This seems to validate all the "deniers" claims that global warming is just a fraudulent industry designed to keep funding going for the scientists involved by scaring people.
I'm afraid not. All it shows is that The Times is as bad as any other UK tabloid at actually representing facts. The IPCC claims were not based solely around this one point, it was simply one of many.
I maybe sceptical as to the full extent of human influence on the climate, but dismissing huge bodies of data out of hand (regardless of the conclusions) on such a flimsy argument is just ridiculous. It only further serves to mire any legitimate concerns in a big heap of unfounded nonsense.
...And while that would be enough for me to buy one (it would save reams of paper of irritating matrix algebra), their shipping cost to the UK is almost twice the cost of the device itself!
There's no way to save whatever you've drawn onto the tablet, so it's the LCD equivalent of carrying around a small blackboard and an infinite supply of chalk. Or a whiteboard with an infinite supply of ink (of only one colour). At only $30, it's reasonably priced enough that it can cater to the niche of "I want to jot down a small note that I can hardcopy later for posterity, but I don't ever want to need to worry about my pen running out of ink, as long as I remember to change the battery occasionally".
Preface: I'm perfectly aware that all available evidence indicates that the global climate is changing, has changed in the past, and will change again in the future (assuming no human intervention to prevent change).
If you think that's bad, for each of these errors that gets publicized, vast swaths of the population lose faith in the mountain of scientific evidence for anything whatsoever, including support for man-made global warming..
The same vast swathes would lose faith in scientific evidence if the local quack saw the image of a fictional deity in a piece of foodstuff.
Now, this is the sort of error that should not be occurring. Yes, it in no way undermines the rest of the IPCC report, but the report should still be held to the highest standards of rigour. To dismiss the error as petty, and that it can be left now it has been corrected, would be to commit a grave mistake. For a subject as complex and important as the impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on climate change, continuous and rigorous checking of data should always be performed. Working from an informed 'devils advocate' viewpoint should be encouraged, and not be shunned as "Denialism/shilling for Big Oil/The Gubernmint/etc". That does not absolve criticisms from being subject to the same high standards of rigour, though, as otherwise crack-pottery will prevail.
As with almost every other Gundam, the designs were cribbed from actual research. 0079 had the O'Neill Cylinders (with higher spin rates for dramatic effect), Wing had pairs of linked counter-rotating ring stations (artificially lit rather than using chevron mirrors, IIRC), Turn-A had a hypervelocity skyhook (and a linac boost up to it), 00 had the aforementioned solar power ring concept, as well as a slightly upsized Bernoulli Sphere station.
I can't find the link right now, but I remember reading that the easiest to read (i.e. a sample group were able to read it fastest on average) font and background colours are a pale yellow for the background and a dark green for the font.
Except 4 square miles of solar panels will generate an order of magnitude more energy than a solar chimney. Solar updraft power plants have a low initial outlay, but are very inefficient.
SIM are the cards you place into the phone to identify it with a network (among other things). CDMA is an data transmission method. You're probably thinking of GSM or UMTS.
Looking closer, it could be said to be pro-technology. Pro-biotech, in fact. Every hexapedal creature on Pandora appears to have the additional spinal trunk that the Na'vi can interface with (and even it's apex avian predator becomes subservient in only a few seconds). Given the huge morphological difference between the Na'Vi and all the other creatures, this seems far from coincidental. Or what about the planetary consciousness (*cough*SidMiersAlphaCentauri*cough*) that appears to generate massive electromagnetic fields at will. This could just be my "don't take anything in a multi-part Sci-Fi plot at face value" reflex kicking in, though.
Dependant entirely on the projectors used, the film used, and the cameras used to shoot the film.
For example:
A film shot on 65mm with really good cameras and lenses picked to work well together, projected from a brand new 70mm print, will look better than a digital film projected from a 2k projector (and arguably better than 4k).
A film shot on 35mm with grab-the-cheapest-you-can-find cameras and lenses, projected from a 35mm print that has done the rounds between several film festivals, will look far far worse than a digital film projected from a 2k projector
It's a lot more complicated than "X is better than Y".
Unfortunately, dynamic volume control also affects sound in programs you want to watch, not just adverts. Imaging if you were watching a movie, and all the whispers were louder and the explosions quieter. Not so great. "Turn it on only for the adverts" is just making a more complicated and less useful mute button.
As an alternative to legislating the volume of adverts, I propose that before any advert is allowed to air, the director of that advert must be forced to watch it on repeat for 12 hours, locked in a room with a loaded gun and no controls for the TV (with the TV protected by bullet-resistant glass, of course). If the director survives, the ad can be aired.
If you, you know, read the article, you'd know they're changing the momentum of the electromagnetic fields in a quantum vacuum. Thus, momentum is conserved.
Or simply take your fingerprint from an object you've held, print it out on an inkjet or laser printer, and stick the printout on the reader. Instant identity theft, no finger transplant required.
Looks like it actually is approaching a reasonable number of electrodes, unlike other the bunch of other 'brain control' devices (a pair of electrodes on your forehead does not an effective EEG make). Still too few for any sort of fine control, but you might just be able to get 2d bang-bang direction control going with a large amount of practice.
Of course, if it costs something ridiculous, then it's probably easier to make your own.
Pagers still exist? Granted they never caught on in the UK, but I've never, not even once, seen an actual functioning pager in use. I guess text messaging took over any utility pagers would have over here.
Benefits: blindingly fast when running massively parallel computations (think several hundred thousand threads).
Drawbacks: trying to program something to take advantage of all that power requires you to scale up to several thousand threads. Not always that easy.
Fortunately, feeding input directly into the brain is more difficult that reading output from it.
Not really. It's easily (ish) to stimulate a neuron externally using optical stimulation, but to read that state of that cell currently requires either implanting an electrode into the cell (generally shortens the lifespanof the cell to a few hours/minutes), or stimulating the cell to grow an axon onto a suitable biocompatable electrode (some research in this direction, no reliable results as of yet).
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It's not. But we can't let that get in the way of Bemoaning the Police state now, can we?
This seems to validate all the "deniers" claims that global warming is just a fraudulent industry designed to keep funding going for the scientists involved by scaring people.
I'm afraid not. All it shows is that The Times is as bad as any other UK tabloid at actually representing facts. The IPCC claims were not based solely around this one point, it was simply one of many.
I maybe sceptical as to the full extent of human influence on the climate, but dismissing huge bodies of data out of hand (regardless of the conclusions) on such a flimsy argument is just ridiculous. It only further serves to mire any legitimate concerns in a big heap of unfounded nonsense.
...And while that would be enough for me to buy one (it would save reams of paper of irritating matrix algebra), their shipping cost to the UK is almost twice the cost of the device itself!
There's no way to save whatever you've drawn onto the tablet, so it's the LCD equivalent of carrying around a small blackboard and an infinite supply of chalk. Or a whiteboard with an infinite supply of ink (of only one colour). At only $30, it's reasonably priced enough that it can cater to the niche of "I want to jot down a small note that I can hardcopy later for posterity, but I don't ever want to need to worry about my pen running out of ink, as long as I remember to change the battery occasionally".
If you think that's bad, for each of these errors that gets publicized, vast swaths of the population lose faith in the mountain of scientific evidence for anything whatsoever, including support for man-made global warming..
The same vast swathes would lose faith in scientific evidence if the local quack saw the image of a fictional deity in a piece of foodstuff.
Now, this is the sort of error that should not be occurring. Yes, it in no way undermines the rest of the IPCC report, but the report should still be held to the highest standards of rigour. To dismiss the error as petty, and that it can be left now it has been corrected, would be to commit a grave mistake. For a subject as complex and important as the impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on climate change, continuous and rigorous checking of data should always be performed. Working from an informed 'devils advocate' viewpoint should be encouraged, and not be shunned as "Denialism/shilling for Big Oil/The Gubernmint/etc". That does not absolve criticisms from being subject to the same high standards of rigour, though, as otherwise crack-pottery will prevail.
Wait, an incredible obscure image macro is now actually relevant? Crass humour is prescient!
I came here expecting to see a belated "First!" post followed by a joke about lag.
As with almost every other Gundam, the designs were cribbed from actual research. 0079 had the O'Neill Cylinders (with higher spin rates for dramatic effect), Wing had pairs of linked counter-rotating ring stations (artificially lit rather than using chevron mirrors, IIRC), Turn-A had a hypervelocity skyhook (and a linac boost up to it), 00 had the aforementioned solar power ring concept, as well as a slightly upsized Bernoulli Sphere station.
I can't find the link right now, but I remember reading that the easiest to read (i.e. a sample group were able to read it fastest on average) font and background colours are a pale yellow for the background and a dark green for the font.
You've been reading Inherit The Stars, haven't you.
And risk a potential back-flow?
Except 4 square miles of solar panels will generate an order of magnitude more energy than a solar chimney. Solar updraft power plants have a low initial outlay, but are very inefficient.
SIM are the cards you place into the phone to identify it with a network (among other things). CDMA is an data transmission method. You're probably thinking of GSM or UMTS.
Looking closer, it could be said to be pro-technology. Pro-biotech, in fact. Every hexapedal creature on Pandora appears to have the additional spinal trunk that the Na'vi can interface with (and even it's apex avian predator becomes subservient in only a few seconds). Given the huge morphological difference between the Na'Vi and all the other creatures, this seems far from coincidental. Or what about the planetary consciousness (*cough*SidMiersAlphaCentauri*cough*) that appears to generate massive electromagnetic fields at will.
This could just be my "don't take anything in a multi-part Sci-Fi plot at face value" reflex kicking in, though.
Dependant entirely on the projectors used, the film used, and the cameras used to shoot the film. For example:
A film shot on 65mm with really good cameras and lenses picked to work well together, projected from a brand new 70mm print, will look better than a digital film projected from a 2k projector (and arguably better than 4k).
A film shot on 35mm with grab-the-cheapest-you-can-find cameras and lenses, projected from a 35mm print that has done the rounds between several film festivals, will look far far worse than a digital film projected from a 2k projector
It's a lot more complicated than "X is better than Y".
Unfortunately, dynamic volume control also affects sound in programs you want to watch, not just adverts. Imaging if you were watching a movie, and all the whispers were louder and the explosions quieter. Not so great. "Turn it on only for the adverts" is just making a more complicated and less useful mute button.
As an alternative to legislating the volume of adverts, I propose that before any advert is allowed to air, the director of that advert must be forced to watch it on repeat for 12 hours, locked in a room with a loaded gun and no controls for the TV (with the TV protected by bullet-resistant glass, of course). If the director survives, the ad can be aired.
If I had mod points, you would have them.
If you, you know, read the article, you'd know they're changing the momentum of the electromagnetic fields in a quantum vacuum. Thus, momentum is conserved.
Or simply take your fingerprint from an object you've held, print it out on an inkjet or laser printer, and stick the printout on the reader. Instant identity theft, no finger transplant required.
Looks like it actually is approaching a reasonable number of electrodes, unlike other the bunch of other 'brain control' devices (a pair of electrodes on your forehead does not an effective EEG make). Still too few for any sort of fine control, but you might just be able to get 2d bang-bang direction control going with a large amount of practice.
Of course, if it costs something ridiculous, then it's probably easier to make your own.
Pagers still exist? Granted they never caught on in the UK, but I've never, not even once, seen an actual functioning pager in use. I guess text messaging took over any utility pagers would have over here.
Benefits: blindingly fast when running massively parallel computations (think several hundred thousand threads).
Drawbacks: trying to program something to take advantage of all that power requires you to scale up to several thousand threads. Not always that easy.
Fortunately, feeding input directly into the brain is more difficult that reading output from it.
Not really. It's easily (ish) to stimulate a neuron externally using optical stimulation, but to read that state of that cell currently requires either implanting an electrode into the cell (generally shortens the lifespanof the cell to a few hours/minutes), or stimulating the cell to grow an axon onto a suitable biocompatable electrode (some research in this direction, no reliable results as of yet).
If I recall correctly, the original plan was to put this in the F35. Take out the lift fan, and use the driveshaft to power a generator.
It begs the question of why people use big sounding words and phrases they obviously don't understand.
It begs the question
big sounding words and phrases they obviously don't understand.
You're damn lucky your sig covers this eventuality.