Main Entry: 1American Pronunciation: \-mer--kn, -mr-, -me-r-\ Function: noun Date: 1568 1 : an American Indian of North America or South America 2 : a native or inhabitant of North America or South America 3 : a citizen of the United States 4 : american english
Sense 4 is a particularly scary development, however.
Doesn't count. You're quoting a USAian dictionary.
The Globe and Mail's registration system seems to be a bit more sophiticated than that of the New York Times for example.
As it says on their explanatory note, they only require registration from their most frequent readers.
It seems to be true: If I access the Globe through the proxy web server at my school, there is no demand for registration. It appears that they already have my mac address in a database, and probably the various IP addresses that have been assigned to it. But they are also keeping a record of my browser. If I switch to Firefox instead of my usual Galeon I can access the site without registering even if I don't use the proxy server at school
So if I were to register with them with a fake name/address/email, I would be fooling myself if I believed I was not giving them any more information about myself. They already know my ISP and hence probably have a rough idea about my geographic location. If I register they will know that I am concerned about my privacy enough to give fake information, but not so much that I'm willing to stop reading their precious content.
There is a lot of work on mesh simplification and compression happening right now because there _is_ a real need for it. Meshes that are modeled by hand may not benifit from it, but many many mesh datasets are being produced by laser range scaners or isosurface extraction of volume data (from some kind of medical imager such as mri say). These meshes are often messy and generally have far more polygons than they need.
The dark energy refered to is unusual because it implies a kind of antigravity. It isn't drawn into play to account for the fact that the universe is expanding, but rather to explain the recent observations that indicate that the rate of expansion is increasing.
It is related to Einstein's cosmological constant which Einstein regretted introducing because it was kind of a kludge to account for a supposed static universe.
Apparently there are cosmologists today who still regard it as a bit of a kludge, making the cosmological model convoluted like Ptolemy's model of the solar system. There was a recent Scientific American article that discussed this, but only a summary is available online.
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See sense 3:
Main Entry: 1American
Pronunciation: \-mer--kn, -mr-, -me-r-\
Function: noun
Date: 1568
1 : an American Indian of North America or South America
2 : a native or inhabitant of North America or South America
3 : a citizen of the United States
4 : american english
Sense 4 is a particularly scary development, however.
Doesn't count. You're quoting a USAian dictionary.
The reference to the Atlantic Ocean is also off the mark. The study occurred on Canada's west coast.
(red face) okay, cookies.
The Globe and Mail's registration system seems to be a bit more sophiticated than that of the New York Times for example.
As it says on their explanatory note, they only require registration from their most frequent readers.
It seems to be true: If I access the Globe through the proxy web server at my school, there is no demand for registration. It appears that they already have my mac address in a database, and probably the various IP addresses that have been assigned to it. But they are also keeping a record of my browser. If I switch to Firefox instead of my usual Galeon I can access the site without registering even if I don't use the proxy server at school
So if I were to register with them with a fake name/address/email, I would be fooling myself if I believed I was not giving them any more information about myself. They already know my ISP and hence probably have a rough idea about my geographic location. If I register they will know that I am concerned about my privacy enough to give fake information, but not so much that I'm willing to stop reading their precious content.
StarLogo would be fun to play with and it could interest a pretty broad variety of students.
There is a lot of work on mesh simplification and compression happening right now because there _is_ a real need for it. Meshes that are modeled by hand may not benifit from it, but many many mesh datasets are being produced by laser range scaners or isosurface extraction of volume data (from some kind of medical imager such as mri say). These meshes are often messy and generally have far more polygons than they need.
The dark energy refered to is unusual because it implies a kind of antigravity. It isn't drawn into play to account for the fact that the universe is expanding, but rather to explain the recent observations that indicate that the rate of expansion is increasing.
It is related to Einstein's cosmological constant which Einstein regretted introducing because it was kind of a kludge to account for a supposed static universe.
Apparently there are cosmologists today who still regard it as a bit of a kludge, making the cosmological model convoluted like Ptolemy's model of the solar system. There was a recent Scientific American article that discussed this, but only a summary is available online.
Maybe you were confusing it with dark matter?