Or you view it as a pragmatic organization whose purpose isn't to find the most deserving peacemaker but the recipient which stands the chance of creating the most peace by giving them additional media attention.
The goal of the peace prize is to promote peace, so it's often given in an effort to draw attention to the cause of someone around the world who is in a position of power to create peace.
Although you mean well you're misrepresenting the science.
The *direct* result of CO2 warming is only about 10% of observed warming. The denialists don't have a problem with the fact that Co2 causes warming and that there is an increase in manmade Co2. The disagreement becomes whether or not it causes an increase in water vapor in the atmosphere (It does) and whether or not that increase in water vapor is a warming or cooling effect (it warms).
The Parent is confusing because it was a bit of lazy satire parodying a post above it which wasn't modded high enough to be visible. The parent replaced "Father" with "Mother" and "Sons" with "Daughters".
Well if I were an exec I would ask my secretary to get some 'computer guy' in to provide me with a compilation of how much I made from advertising the night before based on as many sources of revenue as possible.
If Hulu charges more per second let me know and take it into account. Create a normalized set of data so I can see how many viewed my program, how that compares to other networks and where we could extract more revenue.
Last night you had: 2m viewers estimated on broadcast. That means we made $.003 per viewer. 100,000k viewers watched it on Hulu. We made $.001 per viewer. etc...
Probably because while they compete, they aren't competing in the OS marketplace, nor have any interest to ever compete in the OS marketplace.
It's a statement that comes up our studio pretty frequently. "We aren't in the software business." So while we write code, we aren't looking to sell and support said code. Nor do we think the code we release would give the competition an unfair advantage. Instead if someone were to adopt it then maybe we could stop investing our own time in developing it.
The real problem with FOSS software from this standpoint though is that it's almost never cost effective to write something if there is even a mediocre commercial product available. The simplest of all applications would take at least two days. If you count the opportunity costs then that's hundreds of dollars for a simple tool.
So we only really invest in things which haven't been done before or are very specific to our own needs. If it hasn't been done before then in all likelihood it offers us a competitive advantage and we won't release it. Once it's become common hat then we don't mind releasing it but commercial software probably offers something better.
Why have a pilot? I doubt the thing will stay airborne without a computer anyway. I can't believe that a pilot would be as capable as an autopilot computer in this instance.
It doesn't even demonize space Marines if you actually pay attention during the movie. "They've ceased being soldiers. They're now mercenaries, guns for hire." or something like that. They're Blackwater.
Not too much of a surprise since the reason most closed source applications have poor CLI is because they just don't care about it.
When all you have is a CLI it better work. When a CLI is just a bonus feature to enable specific workflows and batch operations then the CLI is usually minimal.
We persist because every similar word is also capitalized (even though most of them actually are acronyms) so it seems sensible to stay within conventions.
File formats are all capitalized: TIFF EXR PNG JPG DPX etc...
Colorspaces and gamma definitions are also often all caps as well: sRGB LOG LIN
Since RGB is all caps it's just common practice to use RAW in all caps to make the distinction that you're referring to a bayer pattern image and not the raw unprocessed data.
Great, so you are saying I have to be a photography expert before I can even start to understand the names of things in photoshop. That seems much better.
Yes. That's exactly what we're saying. Just like you have to be a "Compute Expert" and understand what "Mouse" or "Keyboard" is and that a "CD-ROM" goes into the "Tray" or that you need to "Double-Click" on an "Icon" in order to run a program.
Every area has its own vocabulary. Often the names for things are throwbacks to decades or centuries earlier. In the case of photography you can take something like "exposure". In Photoshop exposure has no meaning unless you understand the photographic concept. Similarly in Photoshop the word "Dodge" means nothing unless you understand it from the photographic concept of "dodging" which involves blocking the light of the print in an area and reducing the exposure. Similarly "burning" means selectively extending the exposure to a region of your print. Burn means nothing when you're talking about pixels, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it optically. There are many ways to brighten or darken an image. In the case of Dodge and Burn as an example though you're talking about a very specific type of brightening and darkening.
If you could get through 99.99% of the earth's atmosphere your propulsion methods are much broader. If half your payload was fuel I imagine you could get to a higher orbit pretty easily.
I just finished reading an excellent book on the subject: Logicomix. It's interesting and deep enough for those with an interest in math and science, but approachable even to a layman
While I do think that's close to the future than we would like to admit I don't think that example is terribly accurate.
Pizza Recipes are often the result of the challenge to mass produce a quality product. If the production end of things were removed from the equation and it purely came down to the aesthetic quality of the pizza there are far better options which are available in the public domain.
Also Pizza is such a personal and subjective item, I can't imagine pizza hut actually surviving. When everyone gets to order the exact pizza slice they want then I imagine creativity and experimentation will be the 'order of the day'. Piracy in such a situation would be very similar to the current market: the Photoshop of pizzas would be widely pirated. The content produced by it, much less so. It seems though that a clever entrepreneur who hosts the saved files and offers a rating system would be able to make a pretty penny from advertising revenue.
Oh I thought that was because I usually listen to music while reading and the two were a natural fit for sitting on an airplane listening to music while reading.
I've found that more than just about any other degree Computer Science and to a less extent Medical Degrees imbue the recipient with an unnatural ego when it comes to subjects with which they are unfamiliar. I propose we remove the word Science from CS degrees and call it what it is "Computer Programming and Troubleshooting". There are far too many CS graduates who think they are actually scientists.
If they called their new phone "Luke Skywalker" you can bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't take a Jedi to hear the cry of a thousand accountants cry out in agony and then fall silent.
I don't think it's a leap to say "I'm not convinced. And your arguments have no foundation." In fact I would assume those who aren't convinced aren't convinced BECAUSE the opposition's arguments have no foundation.
I don't believe there are Unicorns. Ergo I think people who believe in Unicorns are idiots. I'm not anti-unicorns, I've just evaluated the argument made for unicorns (of the mythical magical variety) and found no evidence for it. Since I've found no evidence for it, and exhaustively searched I can conclude that those who do believe in Unicorns and have the same information as myself have an irrational and inaccurate position--in other words idiots.
I also think people who believe in Crop Circles are idiots. Does that make it a religion?
It's true that technically every atheist should be a "Agnostic" in that "there might be a god but I see no evidence for it" but we don't make that distinction in any other area of life. I don't say "I don't think there's a monster standing behind me but there might be therefore I'm undecided as to whether a monster is standing behind me." we just jump to the conclusion with the understanding that nothing in the world is certain.
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Or you view it as a pragmatic organization whose purpose isn't to find the most deserving peacemaker but the recipient which stands the chance of creating the most peace by giving them additional media attention.
The goal of the peace prize is to promote peace, so it's often given in an effort to draw attention to the cause of someone around the world who is in a position of power to create peace.
Although you mean well you're misrepresenting the science.
The *direct* result of CO2 warming is only about 10% of observed warming. The denialists don't have a problem with the fact that Co2 causes warming and that there is an increase in manmade Co2. The disagreement becomes whether or not it causes an increase in water vapor in the atmosphere (It does) and whether or not that increase in water vapor is a warming or cooling effect (it warms).
There's also the drop in touchscreen prices.
I can buy a decent tablet now for $500. When tablets were released there was a $1500 PREMIUM on top of the normal laptop price.
The Parent is confusing because it was a bit of lazy satire parodying a post above it which wasn't modded high enough to be visible. The parent replaced "Father" with "Mother" and "Sons" with "Daughters".
Well if I were an exec I would ask my secretary to get some 'computer guy' in to provide me with a compilation of how much I made from advertising the night before based on as many sources of revenue as possible.
If Hulu charges more per second let me know and take it into account. Create a normalized set of data so I can see how many viewed my program, how that compares to other networks and where we could extract more revenue.
Last night you had:
2m viewers estimated on broadcast. That means we made $.003 per viewer.
100,000k viewers watched it on Hulu. We made $.001 per viewer.
etc...
Unless of course they raise the cap on SS by like 10%. In which case it's fine.
Social Security isn't in any great risk.
Probably because while they compete, they aren't competing in the OS marketplace, nor have any interest to ever compete in the OS marketplace.
It's a statement that comes up our studio pretty frequently. "We aren't in the software business." So while we write code, we aren't looking to sell and support said code. Nor do we think the code we release would give the competition an unfair advantage. Instead if someone were to adopt it then maybe we could stop investing our own time in developing it.
The real problem with FOSS software from this standpoint though is that it's almost never cost effective to write something if there is even a mediocre commercial product available. The simplest of all applications would take at least two days. If you count the opportunity costs then that's hundreds of dollars for a simple tool.
So we only really invest in things which haven't been done before or are very specific to our own needs. If it hasn't been done before then in all likelihood it offers us a competitive advantage and we won't release it. Once it's become common hat then we don't mind releasing it but commercial software probably offers something better.
Why have a pilot? I doubt the thing will stay airborne without a computer anyway. I can't believe that a pilot would be as capable as an autopilot computer in this instance.
Could always install one of those light aircraft parachutes they've got now a days. Trick would be finding a place to set it down in an urban setting.
Copyright is automatic. Could you please send me all your old VHS movies which have entered the public domain? I want to copy them.
It doesn't even demonize space Marines if you actually pay attention during the movie. "They've ceased being soldiers. They're now mercenaries, guns for hire." or something like that. They're Blackwater.
Not too much of a surprise since the reason most closed source applications have poor CLI is because they just don't care about it.
When all you have is a CLI it better work. When a CLI is just a bonus feature to enable specific workflows and batch operations then the CLI is usually minimal.
We persist because every similar word is also capitalized (even though most of them actually are acronyms) so it seems sensible to stay within conventions.
File formats are all capitalized:
TIFF
EXR
PNG
JPG
DPX
etc...
Colorspaces and gamma definitions are also often all caps as well:
sRGB
LOG
LIN
Since RGB is all caps it's just common practice to use RAW in all caps to make the distinction that you're referring to a bayer pattern image and not the raw unprocessed data.
Great, so you are saying I have to be a photography expert before I can even start to understand the names of things in photoshop. That seems much better.
Yes. That's exactly what we're saying. Just like you have to be a "Compute Expert" and understand what "Mouse" or "Keyboard" is and that a "CD-ROM" goes into the "Tray" or that you need to "Double-Click" on an "Icon" in order to run a program.
Every area has its own vocabulary. Often the names for things are throwbacks to decades or centuries earlier. In the case of photography you can take something like "exposure". In Photoshop exposure has no meaning unless you understand the photographic concept. Similarly in Photoshop the word "Dodge" means nothing unless you understand it from the photographic concept of "dodging" which involves blocking the light of the print in an area and reducing the exposure. Similarly "burning" means selectively extending the exposure to a region of your print. Burn means nothing when you're talking about pixels, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it optically. There are many ways to brighten or darken an image. In the case of Dodge and Burn as an example though you're talking about a very specific type of brightening and darkening.
Really this strikes you as a low blow.
Costa Rica: "We aren't going to pay for American IP."
USA: "We aren't going to buy Costa Rican products then."
Seems like a reasonable reaction. If they aren't going to pay for our products why should we continue buying theirs?
If you could get through 99.99% of the earth's atmosphere your propulsion methods are much broader. If half your payload was fuel I imagine you could get to a higher orbit pretty easily.
I just finished reading an excellent book on the subject: Logicomix. It's interesting and deep enough for those with an interest in math and science, but approachable even to a layman
http://www.logicomix.com/en/
It's about the search for an absolute/self-defined foundation for mathematics.
While I do think that's close to the future than we would like to admit I don't think that example is terribly accurate.
Pizza Recipes are often the result of the challenge to mass produce a quality product. If the production end of things were removed from the equation and it purely came down to the aesthetic quality of the pizza there are far better options which are available in the public domain.
Also Pizza is such a personal and subjective item, I can't imagine pizza hut actually surviving. When everyone gets to order the exact pizza slice they want then I imagine creativity and experimentation will be the 'order of the day'. Piracy in such a situation would be very similar to the current market: the Photoshop of pizzas would be widely pirated. The content produced by it, much less so. It seems though that a clever entrepreneur who hosts the saved files and offers a rating system would be able to make a pretty penny from advertising revenue.
Oh I thought that was because I usually listen to music while reading and the two were a natural fit for sitting on an airplane listening to music while reading.
Most of these films are only available through Netflix Mailing. Unless you can VPN a POBox then I doubt that's affecting much.
I like the idea of an x86 phone but....
Wouldn't it be easier to just keep a VM instance in a memory card on your phone than to actually require the phone to do the processing?
I've found that more than just about any other degree Computer Science and to a less extent Medical Degrees imbue the recipient with an unnatural ego when it comes to subjects with which they are unfamiliar. I propose we remove the word Science from CS degrees and call it what it is "Computer Programming and Troubleshooting". There are far too many CS graduates who think they are actually scientists.
If they called their new phone "Luke Skywalker" you can bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't take a Jedi to hear the cry of a thousand accountants cry out in agony and then fall silent.
It uses an infrared projector for the sensor I believe. So it's creating its own light.
I don't think it's a leap to say "I'm not convinced. And your arguments have no foundation." In fact I would assume those who aren't convinced aren't convinced BECAUSE the opposition's arguments have no foundation.
I don't believe there are Unicorns. Ergo I think people who believe in Unicorns are idiots. I'm not anti-unicorns, I've just evaluated the argument made for unicorns (of the mythical magical variety) and found no evidence for it. Since I've found no evidence for it, and exhaustively searched I can conclude that those who do believe in Unicorns and have the same information as myself have an irrational and inaccurate position--in other words idiots.
I also think people who believe in Crop Circles are idiots. Does that make it a religion?
It's true that technically every atheist should be a "Agnostic" in that "there might be a god but I see no evidence for it" but we don't make that distinction in any other area of life. I don't say "I don't think there's a monster standing behind me but there might be therefore I'm undecided as to whether a monster is standing behind me." we just jump to the conclusion with the understanding that nothing in the world is certain.