Ecologists in the crowd, what are some of the larger reaching effects of these kinds of blooms? I know it decreases available oxygen, but do we see an increase in food supply and booms in populations because of the newly available food source? Does it have any positive effects in the long haul to have these things turn up?
As a question for the geeks and engineers of the community - how truly difficult is it to make one of these voting machines safe for use?
Is there something I'm missing that would make it difficult to have a kiosk with an imaged system that's been certified, locked down, and can print out results, without it being easy to tamper with or easy to fudge the numbers of? It seems like this is something that engineers could have designed to be foolproof by now, and at a fraction of the budget. How truly complex is the problem they're trying to solve?
There's a good article on Wikipedia about RTGs if you want to see what the other isotopes can do. They're all pretty nasty to play with, but when they're headed that far out, they'll do the trick.
There's joking talk on the comments today of the laser missile shield taking this down. Joking aside, as a technical question: assuming they could/did shoot at the missile, I'm curious - is there a signature people would be able to detect a laser with?
There's a lot to be said for the "personalization" trend of places like Google and Facebook, where they shape all of your results according to what their algorithms think is most important to you. Can readers weigh in on how the consolidation of the internet has affected their own use of it?
I've found that rather than randomly browsing the web at large to find any particularly interesting page, my needs are primarily met by Wikipedia, Google's suite of apps, Facebook, Slashdot, and YouTube. Between the five of those, I've got almost all the bases covered, and my habits have *shaped* to not really imagine needing anything outside of those things. Other websites have become the outliers instead of the norm, and so I would say my "diet" has shifted because it's got a more consistent stream of media from these sites, but it's also being tailored to fit what I've become accustomed to. and I can actually mentally perceive my perception of the internet changing to accommodate it. It's erroneous I know, but I occasionally feel like the internet equivalent of a couch potato because the whole of the web is at my fingers, and I don't really browse to any of the other sites without a more specific need to. Things like Stumble are used by a lot of my friends, but most of the main information comes from those big five.
I'm curious to hear the thoughts below.
I'm curious, but did you disable the screensaver? That's supposed to keep the screen constantly refreshing to prevent exactly such a ghosting behavior over time.
For someone who has done their homework on them, are RTGs practical in any way for the amounts of power needed for flight? Assuming you've got the admittedly heavy substances, is it particularly bulky to make the generators or could they be scaled into something like this? (And obviously overlooking the fact that if one crashes you've got highly radioactive contaminants being scattered)
Anyone in the industry or in the know want to take a stab at where the numbers come from? It seems that 5GB is a common enough number for phone carriers. Is that just a metric that was settled upon, is it arbitrarily set, or are they crunching numbers and coming out with 3GB/5GB as a theoretical "optimal" limit for a network? Feedback welcome from people who know how/why such decisions are made!
Throwing this out there for the community, but I am extremely interested in getting my hands on even some prototypes of gecko tape, at any price. Has anyone heard any developments lately or know who's doing it recently and if they're moving any closer to getting it to market?
It seems like the enduring memory would certainly magnify the pain, in the same way that we flinch in anticipation of pain even though it ultimately makes it hurt worse to tense up so much.
Fun video on motivation studies that appeared in my Facebook feed today. Interesting for anyone who wants to give it a watch. Big companies and small alike deal with encouraging innovation and motivation in their own ways.
http://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
Is there any sort of rule of thumb when measuring power consumption - ie, X amount of processing uses Y blocks of power? Is there a theoretical minimum requirement of energy to perform certain types of calculations?
You might argue that IT are the scribes of the modern world. The world requires an increasing amount of technological literacy and so few people have the relevant skills, training, or interest in the technology to be "literate". I'd say that in that sense, the job market is both expanding and secure for people in IT.
Asking a question for the community here: how did Hollywood get the kind of power and leverage that it has? As a major source of media I can see how it would be valued by government but the stories you hear these days of the lobbying power and secret international cables that surface make it seem like they are constantly overstepping the norms of most other industries.
How did it get to the state that it's now, and why is government working so hard to protect media interests internationally so often? Is it the size of Hollywood and consequent lobbying power, a belief that Hollywood is a/the important industry to protect, or something else? Hollywood seems to receive the most benefit from all copyright laws and protections, so how did they get to this amount of power that they can exert this much control over legislation? Even in the old days I know they had the ratings boards that could strong arm quite a lot of policies.
If anyone has any good histories to relate here or relevant anecdotes, please post below!
Because the water from precipitation is so low in Colorado and we're in a semi-arid climate, there's a lot of concern for the watershed and depriving the people downstream of water. Rainbarrels are technically illegal because that moisture is needed to maintain the natural flow of streams - damming, controlling, or restricting its natural flow can cause problems further down the line, or so it's proposed. But it's scarce enough on a climate level that even the rain is considered necessary.
Asking as someone wanting to get a more educated answer from the good denizens of Slashdot:
It's been stated on here before that there's been the trend of the phone industry to keep going through these mergers. I remember somebody posted a great flow chart of the monopoly breakup of old Bell and the subsequent acquisitions that followed.
Is there any reason why this industry in particular keeps splitting and then gradually getting re-merged - is it any different than any other industry and just more publicized, or is this industry prone to more consolidation over all? Seeing as it all seems to be the derivatives of the old regime AT&T that were gradually reacquired, why is all the power gradually flowing back to AT&T over time? Is it patent control? Aggressive marketing driving out competitors? The company mentality? What makes AT&T survive getting split up, to being back to its current state and trying to acquire T-mobile now?
I'd love any insight you have to share!
These stories pop up ever couple of months, and I'm curious - has anyone played with this stuff before, or know the people working with it? I am *extremely* eager to get my hands on some and would pay almost any price for even prototype material.
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Well your faith in your friends is yours.
Ecologists in the crowd, what are some of the larger reaching effects of these kinds of blooms? I know it decreases available oxygen, but do we see an increase in food supply and booms in populations because of the newly available food source? Does it have any positive effects in the long haul to have these things turn up?
As a question for the geeks and engineers of the community - how truly difficult is it to make one of these voting machines safe for use? Is there something I'm missing that would make it difficult to have a kiosk with an imaged system that's been certified, locked down, and can print out results, without it being easy to tamper with or easy to fudge the numbers of? It seems like this is something that engineers could have designed to be foolproof by now, and at a fraction of the budget. How truly complex is the problem they're trying to solve?
That sounds like an awesome idea for a sci-fi biological computer.
There's a good article on Wikipedia about RTGs if you want to see what the other isotopes can do. They're all pretty nasty to play with, but when they're headed that far out, they'll do the trick.
There's joking talk on the comments today of the laser missile shield taking this down. Joking aside, as a technical question: assuming they could/did shoot at the missile, I'm curious - is there a signature people would be able to detect a laser with?
There's a lot to be said for the "personalization" trend of places like Google and Facebook, where they shape all of your results according to what their algorithms think is most important to you. Can readers weigh in on how the consolidation of the internet has affected their own use of it?
I've found that rather than randomly browsing the web at large to find any particularly interesting page, my needs are primarily met by Wikipedia, Google's suite of apps, Facebook, Slashdot, and YouTube. Between the five of those, I've got almost all the bases covered, and my habits have *shaped* to not really imagine needing anything outside of those things. Other websites have become the outliers instead of the norm, and so I would say my "diet" has shifted because it's got a more consistent stream of media from these sites, but it's also being tailored to fit what I've become accustomed to. and I can actually mentally perceive my perception of the internet changing to accommodate it. It's erroneous I know, but I occasionally feel like the internet equivalent of a couch potato because the whole of the web is at my fingers, and I don't really browse to any of the other sites without a more specific need to. Things like Stumble are used by a lot of my friends, but most of the main information comes from those big five. I'm curious to hear the thoughts below.
I'm curious, but did you disable the screensaver? That's supposed to keep the screen constantly refreshing to prevent exactly such a ghosting behavior over time.
For someone who has done their homework on them, are RTGs practical in any way for the amounts of power needed for flight? Assuming you've got the admittedly heavy substances, is it particularly bulky to make the generators or could they be scaled into something like this? (And obviously overlooking the fact that if one crashes you've got highly radioactive contaminants being scattered)
It's in the subject line.
I legitimately thought from the headline that it was a startup founded by an 11 year old. Which would have been really awesome.
Anyone in the industry or in the know want to take a stab at where the numbers come from? It seems that 5GB is a common enough number for phone carriers. Is that just a metric that was settled upon, is it arbitrarily set, or are they crunching numbers and coming out with 3GB/5GB as a theoretical "optimal" limit for a network? Feedback welcome from people who know how/why such decisions are made!
Throwing this out there for the community, but I am extremely interested in getting my hands on even some prototypes of gecko tape, at any price. Has anyone heard any developments lately or know who's doing it recently and if they're moving any closer to getting it to market?
Let's not forget...
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I'm really curious, but is there a citation or place you read this? I want to find out more :)
It seems like the enduring memory would certainly magnify the pain, in the same way that we flinch in anticipation of pain even though it ultimately makes it hurt worse to tense up so much.
Fun video on motivation studies that appeared in my Facebook feed today. Interesting for anyone who wants to give it a watch. Big companies and small alike deal with encouraging innovation and motivation in their own ways. http://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
Apple's new slogan: "Don't Be Evi"
Is there any sort of rule of thumb when measuring power consumption - ie, X amount of processing uses Y blocks of power? Is there a theoretical minimum requirement of energy to perform certain types of calculations?
You might argue that IT are the scribes of the modern world. The world requires an increasing amount of technological literacy and so few people have the relevant skills, training, or interest in the technology to be "literate". I'd say that in that sense, the job market is both expanding and secure for people in IT.
Asking a question for the community here: how did Hollywood get the kind of power and leverage that it has? As a major source of media I can see how it would be valued by government but the stories you hear these days of the lobbying power and secret international cables that surface make it seem like they are constantly overstepping the norms of most other industries.
How did it get to the state that it's now, and why is government working so hard to protect media interests internationally so often? Is it the size of Hollywood and consequent lobbying power, a belief that Hollywood is a/the important industry to protect, or something else? Hollywood seems to receive the most benefit from all copyright laws and protections, so how did they get to this amount of power that they can exert this much control over legislation? Even in the old days I know they had the ratings boards that could strong arm quite a lot of policies.
If anyone has any good histories to relate here or relevant anecdotes, please post below!
Because the water from precipitation is so low in Colorado and we're in a semi-arid climate, there's a lot of concern for the watershed and depriving the people downstream of water. Rainbarrels are technically illegal because that moisture is needed to maintain the natural flow of streams - damming, controlling, or restricting its natural flow can cause problems further down the line, or so it's proposed. But it's scarce enough on a climate level that even the rain is considered necessary.
Out of curiosity, was Hertz right or wrong about the last part you mentioned, about creating light by AC currents?
Asking as someone wanting to get a more educated answer from the good denizens of Slashdot:
It's been stated on here before that there's been the trend of the phone industry to keep going through these mergers. I remember somebody posted a great flow chart of the monopoly breakup of old Bell and the subsequent acquisitions that followed.
Is there any reason why this industry in particular keeps splitting and then gradually getting re-merged - is it any different than any other industry and just more publicized, or is this industry prone to more consolidation over all? Seeing as it all seems to be the derivatives of the old regime AT&T that were gradually reacquired, why is all the power gradually flowing back to AT&T over time? Is it patent control? Aggressive marketing driving out competitors? The company mentality? What makes AT&T survive getting split up, to being back to its current state and trying to acquire T-mobile now? I'd love any insight you have to share!
These stories pop up ever couple of months, and I'm curious - has anyone played with this stuff before, or know the people working with it? I am *extremely* eager to get my hands on some and would pay almost any price for even prototype material.