be dead before it gets bad.
Granted, you can build a tablet to do specific tasks (like decoding video codecs) around a really slow processor and some special-purpose DSPs. But perhaps the companies in that business aren't making enough profit to interest Intel.
But you didn't respond to my suggestion that the video be retrievable only by court order. Don't you think that would mitigate a lot of the issues you mentioned?
"Supposed" by whom? Some long-dead people?
I do think there is some misalignment between laws as written vs. current practice. But you should realize that bringing them together would most certainly result in more changes to the law, than to how they are practiced. For example, Social Security may or may not be particularly Constitutional, but it will get written into the Constitution long before it will be repealed. Most people want it.
That said I also think that access to "Cop-Cams" should be by court-order only. I don't think the police should be able to selectively choose whatever video supports their case, nor feel that they are being needless monitored constantly.
At some instant you are reeling from a punch to the face, and you have an awareness (a memory) of having asked for it 5 seconds previously in a heated philosophical argument. The problem is you have no way of directly experiencing those previous events from 5 seconds ago. It could be that the universe is just a snapshot of this precise moment, which includes sensations of memory, the appearance of slashdot, and the fear of being punched in the face.
There is no disproving this. But it also doesn't matter, since if nothing else the present does contain the perception of continuity, which is all that drives our choices even if continuity does exist. If we somehow discovered that we're just a dream or computer simulation, what does that actually change? What previous theory of existence does it displace?
"The focus should always be on how to think rather than a list of facts." That has been the conventional wisdom for a few decades now, but a big problem is that you can't measure things like "critical thinking" in the abstract. Thus the movement towards standardized testing. Nobody says to himself, "we should study lists of facts instead of how to think!" but they do see other nations pulling ahead of the US in standardized tests, and panic. Next thing you know, music and PE classes disappear, end education tends to become rather narrow. And of course, dropping standards does not really transform the *average* classroom into a scene from Dead Poets Society with people standing on the desks and being inspired.
This is wide open to interpretation. Obviously it would be insane not to teach the scientific process. I think there are some who feel education has strayed too far from mastering basic facts into abstraction, such as "new math" instead of mastering times tables.
Anyway this is just one guy's brain fart and not a law. I am kind of curious what he meant by it though.
Butting into somebody else's conversation just to blurt out that you don't understand it is silly.
Ha ha, you have a 16-drive array in your RV? Just when I thought people on slashdot weren't cool any more.
But like you said that is totally dwarfed by SSD.
Cloud backup of an 8GB drive? Egads.
I see, the amount of "Finished Motor Gasoline" was 134.5 BN, so I should have said "oil" instead of "gasoline."
In 2013, the United States consumed a total of 6.89 billion barrels of petroleum products, an average of 18.89 million barrels per day. A barrel is 42 gallons, so, 289 billion gallons.