Slashdot's little pearl of wisdom as I was reading your post: "Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates." lol
I'm in New York north of NYC, and Hurricane Irene passed through in August this year with rain the likes of which I have never seen outside of Florida.
Your memory is too short, grasshopper: In August of 1955, hurricane Dianne dumped almost double the peak amount of rain (24 inches) on your region as compared to hurricane Irene, and the consequences were likewise notable. And no-one, not even the truest climate change believers, are blaming Hurricane Dianne on CO2. Every once in a while, it is normal for a hurricane to do exactly that -- drop a bunch of water on the NY/PA region. It doesn't mean that we're experiencing climate change. It just means a hurricane followed an inconvenient track, while doing exactly what hurricanes always do. Again.
Climate changes. It isn't static. Weather, even more so. To cast climate change as the villain in a scare story is the ultimate gimmick. When I was a kid (in the 1950's), we had some long dry spells in NE Pennsylvania. And there was the dust bowl. Further back, there were other notable and unusual climate events. And huge swings in temperature. Also huge swings in CO2 (although they lagged warm periods, they didn't lead them... obviously the plants making lots and lots. But this doesn't provide evidence that CO2 increases warmth, it provide evidence that CO2 correlates with decreasing warmth.) Still, no one can predict climate in the best of times, much less now. Or weather. Yet, sometimes the climate does very unfriendly things. So it's the perfect bogy-man to point at if you want to scare money out of people, or distract them.
Having said that, yes, we should reduce our CO2 emissions. And the good news is, we will -- quite naturally -- as we stop burning petroleum. And we will stop, because it's hard to get, appears to be running out, and we have to negotiate with crazy people to get enough, and alternate sources make more sense on many levels, and we'll be reducing our power consumption by increasing efficiency, a good example being by wide adoption of electric vehicles, which we'll have in great numbers very shortly -- VERY shortly if recent battery tech announcements (1,2) pan out. What we don't need to to is torque the economy (even further) out of shape to deal with an emergency that isn't here and which so far, no one has shown decisively to be incoming.
No, no, you don't understand. Schools in the US "socialize" children in such a way that they will support "team sport" both as children and later as adults, which in turn pushes revenue to the town businesses when other teams come to town for competitions. The businesses, in turn, "rah rah" like crazy, perhaps even buy some uniforms for the kids. It's entirely financial. As far as injuries go, that's ok as long as the team can still play. My ex-wife, a surgeon, dealt with spleen and bone injuries on a regular basis from the local sports programs. A couple of real bad spinal injuries as well over the course of a decade. Trashed immune system? Broken growth plates? Destroyed knee? No problem! And it's always interesting to hear a coach tell the kids to really get in there and injure the opposition (or, in one case I know of, the opposing JV team.) "Gotta practice like you play, kids!"
If government has a legitimate role here, it is educating kids. Reading, writing, math, history, civics, science, and so on. Not "sports." Kids should be done with school early and then, if they want sport, they should go to a private club or other entity that does the sport in question. School sports -- from taxpayer funded playing fields to the huge busses that carry the teams around -- are a huge misuse of tax money, and clear-headed parents don't support them in any way.
There's another issue as well, and that is bullying/lording; kids in sports are inevitably given leeway and options that kids not in sports do not receive, and along with the whole snotty "I'm a football player / cheerleader and you're not" comes mistreatment and isolation. And don't even get me started on "sports scholarships" -- the very idea is a contradiction in terms. There's nothing "scholarly" about school sports at all. It's about money.
It's bad enough that kids naturally aren't on an equal footing intelligence wise; that's something we have to deal with because they have to be educated anyway. There's no need to add an entirely superfluous level of ostracizing to the kid's lives.
The small town I live in is saturated to the gills with child sports-related nonsense. It's a crying shame.
Can you tell me more about Rosetta under Lion? This is a killer for me. WRT Snow Leopard, running Snowchecker today, looks like most of my apps/drivers that I was concerned about have been upgraded, so that's good. Last check, my scanner, guitar interface and VM were all incompatible, all three are marked "good" now.
I'm very content to pay my power bill. Electronics improve my quality of life far beyond what I would be able to purchase with the money for that bill if I had no electricity. This is true for everything from the smallest electronic widget in the house to the Mac Pro, but the Mac Pro in particular doesn't just improve my QoL, it also earns its keep.
We're working on off-the-grid stuff too, but it's a big job because we're profligate power consumers. Eventually, I hope to be independent of the power grid. The main problem is batteries. Short lifetimes and/or high maintainance. I don't have the real estate here for pumped storage, which is actually a fine solution (no pun intended) if you have the room, so I'm waiting on ultracapacitor development. Be a few years yet. In the meantime, the power company gets its well-deserved payment.
I doubt, though, that our sophistication of software design will keep pace.
Probably won't need "software design" any more than you do for a human baby. You just need to "wire" it right (in software or hardware) and it'll program itself. That's what intelligence is.
Why does a human have rights, as opposed to a rock?
Rights come into existence when an entity with sufficient power is willing to exercise that power, or makes a convincing show of willingness, in order to guarantee whatever the claim of right is. Everything else is what we call "wishful thinking", ofttimes accompanied by argument.
And if you don't think rocks have rights, try collecting a vertebrate fossil on government land in front of a park ranger. You'll soon learn differently.
No Human is owned - that would be a violation of rights.
Apparently, you haven't read the 13th amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
As you see: Commit a crime (frankly, difficult to avoid these days), and the government is authorized to convict you, then enslave you. License plates, anyone? Ditches? Chain gangs?
Also, just so you're clear - involuntary servitude is slavery. It's one of those distinctions without a difference.
You're quite right -- I did research my upgrades, and found that it would have been a very bad idea indeed to move beyond Leopard -- so I didn't. Nor do I plan to. Luckily, Leopard is on optical media, and is very amenable to Hackintoshery, so even if Apple drops the Mac Pro, when the time comes to upgrade my machine, I'm still going to be running Leopard on a heck of a nice machine. It just won't be an Apple. I'll either run Leopard native, or in a VM. Not worried about it at all. Been fixing some of the bugs in Leopard, too, so it's more reliable. Started with the cron/console false error message bug they never fixed.
Unfortunately, WRT IOS5, they didn't "bother" to announce the 10.6 requirement until quite a while AFTER they released it, trumpeting the wifi sync capability. So I ended up with IOS5 on my iPad, and now many of my most commonly used apps crash, wifi sync doesn't work at all, notifications don't clear, and I have that turd of a "bookshelf" stuck in my previously nicely arranged folder collection, making a useless page all off by itself and messing up my single-page arrangement.
With just two, the wavelength specificity of the reflected light will be poor: you won't be able to make a bright green spot, merely a greenish spot.
No. The resonance (physical size) of the cavity controls the color; it doesn't depend upon how many layers are in there.
This means that if we try to set the pixel as bright as possible (all subpixels on) we'll still only get a medium grey, not white.
Yes and no (mostly no.) Look at your LCD screen. See that bright, burn-your-eyes out white capability? That comes from r,g and b spots. Meaning, each spot is only emitting 1/3 of the light that it takes to be white, or, in your concept, you're only seeing 1/3 as "white" as you could be (well, not exactly, since our eyes are nonlinear between red, green and blue, but anyway...) Still makes for a nice white. Bottom line: You don't have to reflect every photon to make a decent white. And in fact, paper reflects a lot of them at angles that don't hit your eyes, so you're not getting them all there, either. The "brightness" of the white here will depend on how wide the reflected photons spread on the way back out of the cells. Or to look at it another way, if the light reflection angle is 1/3 of the light capture angle, it'll seem perfectly white to you. The RGB nature of them isn't really the limiting factor.
each subpixel is either on or off, so each pixel can only display 8 colours.
No. Each pixel holds many elements. So the color of the pixel doesn't depend upon its neighbors.
Better yet, get rid of the screen bezel and build a collapsible handle system into the back, so your hand can be behind it, yet still hold it securely. The bezel on my iPad strikes me as a complete waste of space. I might feel better about it if there had been a camera in my gen 1, but there isn't... the bezel just makes the thing so big I can quite get my hand around it without an uncomfortable stretch. We'll have a Kindle Fire in the house tomorrow, looking forward to reading on something that actually fits in my hand.
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Slashdot's little pearl of wisdom as I was reading your post: "Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates." lol
It will also lead to additional cooling. This is also an expected result. It's a feedback loop. One of many.
Your memory is too short, grasshopper: In August of 1955, hurricane Dianne dumped almost double the peak amount of rain (24 inches) on your region as compared to hurricane Irene, and the consequences were likewise notable. And no-one, not even the truest climate change believers, are blaming Hurricane Dianne on CO2. Every once in a while, it is normal for a hurricane to do exactly that -- drop a bunch of water on the NY/PA region. It doesn't mean that we're experiencing climate change. It just means a hurricane followed an inconvenient track, while doing exactly what hurricanes always do. Again.
Yes, very well said. Also, the corollary: You can believe all you want but the climate doesn't care.
My thought after reading was... "Wonder what the poster does for a living?" ...and I'm sure you know why. :)
Awesome. Totally awesome. You made me spit coffee. :)))))
Climate changes. It isn't static. Weather, even more so. To cast climate change as the villain in a scare story is the ultimate gimmick. When I was a kid (in the 1950's), we had some long dry spells in NE Pennsylvania. And there was the dust bowl. Further back, there were other notable and unusual climate events. And huge swings in temperature. Also huge swings in CO2 (although they lagged warm periods, they didn't lead them... obviously the plants making lots and lots. But this doesn't provide evidence that CO2 increases warmth, it provide evidence that CO2 correlates with decreasing warmth.) Still, no one can predict climate in the best of times, much less now. Or weather. Yet, sometimes the climate does very unfriendly things. So it's the perfect bogy-man to point at if you want to scare money out of people, or distract them.
Having said that, yes, we should reduce our CO2 emissions. And the good news is, we will -- quite naturally -- as we stop burning petroleum. And we will stop, because it's hard to get, appears to be running out, and we have to negotiate with crazy people to get enough, and alternate sources make more sense on many levels, and we'll be reducing our power consumption by increasing efficiency, a good example being by wide adoption of electric vehicles, which we'll have in great numbers very shortly -- VERY shortly if recent battery tech announcements (1,2) pan out. What we don't need to to is torque the economy (even further) out of shape to deal with an emergency that isn't here and which so far, no one has shown decisively to be incoming.
Time to stop worrying about the name at all, then. <shrug>
FTFY
a), that doesn't seem to be the case (they ARE funding phys-ed, and the entire country is getting fat) and b), phys-ed != "sports"
No, no, you don't understand. Schools in the US "socialize" children in such a way that they will support "team sport" both as children and later as adults, which in turn pushes revenue to the town businesses when other teams come to town for competitions. The businesses, in turn, "rah rah" like crazy, perhaps even buy some uniforms for the kids. It's entirely financial. As far as injuries go, that's ok as long as the team can still play. My ex-wife, a surgeon, dealt with spleen and bone injuries on a regular basis from the local sports programs. A couple of real bad spinal injuries as well over the course of a decade. Trashed immune system? Broken growth plates? Destroyed knee? No problem! And it's always interesting to hear a coach tell the kids to really get in there and injure the opposition (or, in one case I know of, the opposing JV team.) "Gotta practice like you play, kids!"
If government has a legitimate role here, it is educating kids. Reading, writing, math, history, civics, science, and so on. Not "sports." Kids should be done with school early and then, if they want sport, they should go to a private club or other entity that does the sport in question. School sports -- from taxpayer funded playing fields to the huge busses that carry the teams around -- are a huge misuse of tax money, and clear-headed parents don't support them in any way.
There's another issue as well, and that is bullying/lording; kids in sports are inevitably given leeway and options that kids not in sports do not receive, and along with the whole snotty "I'm a football player / cheerleader and you're not" comes mistreatment and isolation. And don't even get me started on "sports scholarships" -- the very idea is a contradiction in terms. There's nothing "scholarly" about school sports at all. It's about money.
It's bad enough that kids naturally aren't on an equal footing intelligence wise; that's something we have to deal with because they have to be educated anyway. There's no need to add an entirely superfluous level of ostracizing to the kid's lives.
The small town I live in is saturated to the gills with child sports-related nonsense. It's a crying shame.
Thanks, appreciate the info.
I do own a Snow Leopard disk. I got it for my laptop, So that's good. So then, PPC apps "just work"?
Can you tell me more about Rosetta under Lion? This is a killer for me. WRT Snow Leopard, running Snowchecker today, looks like most of my apps/drivers that I was concerned about have been upgraded, so that's good. Last check, my scanner, guitar interface and VM were all incompatible, all three are marked "good" now.
I'm very content to pay my power bill. Electronics improve my quality of life far beyond what I would be able to purchase with the money for that bill if I had no electricity. This is true for everything from the smallest electronic widget in the house to the Mac Pro, but the Mac Pro in particular doesn't just improve my QoL, it also earns its keep.
We're working on off-the-grid stuff too, but it's a big job because we're profligate power consumers. Eventually, I hope to be independent of the power grid. The main problem is batteries. Short lifetimes and/or high maintainance. I don't have the real estate here for pumped storage, which is actually a fine solution (no pun intended) if you have the room, so I'm waiting on ultracapacitor development. Be a few years yet. In the meantime, the power company gets its well-deserved payment.
Probably won't need "software design" any more than you do for a human baby. You just need to "wire" it right (in software or hardware) and it'll program itself. That's what intelligence is.
Rights come into existence when an entity with sufficient power is willing to exercise that power, or makes a convincing show of willingness, in order to guarantee whatever the claim of right is. Everything else is what we call "wishful thinking", ofttimes accompanied by argument.
And if you don't think rocks have rights, try collecting a vertebrate fossil on government land in front of a park ranger. You'll soon learn differently.
Apparently, you haven't read the 13th amendment:
As you see: Commit a crime (frankly, difficult to avoid these days), and the government is authorized to convict you, then enslave you. License plates, anyone? Ditches? Chain gangs?
Also, just so you're clear - involuntary servitude is slavery. It's one of those distinctions without a difference.
Also, I should mention that I'm not having performance issues. Eight-cores, three GHz, eight GB, three graphics cards, six monitors.
Essentially, the red X's and Yellow triangles in this table.
You're quite right -- I did research my upgrades, and found that it would have been a very bad idea indeed to move beyond Leopard -- so I didn't. Nor do I plan to. Luckily, Leopard is on optical media, and is very amenable to Hackintoshery, so even if Apple drops the Mac Pro, when the time comes to upgrade my machine, I'm still going to be running Leopard on a heck of a nice machine. It just won't be an Apple. I'll either run Leopard native, or in a VM. Not worried about it at all. Been fixing some of the bugs in Leopard, too, so it's more reliable. Started with the cron/console false error message bug they never fixed.
Unfortunately, WRT IOS5, they didn't "bother" to announce the 10.6 requirement until quite a while AFTER they released it, trumpeting the wifi sync capability. So I ended up with IOS5 on my iPad, and now many of my most commonly used apps crash, wifi sync doesn't work at all, notifications don't clear, and I have that turd of a "bookshelf" stuck in my previously nicely arranged folder collection, making a useless page all off by itself and messing up my single-page arrangement.
[moves arms in circle from over head down to sides, with accompanying Ack-ack-aaack-ack-aaack!]
[Shoots Dove of Peace]
No. The resonance (physical size) of the cavity controls the color; it doesn't depend upon how many layers are in there.
Yes and no (mostly no.) Look at your LCD screen. See that bright, burn-your-eyes out white capability? That comes from r,g and b spots. Meaning, each spot is only emitting 1/3 of the light that it takes to be white, or, in your concept, you're only seeing 1/3 as "white" as you could be (well, not exactly, since our eyes are nonlinear between red, green and blue, but anyway...) Still makes for a nice white. Bottom line: You don't have to reflect every photon to make a decent white. And in fact, paper reflects a lot of them at angles that don't hit your eyes, so you're not getting them all there, either. The "brightness" of the white here will depend on how wide the reflected photons spread on the way back out of the cells. Or to look at it another way, if the light reflection angle is 1/3 of the light capture angle, it'll seem perfectly white to you. The RGB nature of them isn't really the limiting factor.
No. Each pixel holds many elements. So the color of the pixel doesn't depend upon its neighbors.
Better yet, get rid of the screen bezel and build a collapsible handle system into the back, so your hand can be behind it, yet still hold it securely. The bezel on my iPad strikes me as a complete waste of space. I might feel better about it if there had been a camera in my gen 1, but there isn't... the bezel just makes the thing so big I can quite get my hand around it without an uncomfortable stretch. We'll have a Kindle Fire in the house tomorrow, looking forward to reading on something that actually fits in my hand.
Paper?
What is this... paper... you speak of?