If you're referring to the invasion of Russia, it's not cold that got Napoleon, it's being in a deserted (and later burnt) city with about 100,000 men and not much to eat. He expected Moscow to nicely surrender but instead the Russians all fled taking all they could with them.
If things continue to get worse the year of the Linux desktop will come sooner than you'd expect. I know people who won't do a thing on their computer without worrying about viruses. I think at some point when the concerns and the solutions will have reached a certain point Windows will have irremediably lost its OS monopoly and it won't matter what OS you run anymore.
Not like it matters much anymore for most people anyways, most of what they do involves just a web browser.
Aduh, no shit Sherlock. It would take something like the HST to get the resolution you'd need from geosynchronous orbit. And obviously you have no clue how far geosynchronous orbit is because you can see the whole country at once from there. Failing two times with one argument.
The interesting thing is that in order to get such an orbit, it has to pass over other countries.
O RLY? You mean like the fact that Russia made passes over the USA and even Area 51 during most of the Cold War? You know, Google isn't exactly the first one to send satellites out there with a camera, all these questions have been answered over 40 years ago.
Objects that are smaller than 50cm should not be detectible, especially if they are close to the same color as the background.
Yes they should be detectable, it's just that they'll only be represented by their frequency components under the 100 cm frequency, which takes of a lot of their power away, but there's nothing about it that makes them inherently undetectable.
I love your unidimensional, over-simplifying and almost manichean way to portray categories of people. I don't even recognize myself as a nerd under your definition. The way you talk about it it sounds like a handicap.
However apparently not as suddenly (wikipedia talks about a 1,000 year period) and the causes for it are a mystery, but considered the speculated causes such as huge volcanic activity and comet impacts, I think we would have noticed if our current event was due solely to natural causes.
Oh well, I've gotta love Americans for still debating on the causes of global warming. It's almost endearing.
After a bit of comment reading and Wikipedia reading, here's what has to be said to the global warning-related sarcasms. The sharp rise in temperatures is of course due to our activity, which is why we have nothing else like this rise in our long records of Earth temperatures dating back to hundreds of thousands of years ago (if I recall correctly). However, the high sun activity of the past century didn't help a bit, as it we reached at least 1,200 year activity high! Which means that if the downward trend is confirmed, this could be a God sent reprieve while we try to get hold of our gaseous emissions. In other words, yes it did contribute quite a bit to the problem, no it's not the sole root of the problem, or even the majority of it, and yes this is good news as the offset could be very beneficial to us. A fortunate coincidence of sorts.
I for one cannot wait until we can ice skate from New York City to London again!
I agree. Basing conclusions off simulation models is risky, mainly considered how in the domain of planetary simulations, well established models get entirely questioned every once in a while.
And at this point even actual statistical data is hard to use to conclude anything about our solar system, because of our limited observation capabilities, what we know has a heavy statistical bias.
I'm entirely missing your point about programming gravity simulations (disclaimer : I have programmed a solar system simulator), and why it should explain the (according to you) rarity of nearly circular orbits. Planetary systems starting off as accretion discs with every original object have a nearly circular orbit, I don't see why planets should keep it, at least for a while.
The February Scientific American had an article that treated prediction markets with skepticism. Some of the evidence that people have been quoting in favor of prediction markets is apparently bogus, and nobody has the faintest clue how they really work.
Well the basic idea behind the Iowa Electronic Markets is that people, anyone, can bet money (a limited amount) on who they think will win an election. Basically, polls ask people who they want to vote for, but arguably you'd have a better idea of the outcome of an election if you ask people not who they want to vote for but who they think will win. It's called the wisdom of crowds. Show a certain amount of people a jar full of pickles and they'll tell you about how many pickles are in, the more people you ask the more precise the results get (if I'm not mistaken under ideal conditions with a lack of a bias in their judgment 100 times more people should get it 10 times more precisely, that's like coherent averaging).
That's the idea behind the IEM. With a twist, instead of just asking people who they think is gonna win, they make them bet on it, as becoming more interested in it makes them be more serious about it. And in case you're wondering, Obama is so winning!
Hey, who gave you the permission to reply to that guy's comments? Back on topic, does the GP's robots.txt have a "User-agent: cyveillance" entry? Can Cyveillance expect anyone to have such an entry?
I'm talking about people having NDEs who report seeing themselves out of their bodies and being able to fly across the room and even read some inscription under the operating table.
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If you're referring to the invasion of Russia, it's not cold that got Napoleon, it's being in a deserted (and later burnt) city with about 100,000 men and not much to eat. He expected Moscow to nicely surrender but instead the Russians all fled taking all they could with them.
That is indeed because it's been modded up that I have to be such a dick about it.
Tell me again, how qualified are you to emit such a judgement? Oh wait nevermind, this is Slashdot, everyone's qualified to dismiss anything.
If things continue to get worse the year of the Linux desktop will come sooner than you'd expect. I know people who won't do a thing on their computer without worrying about viruses. I think at some point when the concerns and the solutions will have reached a certain point Windows will have irremediably lost its OS monopoly and it won't matter what OS you run anymore.
Not like it matters much anymore for most people anyways, most of what they do involves just a web browser.
It can't be geosynchronous
Aduh, no shit Sherlock. It would take something like the HST to get the resolution you'd need from geosynchronous orbit. And obviously you have no clue how far geosynchronous orbit is because you can see the whole country at once from there. Failing two times with one argument.
The interesting thing is that in order to get such an orbit, it has to pass over other countries.
O RLY? You mean like the fact that Russia made passes over the USA and even Area 51 during most of the Cold War? You know, Google isn't exactly the first one to send satellites out there with a camera, all these questions have been answered over 40 years ago.
Objects that are smaller than 50cm should not be detectible, especially if they are close to the same color as the background.
Yes they should be detectable, it's just that they'll only be represented by their frequency components under the 100 cm frequency, which takes of a lot of their power away, but there's nothing about it that makes them inherently undetectable.
I love your unidimensional, over-simplifying and almost manichean way to portray categories of people. I don't even recognize myself as a nerd under your definition. The way you talk about it it sounds like a handicap.
However apparently not as suddenly (wikipedia talks about a 1,000 year period) and the causes for it are a mystery, but considered the speculated causes such as huge volcanic activity and comet impacts, I think we would have noticed if our current event was due solely to natural causes.
Oh well, I've gotta love Americans for still debating on the causes of global warming. It's almost endearing.
Crap, nevermind, misunderstood the summary, again. I wonder where I caught the idea that "rescue" meant bringing back on Earth :S.
Interesting, but why? Is it all for the sake of putting it in a museum? Or do we want to reuse some of its instrumentation?
After a bit of comment reading and Wikipedia reading, here's what has to be said to the global warning-related sarcasms. The sharp rise in temperatures is of course due to our activity, which is why we have nothing else like this rise in our long records of Earth temperatures dating back to hundreds of thousands of years ago (if I recall correctly). However, the high sun activity of the past century didn't help a bit, as it we reached at least 1,200 year activity high! Which means that if the downward trend is confirmed, this could be a God sent reprieve while we try to get hold of our gaseous emissions. In other words, yes it did contribute quite a bit to the problem, no it's not the sole root of the problem, or even the majority of it, and yes this is good news as the offset could be very beneficial to us. A fortunate coincidence of sorts.
I for one cannot wait until we can ice skate from New York City to London again!
Just what I was wondering. I really wonder how much an input it has on temperature here, and how long the low activity trend will last.
As much as I love Stephen Fry, doesn't the video look like he's just reading some Stallman propaganda? It surely does..
Why, did you still have any faith in the moderation system? ;-)
Very thin. Most aliens species communicate by genital contact. You heard me! SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY TO SETI?!?
I agree. Basing conclusions off simulation models is risky, mainly considered how in the domain of planetary simulations, well established models get entirely questioned every once in a while.
And at this point even actual statistical data is hard to use to conclude anything about our solar system, because of our limited observation capabilities, what we know has a heavy statistical bias.
I'm entirely missing your point about programming gravity simulations (disclaimer : I have programmed a solar system simulator), and why it should explain the (according to you) rarity of nearly circular orbits. Planetary systems starting off as accretion discs with every original object have a nearly circular orbit, I don't see why planets should keep it, at least for a while.
In Soviet Russia, Slashdotters are all black. And they don't care about George Bush.
Oh crap, that's what happens when you get distracted before reaching the end of TFS.
Are you kidding?? Did we just Slashdot Google? If not then why does it read "Not Found Error 404" on http://www.google.com/chrome?
By the way, if we actually did Slashdot Google, how long do we have before we see the knights of the Apocalypse pop up?
It perfectly counters the 3 electors Obama picked up from Biden's state of Delaware!
Yeah, not like Joe Biden would have any influence on Pennsylvania, being born therOH WAIT A MINUTE!!
The February Scientific American had an article that treated prediction markets with skepticism. Some of the evidence that people have been quoting in favor of prediction markets is apparently bogus, and nobody has the faintest clue how they really work.
Well the basic idea behind the Iowa Electronic Markets is that people, anyone, can bet money (a limited amount) on who they think will win an election. Basically, polls ask people who they want to vote for, but arguably you'd have a better idea of the outcome of an election if you ask people not who they want to vote for but who they think will win. It's called the wisdom of crowds. Show a certain amount of people a jar full of pickles and they'll tell you about how many pickles are in, the more people you ask the more precise the results get (if I'm not mistaken under ideal conditions with a lack of a bias in their judgment 100 times more people should get it 10 times more precisely, that's like coherent averaging).
That's the idea behind the IEM. With a twist, instead of just asking people who they think is gonna win, they make them bet on it, as becoming more interested in it makes them be more serious about it. And in case you're wondering, Obama is so winning!
Hey, who gave you the permission to reply to that guy's comments? Back on topic, does the GP's robots.txt have a "User-agent: cyveillance" entry? Can Cyveillance expect anyone to have such an entry?
They made Steve Guttenberg a star.
Who??
I'm talking about people having NDEs who report seeing themselves out of their bodies and being able to fly across the room and even read some inscription under the operating table.