All in all, the sea level rise is the same pace for over 150 years.
Nonsense.
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_hist_few_hundred.html (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.)
Quote: "We have used a combination of historical tide-gauge data and satellite-altimeter data to estimate global averaged sea level change from 1870 to 2004. During this period, global-averaged sea level rose almost 20 cm, with an average rate of rise of about 1.7 mm/yr over the 20th Century. The sea level record indicates a statistically significant increase in the rate of rise between 1870 to 2004." (emphasis mine)
The most exciting aspect is that the construction and engineering documents and communication materials from all teams are open-sourced for anyone to use or modify!
... they have chosen a proper "IP-format" to avoid patent trolls to grab ideas in order to 'protect' them.
'Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem,'
The assumption here is that with 'size of data-set approaching infinity' the probability of finding a random result is approaching 1. Ph.D. students might like that.
If you think that big pharmaceutical companies would actually try to CURE the very diseases they lucratively give mere TREATMENT for, then you are incredibly naive.
It is even worse, they are very creative in proposing diagnoses to enable them to sell overpriced drugs (especially psychopharmaca) to an increasing share of the population worldwide.
I even suspect that swine-flu is artificially created to boost shareholder value.
Point is, you conform to a dress code even if you don't know it.
And, even worse, people won't learn that. You even conform if you are not working, and it is really hard to evade that. Example:
"The Mothers Of Invention : The Little House I Used To Live In
Lyrics
FZ: Thank you, good night . . . Thank you, if you'll . . . if you sit down and be quiet, we'll make an attempt to, ah, perform Brown Shoes Don't Make It.
Man In Uniform: Back on your seats, come on, we'll help you back to your seats, come on . ..
Guy In The Audience: Take that man out of here! Oh! Go away! Take that uniform off man! Take that bloody uniform before it's fuckin' too late, man!
FZ: Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself.
Guy In The Audience: . . . man!
FZ: You'll hurt your throat, stop it!"
1 Network and Other Communications Equipment 28.8
2 Mining, Crude-Oil Production 23.8
3 Pharmaceuticals 15.8
4 Medical Products and Equipment 15.2
5 Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 13.7
6 Commercial Banks 12.6
... that would detect if the logged in user is around would probably solve the problem. Automatic locking of the screen is a nightmare if you have other things to do (phone etc.) but in case need the computer immediately.
... to be integrated in the infrastructure needed when resources become scarce indeed and the gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' needs very careful attention to ensure that 'violence' does not spill over in the 'wrong' direction.
Well, it would probably make sense to make touch-enabled interfaces more table-like and less wall-like. That is to say, to make them horizontal.
Exactly what I think, like 'true virtual desktop', also helping you to avoid clutter (or to easier clearing it up on a 3D augmented reality version). Well, not in my life.
The disabled, those in rehabilitation, the elderly and infirm, I guess these people don't exist in your world *roll*
My suspicion is that with common use of these exosceletons the percentages of groups that 'need' them will increase. The trend, of course, could be reversed if people took more care of the standard implementation of body functions. However, that would not create another growing revenue stream in the health care sector.
News bulletin: We've already fucked with it. (Without understanding).
Yes, just another instance of the onion-type repair model. Once a problem has become obvious, create another layer to fix the problem. Reminds me of a code-comment like 'hack to circumvent the bug created by the fix...'.
Slashdot Mirror
the best of the best
Pff, with selection rules set by politicians and CEOs.
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All in all, the sea level rise is the same pace for over 150 years.
Nonsense.
http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_hist_few_hundred.html (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.)
Quote: "We have used a combination of historical tide-gauge data and satellite-altimeter data to estimate global averaged sea level change from 1870 to 2004. During this period, global-averaged sea level rose almost 20 cm, with an average rate of rise of about 1.7 mm/yr over the 20th Century. The sea level record indicates a statistically significant increase in the rate of rise between 1870 to 2004." (emphasis mine)
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The most exciting aspect is that the construction and engineering documents and communication materials from all teams are open-sourced for anyone to use or modify!
... they have chosen a proper "IP-format" to avoid patent trolls to grab ideas in order to 'protect' them.
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keyboards aren't exactly multi-touch
Depends
Personally, I think the bottleneck is the 'average' human.
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'Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem,'
The assumption here is that with 'size of data-set approaching infinity' the probability of finding a random result is approaching 1. Ph.D. students might like that.
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Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the data but are still trying.
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... for all those who suspect 'Photoshop':
The Cloud Appreciation Society
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If you think that big pharmaceutical companies would actually try to CURE the very diseases they lucratively give mere TREATMENT for, then you are incredibly naive.
It is even worse, they are very creative in proposing diagnoses to enable them to sell overpriced drugs (especially psychopharmaca) to an increasing share of the population worldwide.
I even suspect that swine-flu is artificially created to boost shareholder value.
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Point is, you conform to a dress code even if you don't know it.
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And, even worse, people won't learn that. You even conform if you are not working, and it is really hard to evade that. Example:
"The Mothers Of Invention : The Little House I Used To Live In
Lyrics
FZ: Thank you, good night . . . Thank you, if you'll . . . if you sit down and be quiet, we'll make an attempt to, ah, perform Brown Shoes Don't Make It.
Man In Uniform: Back on your seats, come on, we'll help you back to your seats, come on . .
Guy In The Audience: Take that man out of here! Oh! Go away! Take that uniform off man! Take that bloody uniform before it's fuckin' too late, man!
FZ: Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself.
Guy In The Audience: . . . man!
FZ: You'll hurt your throat, stop it!"
About 4 decades ago.
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they were driven by bullet points
Could not resist: Chairs?
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I'm not optimistic.
But it is mandatory to be because this is progress. </sarcasm>
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If that does not match up with the intent from the committee, then it is corrected to match the plain language version.
... err
Like in the case of the law that assigns 'the right to personal privacy' to corporations
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If programming languages was written in plain words we wouldn't need programmers
Disagree strongly — e.g. imagine clarifying how a robot mimics human gait.
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most historians and anthropologists would agree that the "morals of America" haven't changed very much in 230+ years
{{citation needed}}
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... interesting how the semantics (or maybe it is pragmatics) of a word make any further comment obsolete.
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other anti-virus companies should be marketing their neutrality from MS
Difficult to be balanced if the only leg you can rely on is branded MS.
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I for one would rather stand on the toes of giants than try to reinvent the wheel.
But if you have reiterated the process, you are well prepared to invent Wheel 2.0.
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The big players have margins close to 80%
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/performers/industries/profits/
1 Network and Other Communications Equipment 28.8
2 Mining, Crude-Oil Production 23.8
3 Pharmaceuticals 15.8
4 Medical Products and Equipment 15.2
5 Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 13.7
6 Commercial Banks 12.6
???
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... that would detect if the logged in user is around would probably solve the problem. Automatic locking of the screen is a nightmare if you have other things to do (phone etc.) but in case need the computer immediately.
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Small scale testbed (though I am not UK (but EU) based).
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... to be integrated in the infrastructure needed when resources become scarce indeed and the gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' needs very careful attention to ensure that 'violence' does not spill over in the 'wrong' direction.
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... especially when used in embedded systems.
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Well, it would probably make sense to make touch-enabled interfaces more table-like and less wall-like. That is to say, to make them horizontal.
Exactly what I think, like 'true virtual desktop', also helping you to avoid clutter (or to easier clearing it up on a 3D augmented reality version). Well, not in my life.
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The disabled, those in rehabilitation, the elderly and infirm, I guess these people don't exist in your world *roll*
My suspicion is that with common use of these exosceletons the percentages of groups that 'need' them will increase. The trend, of course, could be reversed if people took more care of the standard implementation of body functions. However, that would not create another growing revenue stream in the health care sector.
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News bulletin: We've already fucked with it. (Without understanding).
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Yes, just another instance of the onion-type repair model. Once a problem has become obvious, create another layer to fix the problem. Reminds me of a code-comment like 'hack to circumvent the bug created by the fix
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