All the explanations I can come up with only make short-term sense. I don't think the Koreas' will remain seperate forever (or even for more than 50 years). A unified, nuclear armed Korea is probably not a good thing to have on your doorstep - why encourage it?
Just to float an idea here: Accepting for the sake of the argument that Korea will unify, it's a much greater threat to Japan than to China - sure it's physically closer to China, but that means very little when everyone has missiles. China with its state-controlled media etc. and relatively dispersed population could survive a small-scale nuclear attack much better than Japan; the aid history means Korea is more likely to align with them against Japan than vice versa, and it seems likely that Japan and China will be competing all over the place for the forseeable future.
Apply General Relativity, the second most thoroughly verified scientific theory ever. You'll discover that any point "before" the big bang must necessarily be causally disconnected from the present; that is, causes there cannot have effects here and vice versa. Thus in any meaningful sense it doesn't exist.
Now, of course, GR is incomplete, but it remains our best explanation for observed phenomena; none of the various quantum gravity contenders has any substantial evidence to support it where its predictions differ from those of GR.
Oh, please. Terminator did a much better approach to the paradoxes than Primer, which just relied on the viewer not understanding enough to realise it wasn't actually doing anything original.
Water is actually probably the most efficient coolant around, however, the latent heat of evaporation means it works best when it is boiled off the surface to be cooled.
Which is why mineral oil is often a better choice for computers - lower SHC, sure, but it's quite easy to get the boiling point at 50-70 degrees where you want it. I believe the original Crays had a very elegant system that worked this way.
There is an old GPL version for reading RARs, but it won't work on any RARs made (>= 2.0) in the last ~10 years because the format has completely changed.
The Erik Larssons java code appears to handle the present version fine. Not to mention that the sole restriction on the unrar source code is irrelevant to extracting - yes, it is technically non-free, but not in any way that's actually relevant when your concern is about access to your data.
I would rather not rely on a secret, proprietary format in the first place, which is why I shun RARs.
"Secret" is outright false, and even "proprietary" is a bit of a stretch. The format is well documented, and source code for extraction is freely available and usable. Yes there is one restriction, but to compare the format with (for example) MS Word documents is ludicrous.
We have free alternatives that can perform the same functions.
No you don't. I would drop rar in an instant if I could achieve a similar compression ratio, on-the-fly volume splitting, and self-extracting archives with a free alternative - but I can't.
They taste very different - there's much more metal in hard drives (they basically taste like a lump of metal), with ram you mainly get the flavour of the PCB itself, with just an aftertaste from the chips.
Except that there is only one implementation that can read RARs, which is the proprietary one.
No, there are a number of free ones if you really care that much.
It's worse than using a Word doc.
No. The extraction tool is freely available (and not requiring you to buy an OS like MS word viewer does). And more to the point, and unlike word, it has many advantages for people wanting to actually use the things.
Fast: Well, Danger Mouse obviously would host it somewhere. Obviously he would offer it lossless.
At which point he's in as much trouble as if he were just selling it, making this all pointless.
And the listeners would have a higher rate of people who do not share anything else. With that OS thing even all of them would share as much bandwidth as they could.
WTF? They'd turn the torrent off as soon as it finished so that they could actually, y'know, use their computer.
The sun and shuttle look like they're about the same distance away (obviously with the shuttle in front), so naively interpreting that photo you'd think the shuttle was a substantial proportion of the size of the sun. That's the trick of perspective.
Pfft. Not my experience. A couple of other larpers spent fifty minutes in the pub going on about yu-gi-oh! cards, and we let them. And while I would never touch yu-gi-oh! I appreciate the only difference between us is a matter of degree.
A "kernel of truth" says nothing about the relative size of the effect. E.g. even if women prefer pink on average, how predictive is that statement for a particular female consumer? What are the error bars?
It still tells you more than 50% of your target market is going to be past a certain direction, which is useful. My guess is that Dell have done more in-depth studies and confirmed their stereotypes.
Even if a stereotype is correct, on average, using it as the basis for marketing is usually dumb because the group you are targeting may well be offended by the implication of the stereotype. Again, even if it is true, you may do more damage than good in using that marketing angle.
True, but again, I'm sure they've considered this.
Clothes tend to be aesthetic purchases, whereas laptops tend to be functional purchases.
Hah. Tell that to the apple customers.
Stereotypes often arise from cultural forces and even "self-fulfilling prophecies". They are not necessarily intrinsic. From a marketing perspective, the provenance of a trend usually doesn't matter
Damn right it doesn't matter. Dell's job is to make money, nothing more, and one can't blame them for that.
Stereotypes are frequently generalized illogically. E.g. "girls like pink; I saw I guy wearing a pink shirt yesterday; that guy must be girlie and weak" (this includes both the unfounded pink->girl and girl->weak assumptions).
How the hell is this relevant here?
Stereotypes describe one aspect of a class at the expense of others. E.g. maybe women on average like pink, but is that really the defining feature of that class? Is that the most pertinent thing to focus on? Even if true, the choice to focus on that trivializes the identity of the class.
So what're they supposed to do, give one of those incredibly bland ads that shows all the different types of women from around the world?
Point being: stereotypes are looked-down upon for a reason. They are spurious, frequently unhelpful, often downright wrong, and usually rather insulting.
They seem to only be looked down on from a particular philosophy, unburdened with actual real-world considerations (how that particular school of philosophers came to dominate certain circles is a story for another time). Stereotypes are by and large accurate (yes, really, you just pay more attention to the ones that aren't; likewise for the claim that they're usually insulting; they're not, you just pay more attention to those) and immensely useful.
Hmm? In my experience most nerds (curiously, in a group that prizes individuality more than most) are very conscious of the extent to which they're similar to other such.
You can't fix stupid. Stop trying. People fuck up VB and C# apps just as much as the fuck up C and C++ apps.
No - and when they do, the security implications are much smaller. Yes, it is always going to be *possible* to write an insecure program - but that doesn't mean the likelihood is the same.
Now that said, I disapprove of these measures - simply because if you could afford the efficiency problems they introduce, you shouldn't be using C at all.
Then you haven't been paying attention. They're not just named after arbitrary famous scientists; they're people directly related to the wavelengths being studied. (Also, naming things after dead people is more... dignified, somehow.)
I almost made a point of mentioning that the "refrigeration laser" in David Brin's novels has no relation to reality, if that's what you're thinking of. If you're thinking of the real laser cooling, my AC sibling has it covered - yes, it's possible to cool things that way, but simply not practical on the kind of scale needed, and if it were the power requirements would be huge.
I realize we, as in all space agencies, use helium or something else to keep these instruments cold, but why can't we use the coldness of space to do the same thing?
Because what they're trying to measure is, in some senses, the temperature of space itself - the ~3K CMB. So they need the detector to be colder than that.
Isn't there some way to use one or more of the three forms of heat transfer to keep the instruments cold enough to work without having to rely on a limited source of helium?
No. The radiative coolers (can't really use conduction or convection in space) will keep the craft cold enough for the low frequency instrument to work, even after the helium* runs out, but to get the 0.1K that the high frequency instrument needs, there's no (good) alternative to this active cooler.
* Well, not after the helium in its own refrigerators runs out. But it's not actively venting that, so we only have leakage to worry about there.
It's never going to be commercially sound, not at this stage. Space is still pretty much at the pure research stage; the benefits will be long-term. But make no mistake, they will be there, and for all humanity; any nation with a sense of internationalism ought to try and do its bit. (That doesn't mean putting the same things in space as everyone else just for the sake of it; that means collaboration, and doing the small missions which nevertheless haven't been done so far)
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Just to float an idea here: Accepting for the sake of the argument that Korea will unify, it's a much greater threat to Japan than to China - sure it's physically closer to China, but that means very little when everyone has missiles. China with its state-controlled media etc. and relatively dispersed population could survive a small-scale nuclear attack much better than Japan; the aid history means Korea is more likely to align with them against Japan than vice versa, and it seems likely that Japan and China will be competing all over the place for the forseeable future.
Can't speak for Ubuntu, but if you use a KDE distro this has been available for years.
Now, of course, GR is incomplete, but it remains our best explanation for observed phenomena; none of the various quantum gravity contenders has any substantial evidence to support it where its predictions differ from those of GR.
Oh, please. Terminator did a much better approach to the paradoxes than Primer, which just relied on the viewer not understanding enough to realise it wasn't actually doing anything original.
Which is why mineral oil is often a better choice for computers - lower SHC, sure, but it's quite easy to get the boiling point at 50-70 degrees where you want it. I believe the original Crays had a very elegant system that worked this way.
Or a group of exhibitionists.
The Erik Larssons java code appears to handle the present version fine. Not to mention that the sole restriction on the unrar source code is irrelevant to extracting - yes, it is technically non-free, but not in any way that's actually relevant when your concern is about access to your data.
I would rather not rely on a secret, proprietary format in the first place, which is why I shun RARs.
"Secret" is outright false, and even "proprietary" is a bit of a stretch. The format is well documented, and source code for extraction is freely available and usable. Yes there is one restriction, but to compare the format with (for example) MS Word documents is ludicrous.
We have free alternatives that can perform the same functions.
No you don't. I would drop rar in an instant if I could achieve a similar compression ratio, on-the-fly volume splitting, and self-extracting archives with a free alternative - but I can't.
They taste very different - there's much more metal in hard drives (they basically taste like a lump of metal), with ram you mainly get the flavour of the PCB itself, with just an aftertaste from the chips.
No, there are a number of free ones if you really care that much.
It's worse than using a Word doc.
No. The extraction tool is freely available (and not requiring you to buy an OS like MS word viewer does). And more to the point, and unlike word, it has many advantages for people wanting to actually use the things.
Not technically possible. Audio has to be in the first session.
Um, what? (And at +5?) For an actual user (rather than software politician), rar is the nicest archive format I can think of.
At which point he's in as much trouble as if he were just selling it, making this all pointless.
And the listeners would have a higher rate of people who do not share anything else. With that OS thing even all of them would share as much bandwidth as they could.
WTF? They'd turn the torrent off as soon as it finished so that they could actually, y'know, use their computer.
Copyright infringement's a civil rather than criminal offence; you can only sue if you claim you yourself have a right to damages.
The sun and shuttle look like they're about the same distance away (obviously with the shuttle in front), so naively interpreting that photo you'd think the shuttle was a substantial proportion of the size of the sun. That's the trick of perspective.
You could but that requires a little more care - e.g. most such OSes will happily use any swap partitions they find on the drive.
Pfft. Not my experience. A couple of other larpers spent fifty minutes in the pub going on about yu-gi-oh! cards, and we let them. And while I would never touch yu-gi-oh! I appreciate the only difference between us is a matter of degree.
It still tells you more than 50% of your target market is going to be past a certain direction, which is useful. My guess is that Dell have done more in-depth studies and confirmed their stereotypes.
Even if a stereotype is correct, on average, using it as the basis for marketing is usually dumb because the group you are targeting may well be offended by the implication of the stereotype. Again, even if it is true, you may do more damage than good in using that marketing angle.
True, but again, I'm sure they've considered this.
Clothes tend to be aesthetic purchases, whereas laptops tend to be functional purchases.
Hah. Tell that to the apple customers.
Stereotypes often arise from cultural forces and even "self-fulfilling prophecies". They are not necessarily intrinsic. From a marketing perspective, the provenance of a trend usually doesn't matter
Damn right it doesn't matter. Dell's job is to make money, nothing more, and one can't blame them for that.
Stereotypes are frequently generalized illogically. E.g. "girls like pink; I saw I guy wearing a pink shirt yesterday; that guy must be girlie and weak" (this includes both the unfounded pink->girl and girl->weak assumptions).
How the hell is this relevant here?
Stereotypes describe one aspect of a class at the expense of others. E.g. maybe women on average like pink, but is that really the defining feature of that class? Is that the most pertinent thing to focus on? Even if true, the choice to focus on that trivializes the identity of the class.
So what're they supposed to do, give one of those incredibly bland ads that shows all the different types of women from around the world?
Point being: stereotypes are looked-down upon for a reason. They are spurious, frequently unhelpful, often downright wrong, and usually rather insulting.
They seem to only be looked down on from a particular philosophy, unburdened with actual real-world considerations (how that particular school of philosophers came to dominate certain circles is a story for another time). Stereotypes are by and large accurate (yes, really, you just pay more attention to the ones that aren't; likewise for the claim that they're usually insulting; they're not, you just pay more attention to those) and immensely useful.
Hmm? In my experience most nerds (curiously, in a group that prizes individuality more than most) are very conscious of the extent to which they're similar to other such.
Isn't that what this campaign has done?
No - and when they do, the security implications are much smaller. Yes, it is always going to be *possible* to write an insecure program - but that doesn't mean the likelihood is the same.
Now that said, I disapprove of these measures - simply because if you could afford the efficiency problems they introduce, you shouldn't be using C at all.
Then you haven't been paying attention. They're not just named after arbitrary famous scientists; they're people directly related to the wavelengths being studied. (Also, naming things after dead people is more... dignified, somehow.)
I almost made a point of mentioning that the "refrigeration laser" in David Brin's novels has no relation to reality, if that's what you're thinking of. If you're thinking of the real laser cooling, my AC sibling has it covered - yes, it's possible to cool things that way, but simply not practical on the kind of scale needed, and if it were the power requirements would be huge.
Because what they're trying to measure is, in some senses, the temperature of space itself - the ~3K CMB. So they need the detector to be colder than that.
Isn't there some way to use one or more of the three forms of heat transfer to keep the instruments cold enough to work without having to rely on a limited source of helium?
No. The radiative coolers (can't really use conduction or convection in space) will keep the craft cold enough for the low frequency instrument to work, even after the helium* runs out, but to get the 0.1K that the high frequency instrument needs, there's no (good) alternative to this active cooler.
* Well, not after the helium in its own refrigerators runs out. But it's not actively venting that, so we only have leakage to worry about there.
It's never going to be commercially sound, not at this stage. Space is still pretty much at the pure research stage; the benefits will be long-term. But make no mistake, they will be there, and for all humanity; any nation with a sense of internationalism ought to try and do its bit. (That doesn't mean putting the same things in space as everyone else just for the sake of it; that means collaboration, and doing the small missions which nevertheless haven't been done so far)
Apple's "everything bundled in the .app" policy may help avoid DLL hell, but this is the price you pay for it.