"While he was appointed for his current term as Head of Kalmykia, he was previously its President without any appointment, simply by being elected. Despite the occasional controversy, he's quite popular, I believe, not in the least due to his position in FIDE."
And for nothing else. Kalmykia is extremely poor and Ilumzhinov really rules there like a dictator (i.e. suppressing press, using police to beat up people, etc.). Basically, Putin and Medveded do not care about it since Ilumzhinov keeps everything inside 'his' republic.
Yes, it's one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) vector animation suit.
Canvas doesn't come close. Hardware-accelerated OpenVG will be faster, but quality of hardware rendering is not perfect right now. Antialiasing is a particularly painful point.
You won't be able to replicate Badgers in HTML5 with less resource usage and the same quality.
"This argument makes no sense to me. HTML5 can already replicate pretty much anything these Flash games do and is also outside of Apple's control."
Not. Even. Close.
Adobe Flash is right now one of the fastest implementations of vector graphics animation. HTML5 has NOTHING close in capability to SWF format - canvas is a frigging joke.
Sure, you can run Quake2 with software rendering in JS drawing on canvas. But the same Quake2 in Flash would require many times less of CPU time per frame.
"It's been interesting to hear the narrative pushed at you from the wingnuts, you mean? Because the first notable paper on global warming, by Plass in 1956, was called “The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change”."
Personally, in these cases I refer them to Svante Arrhenius, who had calculated that doubling CO2 level raises temperature by 4-5C. In 1908.
"Because if he's not, and Mann DID commit some sort of fraud, any and all AGW claims will be blown to smithereens."
Even if we assume that Mann bribed all scientists reviewing his work, killed Kennedy and in fact is a reincarnation of Hitler (pre-emptive Godwining) - it won't change ANYTHING.
Mann's papers are just several of many thousands, written by different teams from various parts of the world with different methodologies and data sources used.
That's pure trolling from Cuccinelli, he has not asked for the data (which is open) related to the papers in question, but ALL of Mann's e-mail with about 20 people.
"It's all about eating blood to get the iron-laden haemoglobin, and red meat is red because it still has blood in it (while white meat is white because the blood has been drained)"
That's fantastically incorrect. "Red meat" is read because of high content of myoglobin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoglobin ) - another oxygen-binding protein. It's found in muscle cells which do short bursts of work.
Nope. Grandparent _specifically_ said 'weight' which IS near zero on the ISS.
Your mass also does not change on orbit. And gravity force does become a little bit smaller on the ISS, but it's irrelevant because it's counteracted by the centrifugal force.
"Nuclear energy is safe when we make it safe - by putting a lot of time, expense, and effort into safety systems and processes. If/when we let safety systems degrade, we neglect to train in safety procedures, and we fail to conduct proper oversight of nuclear plant operations... then it won't be clean and safe anymore."
So? So far the track record for nuclear power plants is pretty good. Cynically speaking, one Chernobyl every 80 years is _still_ better than fossil fuel.
"Don't let him drag you down with the bullshit - people have been raving about nuclear material coming out of the stacks for 40 years but nobody has been able to find anything yet despite it only being a matter of setting up an absorbion spectrometer to look at the flue gas."
Hm. I lived for quite a long time in Germany and walked around without my passport. And now I live in Ukraine and I don't remember last time I took a passport with me.
Recently, I was able to rewrite a piece of SHIT in several days which an 'old school' developer wrote in VIM for half of year. It was absolutely unstructured (all files in a same package), full of commented-out 'print' statements used for debugging and generally ugly (who needs a debugger?).
Modern development tools _really_ give a productivity boost. If you know how to use them.
"Every time you drink cold water or hot coffee, there is a transfer of heat - and that is just blatant heat energy."
Calculate its amount. It's trivial compared to amount of chemical energy.
For example, suppose that cup of coffee (0.25l) is at 70C and your body is at 40C. So you can extract at most 0.25*4200*(70-40)~=30000J of energy. That's enough to split 0.1 moles of water (about 1.8 grams). And that's in the ideal case.
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"While he was appointed for his current term as Head of Kalmykia, he was previously its President without any appointment, simply by being elected. Despite the occasional controversy, he's quite popular, I believe, not in the least due to his position in FIDE."
And for nothing else. Kalmykia is extremely poor and Ilumzhinov really rules there like a dictator (i.e. suppressing press, using police to beat up people, etc.). Basically, Putin and Medveded do not care about it since Ilumzhinov keeps everything inside 'his' republic.
Yes, it's one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) vector animation suit.
Canvas doesn't come close. Hardware-accelerated OpenVG will be faster, but quality of hardware rendering is not perfect right now. Antialiasing is a particularly painful point.
You won't be able to replicate Badgers in HTML5 with less resource usage and the same quality.
So? Encode this video in h.264 and check how fast it works.
Try to write a simple HTML5 game with full-screen vector animation. And see how it fails...
"This argument makes no sense to me. HTML5 can already replicate pretty much anything these Flash games do and is also outside of Apple's control."
Not. Even. Close.
Adobe Flash is right now one of the fastest implementations of vector graphics animation. HTML5 has NOTHING close in capability to SWF format - canvas is a frigging joke.
Sure, you can run Quake2 with software rendering in JS drawing on canvas. But the same Quake2 in Flash would require many times less of CPU time per frame.
USSR used a _nuclear_ device to plug a burning gas well ( http://wonderful-russia.net/russian-science/peaceful-nuclear-explosions/ ).
It might even come to that with this spill. A small nuclear device would have produced way less damage than the current spill.
Apple has it. They have a legal monopoly on the market of mobile apps.
"It's been interesting to hear the narrative pushed at you from the wingnuts, you mean? Because the first notable paper on global warming, by Plass in 1956, was called “The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change”."
Personally, in these cases I refer them to Svante Arrhenius, who had calculated that doubling CO2 level raises temperature by 4-5C. In 1908.
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm
Considering that much of AGW research was done long before Mann's papers - it's still won't change anything.
"Because if he's not, and Mann DID commit some sort of fraud, any and all AGW claims will be blown to smithereens."
Even if we assume that Mann bribed all scientists reviewing his work, killed Kennedy and in fact is a reincarnation of Hitler (pre-emptive Godwining) - it won't change ANYTHING.
Mann's papers are just several of many thousands, written by different teams from various parts of the world with different methodologies and data sources used.
That's pure trolling from Cuccinelli, he has not asked for the data (which is open) related to the papers in question, but ALL of Mann's e-mail with about 20 people.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/cuccinelli_is_using_the_law_to.php
"It's all about eating blood to get the iron-laden haemoglobin, and red meat is red because it still has blood in it (while white meat is white because the blood has been drained)"
That's fantastically incorrect. "Red meat" is read because of high content of myoglobin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoglobin ) - another oxygen-binding protein. It's found in muscle cells which do short bursts of work.
Also, vegan diets ARE possible. Iron is not a problem: http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.htm
So stop spouting nonsense.
Nope. Grandparent _specifically_ said 'weight' which IS near zero on the ISS.
Your mass also does not change on orbit. And gravity force does become a little bit smaller on the ISS, but it's irrelevant because it's counteracted by the centrifugal force.
"Has humanity also thrived due to slavery for a portion of time?"
No. Unless you want do define 'humanity' as 'a very thin layer of slaveowners'. Never mind slaves or poor (free) people who couldn't afford them.
Turn in your geek card, please.
"Nuclear energy is safe when we make it safe - by putting a lot of time, expense, and effort into safety systems and processes. If/when we let safety systems degrade, we neglect to train in safety procedures, and we fail to conduct proper oversight of nuclear plant operations... then it won't be clean and safe anymore."
So? So far the track record for nuclear power plants is pretty good. Cynically speaking, one Chernobyl every 80 years is _still_ better than fossil fuel.
And there are several magnitudes more of dead coal miners and people with lung cancer from coal ash-related pollution.
So nuclear power IS a clean and solved problem. At least compared to fossil-based fuels.
"Don't let him drag you down with the bullshit - people have been raving about nuclear material coming out of the stacks for 40 years but nobody has been able to find anything yet despite it only being a matter of setting up an absorbion spectrometer to look at the flue gas."
????
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
A team at my university did the same measurements with the same results. As you've said, it's a rather simple matter of taking and analyzing samples.
Hm. I lived for quite a long time in Germany and walked around without my passport. And now I live in Ukraine and I don't remember last time I took a passport with me.
No problems so far.
PS: I'm Russian.
There are cases where logging is the only way to find problems, sure.
However, it that was not the case in my project.
OpenBSD? "Clean code"? In the same sentence?
Yeah, sure.
Recently, I was able to rewrite a piece of SHIT in several days which an 'old school' developer wrote in VIM for half of year. It was absolutely unstructured (all files in a same package), full of commented-out 'print' statements used for debugging and generally ugly (who needs a debugger?).
Modern development tools _really_ give a productivity boost. If you know how to use them.
Black helicopters are dispatched. Please, don't leave the area, citizen.
TCP/IP now stands for Trusted Computer Platform / Intellectual Property.
"Every time you drink cold water or hot coffee, there is a transfer of heat - and that is just blatant heat energy."
Calculate its amount. It's trivial compared to amount of chemical energy.
For example, suppose that cup of coffee (0.25l) is at 70C and your body is at 40C. So you can extract at most 0.25*4200*(70-40)~=30000J of energy. That's enough to split 0.1 moles of water (about 1.8 grams). And that's in the ideal case.
Now the second law comes to the rescue - you need temperature gradients to extract energy.
Impossible. You need energy input to split water. No amount of catalysts can help you - first law of thermodynamics comes to rescue, as usual.