The item shown in these pictures is not a Geiger Counter. It is a Victoreen. The difference being that a Geiger Counter measures the number of decay incidents in a given period of time, whereas a Victoreen measures the amount of radiation exposure in a given period of time.
The difference being that, while a Geiger Counter may be a useful tool for knowing that there are radioactive emissions are occuring (and at what rate), it is not nearly as useful as a Victoreen for quantifying what type of dosage one is receiving and what the effects might be on the human body.
So, basically, they figured out the same thing I was taught five years ago in college. It's explained by "Optimal Stimulation Theory." People have an optimal level of stimulation that they try to maintain. Introverts naturally have a higher level of internal stimulation, therefore they seek to reduce the amount of outside stimulation they receive in order to maintain their optimal stimulation level. Extroverts (and "sensation seekers") have a lower level of internal stimulation and therefore seek to increase the amount of external stimulation they receive in order to maintain their optimal stimulation level.
So...what's new about this study?
Y'know, it always amazes me when people in the DC area claim this. My Sprint phone works perfectly fine in the metro. It's on roaming, but I don't pay anything extra to roam on my plan anyway, so no big deal. I know people who pay out the nose for Verizon out here because "It works in the metro" and they really don't have to get robbed for cell service.
Ensign: "Excuse me Captain, I think I have to go take a holo-dook"
Picard: "Ensign, you know just as well as I do that 3-d Realms hasn't released that game yet."
1)You're an asshole
2)You're an asshole
3)You're an asshole
4)The state didn't put the city 17 feet below sea level. The French and the Spanish did. At the time, the city was not nearly so far below sea level
5)As for your assertion that the state and city should have put more money into the levee system; the levee system is part of the reason the city is so far below sea level. Due to the levee system, the river cannot flood on a yearly basis and deposit silt. Therefore the existing land settles out year after year after year, causing the city to sink.
6)You're an asshole
7)I hope you get cancer. Horrible, disfiguring, painful cancer. Not someday, but *NOW*. I hope you marry an alcoholic man who beats you daily. I don't care if you're a man or a woman, I hope he beats you daily, rapes you anally, and posts pictures of it on the internet. I'd pay to see them.
Sincerely,
A New Orleanian in DC
1)Firefox is based on Mozilla, which was originally/is still (AFAIK) a Netscape project.
2)Tabbed browsing is not a new development, nor was it first implemented by Firefox. That innovation (again, AFAIK) belongs to Opera, and has been around for some time.
I like Firefox as much as the next guy, but I don't happen to see them as being all that innovative. I like them mainly because they incorporated some of the best features of Opera into a browser I don't have to pay for. That doesn't make them innovative so much as it means that the Firefox people realized that most of us don't like to pay for browsers with useful features.
This is easily solved by a multi-protocol IM client like Trillian. It's kind of similar to the way your one phone can send your voice to people across a system of copper and fiber lines.
Ummm....since when does Burt Rutan not work for NASA? If I recall correctly, he's worked on a number of NASA projects, including some of the work on the CEV.
Well, if
1) an antenna is generally made of conductive/metallic type material, and
2)the patch antenna for satellite radio is about 2 inches square, and
3)the standard ipod has a nice shiny metal back to it...
What, exactly is the problem, again?
I don't know that I necessarily consider Apple a content company, although I may either be unaware of the content they produce, or may be using a different definition of "content provider."
And, honestly, I don't know that I really consider them to be a "tech" company either. I know they make a lot of products that rely on technology, but I actually prefer to think of them as an "appliance" company.
And, I think this is how and why some of their products are so popular, and have such a fanatical following.
You see, I think that there is a large portion of the population that doesn't want to have to *work* to use technology. They want mp3 players that are simple to figure out and use, computers that they can just turn on and start playing with, and other things that are as uncomplicated to get their hands into as possible. Apple seems to understand this, to some extent, and I think it's served them well.
In fact, it's for this reason that I like having my 3G ipod over the newer 4G versions. The buttons pretty much only do *one* thing each. I don't have to deal with the frustration of what happens if I press too hard on the scroll wheel and accidentally activate one of the other features.
*plunks down two pennies* Just my two cents.
"I've got a lot of hope for this project - the fact that ATI has already contacted the developers to add support for their Remote Wonder products is awesome!"
As a person who is currently using an ATI HDTV Wonder for his HTPC setup, I'd have to say that they're probably just giving the CenterStage folks enough lead time so that it only takes a month of fiddling with the ATI drivers to get it working when CenterStage is completed.
I happened to notice a few posts here about how the US Capitol Building and offices are notably blurred out. I think I have a possible explanation for this phenomenon. At present, the US Capitol is undergoing a lot of work on its grounds for "security" reasons. The whole block around it is pretty much walled off for this construction. I do know, for instance, that they're building a new underground visitor's center for people who want to visit the Capitol and such. My educated guess is that the images are blurred so that nobody can get a bird's-eye view of the construction work, thereby preventing the general public from knowing exactly what kind of security measures and such are being put into place at the Capitol. I would expect that the capitol will probably be de-pixellated once the work is complete and the site has been covered over again with dirt and grass.
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"You don't expect the book in your hand to be free"
1)No, I don't expect the book in my hand to be free. I do, however, expect that I can lend a book that I have paid for to a friend without paying additional licensing fees.
2)In addition, I expect that, should a friend of mine have a book that they think I would like, they can give their copy to me without either of us incurring additional licensing fees.
3)I expect that I should be able to "sample" printed materials in the creating of derivative works, such as academic and research papers, through such widely-known and used methods known as "quoting" and "citing" as long as I include a reference giving credit to the original author or originator of the sampled ideas or passages. I expect that I should be allowed to do this whether or not I personally own the original source material.
4)There is a long-standing model in which copyrighted print materials are made available to the public, free of charge. This system is known as the "Library" system. Notable distributors of copyrighted print materials under this "library" system are universities, and the governments of countries around the world. The US Government, through an organization known as the "Library of Congress" is one of the largest distributors of materials by this method.
5)I seriously cannot remember the last time anyone's grandmother was sued, legitimately or not, over possession of a copy of Beowulf.
6)The last book that was "in my hand" is my hardcover copy of Howard Rheingold's, Smart Mobs. I have extensively "shared" this "file" throughout my social circle, and a number of my friends have enjoyed this book without paying additional licensing fees to any authority. In addition, I have purchased a second softcover edition of this "file" for the express purpose of sharing it with others in the future, without the need to allow my hardcover edition to leave my possession. Aside from the differences in the quality of the binding of this "file" it is a near-perfect copy of my original hard-copy edition.
After watching the demonstration video, I have to say that this looks pretty cool. However, I did notice one thing in particular bugged me about the interface. It seems that every time you open a new window, a thumbnailed version of that window also opened along the bottom of the screen. These thumbnails were contantly sitting on top of the bottom edge of the windows that were open on the desktop. From an aesthetic point of view, that would annoy the hell out of me if I were dealing with this windowing system on a regular basis. Has anyone here played with Looking Glass enough to know whether or not that feature can be turned off, hidden, resized, or otherwise made less annoying?
With regards to Number 2 on your list:
What exactly is the difference between this new second arm and the one that already existed on the orbiters? I looked at the high-res version of the picture you linked to, and could not see any readily-identifiable difference between one arm and the other. Does this new arm have greater flexibility? Does it telescope in some way the original did not, which allows it to get at the underside of the orbiter to check for damage?
I guess what I'm getting at is, what's so special about this new robotic arm that warranted its installation? What was the limitation of the existing arm that did not allow it to perform this inspection?
Bars with free WiFi are not unheard-of. In fact, in the last 3 years, I don't know that I've ever lived farther than walking-distance from a bar with free wireless.
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The item shown in these pictures is not a Geiger Counter. It is a Victoreen. The difference being that a Geiger Counter measures the number of decay incidents in a given period of time, whereas a Victoreen measures the amount of radiation exposure in a given period of time. The difference being that, while a Geiger Counter may be a useful tool for knowing that there are radioactive emissions are occuring (and at what rate), it is not nearly as useful as a Victoreen for quantifying what type of dosage one is receiving and what the effects might be on the human body.
So, basically, they figured out the same thing I was taught five years ago in college. It's explained by "Optimal Stimulation Theory." People have an optimal level of stimulation that they try to maintain. Introverts naturally have a higher level of internal stimulation, therefore they seek to reduce the amount of outside stimulation they receive in order to maintain their optimal stimulation level. Extroverts (and "sensation seekers") have a lower level of internal stimulation and therefore seek to increase the amount of external stimulation they receive in order to maintain their optimal stimulation level. So...what's new about this study?
Y'know, it always amazes me when people in the DC area claim this. My Sprint phone works perfectly fine in the metro. It's on roaming, but I don't pay anything extra to roam on my plan anyway, so no big deal. I know people who pay out the nose for Verizon out here because "It works in the metro" and they really don't have to get robbed for cell service.
Ensign: "Excuse me Captain, I think I have to go take a holo-dook" Picard: "Ensign, you know just as well as I do that 3-d Realms hasn't released that game yet."
1)You're an asshole
2)You're an asshole
3)You're an asshole
4)The state didn't put the city 17 feet below sea level. The French and the Spanish did. At the time, the city was not nearly so far below sea level
5)As for your assertion that the state and city should have put more money into the levee system; the levee system is part of the reason the city is so far below sea level. Due to the levee system, the river cannot flood on a yearly basis and deposit silt. Therefore the existing land settles out year after year after year, causing the city to sink.
6)You're an asshole
7)I hope you get cancer. Horrible, disfiguring, painful cancer. Not someday, but *NOW*. I hope you marry an alcoholic man who beats you daily. I don't care if you're a man or a woman, I hope he beats you daily, rapes you anally, and posts pictures of it on the internet. I'd pay to see them.
Sincerely,
A New Orleanian in DC
1)Firefox is based on Mozilla, which was originally/is still (AFAIK) a Netscape project.
2)Tabbed browsing is not a new development, nor was it first implemented by Firefox. That innovation (again, AFAIK) belongs to Opera, and has been around for some time.
I like Firefox as much as the next guy, but I don't happen to see them as being all that innovative. I like them mainly because they incorporated some of the best features of Opera into a browser I don't have to pay for. That doesn't make them innovative so much as it means that the Firefox people realized that most of us don't like to pay for browsers with useful features.
This is easily solved by a multi-protocol IM client like Trillian. It's kind of similar to the way your one phone can send your voice to people across a system of copper and fiber lines.
Ummm....since when does Burt Rutan not work for NASA? If I recall correctly, he's worked on a number of NASA projects, including some of the work on the CEV.
Well, if
1) an antenna is generally made of conductive/metallic type material, and
2)the patch antenna for satellite radio is about 2 inches square, and
3)the standard ipod has a nice shiny metal back to it...
What, exactly is the problem, again?
I don't know that I necessarily consider Apple a content company, although I may either be unaware of the content they produce, or may be using a different definition of "content provider."
And, honestly, I don't know that I really consider them to be a "tech" company either. I know they make a lot of products that rely on technology, but I actually prefer to think of them as an "appliance" company.
And, I think this is how and why some of their products are so popular, and have such a fanatical following.
You see, I think that there is a large portion of the population that doesn't want to have to *work* to use technology. They want mp3 players that are simple to figure out and use, computers that they can just turn on and start playing with, and other things that are as uncomplicated to get their hands into as possible. Apple seems to understand this, to some extent, and I think it's served them well.
In fact, it's for this reason that I like having my 3G ipod over the newer 4G versions. The buttons pretty much only do *one* thing each. I don't have to deal with the frustration of what happens if I press too hard on the scroll wheel and accidentally activate one of the other features.
*plunks down two pennies* Just my two cents.
Am I the only one who looked at the pictures and thought, "Sony Network Walkman: Now in hip 'bottle cap' and 'cologne bottle' designs" Ugh.
"I've got a lot of hope for this project - the fact that ATI has already contacted the developers to add support for their Remote Wonder products is awesome!"
As a person who is currently using an ATI HDTV Wonder for his HTPC setup, I'd have to say that they're probably just giving the CenterStage folks enough lead time so that it only takes a month of fiddling with the ATI drivers to get it working when CenterStage is completed.
I happened to notice a few posts here about how the US Capitol Building and offices are notably blurred out. I think I have a possible explanation for this phenomenon. At present, the US Capitol is undergoing a lot of work on its grounds for "security" reasons. The whole block around it is pretty much walled off for this construction. I do know, for instance, that they're building a new underground visitor's center for people who want to visit the Capitol and such. My educated guess is that the images are blurred so that nobody can get a bird's-eye view of the construction work, thereby preventing the general public from knowing exactly what kind of security measures and such are being put into place at the Capitol. I would expect that the capitol will probably be de-pixellated once the work is complete and the site has been covered over again with dirt and grass.
I like to use "Alfred Nonymous" myself.
"You don't expect the book in your hand to be free" 1)No, I don't expect the book in my hand to be free. I do, however, expect that I can lend a book that I have paid for to a friend without paying additional licensing fees. 2)In addition, I expect that, should a friend of mine have a book that they think I would like, they can give their copy to me without either of us incurring additional licensing fees. 3)I expect that I should be able to "sample" printed materials in the creating of derivative works, such as academic and research papers, through such widely-known and used methods known as "quoting" and "citing" as long as I include a reference giving credit to the original author or originator of the sampled ideas or passages. I expect that I should be allowed to do this whether or not I personally own the original source material. 4)There is a long-standing model in which copyrighted print materials are made available to the public, free of charge. This system is known as the "Library" system. Notable distributors of copyrighted print materials under this "library" system are universities, and the governments of countries around the world. The US Government, through an organization known as the "Library of Congress" is one of the largest distributors of materials by this method. 5)I seriously cannot remember the last time anyone's grandmother was sued, legitimately or not, over possession of a copy of Beowulf. 6)The last book that was "in my hand" is my hardcover copy of Howard Rheingold's, Smart Mobs. I have extensively "shared" this "file" throughout my social circle, and a number of my friends have enjoyed this book without paying additional licensing fees to any authority. In addition, I have purchased a second softcover edition of this "file" for the express purpose of sharing it with others in the future, without the need to allow my hardcover edition to leave my possession. Aside from the differences in the quality of the binding of this "file" it is a near-perfect copy of my original hard-copy edition.
After watching the demonstration video, I have to say that this looks pretty cool. However, I did notice one thing in particular bugged me about the interface. It seems that every time you open a new window, a thumbnailed version of that window also opened along the bottom of the screen. These thumbnails were contantly sitting on top of the bottom edge of the windows that were open on the desktop. From an aesthetic point of view, that would annoy the hell out of me if I were dealing with this windowing system on a regular basis. Has anyone here played with Looking Glass enough to know whether or not that feature can be turned off, hidden, resized, or otherwise made less annoying?
With regards to Number 2 on your list: What exactly is the difference between this new second arm and the one that already existed on the orbiters? I looked at the high-res version of the picture you linked to, and could not see any readily-identifiable difference between one arm and the other. Does this new arm have greater flexibility? Does it telescope in some way the original did not, which allows it to get at the underside of the orbiter to check for damage? I guess what I'm getting at is, what's so special about this new robotic arm that warranted its installation? What was the limitation of the existing arm that did not allow it to perform this inspection?
Bars with free WiFi are not unheard-of. In fact, in the last 3 years, I don't know that I've ever lived farther than walking-distance from a bar with free wireless.