I think the fact that their orbits intersect every now and again - that's just a co-incidence.
That's not a coincidence. That's how orbital mechanics work. Every orbit intersects every other orbit at exactly two points. Imagine the orbital plane as an elliptical disk. One of it's foci will coincide with the earth's center. An intersection of two planes containing two orbits is a line. This line will go through the two intersections between the orbits, at which both orbiting objects will pass through the same point in the sky. The objects will not collide as long as they pass through it at different time or altitude.
Can we PLEASE stop with this hyperbolic "productivity" nonsense? If people were SO productive, what are they producing?
These are office workers. Their main product is memos and TPS reports, and judging by how the production of these increases hyperbolically every year, I must protest your use of the word "nonsense".
She's sitting in the socket into which the rocket motor is plugged. The motor is lowered through the doors in the ceiling and conected to the fuel and power lines in the socket. The big round red lid covers the exhaust pipe, which leads outside into that huge tower in the middle of the complex. And as for the security camera, there is no mention of it being broken. Lana says it's likely used to monitor the tests. Since there was no motor in the building at the time, there isn't much reason to watch it. Yeah, sure, there might be sabotage, but I doubt anybody would bother. General vandalism is the most likely threat and those kind of people aren't too keen on trudging a mile through the snow to get to the hole in the fence. Same goes for stealing metal and stuff; people will do it, but they probably won't bother if they have to haul it that far.
"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'"
That's right. Correlation is very useful when choosing subjects for research, but should never be used as justification for any action or policy. Correlations mean nothing by themselves; you have to find causative links before you can try causing the desired effect with the correlated cause. Oh, and once you find a causative link, it's worthwhile to determine the mechanism of the action, so that instead of, for example, having to never eat hamburgers again, you could find out what exactly is in them that is causing the problem and then just remove that.
The study found that high vitamin levels in the blood correlated with higher mental abilities, while higher levels of trans fats correlated with lower. The study says nothing about fruits, vegetables, or fast foods. There was also no evidence to conclude that this correlation is causative. They did not take people with high levels of trans fats and put them on a fruit-and-vegetable diet. If that were done, and their scores improved, they yes, they would have been justified in making such a recommendation. As things are, they made no effort to even determine where those vitamins and trans fats came from. If you ate hamburgers and too vitamin pills, you'd have high vitamin levels in your blood too. Another possibility is that people with lower mental abilities tend to eat more junk food with trans fats. That would create the same results in the study.
So, repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation. If you don't know this, you have no business being a scientist.
Well maybe you should select good movies? I challenge you to fine 1(one) year without any good movies.
2007, 2008, and 2009. Somebody here pointed out the Dark Knight, which came out in 2008. What a filthy piece of sadistic garbage! After that I didn't even bother checking. Yeah, sure you can point to some movie you think was great that year, and I'll can spend an hour telling you how much I hated it. But that's rather beside the point; my taste in movies is not your taste in movies, and neither of us is interested in changing that. The point is that there is a large number of people like me for whom no movies are made any more. Be it the generation gap, bad taste, or lack of talent in Hollywood, they are just not likely to make anything I'd want to watch in any near future. I was pointing out that alienating a large swath of the population in this manner is what's causing the decline of their revenues. But, of course, nobody wants to hear that, and just as my comments on the suject are modded down into oblivion, they will likewise be ignored by the movie studios. I wish them the best of luck in bankrupcy.
That's not the message I get. Personally, I haven't seen a good movie since 2006. That seems to be the year when all the good scriptwriters died and were replaced with underpaid teenagers on speed with the attention span of a flea. Sometimes it feels like there are actually a score of them each writing a five minute plotline (while being forbidden to talk to each other) to be finally merged into a single two hour piece of garbage.
I think it's much simpler than that. People don't understand what software does and really see no difference between the device and the programs that run on it. From that point of view, when you buy an app you are paying for something that's "already there", since it was a device that ran apps before and it's a device that runs apps now. The only change is the new app, which is not a tangible thing, but a behaviour. Paying for behaviour seems kinda like paying someone to teach your dog a new trick, and that's just plain silly.
I don't know how things are where you live, but here in the US there is no way my lazy ass can get off the sofa and produce anything at a cost competetive with cheap asian labor, who can live on a dollar a day while I most certainly can not. The best I can hope for is a lousy unexportable service sector job where I'll be underpaid and overworked. In jobs like those, there is no need for science. All you need to know is how to do as you're told.
Each parent has two days off each week. If employers were more willing to move those around, two parents have four days off work each week. Most grandparents would love to participate in their grandchildren's education, so that's four more people with eight free days a week, for a total of twelve days a week. If only one person is needed to watch all the kids, then each only needs to move Saturday, with Sunday being off for everybody. This way you have enough time to school your kids six days a week and they'll actually get to spend time with you and to like you.
Meanwhile, in a public school other people choose what your kids get to learn and how they get to learn it, other kids get to teach yours social skills, and you get to, well, basically nothing. Is it any wonder that kids end up as ignorant sociopaths who can't stand their parents?
Before you raise that scotch, consider that it was his heavy drinking and smoking that gave him his esophageal cancer (yes, both habits raise your risk of it WAY up), which killed him at a relatively young age of 62. Without those two habits, he may well have lived a few more decades.
I have yet to see a Global Warming argument that shows how rising temperatures would have any deleterious effects on me or my descendants. Yes, climate will change. Yes, farmers may have to start planting different crops to adjust for that. Yes, the sea levels may rise and some poor vagrants out in Nigeria may have to pack up their dirty rags and hike a few miles inland. Oh, and all of that will happen over a hundred years or so. A hundred years ago, there was a forest where I live. Three hundred years ago there was no sign of human habitation around here aside from an occasional indian.
After the planet warms up, life will still go on just fine. The Earth is not a fragile christmas ornament; it always finds a way to keep on going just fine. Half a billion years ago, when CO2 concentration was ten times it is today, and the global temperatures were quite a bit warmer, life thrived. Life will adapt and so shall we. The Earth will not become uninhabitable, only a little different.
In light of that, the anti-CO2 argument is basically that I and my kids should reduce our standard of living now without any tangible benefit to us in the future. My response, naturally, is "forget it".
It's likely that your monitor has a driver & utilities disk with a utility that lets you control brightness and other settings in software
AFAIK this only works on laptops. Besides, my monitor is already at the lowest brightness settings. I even have to use the gamma correction slider to dim it further. It's a very powerful monitor:)
You might try looking at the accessibility options - there are some low/high contrast and inverted color settings that might be interesting for certain tasks.
"High contrast" means bright white text on black background, which is better than the reverse, but not by much. Inverted colors make the UI look very very ugly. Since the whole point of using Aero is that it looks better than the classic mode, inverted Aero has no point whatsoever.
There actually is a way to install a custom Aero theme if you crack the theme manager with UxTheme. I actually had that running for a while. The problem is that you have to create the whole theme yourself, and I don't feel like wasting a day figuring out how to do that. There are some existing dark themes, so I ran one of those. Unfortunately they are all using a black background, which causes problems with applications that force some of their colors and end up with black text on black background. After a month of that I gave up and went back to classic. There at least I don't have to learn a whole new programming API just to change the damn colors.
No, turning down the brightness is not a solution. My monitor does can not be made dim enough to make pure white backgrounds tolerable, but even if it did, there are things like games that would be too dim to see with that setting. And, speaking of condescending UIs, all the monitors these days come only with buttons, making brightness adjustments a tedious chore of dozens of clicks. Making a simple wheel is clearly too difficult, or too "unaesthetic" a choice. Either that, or the designers simply don't think anybody would want to change the brightness setting more than once. None of them must have an office with a window, since experiencing the difference in lighting between the sun shining on your desk and heavy rain blocking it should have made the need painfully obvious.
I run classic, but not because I dislike the Aero look. I find it quite appealing. The deal breaker is the inability to change the theme's background color, which in every goddamned theme is bright white. Surely, everybody ought to know by now that black text on shining white background is the combination that causes the most eyestrain. Yes, most people seem to like it, and that's fine, but when you don't let those whose eyes hurt change the color to something more tolerable, it's little more than a giant middle finger poked right into our tearing eyes.
It is very difficult to make a man understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. If psychology research were made to adhere to any kind of stringent scientific standard, there would be no psychology research.
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That's not a coincidence. That's how orbital mechanics work. Every orbit intersects every other orbit at exactly two points. Imagine the orbital plane as an elliptical disk. One of it's foci will coincide with the earth's center. An intersection of two planes containing two orbits is a line. This line will go through the two intersections between the orbits, at which both orbiting objects will pass through the same point in the sky. The objects will not collide as long as they pass through it at different time or altitude.
These are office workers. Their main product is memos and TPS reports, and judging by how the production of these increases hyperbolically every year, I must protest your use of the word "nonsense".
Please arrest him now for terrorism (of small penis owners).
She's sitting in the socket into which the rocket motor is plugged. The motor is lowered through the doors in the ceiling and conected to the fuel and power lines in the socket. The big round red lid covers the exhaust pipe, which leads outside into that huge tower in the middle of the complex. And as for the security camera, there is no mention of it being broken. Lana says it's likely used to monitor the tests. Since there was no motor in the building at the time, there isn't much reason to watch it. Yeah, sure, there might be sabotage, but I doubt anybody would bother. General vandalism is the most likely threat and those kind of people aren't too keen on trudging a mile through the snow to get to the hole in the fence. Same goes for stealing metal and stuff; people will do it, but they probably won't bother if they have to haul it that far.
That's right. Correlation is very useful when choosing subjects for research, but should never be used as justification for any action or policy. Correlations mean nothing by themselves; you have to find causative links before you can try causing the desired effect with the correlated cause. Oh, and once you find a causative link, it's worthwhile to determine the mechanism of the action, so that instead of, for example, having to never eat hamburgers again, you could find out what exactly is in them that is causing the problem and then just remove that.
This clearly illustrates that cognitive impairment is caused by copyright, not junk food, as the above mentioned study concludes.
The study found that high vitamin levels in the blood correlated with higher mental abilities, while higher levels of trans fats correlated with lower. The study says nothing about fruits, vegetables, or fast foods. There was also no evidence to conclude that this correlation is causative. They did not take people with high levels of trans fats and put them on a fruit-and-vegetable diet. If that were done, and their scores improved, they yes, they would have been justified in making such a recommendation. As things are, they made no effort to even determine where those vitamins and trans fats came from. If you ate hamburgers and too vitamin pills, you'd have high vitamin levels in your blood too. Another possibility is that people with lower mental abilities tend to eat more junk food with trans fats. That would create the same results in the study.
So, repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation. If you don't know this, you have no business being a scientist.
2007, 2008, and 2009. Somebody here pointed out the Dark Knight, which came out in 2008. What a filthy piece of sadistic garbage! After that I didn't even bother checking. Yeah, sure you can point to some movie you think was great that year, and I'll can spend an hour telling you how much I hated it. But that's rather beside the point; my taste in movies is not your taste in movies, and neither of us is interested in changing that. The point is that there is a large number of people like me for whom no movies are made any more. Be it the generation gap, bad taste, or lack of talent in Hollywood, they are just not likely to make anything I'd want to watch in any near future. I was pointing out that alienating a large swath of the population in this manner is what's causing the decline of their revenues. But, of course, nobody wants to hear that, and just as my comments on the suject are modded down into oblivion, they will likewise be ignored by the movie studios. I wish them the best of luck in bankrupcy.
That's not the message I get. Personally, I haven't seen a good movie since 2006. That seems to be the year when all the good scriptwriters died and were replaced with underpaid teenagers on speed with the attention span of a flea. Sometimes it feels like there are actually a score of them each writing a five minute plotline (while being forbidden to talk to each other) to be finally merged into a single two hour piece of garbage.
I think it's much simpler than that. People don't understand what software does and really see no difference between the device and the programs that run on it. From that point of view, when you buy an app you are paying for something that's "already there", since it was a device that ran apps before and it's a device that runs apps now. The only change is the new app, which is not a tangible thing, but a behaviour. Paying for behaviour seems kinda like paying someone to teach your dog a new trick, and that's just plain silly.
You mean like the business model of the cell carriers in the US? They also have a monopoly (due to the enormous barrier of entry).
Let's all remember how companies view customers. And the screw gets bigger every year no matter what.
What's this "career" that you speak of? I'd like to hear more about this revolutionary idea.
I don't know how things are where you live, but here in the US there is no way my lazy ass can get off the sofa and produce anything at a cost competetive with cheap asian labor, who can live on a dollar a day while I most certainly can not. The best I can hope for is a lousy unexportable service sector job where I'll be underpaid and overworked. In jobs like those, there is no need for science. All you need to know is how to do as you're told.
Each parent has two days off each week. If employers were more willing to move those around, two parents have four days off work each week. Most grandparents would love to participate in their grandchildren's education, so that's four more people with eight free days a week, for a total of twelve days a week. If only one person is needed to watch all the kids, then each only needs to move Saturday, with Sunday being off for everybody. This way you have enough time to school your kids six days a week and they'll actually get to spend time with you and to like you.
Meanwhile, in a public school other people choose what your kids get to learn and how they get to learn it, other kids get to teach yours social skills, and you get to, well, basically nothing. Is it any wonder that kids end up as ignorant sociopaths who can't stand their parents?
Get yours here. I'm sure there are others, but this is the one I found first.
Before you raise that scotch, consider that it was his heavy drinking and smoking that gave him his esophageal cancer (yes, both habits raise your risk of it WAY up), which killed him at a relatively young age of 62. Without those two habits, he may well have lived a few more decades.
Yeah. There's nothing I hate more than people telling me what to do. Do NOT mod this up!
I have yet to see a Global Warming argument that shows how rising temperatures would have any deleterious effects on me or my descendants. Yes, climate will change. Yes, farmers may have to start planting different crops to adjust for that. Yes, the sea levels may rise and some poor vagrants out in Nigeria may have to pack up their dirty rags and hike a few miles inland. Oh, and all of that will happen over a hundred years or so. A hundred years ago, there was a forest where I live. Three hundred years ago there was no sign of human habitation around here aside from an occasional indian.
After the planet warms up, life will still go on just fine. The Earth is not a fragile christmas ornament; it always finds a way to keep on going just fine. Half a billion years ago, when CO2 concentration was ten times it is today, and the global temperatures were quite a bit warmer, life thrived. Life will adapt and so shall we. The Earth will not become uninhabitable, only a little different.
In light of that, the anti-CO2 argument is basically that I and my kids should reduce our standard of living now without any tangible benefit to us in the future. My response, naturally, is "forget it".
AFAIK this only works on laptops. Besides, my monitor is already at the lowest brightness settings. I even have to use the gamma correction slider to dim it further. It's a very powerful monitor :)
"High contrast" means bright white text on black background, which is better than the reverse, but not by much. Inverted colors make the UI look very very ugly. Since the whole point of using Aero is that it looks better than the classic mode, inverted Aero has no point whatsoever.
There actually is a way to install a custom Aero theme if you crack the theme manager with UxTheme. I actually had that running for a while. The problem is that you have to create the whole theme yourself, and I don't feel like wasting a day figuring out how to do that. There are some existing dark themes, so I ran one of those. Unfortunately they are all using a black background, which causes problems with applications that force some of their colors and end up with black text on black background. After a month of that I gave up and went back to classic. There at least I don't have to learn a whole new programming API just to change the damn colors.
No, turning down the brightness is not a solution. My monitor does can not be made dim enough to make pure white backgrounds tolerable, but even if it did, there are things like games that would be too dim to see with that setting. And, speaking of condescending UIs, all the monitors these days come only with buttons, making brightness adjustments a tedious chore of dozens of clicks. Making a simple wheel is clearly too difficult, or too "unaesthetic" a choice. Either that, or the designers simply don't think anybody would want to change the brightness setting more than once. None of them must have an office with a window, since experiencing the difference in lighting between the sun shining on your desk and heavy rain blocking it should have made the need painfully obvious.
I run classic, but not because I dislike the Aero look. I find it quite appealing. The deal breaker is the inability to change the theme's background color, which in every goddamned theme is bright white. Surely, everybody ought to know by now that black text on shining white background is the combination that causes the most eyestrain. Yes, most people seem to like it, and that's fine, but when you don't let those whose eyes hurt change the color to something more tolerable, it's little more than a giant middle finger poked right into our tearing eyes.
It is very difficult to make a man understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. If psychology research were made to adhere to any kind of stringent scientific standard, there would be no psychology research.
No, I have not seen what's on TV. My TV has been broken for years and it is amazing how much my TV experience has improved since then.
The Wisdom of Wally clearly illustrates the difference between trust and stupidity.