The linked video is to a very cheesy still image montage about comet/asteroid impacts, and only shows this recent Jupiter impact as a still screenshot of the video playing on someone's computer.
Anybody have a better link? At least to a real still of the event?
In a class action, doesn't the lead plaintiff usually get a real payout if successful? It's just all the other rabble in the class that get coupons.
And yes of course... the lawyers always win.
How about a computer vision approach? Outfit a few airplanes with a camera system that can pinpoint where the laser is coming from... With a good camera in the system, you might even be able to capture a nice photo of the doofus holding the laser. Then the airline/FAA can notify the police with an address and photo of the culprit.
Mr. Hilton:...and garnished with lark's vomit.
Inspector: LARK'S VOMIT?!
Mr. Hilton: Correct.
Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about Lark's vomit!
Mr. Hilton: Uh, it does at the bottom of the label, after monosodium glutamate.
Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it would be more appropriate if the box wore a big red label "WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT"!
The book Collapse by Jared Diamond (who also wrote "Guns, Germs, and Steel") covers several historical cases of societies that collapsed. Deforestation is the main trigger that comes up in most of the stories. He also makes parallels to our current relationship with oil.
The iPhone OS has always had real pre-emptive multitasking. The phone, email, iPod, calendar, and other applications run all the time and can do things simultaneously.
Multitasking just hasn't ever been made available to 3rd party developers.
It has never been a technical limitation in the OS. Rather, Apple kept control over it for battery life and security reasons.
Ever since Slashdot went to the "2.0" (was it?) interface where you can ajax collapse or expand posts within the normal page... I haven't ever gotten mod points.
I have "Willing to Moderate" checked, and "Good karma", but I haven't received mod points for a long long time.
In my high school Science Fiction class, we didn't read A Clockwork Orange, but we did watch the movie. I still can't believe my mom signed that permission slip.
Anyway, we did read:
Brave New World
Martian Chronicles
Several short stories from an anthology of classic SF authors
I remember finding many of the short stories annoying in that they were all One Dimensional Plot Line Set Against the Backdrop of Some Present Day Problem Run Amok... e.g. Billenium: overpopulation to the point where everyone lives in a tiny space and commutes to work in a river of people.
Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"
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Gladwell's latest book "Outliers" has a chapter about Bill Gates. Overall the book is about how a certain very few people are able to have outrageous success. The standard American story of this is that through hard work and determination that anything is possible. Gladwell points out that in most cases it requires a lot more than grit and determination it also requires being in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right skills. (I know... duh. Right? But it is a good book).
For Bill Gates... he went to a wealthy private school whose Mom's organization decided to buy a computer terminal in 1968! Bill would have been one of a handful of teenagers in the world who had access to a computer in those days (and one that didn't require punchcard programming at that.) Later he and Paul Allen were able to get access to U. of Washington computers late at night. As a result they got jobs programming during high school.
I don't remember all the details, but Gates (and a similar story for Bill Joy of Sun) had lots of very unusual, very lucky situations along the way that led to him being a young very skilled programmer at a time when virtually no other people in the world would have had that level of experience (10,000 hours).
He was a smart, tenacious kid, but Microsoft wouldn't have happened if he hadn't had access to that terminal when he 13 years old.
FFmpeg, the most widely used audio and video codec library.
I think that statement may require some qualifiers, like "open source". I would guess that Windows Media, Quicktime, and several other non-free codec libraries are *vastly* more widely used than ffmpeg.
Fill an enormous balloon with hydrogen and oxygen, then hold a candle up to it.
My freshman undergrad chemistry professor did that in a big lecture hall. I can't say I was inspired by it, but it is the only thing I remember from that class.
I see a lot of analogies in this thread, but no car analogies. Could BadAnalogyGuy or someone else please provide us with some car analogies to explain the economy, this survey, Scott Adams, what economists do, and anything else you feel could be well covered by a good solid car analogy. Thank you.
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Yeah! And Homer beat their brains out!
Ah, here it is... linked from within the spaceweather.com link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568
The linked video is to a very cheesy still image montage about comet/asteroid impacts, and only shows this recent Jupiter impact as a still screenshot of the video playing on someone's computer.
Anybody have a better link? At least to a real still of the event?
In a class action, doesn't the lead plaintiff usually get a real payout if successful? It's just all the other rabble in the class that get coupons. And yes of course... the lawyers always win.
Mod +10 - Thread Winner. Well said.
How about a computer vision approach? Outfit a few airplanes with a camera system that can pinpoint where the laser is coming from... With a good camera in the system, you might even be able to capture a nice photo of the doofus holding the laser. Then the airline/FAA can notify the police with an address and photo of the culprit.
Mr. Hilton: ...and garnished with lark's vomit.
Inspector: LARK'S VOMIT?!
Mr. Hilton: Correct.
Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about Lark's vomit!
Mr. Hilton: Uh, it does at the bottom of the label, after monosodium glutamate.
Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it would be more appropriate if the box wore a big red label "WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT"!
is here.
Disclaimer: I work for Google in Geo.
Can you escalate this:
Starting a couple weeks ago, Google maps won't route on a chunk of a major highway in the Chicago suburbs:
I-290 between the Elgin/O'Hare Expressway and I-90 is unroutable.
I reported the problem on the map and got the "You're right, we'll fix it soon" email. But it's still broken.
The book Collapse by Jared Diamond (who also wrote "Guns, Germs, and Steel") covers several historical cases of societies that collapsed. Deforestation is the main trigger that comes up in most of the stories. He also makes parallels to our current relationship with oil.
The iPhone OS has always had real pre-emptive multitasking. The phone, email, iPod, calendar, and other applications run all the time and can do things simultaneously.
Multitasking just hasn't ever been made available to 3rd party developers.
It has never been a technical limitation in the OS. Rather, Apple kept control over it for battery life and security reasons.
Let's start the pissing contest:
I have a 6-digit slashdot ID. Beat that you newbs!
Do you know how you get enough graphic power to deliver full high-definition video? You plunk down a video decoder chip.
This has no impact on your graphics performance for anything UI related.
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Mr. Potato Head! Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Given the meta-topic... I'll ask this here:
Ever since Slashdot went to the "2.0" (was it?) interface where you can ajax collapse or expand posts within the normal page... I haven't ever gotten mod points.
I have "Willing to Moderate" checked, and "Good karma", but I haven't received mod points for a long long time.
Anyway, we did read:
I remember finding many of the short stories annoying in that they were all One Dimensional Plot Line Set Against the Backdrop of Some Present Day Problem Run Amok... e.g. Billenium: overpopulation to the point where everyone lives in a tiny space and commutes to work in a river of people.
Gladwell's latest book "Outliers" has a chapter about Bill Gates. Overall the book is about how a certain very few people are able to have outrageous success. The standard American story of this is that through hard work and determination that anything is possible. Gladwell points out that in most cases it requires a lot more than grit and determination it also requires being in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right skills. (I know... duh. Right? But it is a good book).
For Bill Gates... he went to a wealthy private school whose Mom's organization decided to buy a computer terminal in 1968! Bill would have been one of a handful of teenagers in the world who had access to a computer in those days (and one that didn't require punchcard programming at that.) Later he and Paul Allen were able to get access to U. of Washington computers late at night. As a result they got jobs programming during high school.
I don't remember all the details, but Gates (and a similar story for Bill Joy of Sun) had lots of very unusual, very lucky situations along the way that led to him being a young very skilled programmer at a time when virtually no other people in the world would have had that level of experience (10,000 hours).
He was a smart, tenacious kid, but Microsoft wouldn't have happened if he hadn't had access to that terminal when he 13 years old.
they're making it up in volume.
FFmpeg, the most widely used audio and video codec library.
I think that statement may require some qualifiers, like "open source". I would guess that Windows Media, Quicktime, and several other non-free codec libraries are *vastly* more widely used than ffmpeg.
Fill an enormous balloon with hydrogen and oxygen, then hold a candle up to it.
My freshman undergrad chemistry professor did that in a big lecture hall. I can't say I was inspired by it, but it is the only thing I remember from that class.
MacVim is an excellent port of VIM for OS X. http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
Yeah... and where are the screenshots???
A paragraph of random facts, PR quotes and bullshit, followed by an aside from ScuttleMonkey that finally explains the headline.
I see a lot of analogies in this thread, but no car analogies. Could BadAnalogyGuy or someone else please provide us with some car analogies to explain the economy, this survey, Scott Adams, what economists do, and anything else you feel could be well covered by a good solid car analogy. Thank you.