Except that they did explain everything: It was.. god! (Spooky voice) oooh.
Every mystery and every major loose end, yeah, that was just divine intervention, divine prophesy. And don't worry, if you aren't sure of that, they spell it out plainly at the end. Where are these loose ends? God did everything. The end. Thank you Dias Ex Machina.
I think it just shows what kind of morons these guys are. Have you been to a big geek-centric convention like the Comic-Con? It's by no means some sort of guys-only little club anymore. The sorts of interests typically associated with 'geeks' is probably one of the fastest growing and probably one of the largest disposable income groups out there right now, and they have been for more then a decade. But hay, if they can make money strictly by grabbing some channel surfers for 10 minutes, well, more power to them I guess; my TV will be off until someone decides to make something interesting again.
I own a nokia 770 and it works quite nicely for simple browsing, I can imagine it would be just fine for a simple library webpage. they can picked up for not too much if you keep your eyes open on ebay, around $50 maybe. The only problem with it is having to use the stylus for the keyboard. If that isn't acceptable to you, then the ipodtouch is probably your best bet with it's better on-screen keyboard.
I've never been much into gambling, but I have enjoyed some blackjack now and again just for fun. Sadly, it's the people like the parent that seem to take 'luck' far more seriously then actual reality that keep me from playing. I'm just out to have fun, not for a stressful time worrying about the other players getting pissed at me because i made a mistake when I was just trying to enjoy myself.
I guess it's my gain for keeping my money at the end of the night.
At least a big cat, that you know will take out rats.
I noticed that skill is far more important then size in hunting all but the very largest of rats. Just anecdotally, the best hunting cat I ever had was tiny by the standards of most any breed, but she was alert, active, and knew how to stalk and kill her pray. Our largest cat would corner the rats, but, ended up just staring at them without any idea of what to do before the little calimanco would come along and finish the job for them.
The trick is to find a cat that has come from a situation where it would be hunting, but also is ok with people. So a kitten mill cat won't work but also a feral cat is out of the question. It's not imposable since you aren't looking for a 'pet' but it will still take some looking and a familiarity with people is a must.
The problem with cats though is that they can often be just as much trouble as the rodents. You might think you have them house trained until you find some little secret spot that they had decided would also make a good cat-box. Cats also like to chew, claw and generally cause havoc, though not as bad as rats, it can still be problematic. Never mind all the little places a cat can get stuck or other trouble for themselves in someplace like a server room.
The company I work for has actually done a good amount of research on the technologies available for high efficiency lighting right now and they do indeed make warmer white LEDs. They look pretty nice and have an adequate CRI, however, their efficacy is poor enough compared to the cool white LEDs that they are in fact only about as efficient as compact florescent.
I think it has to do with the fact that the visible light generating part of white (and blue) LEDs are phosphors pumped by what is actually a ultra-violet LED. Now I might be wrong on this part, but I think that those larger wavelength colors are less and less efficient to make this way. I'm not sure simply putting in a red or amber LED would fill in enough of the spectrum to generate a pleasant light.
I like the ground fog in the pictures. It would certainly be amusing if they had those machines permanently installed, specially since it looks to be dry ice or CO2 based, that can get expensive.
Hmmm.. I wonder if I can convince my boss thats what our office needs.
The reason they don't like you to send cash in the mail isn't the safety of your money, its for the safety of the postal carriers. If you could send cash in the mail a carrier could potently be carrying dozens or even thousands of dollars and making them a target for crime. This would have especially been true back before various forms of automatic and credit card billing were common.
How have our standards of failure become so high that we freak out because there could be flaws in simulations? This is the POINT of these projects, to push ourselves forward
Nobody wants to have to scrap their work to fix a problem, but it's going to happen. If it's not, we're not pushing ourselves hard enough. Probes are going to crash, projects are going to overrun, people are going to make mistakes. If we keep at it, however, thats when we reap the rewards.
No doubt we need to eliminate needless risk and move what other risks we can away from the loss of life and property, but lets not confuse that with eliminating any risk at all. To remove all risk is to end all progress and change.
I thought it was advertisement system with a instant messaging feature in the corner somewhere.
Really though, I put up with the ads for years, and I may well still have been using it, but both AIM and ICQ got so bloated, plus the use of such large, animated ads, with SOUND. If they had just kept it simple, static ads, I'd never have bothered with a 3rd party client, and would still be getting their ads.
Yeah, I don't suppose it's right to still use the service without getting the ads (I use it far less now, though), but if I and people like me get pushed away, it's going to start to effect the numbers of people that DO use the ad based client.
I know google talk is ad-less, what are the adds like on MSN? Yahoo seems the worst offender, so I'd be curious what other options are out there?
This one of the reasons I think the practice of avoiding "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" in the US is so important, be it for citizens or otherwise. There is little doubt in my mind that, yes, you need the stick as well as the carrot for some people. We can't forget though, that if you go too far, there are things you can't undo to someone. This is especially bad when you consider how often the innocent are wrongly convicted, much less consider how quickly changes of social and political nature can spread. Today you might need that stick, but what happens 5, 10, 50 years from now? You might find yourself in need of those people, especially those people that just may have been caught in the middle.
Punishment and incarceration exist in order to serve the social good. Revenge or damaging a person physically or mentally, even when rehabilitation isn't possible, doesn't really do all that much for the social good.
From Wikipedia: "Subnotebooks have been something of a niche computing product and have rarely sold in large numbers until the 2007 introduction of the Asus Eee PC and the OLPC XO-1[1], which are inexpensive in comparison to both existing machines in that form factor, and computers in general."
That sounds spot on to me. How does that sound anything like it's saying that the form factor was created by Asus? They have been around for ages, it's just in the past they either needed a special striped down OS, were incredibly expensive, had bizarre tiny screen resolutions, or they left out things like keyboards to strip them down in size. Sure NOW you can find some great second hand deals, but they couldn't have possibly been compared as anywhere on the same level in price when they were new.
In fact, the wikipeida article looks like a great list of used models to look for.
The question isn't about owners, it's about employees. Employees have a right to a clean, safe workplace. I suppose one could argue that people have a right to sign away those rights, but I wouldn't agree. People in desperate situations shouldn't have to choose between paying rent and their health.
Ok, I know there are some lawyers out there on Slashdot, so I have to ask, isn't this WAY over the line of entrapment? Or is it because they "only" raid your home that this is legal?
So basically, all that would have to happen is someone post this link on an unrelated message board I frequent disguised as a link of interest, then I get my house raided, my computers confiscated likely with no return, dragged into court preceding and there is nothing I can do about it?
People spend more on their houses then that, and this is what our country spends on it? Photovoltaics might not be a silver bullet, but there are millions of rooftops that could be taking the edge off of our demand for energy, a demand that helps fuel the conflicts in the middle east, and we spend less money for a year on research then two hours on Iraq? $14M isn't news. Tell me when that M is a B.
It's a pity so few will see this article. It reminds me of something I saw briefly on the discovery channel about discovering Atlantis or something. The point was brought up to the effect "We don't have a lot in the way of resources because the scientists are too afraid what we will find will shatter everything they believe." Now, I know that you can't take too much on TV seriously, even the so called educational channels, but this was downright absurd. Wouldn't any scientist with the slightest bit of passion about his work be -thrilled- to take part, or help a peer with work that would have that sort of impact? It's just sad to see the Discovery Channel airing these sorts of things that completly misrepresent what science is. It's not even the MythBusters sorts of shows that bother me, it's exactly these sort of underdog stories the author is talking about that I think does a huge amount of harm to the education of people watching. It's those sorts of shows that lead people so far astray on what science is that lets the "Intelligent Design" nonsense take root.
Someone else summed it up much better, though:
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan "
An LED company patented RGB color mixing and Pulse Width Modulation for LEDs. Both of which have been common technologies for years. But the patents have continued to hold up, and surprise surprise, it's slowed the industry and hampered progress.
Sure, but, now we have LCDs that are half an inch thick, or less. It's juts as easy to put one on a desk as it is a mouse and keyboard. Now for large amounts of data, absolutely, a keyboard is the way to go, but there are a lot of applications that could have some very useful GUIs that are based around dynamic touchscreen controls.
Insert is handy for when people email forms to send out as a word or text document. Just click on the line, hit insert and type in the information you need without messing up the formating.
The value of diamonds has nothing to do with actual aesthetics. Of course, a dimond with a good cut and clarity is worth more, but it's not what makes people want them for jewelry, it's conspicuous consumption, little more.
After all, look at the value of often superior synthetics. Or look how people's taste for pearls rapidly decreased as the price decreased.
Of course, diamonds have plenty of other uses, but there is no shortage of them for that, seeing as DeBeers grinds up diamonds for industrial possess in order to keep the supply artificially low.
Well, isn't that part of the idea? If you can divide your opponent's attention in half with only a small amount of your own resources, that seems like it would be a worthwhile tactic.
No debut that you have to account for your local climate in figuring out how much power you get from your panels, but that bit about batteries and supper expensive inverters? That was true maybe a decade ago. It's nothing like that now. http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/172/p/1/pt/23/product.asp
One box, sell the power to the utility when you aren't using it, buy it back when you need it.
Huh? How is this insightful? Environmentalists have been pushing for funding for development of clean, affordable technologies for years. Thats the very definition of a huge part of the environmental movement. Now, you clearly disagree with a lot of the ideology of the movement, everyone is entitled to an opinion and that is fine, but you clearly aren't the person who should be telling greenies what sort of "lessons" they should be learning, when, this is just the sort of projects they have been pushing for all along.
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Except that they did explain everything: It was.. god! (Spooky voice) oooh.
Every mystery and every major loose end, yeah, that was just divine intervention, divine prophesy. And don't worry, if you aren't sure of that, they spell it out plainly at the end. Where are these loose ends? God did everything. The end. Thank you Dias Ex Machina.
I think it just shows what kind of morons these guys are. Have you been to a big geek-centric convention like the Comic-Con? It's by no means some sort of guys-only little club anymore. The sorts of interests typically associated with 'geeks' is probably one of the fastest growing and probably one of the largest disposable income groups out there right now, and they have been for more then a decade. But hay, if they can make money strictly by grabbing some channel surfers for 10 minutes, well, more power to them I guess; my TV will be off until someone decides to make something interesting again.
I own a nokia 770 and it works quite nicely for simple browsing, I can imagine it would be just fine for a simple library webpage. they can picked up for not too much if you keep your eyes open on ebay, around $50 maybe. The only problem with it is having to use the stylus for the keyboard. If that isn't acceptable to you, then the ipodtouch is probably your best bet with it's better on-screen keyboard.
I've never been much into gambling, but I have enjoyed some blackjack now and again just for fun. Sadly, it's the people like the parent that seem to take 'luck' far more seriously then actual reality that keep me from playing. I'm just out to have fun, not for a stressful time worrying about the other players getting pissed at me because i made a mistake when I was just trying to enjoy myself.
I guess it's my gain for keeping my money at the end of the night.
At least a big cat, that you know will take out rats.
I noticed that skill is far more important then size in hunting all but the very largest of rats. Just anecdotally, the best hunting cat I ever had was tiny by the standards of most any breed, but she was alert, active, and knew how to stalk and kill her pray. Our largest cat would corner the rats, but, ended up just staring at them without any idea of what to do before the little calimanco would come along and finish the job for them.
The trick is to find a cat that has come from a situation where it would be hunting, but also is ok with people. So a kitten mill cat won't work but also a feral cat is out of the question. It's not imposable since you aren't looking for a 'pet' but it will still take some looking and a familiarity with people is a must.
The problem with cats though is that they can often be just as much trouble as the rodents. You might think you have them house trained until you find some little secret spot that they had decided would also make a good cat-box. Cats also like to chew, claw and generally cause havoc, though not as bad as rats, it can still be problematic. Never mind all the little places a cat can get stuck or other trouble for themselves in someplace like a server room.
The company I work for has actually done a good amount of research on the technologies available for high efficiency lighting right now and they do indeed make warmer white LEDs. They look pretty nice and have an adequate CRI, however, their efficacy is poor enough compared to the cool white LEDs that they are in fact only about as efficient as compact florescent.
I think it has to do with the fact that the visible light generating part of white (and blue) LEDs are phosphors pumped by what is actually a ultra-violet LED. Now I might be wrong on this part, but I think that those larger wavelength colors are less and less efficient to make this way. I'm not sure simply putting in a red or amber LED would fill in enough of the spectrum to generate a pleasant light.
I like the ground fog in the pictures. It would certainly be amusing if they had those machines permanently installed, specially since it looks to be dry ice or CO2 based, that can get expensive.
Hmmm.. I wonder if I can convince my boss thats what our office needs.
The reason they don't like you to send cash in the mail isn't the safety of your money, its for the safety of the postal carriers. If you could send cash in the mail a carrier could potently be carrying dozens or even thousands of dollars and making them a target for crime. This would have especially been true back before various forms of automatic and credit card billing were common.
How have our standards of failure become so high that we freak out because there could be flaws in simulations? This is the POINT of these projects, to push ourselves forward
Nobody wants to have to scrap their work to fix a problem, but it's going to happen. If it's not, we're not pushing ourselves hard enough. Probes are going to crash, projects are going to overrun, people are going to make mistakes. If we keep at it, however, thats when we reap the rewards.
No doubt we need to eliminate needless risk and move what other risks we can away from the loss of life and property, but lets not confuse that with eliminating any risk at all. To remove all risk is to end all progress and change.
I don't know who you guys are, but stop this shit, seriously.
We don't need a Mark Chapman of the geek world.
I thought it was advertisement system with a instant messaging feature in the corner somewhere.
Really though, I put up with the ads for years, and I may well still have been using it, but both AIM and ICQ got so bloated, plus the use of such large, animated ads, with SOUND. If they had just kept it simple, static ads, I'd never have bothered with a 3rd party client, and would still be getting their ads.
Yeah, I don't suppose it's right to still use the service without getting the ads (I use it far less now, though), but if I and people like me get pushed away, it's going to start to effect the numbers of people that DO use the ad based client.
I know google talk is ad-less, what are the adds like on MSN? Yahoo seems the worst offender, so I'd be curious what other options are out there?
This one of the reasons I think the practice of avoiding "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" in the US is so important, be it for citizens or otherwise. There is little doubt in my mind that, yes, you need the stick as well as the carrot for some people. We can't forget though, that if you go too far, there are things you can't undo to someone. This is especially bad when you consider how often the innocent are wrongly convicted, much less consider how quickly changes of social and political nature can spread. Today you might need that stick, but what happens 5, 10, 50 years from now? You might find yourself in need of those people, especially those people that just may have been caught in the middle.
Punishment and incarceration exist in order to serve the social good. Revenge or damaging a person physically or mentally, even when rehabilitation isn't possible, doesn't really do all that much for the social good.
From Wikipedia: "Subnotebooks have been something of a niche computing product and have rarely sold in large numbers until the 2007 introduction of the Asus Eee PC and the OLPC XO-1[1], which are inexpensive in comparison to both existing machines in that form factor, and computers in general."
That sounds spot on to me. How does that sound anything like it's saying that the form factor was created by Asus? They have been around for ages, it's just in the past they either needed a special striped down OS, were incredibly expensive, had bizarre tiny screen resolutions, or they left out things like keyboards to strip them down in size. Sure NOW you can find some great second hand deals, but they couldn't have possibly been compared as anywhere on the same level in price when they were new.
In fact, the wikipeida article looks like a great list of used models to look for.
The question isn't about owners, it's about employees. Employees have a right to a clean, safe workplace. I suppose one could argue that people have a right to sign away those rights, but I wouldn't agree. People in desperate situations shouldn't have to choose between paying rent and their health.
Ok, I know there are some lawyers out there on Slashdot, so I have to ask, isn't this WAY over the line of entrapment? Or is it because they "only" raid your home that this is legal?
So basically, all that would have to happen is someone post this link on an unrelated message board I frequent disguised as a link of interest, then I get my house raided, my computers confiscated likely with no return, dragged into court preceding and there is nothing I can do about it?
People spend more on their houses then that, and this is what our country spends on it? Photovoltaics might not be a silver bullet, but there are millions of rooftops that could be taking the edge off of our demand for energy, a demand that helps fuel the conflicts in the middle east, and we spend less money for a year on research then two hours on Iraq? $14M isn't news. Tell me when that M is a B.
It's a pity so few will see this article. It reminds me of something I saw briefly on the discovery channel about discovering Atlantis or something. The point was brought up to the effect "We don't have a lot in the way of resources because the scientists are too afraid what we will find will shatter everything they believe." Now, I know that you can't take too much on TV seriously, even the so called educational channels, but this was downright absurd. Wouldn't any scientist with the slightest bit of passion about his work be -thrilled- to take part, or help a peer with work that would have that sort of impact? It's just sad to see the Discovery Channel airing these sorts of things that completly misrepresent what science is. It's not even the MythBusters sorts of shows that bother me, it's exactly these sort of underdog stories the author is talking about that I think does a huge amount of harm to the education of people watching. It's those sorts of shows that lead people so far astray on what science is that lets the "Intelligent Design" nonsense take
root.
Someone else summed it up much better, though:
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan "
Sadly, yes.
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/features/1/12/8
An LED company patented RGB color mixing and Pulse Width Modulation for LEDs. Both of which have been common technologies for years. But the patents have continued to hold up, and surprise surprise, it's slowed the industry and hampered progress.
Sure, but, now we have LCDs that are half an inch thick, or less. It's juts as easy to put one on a desk as it is a mouse and keyboard. Now for large amounts of data, absolutely, a keyboard is the way to go, but there are a lot of applications that could have some very useful GUIs that are based around dynamic touchscreen controls.
Insert is handy for when people email forms to send out as a word or text document. Just click on the line, hit insert and type in the information you need without messing up the formating.
The value of diamonds has nothing to do with actual aesthetics. Of course, a dimond with a good cut and clarity is worth more, but it's not what makes people want them for jewelry, it's conspicuous consumption, little more.
After all, look at the value of often superior synthetics. Or look how people's taste for pearls rapidly decreased as the price decreased.
Of course, diamonds have plenty of other uses, but there is no shortage of them for that, seeing as DeBeers grinds up diamonds for industrial possess in order to keep the supply artificially low.
Worst, insult, ever.
Well, isn't that part of the idea? If you can divide your opponent's attention in half with only a small amount of your own resources, that seems like it would be a worthwhile tactic.
No debut that you have to account for your local climate in figuring out how much power you get from your panels, but that bit about batteries and supper expensive inverters? That was true maybe a decade ago. It's nothing like that now.
http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/172/p/1/pt/23/product.asp
One box, sell the power to the utility when you aren't using it, buy it back when you need it.
Huh? How is this insightful?
Environmentalists have been pushing for funding for development of clean, affordable technologies for years. Thats the very definition of a huge part of the environmental movement. Now, you clearly disagree with a lot of the ideology of the movement, everyone is entitled to an opinion and that is fine, but you clearly aren't the person who should be telling greenies what sort of "lessons" they should be learning, when, this is just the sort of projects they have been pushing for all along.
Well, let the environmentalist smearing begin.