My migraines are hereditary. My point was that with contacts my eyes tired more quickly and it sometimes triggered migraines with a monitor. My eyes take a lot more punishment in front of a monitor and I no longer get migraines in front of a monitor with glasses (and yes, I had contacts meant for astigmatisms).
I am prone to migraines and also have astigmatisms in both eyes. I work 40 hours a week in front of computers and then use a computer at home 20+ more hours a week. I used to wear contacts in high school and I found glasses let me work a lot longer and reduced the number of triggered migraines I got (for what its worth).
And besides, compare apples to apples... cocoa is "Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment" (from Cocoa's web site, MFC/.NET are the equivalent under Windows. (MFC sucks but.NET isn't bad... Windows Forms is acceptable.) STL is not and was not intended to be an "object-oriented application environtment. It "is a general-purpose C++ library of algorithms and data structures". (source).
Objective-C - Is it used ever outside of Apple development?
Why's that, doesn't development for MacOS X amount to much then? Plus, the Cocoa APIs are far more elegant than the hideous STL abomination.
Shouldn't be using STL (Think you meant MFC?) anymore... use.NET and Windows Forms. Besides why would we compare a language that is available on what, 5% of end user machines out there (I think I am being generous) whereas every other language is operating system independant (except for c# - but Microsoft windows has what, 90%+ market share? And the compiler is free?)
The US is not the only country in the world. Check an atlas, its true!!
I know, but look at the alt.space community... where is all the action taking place? Where are the spaceports opening? Which government has a branch of Commercial Space Transportation? Only the US. The innovation is happening here, and only here it seems. You don't see it happening in Europe or elsewhere. I keep asking why and noone gives me a good answer.
Sidebar: "Papers must be formatted using the provided LaTeX template" This seems a bit old skool to me. I've been out of the academic loop for a few years now, but is this standard now? Even for a Linux Love Fest this seems like a bit of a constraint...
No. Most engineering conferences provide Word templates. But then again this is a Linux thing... but I would have to agree this might pose an entry barrier to some otherwise willing participants.
tourism entrepreneur who dont like the US rules can just launch from another country.
What other country? I'm serious... Virgin is launching from the US. Anything else is speculation and rumor and patently false. This topic recently came up on a mailing list I was on which included several space tourism contendors, and everyone drew a blank. There do not exist any good options. The US is doing this, get over it.
you can see that they pay out three times less in contributions than what they earn from investments
Thats the whole point of a foundation. you DO NOT give as much as your investments return. You have to account for things like inflation, which is not steady over time and which is actually at a low point right now.
You can say what you want about the Gates foundation but the fact of the matter is that is has done real work - and it is well-managed. It isn't just a billionaire throwing money at the latest fad, it is a self-sustaining foundation aimed at an important problem for our time. Bravo.
With any Verizon plan after 9pm-7am is free nights and from 9pm Friday-7am Monday is free Weekends. WAP is charged as a "data call" which will show up on your phone bill as a phone call to a certain phone number (I forget what it is... been awhile since I've used it. Can't carry a cell phone to my current job so I don't really use a cell phone anymore:) ) Hence, any activity during the "free nights and weekends" since it is call activity is really free. At least it was a year ago when I did it, quite frequently.
True, thanks for the correction, just so happens all of my family (parents, siblings, wife...) and most of my friends are "in" so I forget that part...
Its ok if the reynolds number (which is merely a ratio of the inertial forces to the viscous forces) is off a little bit... since the size of the model compared to the real craft is probably only an order of magnitude smaller, compared to many orders of magnitude larger than an atom, its inconsequential... And actually it won't be off at all, in a modern wind tunnel it is calculated as a function of dynamic pressure , which will not vary.
Using the Pi theorem we can find nondimensional quantities. The quantities we measure in the test case will be the same for the real case.
It is easy to point out the one or two frauds that exist, and then draw conclusions from your own personal experiance. But the system works (I know... I live in it)
Its called peer review. You do work. You publish to a credible journal (emphasis on credible). Editors read your submission and assuming you haven't done something stupid (depending on the journal - some excellent journals will deny good papers) your paper will probably get past them. If you f*ed up, you get caught - someone reads your paper and discovers you did it wrong, gravity vector pointing in the wrong direction for instance, the results were too good, etc.
For example the UAH Propulsion Research Center gets over a million a year from NASA and other government/corporate sources for research work. Results get published and reviewed. That research keeps a lot of students in grad school and gets a lot of work done for NASA. (Hint: grad students work cheaper than professional engineers). Not to mention there are few private citizens/small companies that truly want to innovate propulsion. Including the new space startups. They are mostly re-hashing old ideas.
I do research for UAH - same principles apply. I've published two papers (only one citation available online at the moment) and have spoken at two conferences attended by my peers. I also publish reports to the army - since they are the primary customer. People can attend those conferences and pay attention to speakers to review their results, and read papers in journals to critique their analysis. If they have further questions you generally have contact information on the paper (at least in my field).
That's the way the system works. And it works pretty well, except when you fake results in a controversial topic of study. Then you become a hot topic.
I'd like to see in-flight recovery systems on all passenger aircraft, personally. They work wonders for the Cirrus 22, which I believe is the best-selling light airplane in the US right now. Why not on jetliners too
They are cool, but really they are for amateurs. So long as (a) your wings are attached and (b) your flaps and alerons are working, a compotent commercial pilot will bring the plane down safely. Bumpy landing, but safely. It really only would matter if the wings were ripped off - which is rare to nonexistant. These things are engineered to land with complete engine failure.
From the snippet: Mr. Belfiore's explanation: Front Row computers don't have TV or digital video recorder functions and thus don't need as many buttons.
Front Row does NOT have TV or Digital Video recorder functions. Whereas Media Center does.
Considering the annual rate of currency devaluation by all the central banks
you dont invest in currency!!!! you invest in companies. the STOCK market. Small cap. Large cap. Foreign markets. Currency devaluation is irrelevant. It only matters to you because it gives you the warm fuzzies about owning gold.
If you're interested in a long term bet, I'll bet you 2 ounces of gold that your stocks in 5 years have declined majorly and your retirement programs will fall so hard you'll have to work an extra 15-20 years.
1. I don't buy gold for the same reason I don't buy bonds - the ROI (return on investment) is too low. I'm 23. I have at least 50 years ahead of me, barring an act of God. I invest at a higher risk level and reap the long-term rewards. Yes, there might be *a* year I lose money. You have to keep your long-term (20-40 year) perspective.
2. 5 years? Yes, the market can see *a* decline over a 5 year period. You are looking at too short of a time period for a high risk fund. Declined majorly for the entire 5 year period? Bullshit.
3. 5 years is NOT a long term ANYTHING when it comes to investing.
4. 2 ounces? thats what, over $1000. Sorry. Thats more than my mortgage payment. I got kids to put through college (I invest for that too). I don't have to bet you. But you can watch the stock market and rest assured that I'm a smart investor. Its not that hard. Learn a few basic principles about the time value of money and find a financial advisor you can trust. If you work for a good company you can often get it for free. If you have an insurance policy through a reputable company that does investments, they will also often do it for free.
Its not magic, folks.
Insurance was meant for emeregencies, not to pay your doctor's bills for basic illnesses.
No, it is there for everything, if you have a good company like Blue Cross, Blue Shield. Thats the whole point of a deductible. If you are only going to use it for a major emergency, have a high deductible. I happen to have a nice employer who has given me insurance with comparably low deductible. Its a good thing. When you go in for a routine illness you otherwise would not have gone in for, and you find out its something a whole lot worse...
You pay a $20 copay, the insurance company pays $150
I pay $20, insurance company pays $25. Total of $45. You pay $50. Whose the sucker?
This article http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/09/26/ibm-so ftware-investments-cz_qh_0926ibm.html states "In effect, giant IBM hopes this loosely allied swarm will overwhelm application offerings from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. "This is about building out an ecosystem of partners to compete"... IBM also figures watching the little guys is a good way to spot future trends early, he said..."
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No one has an incentive to let the content of others run with their player, especially Microsoft.
Lots of stuff plugs into Media Player. For example, DivX.
... Steve Ballmer chairs?
My migraines are hereditary. My point was that with contacts my eyes tired more quickly and it sometimes triggered migraines with a monitor. My eyes take a lot more punishment in front of a monitor and I no longer get migraines in front of a monitor with glasses (and yes, I had contacts meant for astigmatisms).
I am prone to migraines and also have astigmatisms in both eyes. I work 40 hours a week in front of computers and then use a computer at home 20+ more hours a week. I used to wear contacts in high school and I found glasses let me work a lot longer and reduced the number of triggered migraines I got (for what its worth).
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let me clarify: sure I can code objective-c on my windows/linux/whatever box. But I wont have a decent API (cocoa). So why, please?
And besides, compare apples to apples... cocoa is "Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment" (from Cocoa's web site, MFC/.NET are the equivalent under Windows. (MFC sucks but .NET isn't bad... Windows Forms is acceptable.) STL is not and was not intended to be an "object-oriented application environtment. It "is a general-purpose C++ library of algorithms and data structures". (source).
Point is why the hell are we talking about something with a 5% market penetration with the rest of the pack having 95%+ market penetration?
VOIP
Objective-C - Is it used ever outside of Apple development?
.NET and Windows Forms. Besides why would we compare a language that is available on what, 5% of end user machines out there (I think I am being generous) whereas every other language is operating system independant (except for c# - but Microsoft windows has what, 90%+ market share? And the compiler is free?)
Why's that, doesn't development for MacOS X amount to much then? Plus, the Cocoa APIs are far more elegant than the hideous STL abomination.
Shouldn't be using STL (Think you meant MFC?) anymore... use
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The US is not the only country in the world. Check an atlas, its true!!
... where is all the action taking place? Where are the spaceports opening? Which government has a branch of Commercial Space Transportation? Only the US. The innovation is happening here, and only here it seems. You don't see it happening in Europe or elsewhere. I keep asking why and noone gives me a good answer.
I know, but look at the alt.space community
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Sidebar: "Papers must be formatted using the provided LaTeX template" This seems a bit old skool to me. I've been out of the academic loop for a few years now, but is this standard now? Even for a Linux Love Fest this seems like a bit of a constraint...
... but I would have to agree this might pose an entry barrier to some otherwise willing participants.
No. Most engineering conferences provide Word templates. But then again this is a Linux thing
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He may be brittish, but he is building a spaceport in New Mexico for his Virgin Galactic space tourism venture. Again I say, *what* other country?
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tourism entrepreneur who dont like the US rules can just launch from another country.
What other country? I'm serious... Virgin is launching from the US. Anything else is speculation and rumor and patently false. This topic recently came up on a mailing list I was on which included several space tourism contendors, and everyone drew a blank. There do not exist any good options. The US is doing this, get over it.
you can see that they pay out three times less in contributions than what they earn from investments
Thats the whole point of a foundation. you DO NOT give as much as your investments return. You have to account for things like inflation, which is not steady over time and which is actually at a low point right now.
You can say what you want about the Gates foundation but the fact of the matter is that is has done real work - and it is well-managed. It isn't just a billionaire throwing money at the latest fad, it is a self-sustaining foundation aimed at an important problem for our time. Bravo.
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With any Verizon plan after 9pm-7am is free nights and from 9pm Friday-7am Monday is free Weekends. WAP is charged as a "data call" which will show up on your phone bill as a phone call to a certain phone number (I forget what it is... been awhile since I've used it. Can't carry a cell phone to my current job so I don't really use a cell phone anymore:) ) Hence, any activity during the "free nights and weekends" since it is call activity is really free. At least it was a year ago when I did it, quite frequently.
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True, thanks for the correction, just so happens all of my family (parents, siblings, wife...) and most of my friends are "in" so I forget that part...
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Its ok if the reynolds number (which is merely a ratio of the inertial forces to the viscous forces) is off a little bit... since the size of the model compared to the real craft is probably only an order of magnitude smaller, compared to many orders of magnitude larger than an atom, its inconsequential ... And actually it won't be off at all, in a modern wind tunnel it is calculated as a function of dynamic pressure , which will not vary.
Using the Pi theorem we can find nondimensional quantities. The quantities we measure in the test case will be the same for the real case.
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$5/month, unlimited WAP day or night... and unlimited text and pix.
Or under any normal plan just use it after 9 or weekends (Verizon FTW)
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It is easy to point out the one or two frauds that exist, and then draw conclusions from your own personal experiance. But the system works (I know ... I live in it)
Its called peer review. You do work. You publish to a credible journal (emphasis on credible). Editors read your submission and assuming you haven't done something stupid (depending on the journal - some excellent journals will deny good papers) your paper will probably get past them. If you f*ed up, you get caught - someone reads your paper and discovers you did it wrong, gravity vector pointing in the wrong direction for instance, the results were too good, etc.
For example the UAH Propulsion Research Center gets over a million a year from NASA and other government/corporate sources for research work. Results get published and reviewed. That research keeps a lot of students in grad school and gets a lot of work done for NASA. (Hint: grad students work cheaper than professional engineers). Not to mention there are few private citizens/small companies that truly want to innovate propulsion. Including the new space startups. They are mostly re-hashing old ideas.
I do research for UAH - same principles apply. I've published two papers (only one citation available online at the moment) and have spoken at two conferences attended by my peers. I also publish reports to the army - since they are the primary customer. People can attend those conferences and pay attention to speakers to review their results, and read papers in journals to critique their analysis. If they have further questions you generally have contact information on the paper (at least in my field).
That's the way the system works. And it works pretty well, except when you fake results in a controversial topic of study. Then you become a hot topic.
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Hopefully the panel will go out and actually try to reproduce his results rather than having a political debate of whether not it is.
... doubt they are going to raise stem cell lines from human tissue in a week...
No. FTA: it would issue its final findings next week
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I'd like to see in-flight recovery systems on all passenger aircraft, personally. They work wonders for the Cirrus 22, which I believe is the best-selling light airplane in the US right now. Why not on jetliners too
They are cool, but really they are for amateurs. So long as (a) your wings are attached and (b) your flaps and alerons are working, a compotent commercial pilot will bring the plane down safely. Bumpy landing, but safely. It really only would matter if the wings were ripped off - which is rare to nonexistant. These things are engineered to land with complete engine failure.
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From the snippet: Mr. Belfiore's explanation: Front Row computers don't have TV or digital video recorder functions and thus don't need as many buttons.
Front Row does NOT have TV or Digital Video recorder functions. Whereas Media Center does.
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Considering the annual rate of currency devaluation by all the central banks
you dont invest in currency!!!! you invest in companies. the STOCK market. Small cap. Large cap. Foreign markets. Currency devaluation is irrelevant. It only matters to you because it gives you the warm fuzzies about owning gold.
If you're interested in a long term bet, I'll bet you 2 ounces of gold that your stocks in 5 years have declined majorly and your retirement programs will fall so hard you'll have to work an extra 15-20 years.
1. I don't buy gold for the same reason I don't buy bonds - the ROI (return on investment) is too low. I'm 23. I have at least 50 years ahead of me, barring an act of God. I invest at a higher risk level and reap the long-term rewards. Yes, there might be *a* year I lose money. You have to keep your long-term (20-40 year) perspective.
2. 5 years? Yes, the market can see *a* decline over a 5 year period. You are looking at too short of a time period for a high risk fund. Declined majorly for the entire 5 year period? Bullshit.
3. 5 years is NOT a long term ANYTHING when it comes to investing.
4. 2 ounces? thats what, over $1000. Sorry. Thats more than my mortgage payment. I got kids to put through college (I invest for that too). I don't have to bet you. But you can watch the stock market and rest assured that I'm a smart investor. Its not that hard. Learn a few basic principles about the time value of money and find a financial advisor you can trust. If you work for a good company you can often get it for free. If you have an insurance policy through a reputable company that does investments, they will also often do it for free. Its not magic, folks.
Insurance was meant for emeregencies, not to pay your doctor's bills for basic illnesses.
No, it is there for everything, if you have a good company like Blue Cross, Blue Shield. Thats the whole point of a deductible. If you are only going to use it for a major emergency, have a high deductible. I happen to have a nice employer who has given me insurance with comparably low deductible. Its a good thing. When you go in for a routine illness you otherwise would not have gone in for, and you find out its something a whole lot worse...
You pay a $20 copay, the insurance company pays $150
I pay $20, insurance company pays $25. Total of $45. You pay $50. Whose the sucker?
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IBM is getting into the whole software as a service thing http://news.com.com/IBM+doubles+down+on+software+s ervices/2100-1014_3-5553386.html or http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/26/HNibmsof twareasservice_1.html which walks on Microsofts turf. IBM isnt all about open source and big mainframes anymore ... stuff like this squares them off as a direct competitor to where Microsoft wants to be in the near future.
o ftware-investments-cz_qh_0926ibm.html states "In effect, giant IBM hopes this loosely allied swarm will overwhelm application offerings from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. "This is about building out an ecosystem of partners to compete" ... IBM also figures watching the little guys is a good way to spot future trends early, he said..."
This article http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/09/26/ibm-s
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