No. It has deteriorated. I've been reading/. since the late 90s. At first there were many very intelligent and constructive people who would give very detailed and measured responses. The general level of background knowledge was higher. There were less examples of outright ignorance in posts. Then it became more and more popular and the quality went down. But at least it was still funny. But it is no longer the strong source of memes that it once was, and you get bored of that stuff quickly anyway. Too much ranting and not enough informing. I don't have any suggestions on how to fix it. Maybe this is the steady state of/. and the beginning was just an abnormal period.
Vostok would be far more reliable than this paper. But perhaps this measures northern air temps only. The anti-AGW crowd will be so conflicted because to accept this they would have to accept the proxy data and GCM models.
For 2,000 years the world was cooling, probably heading to a new Glacial Period, but now the temperatures are spiking dramatically in the other direction. Read the abstract carefully and look at the diagram. It is interesting but we'll have to see if it holds up. The current interglacial is a bit odd, we should be heading well and truly into a new glacial period, the temperature has seemed unusually stable; this paper would imply that it has not been stable at all.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Steven Keen has some very interesting and troubling things to say about modern economic theory. No wonder we are in such a mess, and I bet they don't adopt his sensible strategy until it is way too late.
Grammar can have a major effect on the meaning of a sentence. Trying to 'translate' bad grammar into what you think it means is not guaranteed to match what the author meant. It is better to get the grammar part correct, or at least unambiguous. However, some grammar rules are pretty arbitrary and English, like any living language, is dynamic; always changing. Rules need to be tested, improved, or even abandoned. But that is ok, as long as the message is clear.
I'm not sure about typical users who go to Apple but my experience has been less than wonderful. I bought a Macbook Pro. Nice hardware. But coming from a Linux/Windows background I find the Apple experience claustrophobic. I have finally decided I don't like Macs. iPad? They look pretty cool, but I don't need one. My next laptop will be a linux box with a vm image of Windows.
But how can you have more depth in an MMO? In single player the game developer can develop deep stories and constrain you somewhat, perhaps via sub-quests, so that you actually experience the storyline. In an MMO you could go to do sub-quest X and discover somebody else has already done that. So you wait for the BadGuy(tm) to respawn and sub-quest to re-initialize. It just isn't the same. "Please stand in the queue to have your unique experience."
I came to TES via Oblivion, which I loved, such a free and open world. I could join the story or not. Skyrim, even better. It would be fun with a couple of friends but not with hundreds of othes.
Yes, I agree. I find this "number line is not intuitive" a very curious thing. For one, who cares if it isn't intuitive? It is easy enough to pick up, kids do it every day. As for intuitive, why not? I mean if I hold out my hand and start counting then I have a graduated number line right there. If I string beads on a string I have an analog of a number line. Not exactly hard is it?
Probably a red dwarf. They can fuse hydrogen for ages... many billions of years. If I recall correctly the luminosity, and hence the lifetime, of a star is proportional to roughly M^3.5 (M is mass) so small mass stars will glow with much greater reduced luminosity and correspondingly much greater lifetime. Just so long as it is hot and dense enough in the core to keep fusion ticking over. This is pretty cool, wonder where the metals came for the planets to form? Is it a freak that picked up stuff from a nearby supernova during formation or what? Wonder if any life arose in that system, would have had a long time to advance by now. Just thinking.
Antibiotics are very slow when treating sinus infections. Three days is not enough for a serious infection. I've had infections that have gone on for weeks until I have taken a course of antibiotics and then require two prescriptions going for maybe 3-4 weeks. Ugh. Sometimes it doesn't work because the bugs are immune. For those that don't know, sinus infections are extremely painful. The best thing to do is to prevent it. If you have allergic rhinitis consider a nasal spray, they work wonders, even the saline-only ones.
Based on this maybe we don't need a big moon. Then again how rare is a large collision really? Something big hit Venus to give it its slow retrograde rotation, something big hit Mars to carve out the 'ocean' (at its North Pole), something big hit Pluto to give it Charon (yeah, I know it isn't a planet, but it is kinda big). In fact Charon is huge relative to Pluto. Perhaps large moons aren't that rare anyway. As an aside, after reading "Rare Earths" I found I just couldn't agree with some of the authors' ideas because some of them were not convincing. But it is a good book, just maintain a skeptical stance.
Agree. Open source an API to use your hidden stuff. Someone will eventually reverse engineer your algorithms but hopefully by then you will have got past the survival stage and have progressed your work further.
In my last year of university (ahem... many years ago) I had a final year project that I chose (made up). I managed to persuade my supervisor about a project that was about image validation. It was really just an excuse for me to play with image formats and encryption maybe. I was using gifs but used jpeg algorithms to get the DCT (discrete cosine transformation) of the image. JPEG does this and it is the level of how many coefficients of the DCT that determines the Quality of the image. However the structure and method of getting the DCT coefficients can be used to produce an X-Y plot of values. You can select so many coefficients for each section of the image and just record them as a hex string... in effect I created an image hash that is position sensitive. The hash is pretty short and could be embedded into the prolog of the image. So... then you manipulate an image and suddenly you have a measure of where and to what degree it was manipulated... insensitive to various kinds of deliberate noise. I was impressed. But the catch of course is that you still need to do this to the original image. *sigh*
I watched the video and I want my hour back. I thought I was going to get a Creationist being roasted but instead got a reasonable sounding theologian being attacked somewhat irrationally by Coyne. Coyne mentions stuff like the belief in angels etc... what? Haught wasn't talking about any of that stuff. I think Coyne wrote his talk wanting to counter Creationism irregardless of its relevance to the actual talk. Lame. I thought Haught made reasonable (but sadly incorrect) arguments.
I thought most of what Coyne said was obvious and he went on and on and overdid it. He was wrong about the necessity of having to talk fast etc. Gees.
I was going to say more but have decided it is a waste of time.
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No. It has deteriorated. I've been reading /. since the late 90s. At first there were many very intelligent and constructive people who would give very detailed and measured responses. The general level of background knowledge was higher. There were less examples of outright ignorance in posts. Then it became more and more popular and the quality went down. But at least it was still funny. But it is no longer the strong source of memes that it once was, and you get bored of that stuff quickly anyway. Too much ranting and not enough informing. I don't have any suggestions on how to fix it. Maybe this is the steady state of /. and the beginning was just an abnormal period.
... Fantastic Voyage feared to go. Don't tell me how it ends, I've heard it's crap.
Vostok would be far more reliable than this paper. But perhaps this measures northern air temps only. The anti-AGW crowd will be so conflicted because to accept this they would have to accept the proxy data and GCM models.
For 2,000 years the world was cooling, probably heading to a new Glacial Period, but now the temperatures are spiking dramatically in the other direction. Read the abstract carefully and look at the diagram. It is interesting but we'll have to see if it holds up. The current interglacial is a bit odd, we should be heading well and truly into a new glacial period, the temperature has seemed unusually stable; this paper would imply that it has not been stable at all.
But it has severe respawn problems.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. Steven Keen has some very interesting and troubling things to say about modern economic theory. No wonder we are in such a mess, and I bet they don't adopt his sensible strategy until it is way too late.
Grammar can have a major effect on the meaning of a sentence. Trying to 'translate' bad grammar into what you think it means is not guaranteed to match what the author meant. It is better to get the grammar part correct, or at least unambiguous. However, some grammar rules are pretty arbitrary and English, like any living language, is dynamic; always changing. Rules need to be tested, improved, or even abandoned. But that is ok, as long as the message is clear.
I'm not sure about typical users who go to Apple but my experience has been less than wonderful. I bought a Macbook Pro. Nice hardware. But coming from a Linux/Windows background I find the Apple experience claustrophobic. I have finally decided I don't like Macs. iPad? They look pretty cool, but I don't need one. My next laptop will be a linux box with a vm image of Windows.
Wait, what? I had gnuplot and octave on my N900. Two years ago. Gees, bit slow there android.
You should check out my epic mount.
Is she that good?
But how can you have more depth in an MMO? In single player the game developer can develop deep stories and constrain you somewhat, perhaps via sub-quests, so that you actually experience the storyline. In an MMO you could go to do sub-quest X and discover somebody else has already done that. So you wait for the BadGuy(tm) to respawn and sub-quest to re-initialize. It just isn't the same. "Please stand in the queue to have your unique experience."
I came to TES via Oblivion, which I loved, such a free and open world. I could join the story or not. Skyrim, even better. It would be fun with a couple of friends but not with hundreds of othes.
Yes, I agree. I find this "number line is not intuitive" a very curious thing. For one, who cares if it isn't intuitive? It is easy enough to pick up, kids do it every day. As for intuitive, why not? I mean if I hold out my hand and start counting then I have a graduated number line right there. If I string beads on a string I have an analog of a number line. Not exactly hard is it?
But surely everyone in SA likes a bit of mayhem ... isn't serial murder a state sport?
Probably a red dwarf. They can fuse hydrogen for ages ... many billions of years. If I recall correctly the luminosity, and hence the lifetime, of a star is proportional to roughly M^3.5 (M is mass) so small mass stars will glow with much greater reduced luminosity and correspondingly much greater lifetime. Just so long as it is hot and dense enough in the core to keep fusion ticking over. This is pretty cool, wonder where the metals came for the planets to form? Is it a freak that picked up stuff from a nearby supernova during formation or what? Wonder if any life arose in that system, would have had a long time to advance by now. Just thinking.
... games are typically $100 or even $110. I see ME3 for PC is going for just $88 ... a bargain :-/ What's that in US currency .... $93. Yeah.
Chthon and also Macroscope are still books I enjoy. Excellent.
If you get around to making that into a movie I'll want to see it.
Antibiotics are very slow when treating sinus infections. Three days is not enough for a serious infection. I've had infections that have gone on for weeks until I have taken a course of antibiotics and then require two prescriptions going for maybe 3-4 weeks. Ugh. Sometimes it doesn't work because the bugs are immune. For those that don't know, sinus infections are extremely painful. The best thing to do is to prevent it. If you have allergic rhinitis consider a nasal spray, they work wonders, even the saline-only ones.
The irony is that the pirated version would then actually be worth buying.
Based on this maybe we don't need a big moon. Then again how rare is a large collision really? Something big hit Venus to give it its slow retrograde rotation, something big hit Mars to carve out the 'ocean' (at its North Pole), something big hit Pluto to give it Charon (yeah, I know it isn't a planet, but it is kinda big). In fact Charon is huge relative to Pluto. Perhaps large moons aren't that rare anyway. As an aside, after reading "Rare Earths" I found I just couldn't agree with some of the authors' ideas because some of them were not convincing. But it is a good book, just maintain a skeptical stance.
Agree. Open source an API to use your hidden stuff. Someone will eventually reverse engineer your algorithms but hopefully by then you will have got past the survival stage and have progressed your work further.
In my last year of university (ahem ... many years ago) I had a final year project that I chose (made up). I managed to persuade my supervisor about a project that was about image validation. It was really just an excuse for me to play with image formats and encryption maybe. I was using gifs but used jpeg algorithms to get the DCT (discrete cosine transformation) of the image. JPEG does this and it is the level of how many coefficients of the DCT that determines the Quality of the image. However the structure and method of getting the DCT coefficients can be used to produce an X-Y plot of values. You can select so many coefficients for each section of the image and just record them as a hex string ... in effect I created an image hash that is position sensitive. The hash is pretty short and could be embedded into the prolog of the image. So ... then you manipulate an image and suddenly you have a measure of where and to what degree it was manipulated ... insensitive to various kinds of deliberate noise. I was impressed. But the catch of course is that you still need to do this to the original image. *sigh*
I'd say it was the last one (no printing press) that is the main reason for the failure of Greece to spawn a Scientific Revolution.
I watched the video and I want my hour back. I thought I was going to get a Creationist being roasted but instead got a reasonable sounding theologian being attacked somewhat irrationally by Coyne. Coyne mentions stuff like the belief in angels etc ... what? Haught wasn't talking about any of that stuff. I think Coyne wrote his talk wanting to counter Creationism irregardless of its relevance to the actual talk. Lame. I thought Haught made reasonable (but sadly incorrect) arguments.
I thought most of what Coyne said was obvious and he went on and on and overdid it. He was wrong about the necessity of having to talk fast etc. Gees.
I was going to say more but have decided it is a waste of time.
If only I had mod points ...