Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. There is no possible way to do any sort of control on clouds. They are all different. Trust me - I'm slogging my way through meteorology classes at the moment. I took a class that touched on cloud physics last fall.
Clouds are substantially different, and waaaaay more complicated than human physiology. We're not at the stage that we can measure the amount of water and particle sizes in clouds yet. The best we can do is fly a 3cm diameter probe through a cloud, and sample something like a millionth of it.
In fact, cloud dynamics are so ridiculously complicated that we don't even have good models for them yet. Supercomputer time sort-of gets us close to working models. The fact that nobody can reliably predict rain and snowfall amounts, nor weather more than a week out should give you some indication of the complexity of clouds.
Agreed. I like apple products - they're pretty slick. But for half the price you could get about the same by buying a Dell laptop and keeping the lid closed. For the extra cash a keyboard, mouse, display, and Blue-Ray drive would cost, why wouldn't you?
I like apple, but GOD DAMN, do they need to look at reality once in awhile. I might buy this if it was $300-$350. That would be a pretty good deal, I think. I could build better for that price, but not in that small a form factor. A little realism in their pricing might be a very good thing for them.
I know google is tricky, but I think you can figure out how to work it in less time than it took to write that. How about Human Rights Watch's document on sex offender laws in the us? It was near the top: "At least 13 states require registration for public urination;"
Of course, that was from 2007. I'm sure that since then, the US has gotten loads more sensible, and less states than that have such a law on the books.....
So you really think that pulling over on the side of a highway, walking 10' into the woods and taking a piss warrants a lifetime on the sex offender registry? Because in a lot of places it does. The GP was pointing out how easy it is now to become a "criminal".
Shitting in the street? Sure. That's not cool. But you either are trolling, or don't understand that many people don't live within 20' of a toilet all their life. Getting placed on the sex offender registry because you pissed on a tree at 3am on the way home from the bar is EXACTLY the sort of bullshit the GP was talking about. We're making criminals out of things that would have non-issues a hundred years ago, at the very most.
And why? How the hell is this helping us as a society?
Crazy....I just watched that ON THE PLANE, before I fought my way through US customs and security. Talked to a middle-eastern girl here to visit her mum, and she asked me if I felt great stepping back on US soil. I replied, "It's enemy territory until after I get off airport ground. I feel great when I leave the airport behind me. While in it, I feel like a criminal terrorist pedophile."
France treated me like a guest. The US treated me like shit. I'd love to fly out of the country again, as long as I can fly back and bypass the bullshit that is a US airport. I'd love it if Texas finally succeeded. Maybe I could fly there and rent a car and drive home. As it is, they might as well train psychics. They'd do a faaaar better job.
Urination and defecation are now a crime in most places, unless you're indoors. (Sorry 5 million years of evolution. You're no longer like 99.9999999% of other species. Shit when and where we tell you to. No pissing outside either!) Herbs are outlawed, and taking pictures of authorities can get you in trouble.
We have so many stupid ways to make people criminals, that they might as well just do fingerprints for security. Match them to the national database, and take all those fuckers down.
God damn criminals are....most of the citizens now.
Damn. I'd TOTALLY sign up for that job. Rolling a d100 vs warrants? SWEET!!!!
Only one question....could I use 2d10 instead sometimes, if there are a lot of people? I know they don't work out the same, but they are close, and d100 takes a DAMN long time to come to a halt....
At airport with less than 10 gates, it's possible. TSA even occasionally have a sense of humor there. Everywhere else? I wonder if the SS were friendlier and more reasonable sometimes...
I severely limit my flying because of this. But last week, I got a "most expenses paid" trip to France courtesy of the school I work for. My observations:
The most stressful part of the trip, as an American who DOES NOT SPEAK FRENCH, was US customs and security. French customs and security? Not a big deal. They treated me like a guest. Even though I spoke about 3 phrases of French, they were kind, friendly, and open.
US security and customs? I was a first-class criminal. "Welcome Home", said the sign above security, after I had gone through customs, AFTER I went through the second, "baggage customs", and stood around for 20 minutes to get my luggage so it could get re-checked, all under the watchful eye of a few police officers. Listening to constant, "recording audio or video in this area is prohibited"...and the rest of the asinine security messages. "Welcome home - please remove your shoes, take everything out of your pockets, show your ID, your boarding pass, put electronics into a separate bin, have your shoes double-checked for explosives, and your bag examined because you....put the second bag of peanuts from the plane in the pocket. Now get patted down for a "secondary security measure, random check". Went to my connecting flight, had been up for 22 hours, 12 hours in the air, 8 hours of lay-over. Collapsed in a chair. Flight started boarding, I said "fuck it", and waited till most people were on. Got up, went to line as the LAST DAMN PASSENGER on a puddle jumper flight, and got selected for a "random search". Really? After I got into that same damn airport, I went through 2 customs checks, a regular "screening", along with an extra random pat-down, and extra "swab shoes for explosives", and an extra "bag check due to suspicious peanuts". After all that shit, I had to take all my crap out of my pockets to be patted down before I hopped a puddle-jumper with 90 people on it to get home.
I went to France. Walked off the plane, through "customs", where I showed my passport, and the guy smiled and waved me on through. The end.
Fuck US security. It's the biggest load of shit ever. And at the end of the day? The hang a fucking "Welcome Home" sign out. If I didn't mind anal probes, I'd attach a "Hope your ass is lubed" sign under that one.
I was pissed at TSA before this trip. Now? If it's not paid for and at least 1000 miles away, or my sister's wedding, I'm not flying. Fuck that shit. Want to know why airlines are hurting? I'll give you a clue...
Indeed. I'd totally avoid any HTTP:GET commands as well. It's terribly wasteful to receive information like that, rather than via town crier.
The thing is, information has steadily become more and more personalized. At first, our information was broadcast - around the campfire, from the center of town, from the pulpit. Then, our desire for information became more specific - competing printed works, consumed at our own time and choosing, composed of what we wanted to consume.
Radio and TV put us back into the broadcast era, where we had some choice of content, but no control over when to receive information.
Enter the TiVO and internet age, and we have the best of all worlds. Lots of choices, and the ability to choose when to consume. When to start, when to pause, when to rewind, when to stop.
I'll happily get off your lawn, because frankly, your lawn sucks. TV and Radio were a huge step back, because they forced users to become a captive audience, with limited ability to modulate what and when they got their information and entertainment. Yes, from a bandwidth perspective, they are fantastic. And yes, for things that MUST be broadcast (live sports, eg.) they can't easily be replaced. But for most entertainment, they are terrible.
I understand your hanging onto bandwidth allocation, but neither do I worry much about water allocation, land allocation, food allocation, traffic congestion, or electricity allocation. The place I live in has done an adequate job in allocating all those things. When they stop being allocated to my liking, I'll try to work with my fellow citizens (ok, hope the corporations pay my politicians to do the right thing) to re-allocate them appropriately. Bandwith worries for client-server connections is far less important now than it has been in a long time. But if you want to worry about it, I'll get off your lawn.
Find a game with good modding potential, and show them what they can do. The early ID games were where I started my programming, with simple scripts. Once you learn you can change things, the next thing is creating new things.
Find a local credit union. Bank and do your credit card with them.
Mine lets me transfer money directly from my checking/savings to pay off my credit card. They've got automated bill paying (rent check gets mailed out mid-month for me, automatically.) and a bunch of other good stuff. All free.
Seriously - credit card companies and banks are the spawn of satan. Find a good credit union.
There's no real substitute for physical bookmarks either. If you are adding colored tabs, bits of paper, even highlighting as you go along, that helps create that spatial map in your head for where things are. I find that doing so electronically does not give me the same such map in my head.
I'm now pretty much forced to use PDFs of papers entirely. I'm trying to do the lit review for my Master's thesis, and it's just not feasible to print 100 research papers and have them lying around. The best I've been able to do is to put the PDF side-by-side with the document I'm writing on a big widescreen monitor. I'd probably prefer having it in front of me, but that's what I have to work with.
The kindle can search "page with multiline graph on the upper right, and weird diagram below it that has the equation I need"?
I agree that the ability to search is killer. The downside is what the GP was trying to say - often you remember what a page looked like that had information you needed on it. It's far quicker to turn to the section of the textbook it's near and just flip through a dozen pages than it is to try to come up with a keyword which will be on that page, and no other pages.
Maybe, lurking somewhere, but probably not. The bigger issue is saturation levels. Solid CO2 at the ocean depths would be far higher in "CO2'" than the ocean water. Thus, it would be entirely soluble, and would be absorbed by the seawater.
Solid CO2 is far, FAR higher in CO2 than any air or water around. Due to that, it would quickly sublime or dissolve. There's really nowhere on earth you could find naturally occurring dry ice.
The patent abuses that the current system fosters used to have me firmly against the system as a whole. Now, the patent system is what writes my paycheck.
I'm doing PhD work at a very large US research university. Our patent portfolio goes back something like 80 years, and the money from licensing those patents was invested back into the research endowment. Today, we can fund thousands of graduate researchers due to that research endowment, all built on the money from licensing stuff discovered here.
I used to be all for throwing out the bulk of our patent law. Now, I see that some real good can come from it. The question is how to fix problems like the one in this article, without damaging institutions like the one I'm doing research at. Shortening patents doesn't seem to be the answer, and while I think it would be great for universities to use patents freely, it's completely anticompetitive if they can also patent what they create. Saying that universities can't patent things wipes out research endowments like the one that currently pays me and thousands of other graduate students.
I've gotten angry looks from people when I've mentioned "supporting the magnetic ribbon industry" in regards to their ribbon of choice. "But it says, 'I support our troops',..."
Until it passes in front of stars, planets, or the moon, or the sun reflects off it. 2-3 observations over a few hours is plenty enough to pin down an orbit. Changing orbit takes a fair bit of energy. While I assume this can do it, it can't do it all the time.
Stealth works for airplanes because they can change altitude and direction easily. It's not nearly as useful for stuff in orbit.
Like I said, there's not much to hide behind in space. Unless the X-37 is transparent, it's not going to hide in orbit.
We can track stuff that's on the order of 2cm in orbit. I'm guessing most countries with stuff in orbit can track something almost 9m long and 4.5m wide. I mean, it's not like there's a lot to hide behind in while in orbit...
I'd be impressed if I could actually choose useful options. I end up hitting Google Scholar on a regular basis. But it's not in my options, and I haven't seen how to add it as of yet.
If I can't make it useful, why can't I make it go away?
Theoretically, sure. There's speculation that they could be responsible for ships disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle region. A massive release of gas underwater creates a big bubble, and when it hits the surface, ships suddenly find themselves sailing on air. They fall into the bubble, the waves crash over, and in a matter of seconds they are gone with all hands on deck.
If that's the case, then the massive pressure change relating to that would definitely cause disturbances on the seafloor. Enough to make a positive feedback? It probably depends on the distribution and density of the methane ice.
However, that's unlikely to produce a tsunami. The primary driver of tsunamis is a rapid change in height of a long, narrow amount of seafloor. Landslides are usually more spread out, as they're gravity driven rather than tectonically forced like faults are. Maybe, but it wouldn't be overly impressive unless the landslide was on the order of tens of kilometers.
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Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. There is no possible way to do any sort of control on clouds. They are all different. Trust me - I'm slogging my way through meteorology classes at the moment. I took a class that touched on cloud physics last fall.
Clouds are substantially different, and waaaaay more complicated than human physiology. We're not at the stage that we can measure the amount of water and particle sizes in clouds yet. The best we can do is fly a 3cm diameter probe through a cloud, and sample something like a millionth of it.
In fact, cloud dynamics are so ridiculously complicated that we don't even have good models for them yet. Supercomputer time sort-of gets us close to working models. The fact that nobody can reliably predict rain and snowfall amounts, nor weather more than a week out should give you some indication of the complexity of clouds.
Agreed. I like apple products - they're pretty slick. But for half the price you could get about the same by buying a Dell laptop and keeping the lid closed. For the extra cash a keyboard, mouse, display, and Blue-Ray drive would cost, why wouldn't you?
I like apple, but GOD DAMN, do they need to look at reality once in awhile. I might buy this if it was $300-$350. That would be a pretty good deal, I think. I could build better for that price, but not in that small a form factor. A little realism in their pricing might be a very good thing for them.
I know google is tricky, but I think you can figure out how to work it in less time than it took to write that. How about Human Rights Watch's document on sex offender laws in the us? It was near the top: "At least 13 states require registration for public urination;"
Of course, that was from 2007. I'm sure that since then, the US has gotten loads more sensible, and less states than that have such a law on the books.....
So you really think that pulling over on the side of a highway, walking 10' into the woods and taking a piss warrants a lifetime on the sex offender registry? Because in a lot of places it does. The GP was pointing out how easy it is now to become a "criminal".
Shitting in the street? Sure. That's not cool. But you either are trolling, or don't understand that many people don't live within 20' of a toilet all their life. Getting placed on the sex offender registry because you pissed on a tree at 3am on the way home from the bar is EXACTLY the sort of bullshit the GP was talking about. We're making criminals out of things that would have non-issues a hundred years ago, at the very most.
And why? How the hell is this helping us as a society?
Crazy....I just watched that ON THE PLANE, before I fought my way through US customs and security. Talked to a middle-eastern girl here to visit her mum, and she asked me if I felt great stepping back on US soil. I replied, "It's enemy territory until after I get off airport ground. I feel great when I leave the airport behind me. While in it, I feel like a criminal terrorist pedophile."
France treated me like a guest. The US treated me like shit. I'd love to fly out of the country again, as long as I can fly back and bypass the bullshit that is a US airport. I'd love it if Texas finally succeeded. Maybe I could fly there and rent a car and drive home. As it is, they might as well train psychics. They'd do a faaaar better job.
Urination and defecation are now a crime in most places, unless you're indoors. (Sorry 5 million years of evolution. You're no longer like 99.9999999% of other species. Shit when and where we tell you to. No pissing outside either!) Herbs are outlawed, and taking pictures of authorities can get you in trouble.
We have so many stupid ways to make people criminals, that they might as well just do fingerprints for security. Match them to the national database, and take all those fuckers down.
God damn criminals are....most of the citizens now.
Damn. I'd TOTALLY sign up for that job. Rolling a d100 vs warrants? SWEET!!!!
Only one question....could I use 2d10 instead sometimes, if there are a lot of people? I know they don't work out the same, but they are close, and d100 takes a DAMN long time to come to a halt....
At airport with less than 10 gates, it's possible. TSA even occasionally have a sense of humor there. Everywhere else? I wonder if the SS were friendlier and more reasonable sometimes...
I severely limit my flying because of this. But last week, I got a "most expenses paid" trip to France courtesy of the school I work for. My observations:
The most stressful part of the trip, as an American who DOES NOT SPEAK FRENCH, was US customs and security. French customs and security? Not a big deal. They treated me like a guest. Even though I spoke about 3 phrases of French, they were kind, friendly, and open.
US security and customs? I was a first-class criminal. "Welcome Home", said the sign above security, after I had gone through customs, AFTER I went through the second, "baggage customs", and stood around for 20 minutes to get my luggage so it could get re-checked, all under the watchful eye of a few police officers. Listening to constant, "recording audio or video in this area is prohibited"...and the rest of the asinine security messages. "Welcome home - please remove your shoes, take everything out of your pockets, show your ID, your boarding pass, put electronics into a separate bin, have your shoes double-checked for explosives, and your bag examined because you....put the second bag of peanuts from the plane in the pocket. Now get patted down for a "secondary security measure, random check". Went to my connecting flight, had been up for 22 hours, 12 hours in the air, 8 hours of lay-over. Collapsed in a chair. Flight started boarding, I said "fuck it", and waited till most people were on. Got up, went to line as the LAST DAMN PASSENGER on a puddle jumper flight, and got selected for a "random search". Really? After I got into that same damn airport, I went through 2 customs checks, a regular "screening", along with an extra random pat-down, and extra "swab shoes for explosives", and an extra "bag check due to suspicious peanuts". After all that shit, I had to take all my crap out of my pockets to be patted down before I hopped a puddle-jumper with 90 people on it to get home.
I went to France. Walked off the plane, through "customs", where I showed my passport, and the guy smiled and waved me on through. The end.
Fuck US security. It's the biggest load of shit ever. And at the end of the day? The hang a fucking "Welcome Home" sign out. If I didn't mind anal probes, I'd attach a "Hope your ass is lubed" sign under that one.
I was pissed at TSA before this trip. Now? If it's not paid for and at least 1000 miles away, or my sister's wedding, I'm not flying. Fuck that shit. Want to know why airlines are hurting? I'll give you a clue...
Indeed. I'd totally avoid any HTTP:GET commands as well. It's terribly wasteful to receive information like that, rather than via town crier.
The thing is, information has steadily become more and more personalized. At first, our information was broadcast - around the campfire, from the center of town, from the pulpit. Then, our desire for information became more specific - competing printed works, consumed at our own time and choosing, composed of what we wanted to consume.
Radio and TV put us back into the broadcast era, where we had some choice of content, but no control over when to receive information.
Enter the TiVO and internet age, and we have the best of all worlds. Lots of choices, and the ability to choose when to consume. When to start, when to pause, when to rewind, when to stop.
I'll happily get off your lawn, because frankly, your lawn sucks. TV and Radio were a huge step back, because they forced users to become a captive audience, with limited ability to modulate what and when they got their information and entertainment. Yes, from a bandwidth perspective, they are fantastic. And yes, for things that MUST be broadcast (live sports, eg.) they can't easily be replaced. But for most entertainment, they are terrible.
I understand your hanging onto bandwidth allocation, but neither do I worry much about water allocation, land allocation, food allocation, traffic congestion, or electricity allocation. The place I live in has done an adequate job in allocating all those things. When they stop being allocated to my liking, I'll try to work with my fellow citizens (ok, hope the corporations pay my politicians to do the right thing) to re-allocate them appropriately. Bandwith worries for client-server connections is far less important now than it has been in a long time. But if you want to worry about it, I'll get off your lawn.
Find a game with good modding potential, and show them what they can do. The early ID games were where I started my programming, with simple scripts. Once you learn you can change things, the next thing is creating new things.
Find a local credit union. Bank and do your credit card with them.
Mine lets me transfer money directly from my checking/savings to pay off my credit card. They've got automated bill paying (rent check gets mailed out mid-month for me, automatically.) and a bunch of other good stuff. All free.
Seriously - credit card companies and banks are the spawn of satan. Find a good credit union.
There's no real substitute for physical bookmarks either. If you are adding colored tabs, bits of paper, even highlighting as you go along, that helps create that spatial map in your head for where things are. I find that doing so electronically does not give me the same such map in my head.
I'm now pretty much forced to use PDFs of papers entirely. I'm trying to do the lit review for my Master's thesis, and it's just not feasible to print 100 research papers and have them lying around. The best I've been able to do is to put the PDF side-by-side with the document I'm writing on a big widescreen monitor. I'd probably prefer having it in front of me, but that's what I have to work with.
The kindle can search "page with multiline graph on the upper right, and weird diagram below it that has the equation I need"?
I agree that the ability to search is killer. The downside is what the GP was trying to say - often you remember what a page looked like that had information you needed on it. It's far quicker to turn to the section of the textbook it's near and just flip through a dozen pages than it is to try to come up with a keyword which will be on that page, and no other pages.
Maybe, lurking somewhere, but probably not. The bigger issue is saturation levels. Solid CO2 at the ocean depths would be far higher in "CO2'" than the ocean water. Thus, it would be entirely soluble, and would be absorbed by the seawater.
Solid CO2 is far, FAR higher in CO2 than any air or water around. Due to that, it would quickly sublime or dissolve. There's really nowhere on earth you could find naturally occurring dry ice.
The patent abuses that the current system fosters used to have me firmly against the system as a whole. Now, the patent system is what writes my paycheck.
I'm doing PhD work at a very large US research university. Our patent portfolio goes back something like 80 years, and the money from licensing those patents was invested back into the research endowment. Today, we can fund thousands of graduate researchers due to that research endowment, all built on the money from licensing stuff discovered here.
I used to be all for throwing out the bulk of our patent law. Now, I see that some real good can come from it. The question is how to fix problems like the one in this article, without damaging institutions like the one I'm doing research at. Shortening patents doesn't seem to be the answer, and while I think it would be great for universities to use patents freely, it's completely anticompetitive if they can also patent what they create. Saying that universities can't patent things wipes out research endowments like the one that currently pays me and thousands of other graduate students.
I've been suggesting this for physics for years. There just aren't enough symbols between English and Greek to cover everything.
If it can make a 180 km wide crater I bet it would solve Global Warming quite well.
Shit....I'm moving my cat grass away from anything flammable then.....
I've gotten angry looks from people when I've mentioned "supporting the magnetic ribbon industry" in regards to their ribbon of choice. "But it says, 'I support our troops',..."
Until it passes in front of stars, planets, or the moon, or the sun reflects off it. 2-3 observations over a few hours is plenty enough to pin down an orbit. Changing orbit takes a fair bit of energy. While I assume this can do it, it can't do it all the time.
Stealth works for airplanes because they can change altitude and direction easily. It's not nearly as useful for stuff in orbit.
Like I said, there's not much to hide behind in space. Unless the X-37 is transparent, it's not going to hide in orbit.
We can track stuff that's on the order of 2cm in orbit. I'm guessing most countries with stuff in orbit can track something almost 9m long and 4.5m wide. I mean, it's not like there's a lot to hide behind in while in orbit...
I'd be impressed if I could actually choose useful options. I end up hitting Google Scholar on a regular basis. But it's not in my options, and I haven't seen how to add it as of yet.
If I can't make it useful, why can't I make it go away?
Theoretically, sure. There's speculation that they could be responsible for ships disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle region. A massive release of gas underwater creates a big bubble, and when it hits the surface, ships suddenly find themselves sailing on air. They fall into the bubble, the waves crash over, and in a matter of seconds they are gone with all hands on deck.
If that's the case, then the massive pressure change relating to that would definitely cause disturbances on the seafloor. Enough to make a positive feedback? It probably depends on the distribution and density of the methane ice.
However, that's unlikely to produce a tsunami. The primary driver of tsunamis is a rapid change in height of a long, narrow amount of seafloor. Landslides are usually more spread out, as they're gravity driven rather than tectonically forced like faults are. Maybe, but it wouldn't be overly impressive unless the landslide was on the order of tens of kilometers.
I'd be pretty happy if my friend and I made a couple of games, and sold them to 115k people for $9 each.
Is this in "EA screw-ya" territory? Nope. But it's not bad for shops of 1-5 people.