You are lucky that you leave with the satisfaction that arises from a job well done. Congratulations on your achievement and best of luck in your future life. You'll be missed.
I'm a complete idiot with this sort of thing, but why did they orbit so far away (9k miles)? It surely can't have that great of a gravitational pull, can it? Why not get as close as is prudent (or is 9k miles the prudence limit)? It seems like the closer the better for studying the thing.
As someone far more knowledgeable than me has pointed out elsewhere, they did this because astronomers are not sure about the exact mass of the asteroid and therefore want to play it safe until they have more data, at which point they plan to lower the orbit.
Drugmakers are already required to keep track of adverse drug events that arise during clinical testing. Much of this information is reported to regulatory agencies on almost a daily basis and there's a lot of work going behind the scenes to make sure the information is reliable, consistent and keeps patient privacy.
I can understand to some extent why drugmakers aren't too keen to jump into this. There is little use in adding yet another database into an already busy workflow. This new database is guaranteed to be different from many in-house solutions currently in use, so you will need to train people, get them used to the new process, etc. just to input the same data the regulator already receives. IMO this won't be worth the effort in the eyes of many drugmakers unless you get regulatory agencies involved.
I am not saying in general this is not a worthy cause. We currently have more data derived from genomics (and all the other -omics) than we can analyze. However to be successful this guys need to make sure they aren't duplicating the functionality of the myriad of public databases already out there.
The latest patch has been great for me. I'm more of a casual player and now I'm able to level up with just a couple hours of gameplay. Before it would take me a good couple days to increase just one level, which got increasingly frustrating and became the main reason why I canceled my subscription last year. I'm also a big fan of soloing and now I'm able to do that in more areas of the game (I usually do the party quests and dungeons during the weekends when all my friends are able to connect at the same time).
Overall I think it was a good move for players like me. I don't know what the "old-timers" would think about it, though...
This is a good project and it has the potential of eventually becoming the "Google of spyware". It's a pitty their methods are not explained at a greater detail in their FAQ, but then it prevents spyware companies from finding a quick workaround to fool their system.
Why would anyone pay for a suborbital flight when they expect the next version to be orbital?
Sure I would. It's like not buying a new computer now just because they'll come up with a faster model later anyway. Plus, there's no way to guess when orbital flight will safe for commercial purposes: it could take them 5 years or 20... So at least going SO now makes good sense.
The truth is that P2P networks have made absolutely no effort to provide even minimal safeguards against copyright infringement.
Neither did the designers of HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH and the like, still you don't have lawyers attempting yo shut down the Internet. Big corporations are just doing this in order to scare people out.
Just for your info, Costa Rica is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a National Army. I've been there and it is a beautiful place, but corruption is rampant, to the point that a couple of former presidents have been arrested recently on corruption charges.
What ever happened to parents kicking their kids out of the house to play ball outside? Turn off the TV, unplug their game console, log them off the computer and send them outside to play with their friends. This is nothing new and the "problem" is solved.
The problem with that is that other parents will have to do the same otherwise it isn't going to work out. Society as a colective has to realize that their children are spending too much time in front of a screen and missing out many other things in life, and that's simply not happening yet.
What a coincidence that this update comes precisely the same day Microsoft officially launched their renewed search engine. Yup folks, the Search Wars have officially started...
I mostly play games for the storyline. If I find a game with a good storyline but bad gameplay system, I just find the cheats and move on to finish it quickly. That way I don't have a large backlog of games I haven't played. It also allows me to borrow games from my friends because I don't keep them for long. If the gameplay system is good I'll usualy buy it and finish the game in a legit way.
Now, for some funny reason it is mostly classic games that I end up playing all the way to the end. For most newer games I just apply the cheat to see the end.
This is most ironic, how would they know it is me who actually signed this? Even though they ask for both snail and e-mail addresses I could just sign my friends name and go home. I don't think they will check all data before submiting it.
I believe a good ol' paper petition would have given it more credibility. This one just looks dumb and defeats its purpose. I wouldn't expect much to be achieved from this one.
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You are lucky that you leave with the satisfaction that arises from a job well done. Congratulations on your achievement and best of luck in your future life. You'll be missed.
Time to move on.
I'm a complete idiot with this sort of thing, but why did they orbit so far away (9k miles)? It surely can't have that great of a gravitational pull, can it? Why not get as close as is prudent (or is 9k miles the prudence limit)? It seems like the closer the better for studying the thing.
As someone far more knowledgeable than me has pointed out elsewhere, they did this because astronomers are not sure about the exact mass of the asteroid and therefore want to play it safe until they have more data, at which point they plan to lower the orbit.
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Drugmakers are already required to keep track of adverse drug events that arise during clinical testing. Much of this information is reported to regulatory agencies on almost a daily basis and there's a lot of work going behind the scenes to make sure the information is reliable, consistent and keeps patient privacy.
I can understand to some extent why drugmakers aren't too keen to jump into this. There is little use in adding yet another database into an already busy workflow. This new database is guaranteed to be different from many in-house solutions currently in use, so you will need to train people, get them used to the new process, etc. just to input the same data the regulator already receives. IMO this won't be worth the effort in the eyes of many drugmakers unless you get regulatory agencies involved.
I am not saying in general this is not a worthy cause. We currently have more data derived from genomics (and all the other -omics) than we can analyze. However to be successful this guys need to make sure they aren't duplicating the functionality of the myriad of public databases already out there.
...in this great blog. Also check out the rest of the posts, if you're a chemist you'll definitely will enjoy the "stuff I won't work with" series.
What's your point? If we didn't have equipment, we couldn't see the rings around Saturn. We couldn't see Uranus let alone Neptune.
You probably mean we couldn't see the rings around Jupiter instead of Saturn. Saturn's rings are quite visible from any decent backyard telescope.
You could probably get more than that if you rotate 90 degrees on the same spot those pixels that have a color gradient.
The latest patch has been great for me. I'm more of a casual player and now I'm able to level up with just a couple hours of gameplay. Before it would take me a good couple days to increase just one level, which got increasingly frustrating and became the main reason why I canceled my subscription last year. I'm also a big fan of soloing and now I'm able to do that in more areas of the game (I usually do the party quests and dungeons during the weekends when all my friends are able to connect at the same time).
Overall I think it was a good move for players like me. I don't know what the "old-timers" would think about it, though...
Do not forget Fallout 2!
This is a good project and it has the potential of eventually becoming the "Google of spyware". It's a pitty their methods are not explained at a greater detail in their FAQ, but then it prevents spyware companies from finding a quick workaround to fool their system.
They even have a Firefox extension already: http://www.siteadvisor.com/ffinstall.html
I'm looking forward to them adding cookie support to their database. Maybe I could finally stop blocking all cookies by default.
The latest Nature podcast has an interview with one of the researchers working on this: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html
Why would anyone pay for a suborbital flight when they expect the next version to be orbital?
Sure I would. It's like not buying a new computer now just because they'll come up with a faster model later anyway. Plus, there's no way to guess when orbital flight will safe for commercial purposes: it could take them 5 years or 20... So at least going SO now makes good sense.
The BBC has some reviews too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4528 639.stm
That word is also used in Spanish. And I believe in Portuguese too sometimes.
The truth is that P2P networks have made absolutely no effort to provide even minimal safeguards against copyright infringement.
Neither did the designers of HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH and the like, still you don't have lawyers attempting yo shut down the Internet. Big corporations are just doing this in order to scare people out.Just for your info, Costa Rica is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a National Army. I've been there and it is a beautiful place, but corruption is rampant, to the point that a couple of former presidents have been arrested recently on corruption charges.
It's called proprioception. Links:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/webhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/dancersbody/body/propr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
What ever happened to parents kicking their kids out of the house to play ball outside? Turn off the TV, unplug their game console, log them off the computer and send them outside to play with their friends. This is nothing new and the "problem" is solved.
The problem with that is that other parents will have to do the same otherwise it isn't going to work out. Society as a colective has to realize that their children are spending too much time in front of a screen and missing out many other things in life, and that's simply not happening yet.
This is /. asking, hehehe.
Maybe we should give a survey to all those people whose server was reduced to molten silicon after slashdotting...
What a coincidence that this update comes precisely the same day Microsoft officially launched their renewed search engine. Yup folks, the Search Wars have officially started...
So, what about Dungeon Keeper?
The funny thing is that you were moded Insightful... Sad, very sad.
But what about a d20???? Hell, it's Friday and time is running out, thank you very much...
I mostly play games for the storyline. If I find a game with a good storyline but bad gameplay system, I just find the cheats and move on to finish it quickly. That way I don't have a large backlog of games I haven't played. It also allows me to borrow games from my friends because I don't keep them for long. If the gameplay system is good I'll usualy buy it and finish the game in a legit way.
Now, for some funny reason it is mostly classic games that I end up playing all the way to the end. For most newer games I just apply the cheat to see the end.
R.That should be moderated +1 Sad, not Funny...
This is most ironic, how would they know it is me who actually signed this? Even though they ask for both snail and e-mail addresses I could just sign my friends name and go home. I don't think they will check all data before submiting it.
I believe a good ol' paper petition would have given it more credibility. This one just looks dumb and defeats its purpose. I wouldn't expect much to be achieved from this one.
R.