I have never heard of Panspermia being associated with Intelligent Design. I have heard people who believe in Intelligent Design shooting down Panspermia as some kind of new age nonsensical unscientific crap.
Basically, Panspermia solves the issue of the unlikelihood of life developing sporadically on Earth, by saying "Space did it", which is the scientific equivalent of "God did it".
it has the potential to solve the micropayments problem.
At the moment, that is probably true, but there is still cost associated with BTC transactions, and there at least used to be some penalties in place for BTC transactions that were smaller than some fraction of a BTC which I have since forgotten.
The other problem is that the BTC is gaining ground against the dollar, and being a deflationary currency (and the USD an inflationary one), there could come a day when the smallest fraction of a BTC is more than.01 USD.
I don't know if there will have to be a fiat agreement to do a "stock split" type of deal, or if it is even possible, but something will have to happen in the eventuality that you can no longer buy a stick of gum because it is worth less than.000...001 BTC.
I have a Garmin GPS. It shows the current speed limit in the bottom right corner.
And how do they come by this information? I would consider it stale at best.
If you're driving so fast towards a traffic light that you can't stop in twenty yards without screeching the tires, you're doing it wrong, yes.
It takes the average person about 70 feet to notice a light change and stop from 30 MPH. I don't really consider that to be very fast.
It's not a single-player game, get over it. That's like asking for a single-player version of World of Warcraft.
Simcity is and has always been a single player game. Simcity 5 is a single player game. It just has input from other cities, which is completely superfluous to the game.
Sadly it will take a lot of people not buying or pirating several games that would otherwise be popular for them to get it,
Pirating doesn't help. pirating says "I want to play this game but I don't want to pay for it." The message we need to send is "I don't want to play your game".
Then it's moot here as well. Just because people WANT it to be single player doesn't change the fact it was designed to be multiplayer. EA should be taking shit for deceptive marketing, and for the decision to not make a single player option. But people keep acting as if it's a single player game with an always-on requirement and that simply is not the case.
Simcity is inherently a single player game. And it is still a single player game, But now your single player game depends on other single player games happening on the same server. So far I have seen zero people in favor of this strategy and hundreds who don't like it. This is like making solitaire dependent on other solitaire games going on nearby. Who wants that? If you wanted a game that involved other people, you would play hearts or spades or something,
W. Edwards Deming said it best: "You get what you measure." He didn't quite mean it in this context, but if employees know what metrics are being tracked to determine their performance, they will, of course, adjust their working behavior to pump up said metrics. The key is developing those metrics that will actually ensure work is getting done, which is never a simple matter of tracking data over a network, or a number of logins to a VPN.
This is entirely true. My company has recently decided that they are going to measure performance based on how many Tickets we close. I told the management exactly what would happen: instead of trying to fix the on-fire items, everybody would whip out all the simple 5 minute fixes that up until now we have been ignoring due to the on-fire items which require much more work.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't know the criteria by which they are measured. I think that is a great thing. What needs to happen is people need to be measured by a criteria which benefits the company when the employees inevitably try to maximize their performance against said criteria.
I despise VPN. When I connect to VPN, all of a sudden I can no longer print to my locally networked printer. The internet becomes slower because now all traffic wants to go through the VPN. I don't know if there is a way for me to set up the software to only use the VPN for resources that it can't reach through the local network connection, but that doesn't seem like something I should have to jump through hoops to do.
Because TFA talks about stupid stuff like the CEO herself looking at VPN logs, which is not a valid metric on which to make a rational decision on this. Hence the irrational decision.
The CEO is looking at VPN logs? That is not an appropriate use of her time. They're paying her thousands of dollars an hour, and she s looking at VPN logs? They should fire her.
All they are really saying is that they use internet protocols to send data back and forth through routers rather than have a wire from every single sensor to the recording device as was done historically. This probably saved thousands of pounds of wire, and makes the plane safer as you can now double or triple your wire runs cheaply and effectively. Also, the recent overly dramatized video of the plane that was crashed on purpose shows that thousands of wires running the length of the fuselage poses a significant evacuation impediment in a crash.
Secondly, the half a terabyte of data that they produce doesn't all get sent to the ground. When you design a program, you probably make it log all kinds of events, but does it e-mail every event to somebody, or only e-mail when something really important happens? Planes have long had data connections to service center and headquarters. I'm sure they piggy back on that or a similar technology and send down the important events.
Congrats on having your ego stroked by Slashdot. Who, except you, cares that you achieved a spot as a doctoral student. Big whoop. Must be a slow news day for this to be considered news for nerds.
I predict he'll spend the summer recovering after having broken his arm patting himself on the back.
Or any liquid in a larger than super-tiny container?
No, the water ban is beneficial to all parties (except the traveler. Oh, and the environment). Due to not being able to bring in water from outside, and most people not wanting to pay $5 for a thimble of water inside, the airlines are able to keep the weight down on their flights, resulting in a fuel savings of perhaps as much as 25 cents per flight.Over an entire year and an entire flight, this probably adds up to a small amount of folding money.
And then there are the people who do pay the $5 per thimbleful of water in the airport proper. To the airport vendors, the new regulation was a license to steal. This extra income probably enabled them to buy a whole fleet of congressmen to make sure the rule is never changed.
It sounds like airplane baggage holds are a horrible place to put luggage in general. That is not a problem of the luggage. And it is quite evident that SOMEONE is stealing stuff from luggage. It's probably the TSA agents, not the ramp personnel. The ramp people are too busy. The TSA feel like they are the Gestapo and entitled to steal whatever they want from whomever they want.
If you take a look they still ban small knives, just not super tiny toy swiss army knife style ones that people forget are on their keychains.
The other day I was digging around in my coat pocket and came across a matchbook that I had gotten at Papadeaux in Dallas probably 4 years ago. That got me to wondering how many airplanes I have been on since then with that in my coat pocket. I should count myself lucky not to have a TSA agent permanently lodged in my rectum at this point.
How can a set of golf clubs be a permissible carryon - they exceed the dimensions of a carryon published by the airlines.
You've seen through their ruse. They're going to allow you to have all these exciting carry-ons, but then the smart people realize that those are too big anyway and can't be allowed on the plane. They will have to be gate checked. So the change in ruling has no effect, other than PR.
You are correct. The Simcity franchise has traditionally been offline single player and everybody loved it, like Solitaire. What EA has done is the equivalent of selling a new version of solitaire that is online and multiplayer. Fail!
If you get enough people wound up about something, you can get the backing and momentum to really have an effect.
I don't get it. If you hate EA, why do you give a shit? You're getting upset because a company isn't doing something you wish they would do? Who gives a fuck? You're not buying their shit anyway.
Because Simcity is and awesome, awesome game on which I have spent hundreds of dollars on multiple versions and I really want to play the new version, but I can't because it is only playable online and I don't want to play it online.
On final approach an airliner is more in the 120 to 150 MPH range, and a good pilot is looking hard for other aircraft near the airport - so if you do see something you look pretty hard right at it. And in this case it is not like there is much else at that point to grab your attention - the pilot is still 3 miles out so he can let his attention off the runway for the few seconds it would take to focus on the other aircraft.
Estimating the distance between the aircraft and size of the aircraft is a bit more up in the air.
Also, since the object is moving much slower than the airliner, it appears to be moving to the eye. An object moving about the same speed as the airliner would be harder to spot than one that is moving at a different speed. Objects that are the hardest to spot are ones moving at the same speed, directly in front of you, and on the same heading (or, unfortunately, on the opposite heading and coming right at you), because the eye registers movement better than static images.
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All I've seen is criticism of the analysis techniques involved. No real "proof" either way, just a bunch of opinions...
No real proof either way on Russell's Teapot either, just a bunch of opinions. We should keep an open mind until someone goes and has a look.
Ironically, Russel's teapot is falsifiable, albeit a very large pain in the butt to prove false.
I have never heard of Panspermia being associated with Intelligent Design. I have heard people who believe in Intelligent Design shooting down Panspermia as some kind of new age nonsensical unscientific crap.
Basically, Panspermia solves the issue of the unlikelihood of life developing sporadically on Earth, by saying "Space did it", which is the scientific equivalent of "God did it".
Yeah, right. If it was profitable to mine BTC then the people making BTC mining hardware would operate it, not sell it.
And yet the makers of oil, natural gas, coal, silver and gold mining equipment sell their equipment and don't operate it.
it has the potential to solve the micropayments problem. .01 USD. .000...001 BTC.
At the moment, that is probably true, but there is still cost associated with BTC transactions, and there at least used to be some penalties in place for BTC transactions that were smaller than some fraction of a BTC which I have since forgotten.
The other problem is that the BTC is gaining ground against the dollar, and being a deflationary currency (and the USD an inflationary one), there could come a day when the smallest fraction of a BTC is more than
I don't know if there will have to be a fiat agreement to do a "stock split" type of deal, or if it is even possible, but something will have to happen in the eventuality that you can no longer buy a stick of gum because it is worth less than
How much electricity was spent 'mining' ~$150 worth of BTC?
At a guess, around $20.
I have a Garmin GPS. It shows the current speed limit in the bottom right corner.
And how do they come by this information? I would consider it stale at best.
If you're driving so fast towards a traffic light that you can't stop in twenty yards without screeching the tires, you're doing it wrong, yes.
It takes the average person about 70 feet to notice a light change and stop from 30 MPH. I don't really consider that to be very fast.
It's not a single-player game, get over it. That's like asking for a single-player version of World of Warcraft.
Simcity is and has always been a single player game. Simcity 5 is a single player game. It just has input from other cities, which is completely superfluous to the game.
If you don't like that, don't buy it.
Done and done.
Plus, give it a nice review.
Ouch. That's gotta send some kind of message.
Sadly it will take a lot of people not buying or pirating several games that would otherwise be popular for them to get it,
Pirating doesn't help. pirating says "I want to play this game but I don't want to pay for it." The message we need to send is "I don't want to play your game".
Then it's moot here as well. Just because people WANT it to be single player doesn't change the fact it was designed to be multiplayer. EA should be taking shit for deceptive marketing, and for the decision to not make a single player option. But people keep acting as if it's a single player game with an always-on requirement and that simply is not the case.
Simcity is inherently a single player game. And it is still a single player game, But now your single player game depends on other single player games happening on the same server. So far I have seen zero people in favor of this strategy and hundreds who don't like it. This is like making solitaire dependent on other solitaire games going on nearby. Who wants that? If you wanted a game that involved other people, you would play hearts or spades or something,
W. Edwards Deming said it best: "You get what you measure." He didn't quite mean it in this context, but if employees know what metrics are being tracked to determine their performance, they will, of course, adjust their working behavior to pump up said metrics. The key is developing those metrics that will actually ensure work is getting done, which is never a simple matter of tracking data over a network, or a number of logins to a VPN.
This is entirely true. My company has recently decided that they are going to measure performance based on how many Tickets we close. I told the management exactly what would happen: instead of trying to fix the on-fire items, everybody would whip out all the simple 5 minute fixes that up until now we have been ignoring due to the on-fire items which require much more work.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't know the criteria by which they are measured. I think that is a great thing. What needs to happen is people need to be measured by a criteria which benefits the company when the employees inevitably try to maximize their performance against said criteria.
I despise VPN. When I connect to VPN, all of a sudden I can no longer print to my locally networked printer. The internet becomes slower because now all traffic wants to go through the VPN. I don't know if there is a way for me to set up the software to only use the VPN for resources that it can't reach through the local network connection, but that doesn't seem like something I should have to jump through hoops to do.
Because TFA talks about stupid stuff like the CEO herself looking at VPN logs, which is not a valid metric on which to make a rational decision on this. Hence the irrational decision.
The CEO is looking at VPN logs? That is not an appropriate use of her time. They're paying her thousands of dollars an hour, and she s looking at VPN logs? They should fire her.
All they are really saying is that they use internet protocols to send data back and forth through routers rather than have a wire from every single sensor to the recording device as was done historically. This probably saved thousands of pounds of wire, and makes the plane safer as you can now double or triple your wire runs cheaply and effectively. Also, the recent overly dramatized video of the plane that was crashed on purpose shows that thousands of wires running the length of the fuselage poses a significant evacuation impediment in a crash.
Secondly, the half a terabyte of data that they produce doesn't all get sent to the ground. When you design a program, you probably make it log all kinds of events, but does it e-mail every event to somebody, or only e-mail when something really important happens? Planes have long had data connections to service center and headquarters. I'm sure they piggy back on that or a similar technology and send down the important events.
Congrats on having your ego stroked by Slashdot. Who, except you, cares that you achieved a spot as a doctoral student. Big whoop. Must be a slow news day for this to be considered news for nerds.
I predict he'll spend the summer recovering after having broken his arm patting himself on the back.
Or any liquid in a larger than super-tiny container?
No, the water ban is beneficial to all parties (except the traveler. Oh, and the environment). Due to not being able to bring in water from outside, and most people not wanting to pay $5 for a thimble of water inside, the airlines are able to keep the weight down on their flights, resulting in a fuel savings of perhaps as much as 25 cents per flight.Over an entire year and an entire flight, this probably adds up to a small amount of folding money.
And then there are the people who do pay the $5 per thimbleful of water in the airport proper. To the airport vendors, the new regulation was a license to steal. This extra income probably enabled them to buy a whole fleet of congressmen to make sure the rule is never changed.
You are correct sir. We would be safer on the plane if everyone were ISSUED a knife rather than forbidden to carry one.
It sounds like airplane baggage holds are a horrible place to put luggage in general. That is not a problem of the luggage. And it is quite evident that SOMEONE is stealing stuff from luggage. It's probably the TSA agents, not the ramp personnel. The ramp people are too busy. The TSA feel like they are the Gestapo and entitled to steal whatever they want from whomever they want.
If you take a look they still ban small knives, just not super tiny toy swiss army knife style ones that people forget are on their keychains.
The other day I was digging around in my coat pocket and came across a matchbook that I had gotten at Papadeaux in Dallas probably 4 years ago. That got me to wondering how many airplanes I have been on since then with that in my coat pocket. I should count myself lucky not to have a TSA agent permanently lodged in my rectum at this point.
How can a set of golf clubs be a permissible carryon - they exceed the dimensions of a carryon published by the airlines.
You've seen through their ruse. They're going to allow you to have all these exciting carry-ons, but then the smart people realize that those are too big anyway and can't be allowed on the plane. They will have to be gate checked. So the change in ruling has no effect, other than PR.
You are correct. The Simcity franchise has traditionally been offline single player and everybody loved it, like Solitaire. What EA has done is the equivalent of selling a new version of solitaire that is online and multiplayer. Fail!
Or how does one play if you don't have internet connectivity at the moment, such as on a train or a bus on the way to work?
If you get enough people wound up about something, you can get the backing and momentum to really have an effect.
I don't get it. If you hate EA, why do you give a shit? You're getting upset because a company isn't doing something you wish they would do? Who gives a fuck? You're not buying their shit anyway.
Because Simcity is and awesome, awesome game on which I have spent hundreds of dollars on multiple versions and I really want to play the new version, but I can't because it is only playable online and I don't want to play it online.
On final approach an airliner is more in the 120 to 150 MPH range, and a good pilot is looking hard for other aircraft near the airport - so if you do see something you look pretty hard right at it. And in this case it is not like there is much else at that point to grab your attention - the pilot is still 3 miles out so he can let his attention off the runway for the few seconds it would take to focus on the other aircraft. Estimating the distance between the aircraft and size of the aircraft is a bit more up in the air.
Also, since the object is moving much slower than the airliner, it appears to be moving to the eye. An object moving about the same speed as the airliner would be harder to spot than one that is moving at a different speed. Objects that are the hardest to spot are ones moving at the same speed, directly in front of you, and on the same heading (or, unfortunately, on the opposite heading and coming right at you), because the eye registers movement better than static images.