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Comment Re:Doesn't sound very stable... (Score 5, Informative) 339

The machine puts up tunnel walls as it goes.
http://gizmodo.com/big-bertha-is-digging-seattles-massive-underground-fre-662469199
Concrete panels go in right behind the bore head. Infront of the maw is ground below the water table. The bore head forms a seal and the tunnel behind the bore head is pumped dry of water that leaks through.

Comment Re:No slashdot article can be complete... (Score 1) 182

Please exaplin "because all observable planets, besides earth, show the exact opposite happening" because as far as I can see Jupiter has one heck of a violent storm problem.

The center of the planet is molten. Space is cold. Air temperature is primarly affected by 1) solar input from ground heat and 2) radiative loss to space at altitude. More ground warming means more air rising, which means more cold air falling somewhere else. Making one spot hot is going to push more air up at that point, to balance that more cold air is going to "fall" somewhere else. One dynamic is that land cools quicker than water so we get arctic outflows. The world could get warmer and north america get colder due to all the cold air getting dumped on NA which is ideally shapped for north south air circulation.

Comment Re:How hard can that possibly be? (Score 5, Insightful) 663

There do not appear to be any coins in the cup. It appears to be full of liquid with the internal liquid level line.
There is a number 6 under the cup, it does not say 6 coins. Why would there be coins in cap anyways? You put liquid in cup.

"Find the missing part?" is a bad question. If anything it should ask about coins, not parts.
There are no parts missing all the coins are whole so is the cup.

The whole thing is not clear and misleading.

You are assuming the question is asking about the sum of coins. That is not indicated by the question.
Having to make assumptions about a question is very very wrong when it is not a written test where one can explain the assumptions one has to add to a question.

Comment Life In Alberta (Score 2) 444

http://albertaventure.com/2013/06/albertas-farmers-adapt-to-climate-change/

“It’s jokingly been said by some people that we’ll eventually become the grape producers of America.”

The Good:
One of the ways this is measured is through the boundary for corn heat units, which measures where corn can be grown in the province. The northern boundary for these units has moved up a couple hundred kilometres since the 1910s, and it’s advanced about 50 kilometres since the 1940s.

The Bad:
His county was flooded four years ago, but he didn’t get any rain at all in July or August of 2012. “You can go from one wet year to extremely dry with no gradual buildup. Basically you just get hit with it and you have to survive it,” he says. “Nothing is consistent anymore. You think you have things figured out and then it throws a loop at you to say to you, ‘No, you don’t.’

Follow The Money:
agriculture-oriented investment funds have taken an increased interest in Canadian farmland?

Comment What are you doing? (Score 3, Informative) 465

What do you mean by scientific computing?

Modelling: Hard core finite element simulations or the like. Then C or Fortran and you will be linking with the math libraries.
Log Processing: A lot of other stuff you will be parsing data logs and doing statistics. So perl or python then octive.
Data Mining: Python or other SQL front end.

Comment Re:What can a home server be used for (Score 1) 169

My point is that the internet is more than a replacement for Cable TV. It can be so much more if we use it for all that it can do. And the ISP's are limiting the ability to expand the functionality of the internet by limiting its uses which means business are not going to start up supporting the other functions.

Comment What can a home server be used for (Score 1) 169

These are all potential applications that could be enabled by Home Server Applications. These require good security. But "Why can't we make secure apps?". And yes you can do all this now. It is just not as easy as it could be.

a) Why can't I have my own "facebook" Why do my pictures have to be uploaded to a webserver with dubious terms of use that are subject to modification at any time. My own server would allow access only to my friends and totally controll my content among that group.
b) Google Drive, without the Google. Again why does it have to pass through a 3rd party
c) Monitoring aging parents. Souped up home security server system (which itself is outlawed by the no server). Can I check the fridge. Have they taken medications ...
d) run your own Game Server. New machines should easily be able to run 5-10 and even 40 player real time games. Again why do I need a 3rd party host.

There are likely to be a host of others that become available. The issue is not security. The issue is "monetization" in that the home server removes the third part and "profit" from the loop.

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