not that I don't think this was darwinism at work, but perhaps his friends were interrogated by his parents/state police and confessed that it was a reenactment of the video game.
*Start a grassroots campaign to have the government crack down on scammers *Make a point of electing officials who care about stopping internet scams
You have to make it a major issue with the government.
Doing that on a national scale might be too ambitious but you might have some success within your local political district/state at which point you and your local politicians can negotiate with the companies giving you trouble.
I experienced this in college too. I found that if I took notes during a lecture I'd be a lot less engaged in actual learning and more on translating a droning voice in the background to scribbling on a paper (assuming I was awake in the first place).
I don't know if it's the act of actually taking notes that impedes learning the current information. Maybe it's specific to the individual that they have trouble concentrating on listening and writing at the same time, or perhaps not taking notes actually improves comprehension. One things for sure though, if you can't read your own handwriting, then notes aren't going to help you a bit. For people who have good writing I imagine that notes help in the long run as they can commit whatever they wrote to memory over several readings.
I think I'll experiment with using diagrams and flow charts instead of blocks of text, next time I'm in school.
From reading the article it sounds more likely that the research would more likely result in technology to induce a regenerative stasis in a living being rather than making a normal, healthy and active individual live 6 times longer going about their normal routines.
I imagine this could be used in cancer patients by putting them in stasis for a few months while their system cures the cancer. Better yet, it could open up exploration of deep space. In addition to consuming food, water and oxygen at reduced rates the passengers will benefit from the regenerative properties of the technology that will repair damage caused by radiation that makes it through the ship's shielding.
First year of college, my roommate spilled coffee on his keyboard and busted it so I told him to do exactly what you described until he got a new one. So funny to IM him from the same room and actually see him take the time to reply using charmap and cut & paste.
PNG and JPEG fill different niches. They're different tools for different jobs. PNG is designed to be lossless and was meant as a successor to GIF rather than JPEG. JPEGs are a bit smaller because they throw out a lot of the information (hence are lossy) that isn't as high priority. It's a format for distribution rather than one that you'll want to work in while you manipulate images. For that you should probably be using TIFF or PSD. If you are constantly makinge changes to a set of images, the increase in storage space, while significant percentage-wise shouldn't make that much of a difference.
GIF, JPEG and PNG are meant for distribution of images over networks where banwidth usage matters. JPEG compresses photographs well. GIFs and PNGs are better for rasterizing text and vector graphics for diagrams and logos... usually things that aren't high in complexity but have a more extreme contrast than you'd find in a vacation photo. If you're seeing a big difference in quality, your JPEG compressor is probably set to being too lossy.
Technical issues aside it would definitely be nice to have an unencumbered lossy format to replace JPEGs but there are so many ridiculous patents nowadays that you'd probably invest most of your time figuring out what algorithms are safe to use.
Apple wants Intel's supply chain. Microsoft, I'm guessing wants the PowerPC's vector processing goodness. They've made it clear that they're going to consciously limit the flow of 360s anyhow. IBM won't be a manufacturing bottleneck for MS as they have been for Apple.
I think it's more that nonconformist habits are considered harmful to journalists... whatever they are. Excessive socializing can be addictive (not that any of us here are in danger here). Going to work every morning and getting your paycheck every other week is habit forming... I know many people who want to break the habit and just can't.
The primary target of fake books aren't mom and pop trying to play jazzy christmas tunes during the holidays. They're used by performing musicians like cue cards.
they're not meant to be played as is. They're meant to be quick and easy to read. The chords aren't dumbed down, they're notation of the essence of the harmony which is especially useful for an accompanist.
Does this crap continue to make it to the front page every other day? It's an independent study commissioned by MS. Of course it's going to say stuff like
"According to the study the Windows platform was "more reliable as enterprise needs change over time". The Novell SLES solution experienced 14 critical breakages, while the Windows Server system experienced none, the report claimed.
Security Innovation also claimed that the Novell SLES infrastructure required 4.79 times the number of patches."
Disregarding that these were probably installed on machines with proprietary software specifically geared to Windows that hasn't even made it into the hands of the Linux community and 4.79 more patches is meaningless when they compare patches for single nonessential programs on Linux versus critical security aggregate patches on the MS side.
It's probably about suits at MS seeing headlines every month "Linux takes 4 out of 5 top spots among world's fastest supercomputers" and asking each other "Hey! why aren't we doing that? Let's do that!"
was the story arc. I would be disappointed if the game were just another space sim. It should have a plot line interwoven with the series's.
I think a space MMORPG set after the war could be a success with dozens of races and factions to choose from. Throw in some PvP with guild controlled capital ships and fighter squadrons.
I'm not saying it doesn't produce lots of energy relatively cheaply since I haven't seen it work/not work, but let's step back for a moment.
He's a medic with a background in electrical engineering. There's little evidence of any extensive physics or chemistry training. Sure he probably took some intro courses for EE, but hardly enough to come up with a sound radical theory that throws nearly a century of solid work out the window.
If this device does work it probably doesn't work anything like the way he thinks it works. Odds are better that it's some obscure trick in physics that has been overlooked. On the otherhand, Slashdot has no end of crackpot posts and even an affiliation with a major ivy league university doesn't exempt him from being a loon.
little and cute is part of the innovation, especially in a world that was previously dominated by large, ugly beige boxes that were unstable and hard to configure.
While looks aren't everything, neither are technical specs or using an OS with geek appeal and ease of use. Apple generally has all those main points down.
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Anyone use vector graphics programs to do this?
I'm guessing that there's less evil at work: simply that big shots at google were so damned annoyed by pop-ups.
not that I don't think this was darwinism at work, but perhaps his friends were interrogated by his parents/state police and confessed that it was a reenactment of the video game.
Still, see the link in the first post.
Because it would be 99% filled with posts along the line of http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168868&cid =14077315 below along with lots of thumbnails of goatse.
I hope it wasn't the jump from Tanaris to Un'goro because that'll kill most players except priests and skilled mages.
O RLY?
it's fine, learn2litigate
Those rankings don't look right. Seems like an ongoing ranking system and the more users they get the better the list will get.
*Start a grassroots campaign to have the government crack down on scammers
*Make a point of electing officials who care about stopping internet scams
You have to make it a major issue with the government.
Doing that on a national scale might be too ambitious but you might have some success within your local political district/state at which point you and your local politicians can negotiate with the companies giving you trouble.
I've got ADD and I got good grades in classes I attended and even a few I didn't
I experienced this in college too. I found that if I took notes during a lecture I'd be a lot less engaged in actual learning and more on translating a droning voice in the background to scribbling on a paper (assuming I was awake in the first place).
I don't know if it's the act of actually taking notes that impedes learning the current information. Maybe it's specific to the individual that they have trouble concentrating on listening and writing at the same time, or perhaps not taking notes actually improves comprehension. One things for sure though, if you can't read your own handwriting, then notes aren't going to help you a bit. For people who have good writing I imagine that notes help in the long run as they can commit whatever they wrote to memory over several readings.
I think I'll experiment with using diagrams and flow charts instead of blocks of text, next time I'm in school.
From reading the article it sounds more likely that the research would more likely result in technology to induce a regenerative stasis in a living being rather than making a normal, healthy and active individual live 6 times longer going about their normal routines.
I imagine this could be used in cancer patients by putting them in stasis for a few months while their system cures the cancer. Better yet, it could open up exploration of deep space. In addition to consuming food, water and oxygen at reduced rates the passengers will benefit from the regenerative properties of the technology that will repair damage caused by radiation that makes it through the ship's shielding.
First year of college, my roommate spilled coffee on his keyboard and busted it so I told him to do exactly what you described until he got a new one. So funny to IM him from the same room and actually see him take the time to reply using charmap and cut & paste.
PNG and JPEG fill different niches. They're different tools for different jobs. PNG is designed to be lossless and was meant as a successor to GIF rather than JPEG. JPEGs are a bit smaller because they throw out a lot of the information (hence are lossy) that isn't as high priority. It's a format for distribution rather than one that you'll want to work in while you manipulate images. For that you should probably be using TIFF or PSD. If you are constantly makinge changes to a set of images, the increase in storage space, while significant percentage-wise shouldn't make that much of a difference.
GIF, JPEG and PNG are meant for distribution of images over networks where banwidth usage matters. JPEG compresses photographs well. GIFs and PNGs are better for rasterizing text and vector graphics for diagrams and logos... usually things that aren't high in complexity but have a more extreme contrast than you'd find in a vacation photo. If you're seeing a big difference in quality, your JPEG compressor is probably set to being too lossy.
Technical issues aside it would definitely be nice to have an unencumbered lossy format to replace JPEGs but there are so many ridiculous patents nowadays that you'd probably invest most of your time figuring out what algorithms are safe to use.
Apple wants Intel's supply chain. Microsoft, I'm guessing wants the PowerPC's vector processing goodness. They've made it clear that they're going to consciously limit the flow of 360s anyhow. IBM won't be a manufacturing bottleneck for MS as they have been for Apple.
so sad my druid got autodeleted after not logging in for 90 days :*(
I think it's more that nonconformist habits are considered harmful to journalists... whatever they are. Excessive socializing can be addictive (not that any of us here are in danger here). Going to work every morning and getting your paycheck every other week is habit forming... I know many people who want to break the habit and just can't.
but does it seem like everything is like a drug nowadays, at least according to researchers?
Quick, someone compare "researchers" to drug addicts!
doh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book
The primary target of fake books aren't mom and pop trying to play jazzy christmas tunes during the holidays. They're used by performing musicians like cue cards.
they're not meant to be played as is. They're meant to be quick and easy to read. The chords aren't dumbed down, they're notation of the essence of the harmony which is especially useful for an accompanist.
Does this crap continue to make it to the front page every other day? It's an independent study commissioned by MS. Of course it's going to say stuff like
"According to the study the Windows platform was "more reliable as enterprise needs change over time". The Novell SLES solution experienced 14 critical breakages, while the Windows Server system experienced none, the report claimed.
Security Innovation also claimed that the Novell SLES infrastructure required 4.79 times the number of patches."
Disregarding that these were probably installed on machines with proprietary software specifically geared to Windows that hasn't even made it into the hands of the Linux community and 4.79 more patches is meaningless when they compare patches for single nonessential programs on Linux versus critical security aggregate patches on the MS side.
It's probably about suits at MS seeing headlines every month "Linux takes 4 out of 5 top spots among world's fastest supercomputers" and asking each other "Hey! why aren't we doing that? Let's do that!"
but are any of those a "killer app" for the 360 like Halo was for the original?
was the story arc. I would be disappointed if the game were just another space sim. It should have a plot line interwoven with the series's.
I think a space MMORPG set after the war could be a success with dozens of races and factions to choose from. Throw in some PvP with guild controlled capital ships and fighter squadrons.
I'm not saying it doesn't produce lots of energy relatively cheaply since I haven't seen it work/not work, but let's step back for a moment.
He's a medic with a background in electrical engineering. There's little evidence of any extensive physics or chemistry training. Sure he probably took some intro courses for EE, but hardly enough to come up with a sound radical theory that throws nearly a century of solid work out the window.
If this device does work it probably doesn't work anything like the way he thinks it works. Odds are better that it's some obscure trick in physics that has been overlooked. On the otherhand, Slashdot has no end of crackpot posts and even an affiliation with a major ivy league university doesn't exempt him from being a loon.
pretty high that it'll be a buggy bloated kludge.
The administration will not tolerate European powers from establishing colonies... ...on the sun.
little and cute is part of the innovation, especially in a world that was previously dominated by large, ugly beige boxes that were unstable and hard to configure.
While looks aren't everything, neither are technical specs or using an OS with geek appeal and ease of use. Apple generally has all those main points down.