The windows 8 arm tablets will not let you disable secure boot, so you unless you pay to get a bootloader signed you are stuck with windows 8. Which may or may not be a problem, but you are tied to their app store on the arm tablet. You can get an ultra book for about $400 more that has way more power, is only 3" bigger, and windows 8 x86 allows you to disable secure boot and install another OS if you want. Some of the acer ultrabooks even have touchscreens. Yes $400 is a lot, but as you pointed out computers aren't getting outdated as fast as they once did, so hopefully that $400 can get amortized over 5-10 years. Also, an arm chip will not be bored stiff with modern laptop processing, it will be choking. I really don't get the tablet thing except as a portable netflix viewer. If I'm doing mail or browsing I want to touch-type, and if I'm carrying a keyboard with my tablet, I'd rather have brought my laptop instead.
I use vim with ctags for file navigation, and there is an add in that does decent intellisense but I don't use it. Just run ctags in all the libraries you are using and your own project (yes its manual) and add references to those tag files in your.vimrc. Then ctl+] and ctl+t will navigate to and back from keywords, its not great about using c++ context to know which instance of that keyword it should jump to. If you try to go the definition of the variable "counter" and people have been naming lots of private variables that, then you'll have a long list to pick from regardless of namespace or class, but its good enough usually.
I haven't found a decent gdb add on for vim yet though, I heard there was a decent one for emacs. But debugging with gdb is painful. It is powerful, but just plain hard to use, it feels like looking at my code through a drinking straw.
When I'm working on windows I do appreciate the intellisense, and I don't think its giving me bad habits. The debugging is much much nicer as well. Xcode is somewhere between the two.
If you want all the horsepower you can get your hands on, you are already stuck with intel if the software you use isn't many-core or gpu friendly. Audio and video work is notably quite amenable to gpu acceleration, so in five years a brand new video card for that time with your current processor may hold you over until the die shrink race has ended 5 to 10 years later and processors begin to commoditize, which I would guess will bring in more players.
The AC said it would be ruled to only apply to commercial sales. That is why it was proposed that the 99% would not care. I would not be surprised at this either. The motive behind this is to maintain the ability to pricefix products like printer cartridges, and car parts. I doubt they would go after junkyard owners unless they started making enough money that it looked enticing. I still maintain the naive hope that the court will burn this with fire and declare all the judges that let it get this far to be mentally incompetant and commit them.
The reason they don't go after the real problem is that the *are* the real problem. The don't fill a need anymore. Poor independent bands can buy or rent the equipment to record their gigs on the money they make from them, and distribute it for micropayments online, and market themselves through social media and viral youtube videos. The last claim they have is some sort of content filtering to get rid of all that terrible music you would have to listen to to find what you want. The epublishing business has shown that user reviews are sufficent to flag the low quality stuff, so even that claim is bogus. They are spending huge amounts of money, not finding the good stuff, but promoting what they found whether it is good or not (sometimes it is). They are also spending huge amounts of money legislating their own existance. I'm looking forward to the day when a large venue like Wembley stadium realizes some internet phenomenon can sell them out without going through a label, that would be a turning point I think.
You can send a broadcast message to all contacts in a folder or to individual contacts. Recipients cannot reply to broadcast messages.
On the Contact list screen, press the Menu key.
Click Broadcast Message.
Complete the Announcement field.
If you have administrator permissions and want to send the broadcast message to all of the users on the server, select the System message check box. Click OK.
Click Recipients.
Click a folder.
Perform one of the following actions:
To send the broadcast message to all of the contacts in the folder, select the Select All check box.
To send the broadcast message to individual contacts in the folder, select the check box beside the contacts.
Click OK.
Click OK.
That seems hard to do by accident, but at least slightly possible.
All these phones are previous generation. Is Samsung still making these? Once they are inside the U.S. and no longer owned by Samsung, can the new owner sell them? Is the answer different if they are new or have been used? Is it different for ATT to sell them, vs. the guy who wants to sell his S2 to get Note 2? If so, why?
People should try it before they ignore it. It is not ill-suited to everyone. I think its a case of the gnome team thinking everyone works like they do. I use keyboard controls almost exclusively, with lots of windows open, mostly command lines. I start applications from a run box, or commandline, not menus. OSX came along and the spotlight/quicksilver method of starting apps was a big step forward, it would autocomplete the name of the application for me. Gnome 3 and unity are another step forward in that it will give me a nearest match if I mispell something, I can type either the visible name (like "files") or the application name "nautilus" and either works. Or natulius for that matter. Additionally its a single key press to start typing rather than two as in windows7 or osx. workspace key shortcuts haven't changed from gnome2 and the window tiling is sufficient, though usually I don't dock windows. I prefer gnome3 to unity for the shrinky window thing it does showing whats open (like osx).
If you mostly start apps from the commandline instead of menus or quickbars, gnome3 is for you so give it a try. They should have realized though that not everyone works that way and made it more flexible.
Nylon is fine, but it will destroy other stuff. Permethrin should only be sprayed on clothes, but it does a good job too, actually kills the things.
I think we should bring back DDT worldwide, they have lost some of their developed immunities by now. Once they start developing immunities we can start with the organochlorides, then the organophosphates, then the pyrethrins, and by then they should be vulnerable to DDT again. Sure, we won't have any birds or flowering plants, but we can get by on wind pollinated crops. Probably need to devote some extra money to cancer research too.
So how bout this one? Each camera receives over the network the hash of licence plates for which a search has been ordered. The camera only sends hits for plates that hash to one of those values. That way the compromise of the camera does not divulge which license plates are being searched for, and the police don't get to know where everyone is, only the license plates they have marked as interesting for that area. They could mark every car registered in that county, but we could go further and require some amount of judicial overview to add a hash, or simply probable cause.
Finally someone that points out this is about the change in temperature *variance* (square root of variance rather), and not the change in temperature mean. Sigma-dot as it were. The plot of the sigma over the last six decades showed a clear trend that the temperature became more varied in that time. Six decades is nothing in climate terms though. I read the argument on why 1951-1980 was used as the baseline, its mean was near the overall holocene mean, and the mean wasn't changing much during those three decades, but that is still just too little data to base such a strong conclusion on. A similar study could be conducted with indirect measures (ice cores, tree rings, permafrost bands, or who knows what), and we could ascertain the previous "sigma-dot" maximums. Using a second order statistic was a good idea and I suspect that if the variance isn't simply tied to the mean (the plots kind of look like that), that he is on to something, but only grabbing a handful of data points in extremely close time proximity and then drawing a conclusion from them is overreaching.
My coworkers and I have been talking about the idea of additional competition tiers with more relaxed rules since the winter olympics. The first tier would simply be what already goes on, but unabashedly so. Blood doping, hormone related chemicals, but also we might see some gene therapy in the not so distant future. The remaining tiers would allow non-organic implants with various rules on the power supplies (human-powered, batteries and sub-kwh, and no holds barred "we are the borg" tier). What gave me the idea is a coworker whose heart was damaged by a virus. He had an assist installed to keep his heart going until they found a replacement, but he had been fairly healthy and active and he kept running with the assist in. Eventually his heart started recovering and the doctors realized he wouldn't need a transplant after all, but towards the end there he said he felt like the energizer bunny on his runs, he just couldn't get tired. When they eventually took it out, he said the relative fatigue was crushing. If a simple heart assist pump could make that big a difference in a marathon, imagine what else we could come up with! Billions of dollars of corporate ad money funding advances that make people better at sport, but probably can heal some things too.
Will we keep RADAR coverage? Some of the magazines I've read indicate that as the ADS-B transition continues that RADAR coverage will be phased out. Maybe they only meant the secondary RADARs and not the primary, but that is not how the articles read. If that becomes the case, then assuming the dot closest to the flight plan is the real one, could be an error.
WAM can ameliorate the injection problem the TFA mentions (they could still lie but it won't matter), but it requires more hardware and communications equipment. The US is the last to jump on board with wholescale ADS-B adoption so these problems are more than just hypothetical. You can see the passive aspect of the article at work here. Planefinder is a central repository where people with software defined radios configured to listen to ADS-B dump their output.
The problem isn't capitalism or socialism. Both are like unicorns in that people who claim to have seen real instances thereof say they are quite wonderful, and no solid evidence for their existence is recorded. The problem is the culture in the U.S. You could ban guns and our murder rate would not go down. You could punish white collar crime with drawing and quartering, but nepotism, corruption, and greed wouldn't even pause. These symptoms are indicative of a sick culture that no amount of regulation (or deregulation) can ever fix. The only workable solution is for you to be a better person.
You are mostly right. The OP is also right. HOTS really is a left wing movement to indoctrinate the youth. If you research the idea it makes sense, its just the socratic method. If you look at the material privided, the training given teachers, and the example socratic questions (ironic that the teachers don't come up with them really), it really is a scheme to brainwash the public school worker bees towards the left. For instance one series of questions walks the students down the path to find (obvious) flaws in the pledge of allegience and suggest leftist improvements to it. The teacher's union is the largest supporter of the democratic party per open secrets, and it shows. It is run by people almost as progressive as Wilson was. That was a knock btw.
But you are also right, what the GOP is really mad about isn't that the children are being brainwashed. They are just made that they aren't the group that gets to decide what the drones believe, so they are fighting back.
Home school doesn't really help that much even if you can afford the time. Yes, they will be independent thinkers, but they won't have the networks that an expensive private school provides, which is half the point.
If the climate was going to change in a way that was bad for humans, but for natural reasons. We would still need to adapt to the change, or lessen it if possible. If the climate changes because we changed it, we still need to adapt to the change or lessen it if possible.
The focus on how global warming is being caused has been detrimental. Its pretty deep stuff for a business major to know. You have to understand band gap orbitals to verify CO2 does indeed absorb various IR bands. Actually computing wavelengths from the orbitals filled is on the upper edge of what might be in highschool chemistry, I was not exposed until college chem. Then there is the statistics necessary to interpret temperature readings. Even engineering stat in college wasn't entirely sufficient, though most college statistics courses would be (engineering stat was dumbed down). There is no accepted water/cloud model yet even among the experts.
Trying to walk everyone through this so they are willing to act is hopeless. The cause is only of secondary importance in any case. If this was in fact a natural trend and it was harmful, we should still act and/or adapt in precisely the same ways for precisely the same reasons.
Presenting the consequences, good and bad, in a non-melodramatic way on a region by region basis for the entire world is the first step. It answers "Why should *I* change?" Water levels rising will harm many, but its not sufficient to convince many others. It is hard for a Welsh farmer who anticipates being able to start a vineyard, to be convinced by NYC turning into Venice. Give the farmer the whole picture for their region.
The second step is to present all the options for climate control and their relative effectiveness both alone and in concert. Reducing CO2/methane emissions is the most natural approach, but there are many others like sequestration, albedo engineering, and counter agents. One that comes up a lot is aerosolized SO2. Thus side effects of these other approaches should also be discussed.
We as a society will likely make the wrong choice, but right now many are making the choice without any knowledge of the consequences apart from climate horror movies, or any knowledge of the tools we have to counter these consequences apart from some vague idea we should drive less or use a different sort of light bulb.
"However, the study said "unlimited economic growth" is still possible if world governments enact policies and invest in green technologies that help limit the expansion of our ecological footprint."
Firstly, "unlimited economic growth" isn't possible unless we get off this rock (difficult), and even that just opens the timescale up quite a bit. Here is a great (if depressing) discussion prompted by the same book mentioned in the article. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/
Second, the statement turns what seemed an interesting research conclusion into "the sky is falling, but give us enough money and you'll all be fine." It could be that this wording is different than what is in the actual report, but I can't find a link to it.
A focus on increasing the efficiency with which we use our resources is important, but this sounds like an unrealistic promise in order to obtain funding. This close to the wall we should be focused on how to make a transition to the steady state economy more orderly and less disruptive so that we can keep chugging towards the next breakthrough technology that will get us back into growth for a while, and perhaps eventually off earth so that we can delay the inevitable even more. Allocating large amounts of resources to finding that next breakthrough only gets us relatively little time if it succeeds, and it neglects the risk that if we fail we could have a sudden transition to steady state which would cause a great deal more suffering than is necessary.
I use USRPs, I like USRPs. There are many, many things you can do with a USRP that you could never do with one of these (if you spent some extra and got a daughterboard, otherwise its a brick). However, there are some things you could do with 100 of these that you could never do with a single, similarly priced USRP. I did not order 100, but I did get some. I'm thinking a beagle bone, might make a nice friend for it.
The quoted article correctly identifies that the individual probabilities of failure were in fact highly coupled and not independent random events. The last statement is a common error though. Just because a tsunami of this size caused each of the generators to fail, does not mean that a tsunami of this size was certain to cause a failure. Because all statistical problems can be phrased as D&D problems (core 2 rules of course), this could be stated that the tsunami needed a 2 to hit and got it, but there was always that 1 it could have rolled and some series of odd but finitely possible events would allow the generators to continue operating. In this case it was not a d20 but a d1e6 or higher, still with a 2 to hit, but the possibility it could have missed does not go to zero simply because it didn't miss.
It came back and landed not five feet from where it took off from in the video, its odd that he would say that it crashed. It looked very controlled to me. Well not odd, just sensationalist. Its also impossible to tell where the thing was from the video, but they mention sending it into station holding which implies it knew where it was and I don't think they would intentionally send it into private property and put themselves on the wrong side of the PR stunt, but we just don't have nearly enough information to say who violated what laws if any. The position of the octacopter, and hunters are both in question, the first because of the perspective, and the second because the hunters aren't even visible in the video. There is no evidence they were even the ones that shot the copter if the video is all we have, for that matter that the copter was even shot. No the only reason to be interested in this story is the geeky assessment of octacopter redundancy and durability under fire.
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The windows 8 arm tablets will not let you disable secure boot, so you unless you pay to get a bootloader signed you are stuck with windows 8. Which may or may not be a problem, but you are tied to their app store on the arm tablet. You can get an ultra book for about $400 more that has way more power, is only 3" bigger, and windows 8 x86 allows you to disable secure boot and install another OS if you want. Some of the acer ultrabooks even have touchscreens. Yes $400 is a lot, but as you pointed out computers aren't getting outdated as fast as they once did, so hopefully that $400 can get amortized over 5-10 years. Also, an arm chip will not be bored stiff with modern laptop processing, it will be choking. I really don't get the tablet thing except as a portable netflix viewer. If I'm doing mail or browsing I want to touch-type, and if I'm carrying a keyboard with my tablet, I'd rather have brought my laptop instead.
I use vim with ctags for file navigation, and there is an add in that does decent intellisense but I don't use it. Just run ctags in all the libraries you are using and your own project (yes its manual) and add references to those tag files in your .vimrc. Then ctl+] and ctl+t will navigate to and back from keywords, its not great about using c++ context to know which instance of that keyword it should jump to. If you try to go the definition of the variable "counter" and people have been naming lots of private variables that, then you'll have a long list to pick from regardless of namespace or class, but its good enough usually.
I haven't found a decent gdb add on for vim yet though, I heard there was a decent one for emacs. But debugging with gdb is painful. It is powerful, but just plain hard to use, it feels like looking at my code through a drinking straw.
When I'm working on windows I do appreciate the intellisense, and I don't think its giving me bad habits. The debugging is much much nicer as well. Xcode is somewhere between the two.
If you want all the horsepower you can get your hands on, you are already stuck with intel if the software you use isn't many-core or gpu friendly. Audio and video work is notably quite amenable to gpu acceleration, so in five years a brand new video card for that time with your current processor may hold you over until the die shrink race has ended 5 to 10 years later and processors begin to commoditize, which I would guess will bring in more players.
The AC said it would be ruled to only apply to commercial sales. That is why it was proposed that the 99% would not care. I would not be surprised at this either. The motive behind this is to maintain the ability to pricefix products like printer cartridges, and car parts. I doubt they would go after junkyard owners unless they started making enough money that it looked enticing. I still maintain the naive hope that the court will burn this with fire and declare all the judges that let it get this far to be mentally incompetant and commit them.
The reason they don't go after the real problem is that the *are* the real problem. The don't fill a need anymore. Poor independent bands can buy or rent the equipment to record their gigs on the money they make from them, and distribute it for micropayments online, and market themselves through social media and viral youtube videos. The last claim they have is some sort of content filtering to get rid of all that terrible music you would have to listen to to find what you want. The epublishing business has shown that user reviews are sufficent to flag the low quality stuff, so even that claim is bogus. They are spending huge amounts of money, not finding the good stuff, but promoting what they found whether it is good or not (sometimes it is). They are also spending huge amounts of money legislating their own existance. I'm looking forward to the day when a large venue like Wembley stadium realizes some internet phenomenon can sell them out without going through a label, that would be a turning point I think.
You can send a broadcast message to all contacts in a folder or to individual contacts. Recipients cannot reply to broadcast messages.
On the Contact list screen, press the Menu key.
Click Broadcast Message.
Complete the Announcement field.
If you have administrator permissions and want to send the broadcast message to all of the users on the server, select the System message check box. Click OK.
Click Recipients.
Click a folder.
Perform one of the following actions:
To send the broadcast message to all of the contacts in the folder, select the Select All check box.
To send the broadcast message to individual contacts in the folder, select the check box beside the contacts.
Click OK.
Click OK.
That seems hard to do by accident, but at least slightly possible.
All these phones are previous generation. Is Samsung still making these? Once they are inside the U.S. and no longer owned by Samsung, can the new owner sell them? Is the answer different if they are new or have been used? Is it different for ATT to sell them, vs. the guy who wants to sell his S2 to get Note 2? If so, why?
People should try it before they ignore it. It is not ill-suited to everyone. I think its a case of the gnome team thinking everyone works like they do. I use keyboard controls almost exclusively, with lots of windows open, mostly command lines. I start applications from a run box, or commandline, not menus. OSX came along and the spotlight/quicksilver method of starting apps was a big step forward, it would autocomplete the name of the application for me. Gnome 3 and unity are another step forward in that it will give me a nearest match if I mispell something, I can type either the visible name (like "files") or the application name "nautilus" and either works. Or natulius for that matter. Additionally its a single key press to start typing rather than two as in windows7 or osx. workspace key shortcuts haven't changed from gnome2 and the window tiling is sufficient, though usually I don't dock windows. I prefer gnome3 to unity for the shrinky window thing it does showing whats open (like osx).
If you mostly start apps from the commandline instead of menus or quickbars, gnome3 is for you so give it a try. They should have realized though that not everyone works that way and made it more flexible.
Nylon is fine, but it will destroy other stuff. Permethrin should only be sprayed on clothes, but it does a good job too, actually kills the things.
I think we should bring back DDT worldwide, they have lost some of their developed immunities by now. Once they start developing immunities we can start with the organochlorides, then the organophosphates, then the pyrethrins, and by then they should be vulnerable to DDT again. Sure, we won't have any birds or flowering plants, but we can get by on wind pollinated crops. Probably need to devote some extra money to cancer research too.
So how bout this one? Each camera receives over the network the hash of licence plates for which a search has been ordered. The camera only sends hits for plates that hash to one of those values. That way the compromise of the camera does not divulge which license plates are being searched for, and the police don't get to know where everyone is, only the license plates they have marked as interesting for that area. They could mark every car registered in that county, but we could go further and require some amount of judicial overview to add a hash, or simply probable cause.
I think 0.54 micromols/L is something like 3E-5 ppm. But I could be doing that wrong.
Finally someone that points out this is about the change in temperature *variance* (square root of variance rather), and not the change in temperature mean. Sigma-dot as it were. The plot of the sigma over the last six decades showed a clear trend that the temperature became more varied in that time. Six decades is nothing in climate terms though. I read the argument on why 1951-1980 was used as the baseline, its mean was near the overall holocene mean, and the mean wasn't changing much during those three decades, but that is still just too little data to base such a strong conclusion on. A similar study could be conducted with indirect measures (ice cores, tree rings, permafrost bands, or who knows what), and we could ascertain the previous "sigma-dot" maximums. Using a second order statistic was a good idea and I suspect that if the variance isn't simply tied to the mean (the plots kind of look like that), that he is on to something, but only grabbing a handful of data points in extremely close time proximity and then drawing a conclusion from them is overreaching.
My coworkers and I have been talking about the idea of additional competition tiers with more relaxed rules since the winter olympics. The first tier would simply be what already goes on, but unabashedly so. Blood doping, hormone related chemicals, but also we might see some gene therapy in the not so distant future. The remaining tiers would allow non-organic implants with various rules on the power supplies (human-powered, batteries and sub-kwh, and no holds barred "we are the borg" tier). What gave me the idea is a coworker whose heart was damaged by a virus. He had an assist installed to keep his heart going until they found a replacement, but he had been fairly healthy and active and he kept running with the assist in. Eventually his heart started recovering and the doctors realized he wouldn't need a transplant after all, but towards the end there he said he felt like the energizer bunny on his runs, he just couldn't get tired. When they eventually took it out, he said the relative fatigue was crushing. If a simple heart assist pump could make that big a difference in a marathon, imagine what else we could come up with! Billions of dollars of corporate ad money funding advances that make people better at sport, but probably can heal some things too.
Will we keep RADAR coverage? Some of the magazines I've read indicate that as the ADS-B transition continues that RADAR coverage will be phased out. Maybe they only meant the secondary RADARs and not the primary, but that is not how the articles read. If that becomes the case, then assuming the dot closest to the flight plan is the real one, could be an error.
WAM can ameliorate the injection problem the TFA mentions (they could still lie but it won't matter), but it requires more hardware and communications equipment. The US is the last to jump on board with wholescale ADS-B adoption so these problems are more than just hypothetical. You can see the passive aspect of the article at work here. Planefinder is a central repository where people with software defined radios configured to listen to ADS-B dump their output.
The problem isn't capitalism or socialism. Both are like unicorns in that people who claim to have seen real instances thereof say they are quite wonderful, and no solid evidence for their existence is recorded. The problem is the culture in the U.S. You could ban guns and our murder rate would not go down. You could punish white collar crime with drawing and quartering, but nepotism, corruption, and greed wouldn't even pause. These symptoms are indicative of a sick culture that no amount of regulation (or deregulation) can ever fix. The only workable solution is for you to be a better person.
You are mostly right. The OP is also right. HOTS really is a left wing movement to indoctrinate the youth. If you research the idea it makes sense, its just the socratic method. If you look at the material privided, the training given teachers, and the example socratic questions (ironic that the teachers don't come up with them really), it really is a scheme to brainwash the public school worker bees towards the left. For instance one series of questions walks the students down the path to find (obvious) flaws in the pledge of allegience and suggest leftist improvements to it. The teacher's union is the largest supporter of the democratic party per open secrets, and it shows. It is run by people almost as progressive as Wilson was. That was a knock btw.
But you are also right, what the GOP is really mad about isn't that the children are being brainwashed. They are just made that they aren't the group that gets to decide what the drones believe, so they are fighting back.
Home school doesn't really help that much even if you can afford the time. Yes, they will be independent thinkers, but they won't have the networks that an expensive private school provides, which is half the point.
The solution is acceptance of our roles as peons.
If the climate was going to change in a way that was bad for humans, but for natural reasons. We would still need to adapt to the change, or lessen it if possible. If the climate changes because we changed it, we still need to adapt to the change or lessen it if possible.
The focus on how global warming is being caused has been detrimental. Its pretty deep stuff for a business major to know. You have to understand band gap orbitals to verify CO2 does indeed absorb various IR bands. Actually computing wavelengths from the orbitals filled is on the upper edge of what might be in highschool chemistry, I was not exposed until college chem. Then there is the statistics necessary to interpret temperature readings. Even engineering stat in college wasn't entirely sufficient, though most college statistics courses would be (engineering stat was dumbed down). There is no accepted water/cloud model yet even among the experts.
Trying to walk everyone through this so they are willing to act is hopeless. The cause is only of secondary importance in any case. If this was in fact a natural trend and it was harmful, we should still act and/or adapt in precisely the same ways for precisely the same reasons.
Presenting the consequences, good and bad, in a non-melodramatic way on a region by region basis for the entire world is the first step. It answers "Why should *I* change?" Water levels rising will harm many, but its not sufficient to convince many others. It is hard for a Welsh farmer who anticipates being able to start a vineyard, to be convinced by NYC turning into Venice. Give the farmer the whole picture for their region.
The second step is to present all the options for climate control and their relative effectiveness both alone and in concert. Reducing CO2/methane emissions is the most natural approach, but there are many others like sequestration, albedo engineering, and counter agents. One that comes up a lot is aerosolized SO2. Thus side effects of these other approaches should also be discussed.
We as a society will likely make the wrong choice, but right now many are making the choice without any knowledge of the consequences apart from climate horror movies, or any knowledge of the tools we have to counter these consequences apart from some vague idea we should drive less or use a different sort of light bulb.
As soon as I read this I stopped reading.
"However, the study said "unlimited economic growth" is still possible if world governments enact policies and invest in green technologies that help limit the expansion of our ecological footprint."
Firstly, "unlimited economic growth" isn't possible unless we get off this rock (difficult), and even that just opens the timescale up quite a bit. Here is a great (if depressing) discussion prompted by the same book mentioned in the article. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/
Second, the statement turns what seemed an interesting research conclusion into "the sky is falling, but give us enough money and you'll all be fine." It could be that this wording is different than what is in the actual report, but I can't find a link to it.
A focus on increasing the efficiency with which we use our resources is important, but this sounds like an unrealistic promise in order to obtain funding. This close to the wall we should be focused on how to make a transition to the steady state economy more orderly and less disruptive so that we can keep chugging towards the next breakthrough technology that will get us back into growth for a while, and perhaps eventually off earth so that we can delay the inevitable even more. Allocating large amounts of resources to finding that next breakthrough only gets us relatively little time if it succeeds, and it neglects the risk that if we fail we could have a sudden transition to steady state which would cause a great deal more suffering than is necessary.
http://beagleboard.org/static/beaglebone/latest/README.htm
I use USRPs, I like USRPs. There are many, many things you can do with a USRP that you could never do with one of these (if you spent some extra and got a daughterboard, otherwise its a brick). However, there are some things you could do with 100 of these that you could never do with a single, similarly priced USRP. I did not order 100, but I did get some. I'm thinking a beagle bone, might make a nice friend for it.
what are the laws in the UK on nearband IR ground effects lighting?
The quoted article correctly identifies that the individual probabilities of failure were in fact highly coupled and not independent random events. The last statement is a common error though. Just because a tsunami of this size caused each of the generators to fail, does not mean that a tsunami of this size was certain to cause a failure. Because all statistical problems can be phrased as D&D problems (core 2 rules of course), this could be stated that the tsunami needed a 2 to hit and got it, but there was always that 1 it could have rolled and some series of odd but finitely possible events would allow the generators to continue operating. In this case it was not a d20 but a d1e6 or higher, still with a 2 to hit, but the possibility it could have missed does not go to zero simply because it didn't miss.
It came back and landed not five feet from where it took off from in the video, its odd that he would say that it crashed. It looked very controlled to me. Well not odd, just sensationalist. Its also impossible to tell where the thing was from the video, but they mention sending it into station holding which implies it knew where it was and I don't think they would intentionally send it into private property and put themselves on the wrong side of the PR stunt, but we just don't have nearly enough information to say who violated what laws if any. The position of the octacopter, and hunters are both in question, the first because of the perspective, and the second because the hunters aren't even visible in the video. There is no evidence they were even the ones that shot the copter if the video is all we have, for that matter that the copter was even shot. No the only reason to be interested in this story is the geeky assessment of octacopter redundancy and durability under fire.