Bump: 66% of people have run into others when using a smartphone while walking. Fall: 3.6 % of people have fallen from a platform when texting while walking. Trip: 18% of people have tripped when using a smartphone while walking. 99% of people think using a smartphone while walking is dangerous. 73% of people have used a smartphone while walking. Please look forward when you are walking. Using a smartphone while walking is dangerous.
I always thought we should lock up those bastards and throw away the key. Shall we take it as a recommendation how he wants to be treated when we catch him?
My object all sublime. I shall achieve in time —. To let the punishment fit the crime —. The punishment fit the crime —.
George: "What, the curtains?" William: "No, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see! Stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, lad!"
If you download the Times' front page image from The Intercept and explore for this bit of Python (Monty), thank you for preserving evidence of Rupert's typical Orwellian thinkfuckery. For your complete safety, please ensure you wash your eyes thoroughly (to match your new brain sparkle).
For example, is it the coating on the cells that is wearing out?
Actually, the major factor influencing the life span of photovoltaic panels is the corrosion of the silver metal interconnects. The plastic backing sheet slowly absorbs water from humidity and breaks down to create corrosive acetic acid. The fastest breakdown is the hot humid (tropics), the least is cold dry (alpine). This failure mode has been solved for the newest panels that are made with an impermeable glass back sheet instead of a PVA backing sheet.
Please google "beef..." as it will cut down the amount of snarkasm in your posts.
As for the HECO study, try google "heco nrel study". Oh thats right, asking for stuff as Anonymous Coward "some one do it for me NOW or I'll throw shit".
The real reason that the Tesla X is behind in development is the logical cross product from SpaceX of turning those falcon doors into real wings: The Tesla flying electric car... Woot!
BBC quote follows: MUPUS the sensor package from the German space agency's Institute for Planetary Research deployed a thermometer on the end of a hammer. It retrieved a number of temperature profiles but broke as it tried to burrow its way into the comet's subsurface. Scientists say this shows the icy material underlying 67P's dust covering to be far harder than anyone anticipated - having the tensile strength of some rocks. It also helps explain why Philae bounced so high on that first touchdown. The 4km-wide comet has little gravity, so when key landing systems designed to hold the robot down failed at the crucial moment - the probe would have been relying on thick, soft, compressive layers to absorb its impact. However much dust it did encounter at that moment, it clearly was not enough to prevent Philae making its giant rebound. [end-quote] http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
Comets are now known to be hard as well and definitely not mushy. THAT is the major finding so far. Philae was expected to land gently on a frozen snow cone into which it would fire anchoring harpoons, but it bounced a off a deep frozen ice mass (ouch) ascending 400m then touched down again then bounced yet again until coming to rest in the shadow of a cliff. Awkward.
Scientists expected the comet’s surface to be powdery, allowing the lander to settle instead of rebounding back into space.
“It’s not a powder, it’s a rock, so it’s like a trampoline, You go there and it ejects you immediately afterwards.”
The objectives of the science mission will probably be missed because hardware failure and reality trumping assumption.
Recent example: Climate change --> drought in Syria --> crop failures --> population movement to cities --> Ass-hat regime pushes population to rebellion --> civil war --> [...] --> Islamic State.
Hints for paywall circumnavigation: Google $FirstAuthorsName + $SomeUniquePartOfArticleTitle Example: Jeffrey Chou Selective Solar Absorption Scan the results and avoid all that steer back to the paywall. Find anything? No? That's usual. Next try adding the $MagicWord = pdf Example: Jeffrey Chou Selective Solar Absorption pdf Look carefully at results. Maybe you will find a prepublication copy somewhere? This will at least give you a flavour of the research work and might tempt you to support the $BILLION science publishing scam^H^H^H^H industry
Right now, this is happening in Hong Kong: In Hong Kong, pro-democracy demonstrators are looking for new ways to communicate.
News about the protests in Hong Kong have been suppressed in mainland China, where the picture sharing site Instagram has been blocked. Messages posted to Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site similar to Twitter, are being blocked in far greater numbers than normal. And on Sunday, rumours reportedly circulated that the authorities in Hong Kong might shut down the city's cellular networks.
In response, a different type of social network has come to the fore. The Firechat app allows smartphone users to talk to one another "off-the-grid", in the absence of a mobile signal or access to the internet. By making use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, messages are spread in a daisy chain fashion, jumping from one user to the next. The system is particularly effective when large numbers of people are congregated together - like at a music festival, or a political protest.
Micha Benoliel, CEO of Open Garden, the firm that makes the app, tells BBC Trending there has been a huge surge in downloads from Hong Kong, as more than 100,000 new accounts have been created in less than 24 hours. Usage spiked during protests in Taiwan and Iran earlier this year, but never before on this scale, says Benoliel.
Inside the app discussions are arranged either according to theme, or how close you are to other users. At one point on Sunday 33,000 people in Hong Kong were using the app at the same time.
Slashdot Mirror
http://arstechnica.com/science...
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Lovely Japanese take on the curse of distracted walking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bump: 66% of people have run into others when using a smartphone while walking.
Fall: 3.6 % of people have fallen from a platform when texting while walking.
Trip: 18% of people have tripped when using a smartphone while walking.
99% of people think using a smartphone while walking is dangerous.
73% of people have used a smartphone while walking.
Please look forward when you are walking.
Using a smartphone while walking is dangerous.
Roast Turkey, of course.
What is it with that hair, Donald?
It's RED MERCURY powered hair, derrrr.
I always thought we should lock up those bastards and throw away the key. Shall we take it as a recommendation how he wants to be treated when we catch him?
My object all sublime.
I shall achieve in time —.
To let the punishment fit the crime —.
The punishment fit the crime —.
Space Balls
I wish they'd out together a good looking, 2 seater sports car that was all electric, in the price range of maybe a corvette? Something affordable.
Yeah, and I want an electric pony.
There. I said it.
George: "What, the curtains?"
William: "No, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see! Stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, lad!"
If you download the Times' front page image from The Intercept and explore for this bit of Python (Monty),
thank you for preserving evidence of Rupert's typical Orwellian thinkfuckery.
For your complete safety, please ensure you wash your eyes thoroughly (to match your new brain sparkle).
For example, is it the coating on the cells that is wearing out?
Actually, the major factor influencing the life span of photovoltaic panels is the corrosion of the silver metal interconnects.
The plastic backing sheet slowly absorbs water from humidity and breaks down to create corrosive acetic acid.
The fastest breakdown is the hot humid (tropics), the least is cold dry (alpine).
This failure mode has been solved for the newest panels that are made with an impermeable glass back sheet instead of a PVA backing sheet.
Where's the beef?
Please google "beef..." as it will cut down the amount of snarkasm in your posts.
As for the HECO study, try google "heco nrel study".
Oh thats right, asking for stuff as Anonymous Coward "some one do it for me NOW or I'll throw shit".
Since the US calls them skeptics and the rest of the English world calls them sceptics. I propose the following:
Climate change deniers from now on, are to be called septics.
They stink. They are pollution.They are a waste.
[Australian slang etymology: septic tank = yank]
Christopher Hitchens called conspiracy theories "the exhaust fumes of democracy".
I suggest you stop sucking the tailpipe of capitalism.
Monica got there years ago...
I predict 100% certain the next roll will not be a 7
The real reason that the Tesla X is behind in development is the logical cross product from SpaceX of turning those falcon doors into real wings:
The Tesla flying electric car... Woot!
BBC quote follows:
MUPUS the sensor package from the German space agency's Institute for Planetary Research deployed a thermometer on the end of a hammer.
It retrieved a number of temperature profiles but broke as it tried to burrow its way into the comet's subsurface.
Scientists say this shows the icy material underlying 67P's dust covering to be far harder than anyone anticipated - having the tensile strength of some rocks.
It also helps explain why Philae bounced so high on that first touchdown.
The 4km-wide comet has little gravity, so when key landing systems designed to hold the robot down failed at the crucial moment - the probe would have been relying on thick, soft, compressive layers to absorb its impact.
However much dust it did encounter at that moment, it clearly was not enough to prevent Philae making its giant rebound.
[end-quote]
http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
Nice more information is.
In an interview yesterday, a person on the project said the exact opposite: that the comet was softer than expected.
Don't leave us in a vacuum. A link [citation] would be nice.
Space may surprise us in being part powdery as well as being hard.
Comets are now known to be hard as well and definitely not mushy.
THAT is the major finding so far.
Philae was expected to land gently on a frozen snow cone into which it would fire anchoring harpoons,
but it bounced a off a deep frozen ice mass (ouch) ascending 400m then touched down again
then bounced yet again until coming to rest in the shadow of a cliff. Awkward.
Scientists expected the comet’s surface to be powdery, allowing the lander to settle instead of rebounding back into space.
“It’s not a powder, it’s a rock, so it’s like a trampoline,
You go there and it ejects you immediately afterwards.”
The objectives of the science mission will probably be missed because hardware failure and reality trumping assumption.
to glance that the greed led is still softly glowing .
We have lots of that particular coloured LED in the head offices of our coal fired power companies
Recent example:
Climate change --> drought in Syria --> crop failures --> population movement to cities -->
Ass-hat regime pushes population to rebellion --> civil war --> [...] --> Islamic State.
Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.
Hints for paywall circumnavigation:
Google $FirstAuthorsName + $SomeUniquePartOfArticleTitle
Example: Jeffrey Chou Selective Solar Absorption
Scan the results and avoid all that steer back to the paywall.
Find anything? No? That's usual.
Next try adding the $MagicWord = pdf
Example: Jeffrey Chou Selective Solar Absorption pdf
Look carefully at results. Maybe you will find a prepublication copy somewhere?
This will at least give you a flavour of the research work and might tempt you to support the $BILLION science publishing scam^H^H^H^H industry
SHOUTING IS NOT POLITE!
Right now, this is happening in Hong Kong:
In Hong Kong, pro-democracy demonstrators are looking for new ways to communicate.
News about the protests in Hong Kong have been suppressed in mainland China, where the picture sharing site Instagram has been blocked. Messages posted to Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site similar to Twitter, are being blocked in far greater numbers than normal. And on Sunday, rumours reportedly circulated that the authorities in Hong Kong might shut down the city's cellular networks.
In response, a different type of social network has come to the fore. The Firechat app allows smartphone users to talk to one another "off-the-grid", in the absence of a mobile signal or access to the internet. By making use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, messages are spread in a daisy chain fashion, jumping from one user to the next. The system is particularly effective when large numbers of people are congregated together - like at a music festival, or a political protest.
Micha Benoliel, CEO of Open Garden, the firm that makes the app, tells BBC Trending there has been a huge surge in downloads from Hong Kong, as more than 100,000 new accounts have been created in less than 24 hours. Usage spiked during protests in Taiwan and Iran earlier this year, but never before on this scale, says Benoliel.
Inside the app discussions are arranged either according to theme, or how close you are to other users. At one point on Sunday 33,000 people in Hong Kong were using the app at the same time.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...