There is a difference between a game depicting some reality where there is sexism, and a game made by sexist people who promote sexism.
That's why the sexism rating should be two ratings:
One rating for how much sexist clichés there are in the game, has there are in real life.
One rating for how much the game could induce sexist behavior, as it may be done on purpose by sexist people.
Yes, I don't buy his conspiracies and UFO beliefs, but since he is a leading authority on magnetohydrodynamics and mastered geometry I don't see him as any raving fool.
J.P. Petit is a knowledgeable scientist with independent views, now disregarded because of some of his foibles.
That's why I won't say that all of his theories or mere ideas should "be taken with much skepticism", that would be very unfair and at least irrational.
He could be right on this geometric approach, no matter what strange views he can have on other subjects.
Geometry is just his field and sometime science subjects need people from other fields to advance.
Moreover I've seen some other recent scientist publications with similar results, but with physic approach, I'll link here if I remember.
We should pay more interest to the idea that black holes may not exist like we portray them since the word came out:
Black holes do not exist
Jean-Pierre Petit
04/2014
ABSTRACT We reconsider classical features of Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, which are the fundamental basis of the black hole model, through new space and time coordinates which transform the object into a space bridge linking two folds of the [...]
Example: Light (photons) behave like a particle, AND a wave. BOTH are true
Bad example, this isn't two truths, there is only one, the fact that photons have dual behaviour and are not only a particle or only a wave.
Regarding the very statement of the nature of light, there is one truth.
Regarding observed properties of light, there are many, and at least those two properties are valid/verified, but this isn't related to an in-between or non binary truth.
Yes, I think we should pay more interest to the idea that black holes may exist like we portray them since the word came out:
Black holes do not exist Jean-Pierre Petit
04/2014
ABSTRACT We reconsider classical features of Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, which are the fundamental basis of the black hole model, through new space and time coordinates which transform the object into a space bridge linking two folds of the [...]
First:
- 8 ports 10/100 switch.
- Big noisy custom DIY file server, wall mounted, 6 hard drives, 1.3To , some with redundancy.
Now
- 16 ports 10/100/1000 switch
- Compact silent low power NAS, 2 drives, 2 To, one logical drive is with redundancy, the other is for big files with no redundancy.
1- Security concerns: I didn't want to invest so much time to learn how to secure my WiFi. It was 10 years ago, home equipment wasn't safe, and I had to learn from scratch.
2- Safety concerns: with baby and/or young children I felt I would rather not add RF generator inside my home. I know we are immersed in RF from everywhere, making some a few meters away is another level. I didn't want to add that. Just in case.
3- Network speed: 10 years ago, Ethernet was much faster than WiFi
4- Reinforced concrete could make dead spot in some rooms, what's the point of WiFi if I can't enjoy it everywhere or have issues?
Why I used Ethernet:
1- Rather easy wiring for my home configuration.
2- Fast and reliable
3- Security (neighborhood, not talking of Internet)
Why almost all rooms wired:
- Garage: my first noisy file server
- Two bedrooms out of three: Laptops / iMac
- Living room: gateway, main PC, printer, new file server, console, laptop, media player, guest laptop,...
- Kitchen: laptop (after dinner)
Can you share your views and feelings on how the popular culture of b/ros have evolved since this board started?
For instance (and I make up the following, I really don't know):
Would you say that...
- at the begining people posting there were a mix of childish nerds, internet power user, and...
- then arround 2005-2006 a nucleus of posters got a solid 4chan centric culture, characterized by such and such
- and after the xxx case 4chan draw enough attention to get a bunch of occasional tourist posters, contaminated by a small but steady stream of deviant cp-esque posts.
- etc
And if you've been requested by law/judge/force not to talk about those contact/subpoena/search warrant, then just mention canary keyword in your answer.
Those games are remarkable because:
- with those I've spent the most hours of my whole recreational time
- for those I'll always say Yes if I have the opportunity to play (unless mentioned otherwise)
- they have been ported on new platforms, have clones, etc (for the old ones), and that matters.
(from old to recent)
Lode Runner on Apple//e Boulder Dash on Apple//e Conan on Apple//e Transilvania on Apple//e RISK tabletop Monopoly tabletop Duke Nukem 3D on PC Age of Empire on PC Civilisation, for me it was CivNet, on PC StarCraft on PC Half Life on PC DVONN tabletop Worms Armageddon, on PC Bridge Builder on PC/Mac (any clone) OGame on Web (I stopped to play however) Hordes on Web (I stopped to play however) Uncharted, the 3 and also the 2, on PS3 DarkSiders, the 2, on PS3 Star Drone on PS3 Terraria on PS3 (on going) Kerbal Space Program on PC (on going) Path Of Exile on PC (on going)
Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.
I don't think renewables and NG will be enough with current and foreseeable technologies, maybe I've been misunderstood...
My point is just that for the solar part of the renewable mix, the direct conversion way is a better bet than conversion to heat. Even with the problem of power adjustment, storage, etc.
Nuclear plants can't be used to adjust production on the fly, it's a baseline production.
One can't just start or stop the nuclear reactor in a few minutes or even an hour of response time to answer for power increase or decrease of fluctuating renewable source. (I also remind that emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor is quite bad for its components)
Keeping some NG plants handy while increasing renewable sources is actually a pretty good deal.
I'm just saying that instead of building more "Solar to heat to turbine" plants at the state of the art we would better make more efficient photovoltaic plants.
I know, but this may not compensate
- the lack of efficiency
- the point that we use most of electricity during day time (not at night)
- the need of fast starting alternate source like hydro or natural gas power plants for shaded days (even with molten salt solar heat which only last for the night time)
However I won't say that we can hope for a cheap and efficient electricity technology anytime soon.
Solar to heat to mechanical to electricity as already reached its maximum efficiency.
Photovoltaic has still many recent discoveries for great efficiency improvements, and more are likely to come.
Using heat for conversion is degrading the energy to its worst and less usable form, direct conversion is the way to go. Halting those heat projects is good news.
loading it with explosives and using it as a guided missile. This last concern is the only one that I considered a real issue, but even that is not significantly more dangerous than loading up a regular van full of explosives with a timer, then setting the timer to explode before you leave the vehicle next to a school
I see that much more dangerous because the criminal doesn't have to overcome the fear of getting caught in the vehicle with that load, or getting caught by cameras as he leaves.
And he doesn't have to stop or park somewhere.
And he doesn't need any timer, just a remote to command the explosion, whenever he wants, even before target if things don't go as he wishes.
The onboard sound card has ZERO effect on the quality of the audio. The bits are traveling directly, unmolested from the application generating them to the amplifiers in the speakers.
That's what I thought for a long time and then I discovered that I was wrong (so you are - no offence).
Digital sound can be altered on the way between application and the DAC interpretation, even with TosLink (optical).
Have a look about the clock jitter problem, or phase noise:
Some refs here (with more links inside), here, and here.
Then I suggest they set up a second list where particular individuals would be listed as "can actually fly despite name on no-fly".
So if a Todd Smith has his name put on no-fly list for some reasons, an other Todd Smith would be able to ask thorough check and have his identification put on the do-fly so he would no longer be banned from flying.
... is that Google used to mention that some links were remove from search results by court order, and thus mention the order which has the links in question...:D
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There is a difference between a game depicting some reality where there is sexism, and a game made by sexist people who promote sexism.
That's why the sexism rating should be two ratings:
One rating for how much sexist clichés there are in the game, has there are in real life.
One rating for how much the game could induce sexist behavior, as it may be done on purpose by sexist people.
(this late posting is more a note to myself...)
Our car is badly scratched. It's second hand and one of us made additional scratch to it (non intentional).
I don't think anyone would be interested in robing such a car and we feel quite relaxed regarding theft risk (and when going through tight places).
The Shell Prelude vessel is larger:
Once complete, the facility will have decks measuring 488 by 74 metres (that's more than 1600 feet long and 243 feet wide).
It is built in Goeje, South Korea, and this will be the largest hull ever sent to sea.
Yes, I don't buy his conspiracies and UFO beliefs, but since he is a leading authority on magnetohydrodynamics and mastered geometry I don't see him as any raving fool.
J.P. Petit is a knowledgeable scientist with independent views, now disregarded because of some of his foibles.
That's why I won't say that all of his theories or mere ideas should "be taken with much skepticism", that would be very unfair and at least irrational.
He could be right on this geometric approach, no matter what strange views he can have on other subjects.
Geometry is just his field and sometime science subjects need people from other fields to advance.
Moreover I've seen some other recent scientist publications with similar results, but with physic approach, I'll link here if I remember.
Black holes do not exist
Jean-Pierre Petit
04/2014
ABSTRACT We reconsider classical features of Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, which are the fundamental basis of the black hole model, through new space and time coordinates which transform the object into a space bridge linking two folds of the [...]
Parer available for download
A Eddi et al.
Information stored in Faraday waves: the origin of a path memory
J. Fluid Mech. vol 674 p433-463, 2011
E. Fort et al.
Path memory induced quantization of classical orbits
PNAS vol 107 p17515-17520 2010
Y. Couder et E. Fort
Single-particle diffraction and interference at a macroscopic scale
Phys. Rev. Lett vol 97 154101, 2006
S. Protière et al.
Particle wave association on a fluid interface
J. Fluid Mech. vol 554 p85-108, 2006
Y. Couder et al
Walking and orbiting droplets
Nature vol 437 p208, 2005
I hope you will find it less difficult to understand that duality is one fact, not two contradictory observations (as it seems to be a century ago).
Example: Light (photons) behave like a particle, AND a wave. BOTH are true
Bad example, this isn't two truths, there is only one, the fact that photons have dual behaviour and are not only a particle or only a wave.
Regarding the very statement of the nature of light, there is one truth.
Regarding observed properties of light, there are many, and at least those two properties are valid/verified, but this isn't related to an in-between or non binary truth.
Are the captcha so ineffective?
He uses OpenCV for pre-process and Tesseract for OCR, and has >90% success for captchas...
That's great but how do sites counter bots nowdays?
Black holes do not exist
Jean-Pierre Petit
04/2014
ABSTRACT We reconsider classical features of Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, which are the fundamental basis of the black hole model, through new space and time coordinates which transform the object into a space bridge linking two folds of the [...]
Parer available for download
First:
- 8 ports 10/100 switch.
- Big noisy custom DIY file server, wall mounted, 6 hard drives, 1.3To , some with redundancy.
Now
- 16 ports 10/100/1000 switch
- Compact silent low power NAS, 2 drives, 2 To, one logical drive is with redundancy, the other is for big files with no redundancy.
First why I decided to not use WiFi at home:
1- Security concerns: I didn't want to invest so much time to learn how to secure my WiFi. It was 10 years ago, home equipment wasn't safe, and I had to learn from scratch.
2- Safety concerns: with baby and/or young children I felt I would rather not add RF generator inside my home. I know we are immersed in RF from everywhere, making some a few meters away is another level. I didn't want to add that. Just in case.
3- Network speed: 10 years ago, Ethernet was much faster than WiFi
4- Reinforced concrete could make dead spot in some rooms, what's the point of WiFi if I can't enjoy it everywhere or have issues?
Why I used Ethernet:
1- Rather easy wiring for my home configuration.
2- Fast and reliable
3- Security (neighborhood, not talking of Internet)
Why almost all rooms wired:
- Garage: my first noisy file server ...
- Two bedrooms out of three: Laptops / iMac
- Living room: gateway, main PC, printer, new file server, console, laptop, media player, guest laptop,
- Kitchen: laptop (after dinner)
Can you share your views and feelings on how the popular culture of b/ros have evolved since this board started?
For instance (and I make up the following, I really don't know):
Would you say that ... ...
- at the begining people posting there were a mix of childish nerds, internet power user, and
- then arround 2005-2006 a nucleus of posters got a solid 4chan centric culture, characterized by such and such
- and after the xxx case 4chan draw enough attention to get a bunch of occasional tourist posters, contaminated by a small but steady stream of deviant cp-esque posts.
- etc
And if you've been requested by law/judge/force not to talk about those contact/subpoena/search warrant, then just mention canary keyword in your answer.
We'll understand that.
Those games are remarkable because:
- with those I've spent the most hours of my whole recreational time
- for those I'll always say Yes if I have the opportunity to play (unless mentioned otherwise)
- they have been ported on new platforms, have clones, etc (for the old ones), and that matters.
(from old to recent)
Lode Runner on Apple //e //e //e //e
Boulder Dash on Apple
Conan on Apple
Transilvania on Apple
RISK tabletop
Monopoly tabletop
Duke Nukem 3D on PC
Age of Empire on PC
Civilisation, for me it was CivNet, on PC
StarCraft on PC
Half Life on PC
DVONN tabletop
Worms Armageddon, on PC
Bridge Builder on PC/Mac (any clone)
OGame on Web (I stopped to play however)
Hordes on Web (I stopped to play however)
Uncharted, the 3 and also the 2, on PS3
DarkSiders, the 2, on PS3
Star Drone on PS3
Terraria on PS3 (on going)
Kerbal Space Program on PC (on going)
Path Of Exile on PC (on going)
I love memes.
I make sure to catch up with memes twice a month on specialized web sites, but they often come to me while browsing around.
I think they are now a good 33% of what really make me laugh on the web.
The Botched Christ meme and its parodies is a major meme to me, I hope they won't forget this one
Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.
I don't think renewables and NG will be enough with current and foreseeable technologies, maybe I've been misunderstood...
My point is just that for the solar part of the renewable mix, the direct conversion way is a better bet than conversion to heat.
Even with the problem of power adjustment, storage, etc.
Nuclear plants can't be used to adjust production on the fly, it's a baseline production.
One can't just start or stop the nuclear reactor in a few minutes or even an hour of response time to answer for power increase or decrease of fluctuating renewable source.
(I also remind that emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor is quite bad for its components)
Keeping some NG plants handy while increasing renewable sources is actually a pretty good deal.
Agree. Going full solar is not my suggestion
I'm just saying that instead of building more "Solar to heat to turbine" plants at the state of the art we would better make more efficient photovoltaic plants.
I know, but this may not compensate
- the lack of efficiency
- the point that we use most of electricity during day time (not at night)
- the need of fast starting alternate source like hydro or natural gas power plants for shaded days (even with molten salt solar heat which only last for the night time)
However I won't say that we can hope for a cheap and efficient electricity technology anytime soon.
Solar to heat to mechanical to electricity as already reached its maximum efficiency.
Photovoltaic has still many recent discoveries for great efficiency improvements, and more are likely to come.
Using heat for conversion is degrading the energy to its worst and less usable form, direct conversion is the way to go. Halting those heat projects is good news.
loading it with explosives and using it as a guided missile. This last concern is the only one that I considered a real issue, but even that is not significantly more dangerous than loading up a regular van full of explosives with a timer, then setting the timer to explode before you leave the vehicle next to a school
I see that much more dangerous because the criminal doesn't have to overcome the fear of getting caught in the vehicle with that load, or getting caught by cameras as he leaves.
And he doesn't have to stop or park somewhere. And he doesn't need any timer, just a remote to command the explosion, whenever he wants, even before target if things don't go as he wishes.
The onboard sound card has ZERO effect on the quality of the audio. The bits are traveling directly, unmolested from the application generating them to the amplifiers in the speakers.
That's what I thought for a long time and then I discovered that I was wrong (so you are - no offence).
Digital sound can be altered on the way between application and the DAC interpretation, even with TosLink (optical).
Have a look about the clock jitter problem, or phase noise :
Some refs here (with more links inside), here, and here.
In Cambodia there is also countdown on main traffic lights for cars.
That's much better: it's easier to wait when you know how long and you see that you will soon be green lite.
This leads to better behavior of the drivers.
And the green pedestrian light is an animated running green guy :D
Then I suggest they set up a second list where particular individuals would be listed as "can actually fly despite name on no-fly".
So if a Todd Smith has his name put on no-fly list for some reasons, an other Todd Smith would be able to ask thorough check and have his identification put on the do-fly so he would no longer be banned from flying.
... is that Google used to mention that some links were remove from search results by court order, and thus mention the order which has the links in question... :D