Human perception is hard to standardize and thus to communicate reliably (oblig: http://xkcd.com/883/); that's why scientists often recur to mechanical instruments and even those are not always required ("the specimen is alive" and "the patients reported less pain" are good enough in certain applications).
Science is only about knowing as opposed to figuring or having an opinion. All of the scientific method tries to address the question: "can we be sure about it?"; that's its only "fundament". Everything else (blind and double-blind, sampling, error calculation, etc) are techniques to achieve that.
It's not only about having more entropy. As the top half of the comic suggest, Joe User who is new at managing passwords may have a hard time remembering "Tr0ub4dor!", and that may lead to less security if he resorts to guessable passwords or the dreaded Post-It.
Then comes the nasty issue of restrictions - "must be between 8 and 15 characters, with mixed case, at least one number and one symbol" (I kid you not). They're practically telling you to use 1-2 common words in l33tsp34k. There are ways around that: e.g., take the first two letters of your passphrase and "scramble" that in a compatible but consistent manner: "correcthorsebatterystaple" --> "C0h0b45t!". Don't try (too hard) to show the admin the error in his ways.
I see they'll be missing planets again in the future.
Yeah, imperial bad metric good. But the NASA of yore somehow hit the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc etc using teh evul miles and pounds-force. Maybe it has to do with _mixing_ units between suppliers and integrator without proper communication?
: abuse does not take away use, i.e., is not an argument against proper use
That is, fanboyish reactions do not strip the relevance of one of the largest players in a tech industry making more money than ever before, or prevent sane discussion of the fact.
At BGI, he says, they are currently able to sequence 6 trillion base pairs per day and have a stored database totaling 20 PB.
The data deluge problem stems from an imbalance between the DNA sequencing technology and computer technology. According to Dr. Wang, using second-generation sequencing machines, genomes can now be mapped 50,000 times faster than just a decade ago. The technology on track to increase approximately 10-fold every 18 months. That is 5 times the rate of Moore's Law, and therein lies the problem.
Obviously it would be impractical to upgrade one's computational infrastructure at that rate, so BGI has turned to NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate the analytics end of the workflow. The architecture of the GPU is particularly suitable for DNA data crunching, thanks to its many simple cores and its high memory bandwidth.
It's rather the theocrats doing it to Iran, for their own benefit. They know that it's better to be kings amid misery than having the country prosper and kick them out of power.
As I write this from my web-browsing, movie-watching, music-listening, casual-game-playing, bittorrent-downloading, GPS-equipped, ssh-plus-RDP-over-VPN-connecting 1.8-lb device, I respectfully disagree.
Sometimes I wonder how much further ahead humanity would be if we built everything with the need to have it last decades before becoming nonfunctional, then I realize that with the rate technology has advanced, that is just not possible. Not to mention that we would have a totally different world economy if people weren't continually replacing perfectly functional items, from clothing to electronics to vehicles. So much of the global economy is dependent on people buying more things.
Only if you don't mind your next cell phone costing you a few months' salary. Top-notch quality in tech is costly:
The cost of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions -- including launch, mission operations from launch through the Neptune encounter and the spacecraft's nuclear batteries (provided by the Department of Energy) -- is $865 million.
Shouldn't have to edit URLs to bypass their crap; either offer me both download methods or gtfo.
As for the ad blocker, I'm making a habit of turning it off for sites that prove useful and not annoying; denying them the revenue makes me more of a leech.
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food. Microwave radiation is between common radio and infrared frequencies. Water, fat, and other substances in the food absorb energy from the microwaves in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a partial positive charge at one end and a partial negative charge at the other, and therefore rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field of the microwaves. Rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion, thus dispersing energy. This energy, when dispersed as molecular vibration in solids and liquids (i.e., as both potential energy and kinetic energy of atoms), is heat.
Ahem, you actually have to *agree* to its obligations. You are granted a license, and there's a copyright holder:
Who has the power to enforce the GPL? (#WhoHasThePower)
Since the GPL is a copyright license, the copyright holders of the software are the ones who have the power to enforce the GPL. If you see a violation of the GPL, you should inform the developers of the GPL-covered software involved. They either are the copyright holders, or are connected with the copyright holders.
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Can any headline which ends in a question mark be answered by the word 'no'?
Case in point:
British accents VS American accents
Human perception is hard to standardize and thus to communicate reliably (oblig: http://xkcd.com/883/); that's why scientists often recur to mechanical instruments and even those are not always required ("the specimen is alive" and "the patients reported less pain" are good enough in certain applications).
Science is only about knowing as opposed to figuring or having an opinion. All of the scientific method tries to address the question: "can we be sure about it?"; that's its only "fundament". Everything else (blind and double-blind, sampling, error calculation, etc) are techniques to achieve that.
The Trieste was a bathyscaphe - a hard sphere hanging from a flotation device.
This is a true submarine - it dives and ascends as a single unit: http://www.virginoceanic.com/vehicles/submersible/
The unmanned Nereus also reached the Challenger Deep, piloted remotely through a fiber optic cable.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/derring-do
Etymology
From Middle English daring to do.
Noun
derring-do (uncountable)
1. Valiant deeds in desperate times.
2. Brave and adventurous, often reckless actions.
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SPACE SHARKS??!! OMG WE'RE DOOMED!!
(Now that we've got that one out of the way, we're back to our regular discussion)
Sorry, I meant the "two first letters of each word of your passphrase", but surely you already guess that. And no, I didn't call you Shirley ;)
It's not only about having more entropy. As the top half of the comic suggest, Joe User who is new at managing passwords may have a hard time remembering "Tr0ub4dor!", and that may lead to less security if he resorts to guessable passwords or the dreaded Post-It.
Then comes the nasty issue of restrictions - "must be between 8 and 15 characters, with mixed case, at least one number and one symbol" (I kid you not). They're practically telling you to use 1-2 common words in l33tsp34k. There are ways around that: e.g., take the first two letters of your passphrase and "scramble" that in a compatible but consistent manner: "correcthorsebatterystaple" --> "C0h0b45t!". Don't try (too hard) to show the admin the error in his ways.
Just 1.28 cm more and it would have been 50 meters exactly. What a coincidence. You might almost think they had gone metric.
They have. You're seeing the rounded number. https://www.google.com/search?q=50+meter+in+feet = 164.041995 feet (164 feet ½ inches)
I see they'll be missing planets again in the future.
Yeah, imperial bad metric good. But the NASA of yore somehow hit the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc etc using teh evul miles and pounds-force. Maybe it has to do with _mixing_ units between suppliers and integrator without proper communication?
abusus non tollit usum
: abuse does not take away use, i.e., is not an argument against proper use
That is, fanboyish reactions do not strip the relevance of one of the largest players in a tech industry making more money than ever before, or prevent sane discussion of the fact.
Excerpt:
At BGI, he says, they are currently able to sequence 6 trillion base pairs per day and have a stored database totaling 20 PB.
The data deluge problem stems from an imbalance between the DNA sequencing technology and computer technology. According to Dr. Wang, using second-generation sequencing machines, genomes can now be mapped 50,000 times faster than just a decade ago. The technology on track to increase approximately 10-fold every 18 months. That is 5 times the rate of Moore's Law, and therein lies the problem.
Obviously it would be impractical to upgrade one's computational infrastructure at that rate, so BGI has turned to NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate the analytics end of the workflow. The architecture of the GPU is particularly suitable for DNA data crunching, thanks to its many simple cores and its high memory bandwidth.
It's rather the theocrats doing it to Iran, for their own benefit. They know that it's better to be kings amid misery than having the country prosper and kick them out of power.
I could do so many things with one of those...
So would many True Apple Fans, if it were an Approved iDoll ...
*shudder*
As I write this from my web-browsing, movie-watching, music-listening, casual-game-playing, bittorrent-downloading, GPS-equipped, ssh-plus-RDP-over-VPN-connecting 1.8-lb device, I respectfully disagree.
Speaking of drones ... WHOOOSH
Better take that sarcasmometer for a checkup!
Sometimes I wonder how much further ahead humanity would be if we built everything with the need to have it last decades before becoming nonfunctional, then I realize that with the rate technology has advanced, that is just not possible. Not to mention that we would have a totally different world economy if people weren't continually replacing perfectly functional items, from clothing to electronics to vehicles. So much of the global economy is dependent on people buying more things.
Only if you don't mind your next cell phone costing you a few months' salary. Top-notch quality in tech is costly:
The cost of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions -- including launch, mission operations from launch through the Neptune encounter and the spacecraft's nuclear batteries (provided by the Department of Energy) -- is $865 million.
(That'd be $3.2B in 2011 dollars)
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/factsheet.html
Say "what" again. Say "what" again. I dare you. I double-dare you, motherfucker. Say "what" one more goddamn time.
Out of habit (some users come from Ye Olde Tucows Tymes). Also, some small developers don't have the packages in their own website (hassle / bw cost).
Shouldn't have to edit URLs to bypass their crap; either offer me both download methods or gtfo.
As for the ad blocker, I'm making a habit of turning it off for sites that prove useful and not annoying; denying them the revenue makes me more of a leech.
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food. Microwave radiation is between common radio and infrared frequencies. Water, fat, and other substances in the food absorb energy from the microwaves in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a partial positive charge at one end and a partial negative charge at the other, and therefore rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field of the microwaves. Rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion, thus dispersing energy. This energy, when dispersed as molecular vibration in solids and liquids (i.e., as both potential energy and kinetic energy of atoms), is heat.
(emphasis mine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Principles
http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/20000/5000/600/125621/125621.strip.zoom.gif
Hi, Dr. Hawkings; I didn't know you posted on /. :)
Who has the power to enforce the GPL? (#WhoHasThePower)
Since the GPL is a copyright license, the copyright holders of the software are the ones who have the power to enforce the GPL. If you see a violation of the GPL, you should inform the developers of the GPL-covered software involved. They either are the copyright holders, or are connected with the copyright holders.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhoHasThePower
Because I already know the gist of it, especially if I only plan to use the stuff as opposed to redistributing it.
You need more medication, or less. Not sure which. http://xkcd.com/960/