So, the plan is to immerse a huge number of optical detectors into the deep sea for an extended period of time. Talk to any biologist or oceanographer and they'll tell you what happens to things like that - they become completely encrusted with plant and animal material. It's called "bio-fouling" and it's one of the biggest problems with putting anything in the ocean (aside from extreme pressure). I just don't see how they'd keep a system like that a) operational and b) calibrated.
I run my Monte Carlo simulations of photon propogation through water on AWS. I'm a gradute student, so I'm pretty price sensitive, but with AWS I can "rent" a 8 core (roughly 20% faster than my i7 920 computer in the lab) with 7 GB of ram for ~$0.25/hour. That's the "spot price" so it could fluctuate, but it's still *way* cheaper than the $0.89/hr fixed price. I have a machine instance that has all my tools (MATLAB, Dropbox) and I just click a few buttons and BAM I've got a machine I can remote to and work.
You need to consider the cost of storage, as that actually costs me more than the price of the machine. My bill last month was $130 for 677.640 GB-Mo of storage (forgot to shut down some EBS locations) and 200 hrs of the High-CPU Extra Large instance. I also transferred OUT 130.669 GB of data.
The best response I've heard to someone saying, "why do you care if you don't have anything to hide?" Is to say in return:
When you and your wife have sex, do you close the curtains?
Now, occasionally you might get some pervs, but in general it illustrates the point that privacy is a good thing and we should be jealous about guarding it!
For those that didn't RTFA, this paragraph, on the small team approach, is golden:
It is this small-team approach that, of necessity, results in important capabilities being left out of the first release. The payoff, though, is that Steve ends up with a central core of perfectly-integrated functionality instead of a rambling labyrinth of disjointed “features.” This design framework is so well conceived that it can be built upon for years, even decades, without being stripped out and restarted. Compare that with the history of Windows, with false start after false start, resulting in their repeatedly beginning design anew.
People like the digital ones because they don't just amplify, they selectively filter to you get the most useful frequencies. I don't know the physics, but I suspect it's far more advanced than a simple equalizer.
It probably isn't. Equalizers or adaptive equalizers (for when you don't know your channel characteristics, which you do in this case 'cause you can measure the ear's response first) are straightforward systems. It's basically a digital filter that inverts the channel's frequency response. Pop open MATLAB and you can have one up and running in minutes. There's plenty of source code on the 'nets for generating a equalizer for a DSP or FPGA. The hardware/software isn't hard at all. That only leaves testing and regulation for attributing to the high cost.
>generally trust Amazon more than I do the small fry sites they 'affiliate' with.
I think you're a bit misguided here. The "small fry sites" you're referring to are sites, like mine, that link to Amazon products in exchange for a cut from Amazon. It's huge marketing for Amazon, and a tidy revenue for me and others. But not now. I'm in NC and I got screwed. Amazon hasn't killed people *selling* products, they've just cut off people that are doing free advertising for them.
I think the poster, and myself included, found the 30 second moral message at the end to be very forced. Next time I watch the end, I think I'll stop it as the camera pans away from Adama and Rosalyn's grave.
Oh great... now I've gotta go grab some tissues *sob*
"the high gas prices and ongoing gas gouging in my hometown... "
Price GOUGING, really?? Perhaps you'd better take a step back and learn some basic economics. I'd suggest _Basic Economics_ by Thomas Sowell. If supply drops, and demand stays constant, then prices have to rise - unless the prices are being controlled by the state.
Supply did drop - drastically - in North Carolina and the prices adjusted to prevent huge shortages. Unfortunately, Governor Easley instituted his "anti-price gouging" laws, which artificially kept prices low and thereby caused massive shortages.
What's better - waiting in line for 2 hrs to get $3.70/gallon or filling up immediately for +$4.00/gal? What about in an emergency, or if driving is essential to your job? Yeah, good luck trying to run a business when you spend 1/4 of your day waiting to fill up w/ gas.
Why do you just use your own Gmail address, but add a "+" operator to it? E.g. "parentsname+kidsname@gmail.com" then set up a message filter so those messages to go a specific folder.
Can't make everyone happy. Everyone seem to complain about the electoral college when it makes a difference, and then complains about the popular vote when it makes the difference. Republic vs. Democracy. I say keep it like the Founding Fathers wanted - a mix of State and Popular power.
I believe your view is somewhat mistaken. It's only been "rewritten" once, and that's to translate it from the original language into the language you read - English, French, etc.
Google " textual criticism"
I live 25 miles from a nuclear power plan (Shearon Harris) and I've never come across anyone in the area that seems all that bothered by it. In fact, the entire capital of NC is that close and we live our lives like normal people.
He says,
"... all of the beneficial mutations identified from the studies so far seem to have been degradative ones, where functioning genes are knocked out or rendered less active. So random mutation much more easily breaks genes than builds them, even when it helps an organism to survive."
There still remains little, if any, evidence of random mutations producing MORE and USEFUL genetic information, a key distinction that ID folks like to make.
Well, sometimes there's a lag. I can't talk my my g/f from HK to NC without a few second lag.
2nd, talking on your computer is lousy. If we're calling user to user she can't leave her computer. She likes it a lot better when I can call her phone and she can go somewhere that she doesn't disturb her roommate.
I think not.
I did it last Christmas. I'm a fast reader but it ended up taking me 28hrs and 43minutes.
You start to slow down.
I blogged it on my website. Go look in the archives.
I'm spending my break rewriting my website using PHP and a PostgreSQL database. I got about %95 done this summer but couldn't finish the last bit all semester. School stinks. It's way over-rated. I find programming relaxing and stimulating.
I run a website about amatuer robotics. It includes projects and such. Unfortunately someone hacked the site and my ISP is being bad about getting it back up and running, so some of the functionality is off.
GoRobotics.net.
Also, The Robot Directory.
God or "non-God" can't be "proven." I boils down to evidence. There is lots of evidence for the existance of God. I don't have enough time to write it all. Check out Legislating Morality by Turek and Geisler and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and check out CARM.org. God is there if you want to look for him. We Christians (well, the ones that think) don't beling in God, "just because," and I'll defend that anyday.
1) While you commments about doing what you want with your body are partly correct, you miss the fact, that a) we're not talking about our bodies - we talking about the body of a human being. A child. A genetically identical to you and me life., and b) we can only do what we want with our bodies as long as it doesn't harm the rest of the society. Murdering our children has significant social impact.
2) There's nothing wrong with preserving our species, but the whole point of this debate is that we're killing children in order to preserve ourselves. We're eliminating new life in order to squeeze a few more years out of the old ones. Seems rather inconsistant to me.
Louis Pasteur prooved over 100 years ago that life doesn't come from non life. Life passes seemlessly from the mother and father into a child. Never does life stop and that zygote is just as human as you are (except that it wants to preserve life).
If you want to experiment why don't you donate your living body to be hacked apart in the name of science:)
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So, the plan is to immerse a huge number of optical detectors into the deep sea for an extended period of time. Talk to any biologist or oceanographer and they'll tell you what happens to things like that - they become completely encrusted with plant and animal material. It's called "bio-fouling" and it's one of the biggest problems with putting anything in the ocean (aside from extreme pressure). I just don't see how they'd keep a system like that a) operational and b) calibrated.
I run my Monte Carlo simulations of photon propogation through water on AWS. I'm a gradute student, so I'm pretty price sensitive, but with AWS I can "rent" a 8 core (roughly 20% faster than my i7 920 computer in the lab) with 7 GB of ram for ~$0.25/hour. That's the "spot price" so it could fluctuate, but it's still *way* cheaper than the $0.89/hr fixed price. I have a machine instance that has all my tools (MATLAB, Dropbox) and I just click a few buttons and BAM I've got a machine I can remote to and work.
You need to consider the cost of storage, as that actually costs me more than the price of the machine. My bill last month was $130 for 677.640 GB-Mo of storage (forgot to shut down some EBS locations) and 200 hrs of the High-CPU Extra Large instance. I also transferred OUT 130.669 GB of data.
Now, occasionally you might get some pervs, but in general it illustrates the point that privacy is a good thing and we should be jealous about guarding it!
People like the digital ones because they don't just amplify, they selectively filter to you get the most useful frequencies. I don't know the physics, but I suspect it's far more advanced than a simple equalizer.
It probably isn't. Equalizers or adaptive equalizers (for when you don't know your channel characteristics, which you do in this case 'cause you can measure the ear's response first) are straightforward systems. It's basically a digital filter that inverts the channel's frequency response. Pop open MATLAB and you can have one up and running in minutes. There's plenty of source code on the 'nets for generating a equalizer for a DSP or FPGA. The hardware/software isn't hard at all. That only leaves testing and regulation for attributing to the high cost.
For those that miss the (hilarious) reference. Here's the SNL clip on Hulu.
>generally trust Amazon more than I do the small fry sites they 'affiliate' with.
I think you're a bit misguided here. The "small fry sites" you're referring to are sites, like mine, that link to Amazon products in exchange for a cut from Amazon. It's huge marketing for Amazon, and a tidy revenue for me and others. But not now. I'm in NC and I got screwed. Amazon hasn't killed people *selling* products, they've just cut off people that are doing free advertising for them.
I think the poster, and myself included, found the 30 second moral message at the end to be very forced. Next time I watch the end, I think I'll stop it as the camera pans away from Adama and Rosalyn's grave. Oh great ... now I've gotta go grab some tissues *sob*
"the high gas prices and ongoing gas gouging in my hometown ... "
Price GOUGING, really?? Perhaps you'd better take a step back and learn some basic economics. I'd suggest _Basic Economics_ by Thomas Sowell. If supply drops, and demand stays constant, then prices have to rise - unless the prices are being controlled by the state.
Supply did drop - drastically - in North Carolina and the prices adjusted to prevent huge shortages. Unfortunately, Governor Easley instituted his "anti-price gouging" laws, which artificially kept prices low and thereby caused massive shortages.
What's better - waiting in line for 2 hrs to get $3.70/gallon or filling up immediately for +$4.00/gal? What about in an emergency, or if driving is essential to your job? Yeah, good luck trying to run a business when you spend 1/4 of your day waiting to fill up w/ gas.
Why do you just use your own Gmail address, but add a "+" operator to it? E.g. "parentsname+kidsname@gmail.com" then set up a message filter so those messages to go a specific folder.
Can't make everyone happy. Everyone seem to complain about the electoral college when it makes a difference, and then complains about the popular vote when it makes the difference. Republic vs. Democracy. I say keep it like the Founding Fathers wanted - a mix of State and Popular power.
"rewritten over and over"
I believe your view is somewhat mistaken. It's only been "rewritten" once, and that's to translate it from the original language into the language you read - English, French, etc. Google " textual criticism"
I live 25 miles from a nuclear power plan (Shearon Harris) and I've never come across anyone in the area that seems all that bothered by it. In fact, the entire capital of NC is that close and we live our lives like normal people.
Michael Behe (author of _Darwin's Black Box_ and others) makes an interesting response to this study.
... all of the beneficial mutations identified from the studies so far seem to have been degradative ones, where functioning genes are knocked out or rendered less active. So random mutation much more easily breaks genes than builds them, even when it helps an organism to survive."
He says, "
There still remains little, if any, evidence of random mutations producing MORE and USEFUL genetic information, a key distinction that ID folks like to make.
I just moved my website, GoRobotics.net (website about robotics) to Mambo.
How does Drupal compare to Mambo?
Apparently, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away they hadn't discovered freakin' non breakable glass!
Who in their right mind has the whole viewing widow of a star ship made out of glass that breaks when whacked by a weapon??
That did it for me.
... is righ on! The MGM folks are completely righ in saying this. Oh, and I'm quite fond of righ bread, er, rye bread.
Well, sometimes there's a lag. I can't talk my my g/f from HK to NC without a few second lag. 2nd, talking on your computer is lousy. If we're calling user to user she can't leave her computer. She likes it a lot better when I can call her phone and she can go somewhere that she doesn't disturb her roommate.
That's a faulty comparison. There's no reason to exchange the two words. Why not put the word "banana" in there and it would make just as much sense.
Where have I heard that title before?
I think not. I did it last Christmas. I'm a fast reader but it ended up taking me 28hrs and 43minutes. You start to slow down. I blogged it on my website. Go look in the archives.
I'm spending my break rewriting my website using PHP and a PostgreSQL database. I got about %95 done this summer but couldn't finish the last bit all semester. School stinks. It's way over-rated. I find programming relaxing and stimulating.
I run a website about amatuer robotics. It includes projects and such. Unfortunately someone hacked the site and my ISP is being bad about getting it back up and running, so some of the functionality is off. GoRobotics.net. Also, The Robot Directory.
God or "non-God" can't be "proven." I boils down to evidence. There is lots of evidence for the existance of God. I don't have enough time to write it all. Check out Legislating Morality by Turek and Geisler and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and check out CARM.org. God is there if you want to look for him. We Christians (well, the ones that think) don't beling in God, "just because," and I'll defend that anyday.
-Gallamine
Your comment has a few flawed ideas.
:)
1) While you commments about doing what you want with your body are partly correct, you miss the fact, that a) we're not talking about our bodies - we talking about the body of a human being. A child. A genetically identical to you and me life., and b) we can only do what we want with our bodies as long as it doesn't harm the rest of the society. Murdering our children has significant social impact.
2) There's nothing wrong with preserving our species, but the whole point of this debate is that we're killing children in order to preserve ourselves. We're eliminating new life in order to squeeze a few more years out of the old ones. Seems rather inconsistant to me.
Louis Pasteur prooved over 100 years ago that life doesn't come from non life. Life passes seemlessly from the mother and father into a child. Never does life stop and that zygote is just as human as you are (except that it wants to preserve life).
If you want to experiment why don't you donate your living body to be hacked apart in the name of science
Flame on!
-Gallamine