The highest rated comments criticizing the work give tips on how to do the work properly, so that if it IS a crater and not a sinkhole that can be demonstrated, instead of just guessed at.
I wish to state a minor grammar point, though the correct meaning can probably be guessed. "Regardless" means "without regard to" not "with regard to". "Another animal which would probably die out on its own regardless of human intervention on this planet." means "[It's] another animal which will probably die out on its own on this planet, even if humans intervene." I think you meant "[It's] another animal which would probably die out without human intervention."
Of course I could be wrong about the intended meaning, but it makes sense given the difficulty breeding pandas. That said, human intervention also includes habitat destruction which is a large part of the reason the population has dropped below self-sustaining levels, so I'm not totally sure.
Microsoft has innovated. Most of it stays in Microsoft Research and never reaches production, but occasionally a few minor innovations manage to slip under the radar. EG TrueSkill rankings on Xbox are a pretty nice innovation over Glicko and Elo rating systems.
There are generally two types of images that you'll see in the news, the non-white-balanced and the white-balanced images. eg non white balanced: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4431 white balanced: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4429
The white balance information comes from taking pictures of a color calibration pattern on the rover. The new pictures are less drastic because of this, and they HAVE been altered to allow geologists to better study the environment.
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I don't fear nuclear. I support replacing old nuclear plants with newer, safer designs. I think building more nuclear plants is an overall good idea.
The question is not "can we avoid all radiation?" it's "can we avoid large scale accidental releases of radioactive materials?" The mismanagement of the Fukushima disaster may not occur at other plants, but my experience with bureaucracies indicates that similar mishandling is probable. That's not a reason not to have nuclear energy, that's a reason to have nuclear energy that humans can't screw up.
Denver's radiation levels are higher than Fukushima's, but Fukushima's levels are now higher than they were before. Even if they're still harmless over most of the area it's still a large spill of an industrial pollutant. Just because it led to harmless radiation levels this time doesn't mean disasters will always lead to harmless radiation levels, especially with old reactor designs dominating.
Both are bad, but if we can avoid exposing people to radiation we should. Programs to replace old reactor designs with newer designs that have better passive safeties would be a good idea for safety.
Radiation in Denver is unavoidable. Radiation in Fukushima was manmade, and the inadequate safety features and inept management seem to be common problems with nuclear (and other) power plants. The furor is because the Fukushima radiation release could have been avoided, but wasn't.
Because it can be quite a lot of effort to switch. MySQL specific extensions are often used throughout projects, most web projects have been written for MySQL, and most cheap web hosting only supports MySQL. So you have to convince the authors of all your tools (eg Drupal, Joomla, SMF, etc) to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and then you can switch your internal projects, and then change web hosts to someone that supports Postgres. Despite being open source MySQL pulled an "Embrace and Extend" on SQL, though it didn't Extinguish.
In middle school I managed get access to the windows (well, DOS) Debug utility. That let me crash the lockdown program, which let me change the proxy server, which let me run a proxy on my home computer and get unrestricted access to the internet.
Of course the password to the lockdown utility was the name of the school sports team, so it wasn't really necessary to go through the effort of doing it the fun way, but it was fun.
Thirding qBittorrent here. As a note, both qBittorrent and rTorrent use libTorrent as the underlying library. rTorrent is just a command-line client, while qBittorrent is a GUI client.
Actually, the stock represents what the stockholders think they can convince other stock traders it will be worth in the future, when they themselves think it is worth less than that.
It's all about how much you can con the next guy into buying the stock for, the actual value of the company is just a way to make that more convincing.
I've seen >20 year old Model M keyboards still in use, with nice white keys. Of course those are the ones who's users actually care enough to clean them once in a while.
Or Dioxygen Difluoride, if you want the IUPAC name. Not that it's as common a household item as a wood chipper or dispos-all, but it will surely get the job done.
The point is that large earthquakes release energy rapidly (in geological terms) which takes a moderate to long time to build up again. Twelve years is long to a human, but not that long in terms of plate tectonics. A second earthquake equal to or greater in strength than the original is highly unlikely in a short time period, due to the need to rebuild significant amounts of stress.
Since we're getting rather far from the reason for the analogy, if the cycle of large solar flares is caused by a similar stress build-up and release process then the gambler's fallacy may not apply, since the events would not be independent.
Studies to find effects of large doses via direct methods (injection and in vitro on isolated cells) are much, much cheaper than studies to find effects of small doses via indirect methods (absorption through the skin). It's much easier to get the funding for the second kind of study if you first show that there is an effect via the first kind of study.
This is a study of the first form. The researchers will almost certainly now try to get grants for a study of the second form, to determine exactly how harmful triclosan is in various realistic usages. The large publicity this study is getting is premature, but the study is certainly relevant, in that it shows the need for a follow-up study on the real-world significance of triclosan use.
Four liters in under 2 hours is probably dangerous (it depends on body size, smaller people will tolerate less) to most people. Eight+ liters over 15+ hours of being awake is almost certainly not dangerous.
"Immaturity" in this case is "not knowing when to keep one's comments and hands to oneself". Yet knowing/not knowing that is a social skill.
I agree that it's some people being assholes, and I don't think it's a part of hacker culture. It's a part of immature asshole culture, which happens to occasionally overlap with hacker culture (and sports culture, and frat culture, and...)
Oh, so Admiral Grace Hopper was a fangirl/cheerleader. Radia Perlman is clearly just a cheerleader, not an excellent hacker (far better than I'm ever likely to be.)
The problem is a lack of certain social skills, not a lack of all social skills. It's also an attitude problem, and alcohol contributes to it. Sexual harassment/assault should not be tolerated, they're not a necessary part of hacker culture.
Lower the chair a bit, raise the arms. The kneeling position is the same as that used in most Asian countries, just instead of a cushion on the floor it's a cushion of the chair.
It's because of how cameras work. The CCD sensors that make up each pixel can't sense color, they only sense light intensity. Putting a filter in front of them lets one get light of a single color. In a consumer camera every CCD is filtered by a red, green, or blue filter. In a scientific camera the full resolution is desired, instead of 1/3 resolution, so they use swappable filters and take 3 images; one red, one green, and one blue. These are then composed into a single color image. They can also use different filters (IR, UV, etc) depending on what data they want to capture (and the sensitivity range of the CCD in the camera). When color data isn't needed, full-spectrum luminance info is desired, or just to save bandwidth, they take unfiltered pictures.
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The highest rated comments criticizing the work give tips on how to do the work properly, so that if it IS a crater and not a sinkhole that can be demonstrated, instead of just guessed at.
I wish to state a minor grammar point, though the correct meaning can probably be guessed.
"Regardless" means "without regard to" not "with regard to". "Another animal which would probably die out on its own regardless of human intervention on this planet." means "[It's] another animal which will probably die out on its own on this planet, even if humans intervene." I think you meant "[It's] another animal which would probably die out without human intervention."
Of course I could be wrong about the intended meaning, but it makes sense given the difficulty breeding pandas. That said, human intervention also includes habitat destruction which is a large part of the reason the population has dropped below self-sustaining levels, so I'm not totally sure.
Microsoft has innovated. Most of it stays in Microsoft Research and never reaches production, but occasionally a few minor innovations manage to slip under the radar.
EG TrueSkill rankings on Xbox are a pretty nice innovation over Glicko and Elo rating systems.
There are generally two types of images that you'll see in the news, the non-white-balanced and the white-balanced images.
eg non white balanced:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4431
white balanced:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4429
The white balance information comes from taking pictures of a color calibration pattern on the rover. The new pictures are less drastic because of this, and they HAVE been altered to allow geologists to better study the environment.
I don't fear nuclear. I support replacing old nuclear plants with newer, safer designs. I think building more nuclear plants is an overall good idea.
The question is not "can we avoid all radiation?" it's "can we avoid large scale accidental releases of radioactive materials?" The mismanagement of the Fukushima disaster may not occur at other plants, but my experience with bureaucracies indicates that similar mishandling is probable. That's not a reason not to have nuclear energy, that's a reason to have nuclear energy that humans can't screw up.
Denver's radiation levels are higher than Fukushima's, but Fukushima's levels are now higher than they were before. Even if they're still harmless over most of the area it's still a large spill of an industrial pollutant. Just because it led to harmless radiation levels this time doesn't mean disasters will always lead to harmless radiation levels, especially with old reactor designs dominating.
Both are bad, but if we can avoid exposing people to radiation we should. Programs to replace old reactor designs with newer designs that have better passive safeties would be a good idea for safety.
Fusion is "5 years away" at optimal funding. At current funding fusion is "infinite years away".
Radiation in Denver is unavoidable. Radiation in Fukushima was manmade, and the inadequate safety features and inept management seem to be common problems with nuclear (and other) power plants. The furor is because the Fukushima radiation release could have been avoided, but wasn't.
Because it can be quite a lot of effort to switch. MySQL specific extensions are often used throughout projects, most web projects have been written for MySQL, and most cheap web hosting only supports MySQL. So you have to convince the authors of all your tools (eg Drupal, Joomla, SMF, etc) to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and then you can switch your internal projects, and then change web hosts to someone that supports Postgres. Despite being open source MySQL pulled an "Embrace and Extend" on SQL, though it didn't Extinguish.
In middle school I managed get access to the windows (well, DOS) Debug utility. That let me crash the lockdown program, which let me change the proxy server, which let me run a proxy on my home computer and get unrestricted access to the internet.
Of course the password to the lockdown utility was the name of the school sports team, so it wasn't really necessary to go through the effort of doing it the fun way, but it was fun.
Thirding qBittorrent here. As a note, both qBittorrent and rTorrent use libTorrent as the underlying library. rTorrent is just a command-line client, while qBittorrent is a GUI client.
Actually, the stock represents what the stockholders think they can convince other stock traders it will be worth in the future, when they themselves think it is worth less than that.
It's all about how much you can con the next guy into buying the stock for, the actual value of the company is just a way to make that more convincing.
I like xmonad. Any window manager that has under 200 kilobytes of source can't be bloated.
I've seen >20 year old Model M keyboards still in use, with nice white keys. Of course those are the ones who's users actually care enough to clean them once in a while.
Four letters: FOOF.
Or Dioxygen Difluoride, if you want the IUPAC name. Not that it's as common a household item as a wood chipper or dispos-all, but it will surely get the job done.
Aaah, but once you no longer need the game due to a solar-flare caused apocalypse you'll have plenty of punch cards with which to heat the cookpot!
The point is that large earthquakes release energy rapidly (in geological terms) which takes a moderate to long time to build up again. Twelve years is long to a human, but not that long in terms of plate tectonics. A second earthquake equal to or greater in strength than the original is highly unlikely in a short time period, due to the need to rebuild significant amounts of stress.
Since we're getting rather far from the reason for the analogy, if the cycle of large solar flares is caused by a similar stress build-up and release process then the gambler's fallacy may not apply, since the events would not be independent.
Studies to find effects of large doses via direct methods (injection and in vitro on isolated cells) are much, much cheaper than studies to find effects of small doses via indirect methods (absorption through the skin). It's much easier to get the funding for the second kind of study if you first show that there is an effect via the first kind of study.
This is a study of the first form. The researchers will almost certainly now try to get grants for a study of the second form, to determine exactly how harmful triclosan is in various realistic usages. The large publicity this study is getting is premature, but the study is certainly relevant, in that it shows the need for a follow-up study on the real-world significance of triclosan use.
Four liters in under 2 hours is probably dangerous (it depends on body size, smaller people will tolerate less) to most people. Eight+ liters over 15+ hours of being awake is almost certainly not dangerous.
Use the write in space.
If your vote is actually counted accurately (ha!) and enough people vote "No Confidence" it will send a clear signal to the politicians.
Sadly, the signal will probably be to legally change names to "No Confidence"...
Punk is a euphemism for rape.
"Immaturity" in this case is "not knowing when to keep one's comments and hands to oneself". Yet knowing/not knowing that is a social skill.
I agree that it's some people being assholes, and I don't think it's a part of hacker culture. It's a part of immature asshole culture, which happens to occasionally overlap with hacker culture (and sports culture, and frat culture, and...)
Oh, so Admiral Grace Hopper was a fangirl/cheerleader. Radia Perlman is clearly just a cheerleader, not an excellent hacker (far better than I'm ever likely to be.)
The problem is a lack of certain social skills, not a lack of all social skills. It's also an attitude problem, and alcohol contributes to it. Sexual harassment/assault should not be tolerated, they're not a necessary part of hacker culture.
Lower the chair a bit, raise the arms. The kneeling position is the same as that used in most Asian countries, just instead of a cushion on the floor it's a cushion of the chair.
It's because of how cameras work.
The CCD sensors that make up each pixel can't sense color, they only sense light intensity. Putting a filter in front of them lets one get light of a single color. In a consumer camera every CCD is filtered by a red, green, or blue filter. In a scientific camera the full resolution is desired, instead of 1/3 resolution, so they use swappable filters and take 3 images; one red, one green, and one blue. These are then composed into a single color image. They can also use different filters (IR, UV, etc) depending on what data they want to capture (and the sensitivity range of the CCD in the camera). When color data isn't needed, full-spectrum luminance info is desired, or just to save bandwidth, they take unfiltered pictures.