Today I can see no reason why I would rather have a laser light than... say.. LED or Xenon (which are both pretty damn bright) . . . other than "lasers are neat."
Exactly. Let's take light, bounce it back and forth so every photon is going the same direction, then put it through a headlamp that is designed to diffuse it. Seems much simpler to take the light that was already going in every direction, put some mirrors on the sides that you don't need, and done.
I sent two mass mailings (wedding & other event) to 100-200 people each time.
In those, was able to confirm that 30% of the people didn't get my invitations.
When I complained to the USPS, they said unless I use certified mail, there was no way for them to do anything about it. The event were separated by 3 years.
Since then, I've used email and for those that don't have email, I call them. Like the OP said, too much error in the system.
Oh, and as for this:
Most people would go there entire lives without losing anything.
EVERYONE I talked to about my losses responded with horror stories of their own. So, unless you have stats that show that 51% of customers never lose anything from the USPS over their lifetime, my personal experiences trumps your presumptions.
No, the problem with multicast is that the big providers wanted more money based on bandwidth & multicast would severely cut bandwidth need.
As you can see with AT&T and Comcast, they already use multicast internally, as do almost all video over IP providers. They just don't want to share it.
You're correct, but most worms don't try to scan every port. They need to quickly find their next target, and scanning for one port is much quicker than for over 65,000 of them.
Also, remember they're looking for total dumbasses that put things like "admin" as their password. Pretty sure that people that run RDP on port 6384 don't have trivial passwords.
This isn't a key/mouse issue, it is an issue with Xbox Live being open to Steam players.
XBL users pay to be on there, and in return on of the benefits is that cheaters & assholes can by smitten with the ban hammer. They would have no authority over Steam players.
I used to be a big CS:S player on Steam, but now I enjoy using XBL & do all my gaming on there. I miss many things about PC gaming, and if I had the time & money I'd still do it. However, with the available time I have, XBL suits me fine.
Because this is the highest earthquake in the state on record, and it spawns a great geological discussion on how earthquakes travel farther in the east due to the solid nature of the ground in comparison to the west coast.
The institution of a grant applicant matters a *lot* (probably more than the scientific merit of the grant application itself or the applicant writing it)
TFA says that they assume the peers are assuming race from "black sounding" names or historically black universities.
Why would any of these factor in during the peer review process? I would certainly hope that scientists understand what "double-blind" means & apply it to the review process. It doesn't matter what the person's name is or what university they went to or work at now. All that SHOULD matter is the quality of the science that is presented, therefore that is all that should be on the report that is peer-reviewed.
So we won't be able to put more transistors per square inch into a chip after a certain point
The point is, that IS Moore's Law. It doesn't say that there will be cheaper transistors, only that the number of them that fit on a chip will increase. Again, at some point, you're down to atoms & there is no more room to squeeze them in.
To your point, I do think we'll still keep making processors faster at some rate, but it won't have anything to do with Moore's Law when we stop putting more transistors on a chip.
The reservoir is 3,500 m. down, the salt dome that for in excess of 250 million years has prevented the gas to seep up has by the frac process not been affected in any way
Other than the hole you just drilled into it.
How do you know no gas is leaking into the water supply?
I rode my bike to work for a few years, and would love to get back to doing that (I have a 60 mile commute right now).
A few counter-points. Cyclists don't need to shower after every ride. Wearing separate clothes to ride in works just fine as long as you re-apply deodorant.
Also, my commute took 15 minutes by car, and 25 minutes by bike (one way). However, I ended up getting 50 minutes of exercise daily which only "cost" me 20 minutes of my time (the 30 minutes a day driving is a sunk cost). Those that don't commute by bike either have to spend more time exercising, or just don't exercise.
I'm a firm anti-Walmart person, I and totally agree with not just buying stuff local because it is local.
There are a lot of mom & pops that are complete assholes & act like you MUST shop with them anyhow, while they buy their raw materials from Walmart. A local ice-cream shop complained to me about people not shopping local & admitted to me that she buys her stuff from Walmart. Now, I go to the chain Cold Stone.
On the other hand, the local bike shop waited for me to get to his shop 45 minutes after he closed so I could get my bike. Now, I pay higher prices for things like cycling clothes buying them from him instead of some online place. I think of it as a "tip" for such good service.
No, it screws up streaming video that is VBR, like Netflix. Netflix sets the VBR based on the speed it sees at the beginning. Then, once PowerBoost is over, Netflix has to lower the VBR. I would much rather it detect the proper speed of my connection instead of a false higher reading.
The main point, though, is that while you want it on & I want it off, Comcast forces your preference on me.
It basically says: You - and only you - have got the right to decide how your personal data is used/stored.
So, just so I understand. I saw you in a public place (outside a bar) puking your guts out. You tell me I'm not allowed to tell anyone else about it. If I still do, I'm in violation of the law? Take the same case & assume I saw you murder someone. We can't determine how the murder victim wants his data used, and you say I can't say anything about it.
you're not allowed to collect more (personal) information than needed to fulfill your business/service
So, a personal information sharing site, such as facebook, is permitted to collect all of the information that someone wishes to share? Seems moot.
Enge says it is likely that these pseudolites will rely on time signals sent over the Internet, using a new protocol that enables high accuracy.
He doesn't say, but I assume he is talking about Precision Time Protocol, which allows for sub-microsecond precision. With that, the claim of 3cm is totally realistic.
I'll agree that I'm making some assumptions since this is a shit article.
However, the main takeaway from this is the idea of using devices without an on-board atomic clock & instead using a clock that must stay in sync. It is a neat idea & might work, but I wouldn't want anyone's life to depend on it.
I just blew my moderation to post this, but you are out of your mind if you think "non-profit" means "we don't care about getting as money as we can".
My current position is the my first professional position in a "for-profit" company, the previous 3 were in "non-profit" companies. I've worked in medical, educational, and co-op organizations. I can tell you first hand that the "non-profit" are every bit as concerned about getting as much money as they can.
If you're a university, the point is that the more money you have, the more staff you can support with healthy salaries.
I've actually been switching between CNN, MSNBC, and FNC to see how each are covering it. While I expected CNN & MSNBC to have non-stop coverage out of schadenfreude & FNC to ignore it, my totally unscientific survey has shown the opposite. Several times, FNC had a live feed in the courtroom while the other two were talking about the debt or celeb news.
I watch TV for about 30 minutes a day on average, so I could be totally off.
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Today I can see no reason why I would rather have a laser light than ... say.. LED or Xenon (which are both pretty damn bright) . . . other than "lasers are neat."
Exactly. Let's take light, bounce it back and forth so every photon is going the same direction, then put it through a headlamp that is designed to diffuse it. Seems much simpler to take the light that was already going in every direction, put some mirrors on the sides that you don't need, and done.
Most resources are recyclable, but simply end up in trash heaps because (for now) the energy and sorting costs of recycling makes it inefficient.
Personally, I like the idea of 21st century miners working in old landfills to get metals instead of chopping off mountaintops.
I sent two mass mailings (wedding & other event) to 100-200 people each time.
In those, was able to confirm that 30% of the people didn't get my invitations.
When I complained to the USPS, they said unless I use certified mail, there was no way for them to do anything about it. The event were separated by 3 years.
Since then, I've used email and for those that don't have email, I call them. Like the OP said, too much error in the system.
Oh, and as for this:
Most people would go there entire lives without losing anything.
EVERYONE I talked to about my losses responded with horror stories of their own. So, unless you have stats that show that 51% of customers never lose anything from the USPS over their lifetime, my personal experiences trumps your presumptions.
In addition, the poor reception to Microsoft's focus on motion gaming
You define "poor reception" as making the world's fastest selling consumer electronics device?
sales of the PS3 are surpassing the 360 this year
PS3 is surpassing Xbox in sales? Not according to NPD, which says Xbox 360 has been outselling other consoles for 5 months now.
No, the problem with multicast is that the big providers wanted more money based on bandwidth & multicast would severely cut bandwidth need.
As you can see with AT&T and Comcast, they already use multicast internally, as do almost all video over IP providers. They just don't want to share it.
Ever fatter pipes have always reduced the need for this sort of solutions and my guess is that it will continue to be the case.
That would be correct if ISPs were upgrading their big lines at the same rate they're upgrading their customer facing lines.
Unfortunately, they're letting their peering lines get oversubscribed, but selling space to CDNs.
You're correct, but most worms don't try to scan every port. They need to quickly find their next target, and scanning for one port is much quicker than for over 65,000 of them.
Also, remember they're looking for total dumbasses that put things like "admin" as their password. Pretty sure that people that run RDP on port 6384 don't have trivial passwords.
This isn't a key/mouse issue, it is an issue with Xbox Live being open to Steam players.
XBL users pay to be on there, and in return on of the benefits is that cheaters & assholes can by smitten with the ban hammer. They would have no authority over Steam players.
I used to be a big CS:S player on Steam, but now I enjoy using XBL & do all my gaming on there. I miss many things about PC gaming, and if I had the time & money I'd still do it. However, with the available time I have, XBL suits me fine.
Because this is the highest earthquake in the state on record, and it spawns a great geological discussion on how earthquakes travel farther in the east due to the solid nature of the ground in comparison to the west coast.
The event webpage: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005ild.php
The institution of a grant applicant matters a *lot* (probably more than the scientific merit of the grant application itself or the applicant writing it)
So, you're making my point for me.
TFA says that they assume the peers are assuming race from "black sounding" names or historically black universities.
Why would any of these factor in during the peer review process? I would certainly hope that scientists understand what "double-blind" means & apply it to the review process. It doesn't matter what the person's name is or what university they went to or work at now. All that SHOULD matter is the quality of the science that is presented, therefore that is all that should be on the report that is peer-reviewed.
So we won't be able to put more transistors per square inch into a chip after a certain point
The point is, that IS Moore's Law. It doesn't say that there will be cheaper transistors, only that the number of them that fit on a chip will increase. Again, at some point, you're down to atoms & there is no more room to squeeze them in.
To your point, I do think we'll still keep making processors faster at some rate, but it won't have anything to do with Moore's Law when we stop putting more transistors on a chip.
The reservoir is 3,500 m. down, the salt dome that for in excess of 250 million years has prevented the gas to seep up has by the frac process not been affected in any way
Other than the hole you just drilled into it.
How do you know no gas is leaking into the water supply?
I rode my bike to work for a few years, and would love to get back to doing that (I have a 60 mile commute right now).
A few counter-points. Cyclists don't need to shower after every ride. Wearing separate clothes to ride in works just fine as long as you re-apply deodorant.
Also, my commute took 15 minutes by car, and 25 minutes by bike (one way). However, I ended up getting 50 minutes of exercise daily which only "cost" me 20 minutes of my time (the 30 minutes a day driving is a sunk cost). Those that don't commute by bike either have to spend more time exercising, or just don't exercise.
I'm a firm anti-Walmart person, I and totally agree with not just buying stuff local because it is local.
There are a lot of mom & pops that are complete assholes & act like you MUST shop with them anyhow, while they buy their raw materials from Walmart. A local ice-cream shop complained to me about people not shopping local & admitted to me that she buys her stuff from Walmart. Now, I go to the chain Cold Stone.
On the other hand, the local bike shop waited for me to get to his shop 45 minutes after he closed so I could get my bike. Now, I pay higher prices for things like cycling clothes buying them from him instead of some online place. I think of it as a "tip" for such good service.
How about the idea that it isn't that the microcars are unsafe, but instead your 2006 Expedition that is deadly to smaller cars.
Blaming small cars for the killing passengers when they hit bigger cars is like the old saying "Well, dressed like that, she was ASKING for it!"
No, it screws up streaming video that is VBR, like Netflix. Netflix sets the VBR based on the speed it sees at the beginning. Then, once PowerBoost is over, Netflix has to lower the VBR. I would much rather it detect the proper speed of my connection instead of a false higher reading.
The main point, though, is that while you want it on & I want it off, Comcast forces your preference on me.
I tried to turn off PowerBoost to help with setting QoS, they wouldn't let me. That is one of the dumbest "features" I've heard of.
It basically says: You - and only you - have got the right to decide how your personal data is used/stored.
So, just so I understand. I saw you in a public place (outside a bar) puking your guts out. You tell me I'm not allowed to tell anyone else about it. If I still do, I'm in violation of the law? Take the same case & assume I saw you murder someone. We can't determine how the murder victim wants his data used, and you say I can't say anything about it.
you're not allowed to collect more (personal) information than needed to fulfill your business/service
So, a personal information sharing site, such as facebook, is permitted to collect all of the information that someone wishes to share? Seems moot.
Also from TFA:
Enge says it is likely that these pseudolites will rely on time signals sent over the Internet, using a new protocol that enables high accuracy.
He doesn't say, but I assume he is talking about Precision Time Protocol, which allows for sub-microsecond precision. With that, the claim of 3cm is totally realistic.
I'll agree that I'm making some assumptions since this is a shit article.
However, the main takeaway from this is the idea of using devices without an on-board atomic clock & instead using a clock that must stay in sync. It is a neat idea & might work, but I wouldn't want anyone's life to depend on it.
I know what you're trying to say, but everywhere on earth moves at one timezone per hour.
The point is, at the equator, the timezones are wider than anywhere else on earth.
I just blew my moderation to post this, but you are out of your mind if you think "non-profit" means "we don't care about getting as money as we can".
My current position is the my first professional position in a "for-profit" company, the previous 3 were in "non-profit" companies. I've worked in medical, educational, and co-op organizations. I can tell you first hand that the "non-profit" are every bit as concerned about getting as much money as they can.
If you're a university, the point is that the more money you have, the more staff you can support with healthy salaries.
That's likely from one of the "commentary" shows on there. I try to steer clear of those on all 3 of those stations, all are biased.
I'm referring to the bland talking head plain old news part, where some idiot reads from a teleprompter.
And again, this is off of a very small sample size.
I've actually been switching between CNN, MSNBC, and FNC to see how each are covering it.
While I expected CNN & MSNBC to have non-stop coverage out of schadenfreude & FNC to ignore it, my totally unscientific survey has shown the opposite. Several times, FNC had a live feed in the courtroom while the other two were talking about the debt or celeb news.
I watch TV for about 30 minutes a day on average, so I could be totally off.