Great video, only he can't really blame armchair scientists for not checking out scientific literature. Because most of that is only accessible at high price or via university subscriptions (at very high cost for the university). We need science to go into public journals. The high price for articles goes mostly to the publishers of the journals. While the submitting scientists get almost nothing for the paper, only a place in a big journal if he's lucky. And the peer review of the papers is also usually done for free. Therefor all science should be published in big open-source databases. It would give everyone access and also allow much better technological improvements, because even people with low budgets could work on these things if they were open.
For everyone commenting on the game I'd like to hear the platform your playing on. I can't undersand people comparing it to Mass Effect or KotOR. With those I played in third person/FPS perspective. With Dragon Age on the PC I mostly play from an isometric point of view. This gives a much better tactical overview and is quite necessary when using the powerful area of effects spells (but only if friendly fire is on).
I've played it for about 20 hours and I still don't know if I really like it. It's good, but the worlds of KotOR, Mass Effect, and especially Fallout 3, and Morrowind, and even Risen had much bigger draw on me.
Big downside of Oblivion was the level scaling and quite repetitive world. But this could be solved by installing the overhaul which removed leveling and made the game much more interesting. The level scaling in Dragon Age can be pretty annoying when you have quite high level characters and suddenly a large group of wolves become a danger. Or a large group of thugs which you should be able to kill easily. Also making a good party is quite tricky. Because if I just want to using a quite important skill like lock picking, that means I have to have a 'weak' rogue in my team.
OMG OMG, we're under attack by lens flares, camera artifacts and space debris!!!!! And lets not forget cosmic rays impacting highly sensitive CCD equipment. Or unfocused and overexposed dust/ice particles in the camera or just outside the lens.
I must admit, some of them are pretty strange though.
Very minor, but I'd like to see the number of * amazon invocations I've made in my profile. And maybe a little reward for diligent work, though that might lead to amazon spamming.
Very good explanation of temperature. The explanation of laser cooling, not so. It is counter-intuitive that the atoms would radiate more of the laser energy out than they receive. Wiki explains it better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
I'd like to have one of those volcano vaporizers. Too bad they are so expensive. Maybe I can find a coffeeshop (the Dutch kind) in the neighborhood that allows me to test one first.
>> ^mxxcon: i can still see a falling hazard when somebody going downstairs will pull on that handle to unlock it and then start moving forward while still pulling on the handle. It will remain unlocked.. Person might not fall all the way down, but enough to cause injury.
i think some sort of simple ratcheting mechanism that would allow moving only 1-2 steps per unlock would be a safer solution.
If there's more than one person needed to use such device, they can attach 2 handles.
Look at the design and you can see that you can't unlock it while going down. It has a square clamp and a square rail so it can't rotate. It can only rotate on the end parts because those parts of the rail are round.
It is an enormous amount of bandwidth. That dark knight clip is 64MB and highly compressed. I have a pretty fast connection and computer and the 1080p loads quickly, i.e. much faster than I can watch it. It also plays at a smooth 30fps most of the time.
Urban myths about climate change
We need science to go into public journals. The high price for articles goes mostly to the publishers of the journals. While the submitting scientists get almost nothing for the paper, only a place in a big journal if he's lucky. And the peer review of the papers is also usually done for free. Therefor all science should be published in big open-source databases. It would give everyone access and also allow much better technological improvements, because even people with low budgets could work on these things if they were open.
Zero Punctuation: Dragon Age: Origins
I've played it for about 20 hours and I still don't know if I really like it. It's good, but the worlds of KotOR, Mass Effect, and especially Fallout 3, and Morrowind, and even Risen had much bigger draw on me.
Big downside of Oblivion was the level scaling and quite repetitive world. But this could be solved by installing the overhaul which removed leveling and made the game much more interesting.
The level scaling in Dragon Age can be pretty annoying when you have quite high level characters and suddenly a large group of wolves become a danger. Or a large group of thugs which you should be able to kill easily. Also making a good party is quite tricky. Because if I just want to using a quite important skill like lock picking, that means I have to have a 'weak' rogue in my team.
Top Of The World - Rascalz Feat. Barrington Levy & K-OS
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What if Earth had rings like Saturn?
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And lets not forget cosmic rays impacting highly sensitive CCD equipment. Or unfocused and overexposed dust/ice particles in the camera or just outside the lens.
I must admit, some of them are pretty strange though.
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Explaining temperature (kelvin) and laser cooling
Wiki explains it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
First US Marijuana Cafe Opens in Portland, Oregon
Maybe I can find a coffeeshop (the Dutch kind) in the neighborhood that allows me to test one first.
Wall demolition fail
Bombproof Wallpaper.
Wall demolition fail
Will this ever get old?
Rockslide at the Ocoee (Rte 64 in TN) caught on video
Also see this (bigger) landslide
http://www.videosift.com/video/Landslide
LittleDog looks even creepier than BigDog
http://www.videosift.com/video/Little-Dog-Robot
Japanese men's gymnastic badassery = ballet with backflips
16 yr old has ridiculously simple idea, makes $$$
i can still see a falling hazard when somebody going downstairs will pull on that handle to unlock it and then start moving forward while still pulling on the handle. It will remain unlocked.. Person might not fall all the way down, but enough to cause injury.
i think some sort of simple ratcheting mechanism that would allow moving only 1-2 steps per unlock would be a safer solution.
If there's more than one person needed to use such device, they can attach 2 handles.
Look at the design and you can see that you can't unlock it while going down. It has a square clamp and a square rail so it can't rotate. It can only rotate on the end parts because those parts of the rail are round.
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