What will happen to the planet 100 years from now? I really don't think the planet will be in devastating shape... even with a few degrees warming.
The planet will be fine, it's a big ball of rock with some soft squishy things moving around on it. There might be fewer species roaming about in the short term, but evolution will fix that, given a few million years. The loss in biodiversity will be a Bad Thing, but it'll only be temporary. The human race might encounter some difficulties too, but only from problems that we made for ourselves; I guess we'd better learn either to live with it (and avoid causing further damage) or to figure out how to find some other planet to go live on.
The choices are not all bad. What people seem to get confused about is thinking that if they don't stand a chance of getting their favoured candidate elected, there's no point in voting. I only know about the UK, but there are more political parties than Conservative and Labour here; if other parties start getting an increased share of the vote, the big parties sit up and take notice and policies change in order to try to attract the disaffected back into the fold. If the headless entity that is Occupy wants to make a real difference, next election there ought to be Occupy candidates standing in every seat. Then we can find out whether they really represent the 99%.
As I understand it, these are higher energy neutrinos than would be expelled from a supernova. I gather one of the theories is that the neutrinos can slip into extra dimensions at very high energies.
Bandwidth, at least where I live (near Oxford), isn't fast enough to stream video - the last time I tried to watch streaming video, I got two seconds of video, five seconds buffering, two seconds video, rinse, repeat. LoveFilm have been advertising quite heavily recently - they've been stressing the fact that you can either download or get DVDs in the post. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
There have been growing concerns in recent years that defamation law in this country has come to be more protective of reputation than elsewhere in the world to such an extent that London has become the preferred location for defamation actions involving foreign parties with only a tenuous link to this jurisdiction.... Some say that London has developed a reputation as the libel capital of the world and that the judgments of its courts are having a chilling effect on freedom of speech in other parts of the world.... The draft Bill seeks to prevent claims against defendants who are not domiciled here or in another EU member state without a strong link existing to the jurisdiction of England and Wales. It prevents a court from hearing such a case unless it is satisfied that this jurisdiction is the "most appropriate" place for a defamation action to be brought.
we investigated a number of options for using widescreen formats more effectively with the goal that the total vertical space available for content was the same after we added the ribbon as it had been in Windows 7. We removed the header at the top of the main view and moved the Details pane to the right side (and also did a visual revamp of the pane) while keeping a one-line status bar at the bottom of the window where we show you critical information.
I don't like the ribbon layout, as it makes it hard to find less frequently used features than a menu system, but you can hide the ribbon if you want to. As far as I'm concerned, if they leave the context menu alone, I can cope with it...
30km away radiation levels are 10 times higher than normal.
Ten times higher than background radiation is nothing to worry about.
I think you need to do your research.
Likewise. According to this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/fukushima_thursday/page2.html, the maximum dose the the nuclear plant workers are being allowed to be exposed to as a result of this accident is 250 millisieverts. As the article states, the LD50 (dose that'll kill 50%) is 4000 millisieverts. While I wouldn't want to get exposed to that level of radiation myself, it seems to me like the workers are being quite well looked after. The very fact that they've been evacuated at all suggests that they're making sure the workers are OK, rather than sacrificing them in a blind panic in order to regain control.
Have a look at this: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Attempts_to_refill_fuel_ponds_1703111.html - and bear in mind that the workers on site will, for most of the time, be in a heavily shielded room. Radiation levels near the reactors themselves are high, but at the edge of the site they aren't nearly as high, and have been dropping for some time.
The ammunition for this weapon has two explosive charges, front and back. My guess would be the first decelerates the projectile, and the second provides the lethal fragments. Have a look at the video here (linked in TFA): XM-25 rifle in action - it looks like it works pretty well to me.
"Working software over comprehensive documentation"? Yeah, good luck debugging your undocumented code.
This seems to be something that causes a lot of confusion, and a lot of knee jerk dismissal of agile principles. "Working software over comprehensive documentation" isn't saying that documentation is unnecessary - just that it's better to expend effort on getting your software working than trying to document each and every aspect of the system. If it's important that users have strong passwords, it is far better to write the code to ensure that users have strong passwords than it is to spend your time deciding and documenting exactly what a strong password is. I've worked in companies in the past where a simple change like modifying the password policy would involve a couple of days of documentation, discussion and sign off. Often the code changes would take around half a day, maybe just a couple of hours, but we still had to go through the documentation and sign off no matter what. Agile is kicking against that, and saying that it's better to just get stuff done. Documentation is still important - coding is just more important.
I'm not really sure what kids can and can't buy in America, but as far as I'm concerned fewer kiddies playing games like MW2 would make the game far more enjoyable. I'm not bothered about protecting the children, that can be left to their parents: I just want them off my game servers:)
Heh, yeah fair enough. Any Lego game is fine by me (I'm pretty sure I've played them all), but I wouldn't count them as being derivative marketing. I'm referring more to games that are released within a few weeks of the film itself, so are able to fully cash in on all the PR the film generates. Never played the Toy Story games, but prior experience with games like LotR, Shrek and Beowulf suggest that they may be the exception which proves the rule.
I work by this rule - don't ever buy a game that's basically just derivative merchandising for a film. Enough people will buy the game simply because they liked the film, so there's no incentive to make the game any good.
Looks like he got a little upset about people calling bullshit and withdrew the article: http://www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/?p=2495 He says "I know full well that it is ‘scientifically’ not possible for a data cable to exert such influence but I know what we heard and hoped that maybe someone might be able to throw some light on what might be going on." In the original article, he liked the "increased naturalness in both the sound of instruments and voices, which seemed more organic, human and less ‘electronic’, and in the music’s rhythmical progression" Maybe he just changed CD while testing the cable, and liked the second disc better...
I don't think DeLeo's got a problem with gambling per se. The way I see it, he's more likely to have an issue with gambling being allowed to happen someplace where his friends don't profit from it, or where it means that Massachusetts dollars are leaving the state.
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Exactly. All hail Skynet!
Sorry dude, but that's a blatant troll, not a patent troll.
What will happen to the planet 100 years from now? I really don't think the planet will be in devastating shape... even with a few degrees warming.
The planet will be fine, it's a big ball of rock with some soft squishy things moving around on it. There might be fewer species roaming about in the short term, but evolution will fix that, given a few million years. The loss in biodiversity will be a Bad Thing, but it'll only be temporary. The human race might encounter some difficulties too, but only from problems that we made for ourselves; I guess we'd better learn either to live with it (and avoid causing further damage) or to figure out how to find some other planet to go live on.
The choices are not all bad. What people seem to get confused about is thinking that if they don't stand a chance of getting their favoured candidate elected, there's no point in voting. I only know about the UK, but there are more political parties than Conservative and Labour here; if other parties start getting an increased share of the vote, the big parties sit up and take notice and policies change in order to try to attract the disaffected back into the fold. If the headless entity that is Occupy wants to make a real difference, next election there ought to be Occupy candidates standing in every seat. Then we can find out whether they really represent the 99%.
As I understand it, these are higher energy neutrinos than would be expelled from a supernova. I gather one of the theories is that the neutrinos can slip into extra dimensions at very high energies.
God-damned communist bees.
Fair enough. Currently, neither of them can deliver content faster than me going out to buy/rent a handful of DVDs...
Bandwidth, at least where I live (near Oxford), isn't fast enough to stream video - the last time I tried to watch streaming video, I got two seconds of video, five seconds buffering, two seconds video, rinse, repeat. LoveFilm have been advertising quite heavily recently - they've been stressing the fact that you can either download or get DVDs in the post. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
There have been growing concerns in recent years that defamation law in this country has come to be more protective of reputation than elsewhere in the world to such an extent that London has become the preferred location for defamation actions involving foreign parties with only a tenuous link to this jurisdiction. ... Some say that London has developed a reputation as the libel capital of the world and that the judgments of its courts are having a chilling effect on freedom of speech in other parts of the world. ... The draft Bill seeks to prevent claims against defendants who are not domiciled here or in another EU member state without a strong link existing to the jurisdiction of England and Wales. It prevents a court from hearing such a case unless it is satisfied that this jurisdiction is the "most appropriate" place for a defamation action to be brought.
Or, to put it in rhyming slang, Jeremy Hunt is a right Jeremy?
Exactly. After all, when MW2 came out, who didn't head straight for a Russian airport to massacre hundreds of civilians?
This nudge should place the asteroid in an orbit at about twice the distance of the Moon. From there it can be studied and mined, they say.
we investigated a number of options for using widescreen formats more effectively with the goal that the total vertical space available for content was the same after we added the ribbon as it had been in Windows 7. We removed the header at the top of the main view and moved the Details pane to the right side (and also did a visual revamp of the pane) while keeping a one-line status bar at the bottom of the window where we show you critical information.
I don't like the ribbon layout, as it makes it hard to find less frequently used features than a menu system, but you can hide the ribbon if you want to. As far as I'm concerned, if they leave the context menu alone, I can cope with it...
30km away radiation levels are 10 times higher than normal.
Ten times higher than background radiation is nothing to worry about.
I think you need to do your research.
Likewise. According to this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/fukushima_thursday/page2.html, the maximum dose the the nuclear plant workers are being allowed to be exposed to as a result of this accident is 250 millisieverts. As the article states, the LD50 (dose that'll kill 50%) is 4000 millisieverts. While I wouldn't want to get exposed to that level of radiation myself, it seems to me like the workers are being quite well looked after. The very fact that they've been evacuated at all suggests that they're making sure the workers are OK, rather than sacrificing them in a blind panic in order to regain control. Have a look at this: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Attempts_to_refill_fuel_ponds_1703111.html - and bear in mind that the workers on site will, for most of the time, be in a heavily shielded room. Radiation levels near the reactors themselves are high, but at the edge of the site they aren't nearly as high, and have been dropping for some time.
The ammunition for this weapon has two explosive charges, front and back. My guess would be the first decelerates the projectile, and the second provides the lethal fragments. Have a look at the video here (linked in TFA): XM-25 rifle in action - it looks like it works pretty well to me.
"Working software over comprehensive documentation"? Yeah, good luck debugging your undocumented code.
This seems to be something that causes a lot of confusion, and a lot of knee jerk dismissal of agile principles. "Working software over comprehensive documentation" isn't saying that documentation is unnecessary - just that it's better to expend effort on getting your software working than trying to document each and every aspect of the system. If it's important that users have strong passwords, it is far better to write the code to ensure that users have strong passwords than it is to spend your time deciding and documenting exactly what a strong password is. I've worked in companies in the past where a simple change like modifying the password policy would involve a couple of days of documentation, discussion and sign off. Often the code changes would take around half a day, maybe just a couple of hours, but we still had to go through the documentation and sign off no matter what. Agile is kicking against that, and saying that it's better to just get stuff done. Documentation is still important - coding is just more important.
I'm not really sure what kids can and can't buy in America, but as far as I'm concerned fewer kiddies playing games like MW2 would make the game far more enjoyable. I'm not bothered about protecting the children, that can be left to their parents: I just want them off my game servers :)
Heh, yeah fair enough. Any Lego game is fine by me (I'm pretty sure I've played them all), but I wouldn't count them as being derivative marketing. I'm referring more to games that are released within a few weeks of the film itself, so are able to fully cash in on all the PR the film generates. Never played the Toy Story games, but prior experience with games like LotR, Shrek and Beowulf suggest that they may be the exception which proves the rule.
I work by this rule - don't ever buy a game that's basically just derivative merchandising for a film. Enough people will buy the game simply because they liked the film, so there's no incentive to make the game any good.
Looks like he got a little upset about people calling bullshit and withdrew the article: http://www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/?p=2495 He says "I know full well that it is ‘scientifically’ not possible for a data cable to exert such influence but I know what we heard and hoped that maybe someone might be able to throw some light on what might be going on." In the original article, he liked the "increased naturalness in both the sound of instruments and voices, which seemed more organic, human and less ‘electronic’, and in the music’s rhythmical progression" Maybe he just changed CD while testing the cable, and liked the second disc better...
It's pretty simple - don't be a sociopath. People who answer calls on speakerphone deserve everything they get and more.
... in the future of USA and the world, there are more STD's from your disgraceful behaviour now in your time then there ever was in 30 years ago ...
This is Slashdot. Around here, an STD should be worn like a medal. "Hey, guys, I've had sex, AND I can prove it!"
I don't think DeLeo's got a problem with gambling per se. The way I see it, he's more likely to have an issue with gambling being allowed to happen someplace where his friends don't profit from it, or where it means that Massachusetts dollars are leaving the state.
Heh, soon we'll have flying robots which tase you, then nick your wallet.
Do you prefer a fully-locked-down environment and living in a police nation to save you from those who abuse the freedom?
If so, move to the UK. We're doing our best, and we'll get there soon.
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