"These causality problems would be solved without any change to the mathematical formalism of GR, but only to its interpretation, if gravity is once again taken to be a propagating force of nature in flat spacetime with the propagation speed indicated by observational evidence and experiments: not less than 2 x 1010 c. Such a change of perspective requires no change in the assumed character of gravitational radiation or its lightspeed propagation. Although faster-than-light force propagation speeds do violate Einstein special relativity (SR), they are in accord with Lorentzian relativity, which has never been experimentally distinguished from SR-at least, not if favor of SR."
A simple google search for "evidence evolution" yields numerous pages. From the very first one (I'm feeling lucky!)
Link 1: Observed Evidence of Speciation http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.htm l has eight fruity fly speciation events. Most interesting to me is the Apple Maggot fly, which originally fed on hawthorn trees, but is speciating at this very moment; there are now two different races of the fly, one of which feeds on apples and other rosacea and one on thornapples. They mature at different rates and due to this do not interbreed even though they are still able to hybridize.
Link 2: 29 evidences for macroevolution http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ This is the one I was looking for. If you read and understand this and fail to accept that evolution is occuring and can account for the diversity of species on earth then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Or maybe the people who are using it as a client use it because it is functional, easy to use, has a nice interface, etc. and aren't aware that it is cheating the protocol.
Oddly enough, many people around the world daily look in the mirror and experience a shock of non-recognition. I had very long hair and the first time I had it cut I didn't recognize myself for days, though to be honest I have some minor facial agnosia.
What nobody has made clear is that the seal is specially protected under law, not by general trademark law. Although there is a clear first amendment defense here, there is probably little case law to go on. My guess is that a reasonable judge would side with the Onion but this is not nearly as clear-cut as it would be were another mark under discussion.
This looks like it is meant to compete with Pixomatic from RAD Game Tools. ( http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm ) Perhaps it's cheaper or faster, but pixomatic is not overly pricy and I trust Mike Abrash *now at RAD) has a little bit of experience writing fast renderers:)
From http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/ 4/684 "These results have implications for the understanding of bat evolution, for example, flight in bats may have arisen only once within the Chiroptera (see also Allard, McNiff, and Miyamoto 1996 ). "
I have my keyboard on a keyboard tray shoved in completely under my desk. I can't see a damn key on it, nor anything past my wrists. Turns out the hardest thing is learning where the function keys are by muscle memory. After that hurdle is crossed you'll find that having an invisible keyboard frees up a lot of desk space. And people are *reallly* reluctant to use your machine when they can't even see their hands:)
As a game developer, sometimes you write something and the suits say you can't put it in, so you just comment out the call to activate it. It's a lot easier than pulling all the source and assets out of the game. Time pressures abound and a thirty-second fix impresses the higher-ups a lot more than a two-day hunt to find and remove all of the offending assets.
But every other language besides English allows and encourages the use of the double negative. I know it's hard for a programming-hardened brain to understand, but Boolean logic is not really a big part of the normal human's thinking. Let's allow a little imprecision, get off of our high horse, and allpw people to say what they intend to say without busting their ass because they don't feel the need to conform to the rules of some arbitrary seventeenth-century prescriptive grammarian. You understood what the original poster meant, didn't you? You're smart, aren't you? The double negative has a grand tradition in spoken and literary use; if it was good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare it's good enough for me.
With Bruce Lee on my C64. I had a friend with a 1541 who brought it over and we started the game. I played for about a week until I felt an overwhelming urge to write a program.
If the industry is bigger than Hollywood, where are all the limos, drugs, and groupies? Where's the money at?
Good link at http://grumpygamer.com/5378171 Quote: "The 2004 domestic Video and Computer Game Industry is estimated to be around $10B. This is a slightly misleading figure because it includes the sales of the console machines, in addition to the sales of the software, but we'll go with it.
The domestic US box office is estimated to be around $9B for 2004, and this is where the myth starts to take life. The problem is the movie industry is a lot bigger then just the U.S. box office. DVD sales and rentals for 2003 topped $16B. VHS sales and rentals for 2003 was $6.4B. VHS sales are declining fast, but most of that will just shift over to DVDs, which brings the grand total for non-box office movie sales to over $20B, twice the figure for the entire game industry."
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Expirements suggest that gravity propogates at no less than 2.0E10c.h tml
http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.
"These causality problems would be solved without any change to the mathematical formalism of GR, but only to its interpretation, if gravity is once again taken to be a propagating force of nature in flat spacetime with the propagation speed indicated by observational evidence and experiments: not less than 2 x 1010 c. Such a change of perspective requires no change in the assumed character of gravitational radiation or its lightspeed propagation. Although faster-than-light force propagation speeds do violate Einstein special relativity (SR), they are in accord with Lorentzian relativity, which has never been experimentally distinguished from SR-at least, not if favor of SR."
Shakespeare's name was spelled many different ways in Elizabethan times, even by himself.
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html
So any close spelling is really legitimate.
A simple google search for "evidence evolution" yields numerous pages. From the very first one (I'm feeling lucky!)
m l has eight fruity fly speciation events. Most interesting to me is the Apple Maggot fly, which originally fed on hawthorn trees, but is speciating at this very moment; there are now two different races of the fly, one of which feeds on apples and other rosacea and one on thornapples. They mature at different rates and due to this do not interbreed even though they are still able to hybridize.
Link 1: Observed Evidence of Speciation http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.ht
Link 2: 29 evidences for macroevolution http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ This is the one I was looking for. If you read and understand this and fail to accept that evolution is occuring and can account for the diversity of species on earth then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Acy
From the results page at http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/ 438900a_m1.html
"All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias."
Are you all idiots? I guess I don't really need to ask that question.
Or maybe the people who are using it as a client use it because it is functional, easy to use, has a nice interface, etc. and aren't aware that it is cheating the protocol.
In a free market why *wouldn't* they immediately create a .xxx domain? I can see the money just pouring in.
Excellent point, but my real question is: where can I get that game?
Oddly enough, many people around the world daily look in the mirror and experience a shock of non-recognition. I had very long hair and the first time I had it cut I didn't recognize myself for days, though to be honest I have some minor facial agnosia.
That's where you failed it. It's *their* buddy list, and they're just letting you use it under the terms of the EULA.
Someone so adamant about procuring the initial comment in a weblog as I see here today with myself.
What nobody has made clear is that the seal is specially protected under law, not by general trademark law. Although there is a clear first amendment defense here, there is probably little case law to go on. My guess is that a reasonable judge would side with the Onion but this is not nearly as clear-cut as it would be were another mark under discussion.
This looks like it is meant to compete with Pixomatic from RAD Game Tools. ( http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm ) Perhaps it's cheaper or faster, but pixomatic is not overly pricy and I trust Mike Abrash *now at RAD) has a little bit of experience writing fast renderers :)
From http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/18/ 4/684
"These results have implications for the understanding of bat evolution, for example, flight in bats may have arisen only once within the Chiroptera (see also Allard, McNiff, and Miyamoto 1996 ). "
Oh, sure I have. The exchange is supposed to take place any day now.
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John Microsoft
I have my keyboard on a keyboard tray shoved in completely under my desk. I can't see a damn key on it, nor anything past my wrists. Turns out the hardest thing is learning where the function keys are by muscle memory. After that hurdle is crossed you'll find that having an invisible keyboard frees up a lot of desk space. And people are *reallly* reluctant to use your machine when they can't even see their hands :)
Children learn from hearing correct utterances. Whether their utterances are corrected or not makes essentially no difference in their learning.
As a game developer, sometimes you write something and the suits say you can't put it in, so you just comment out the call to activate it. It's a lot easier than pulling all the source and assets out of the game. Time pressures abound and a thirty-second fix impresses the higher-ups a lot more than a two-day hunt to find and remove all of the offending assets.
A good shark will only ever play as good as he/she has to to win, in order to never reveal their true ability.
Bravo. An excellent post that deserves upward moderation.
Heh? Back in my day, we had to submit our slashdot replies on punch cards two weeks in advance! In the snow, both ways!
It's just a pet peeve of mine. Also, I enjoy being an asshole :)
But every other language besides English allows and encourages the use of the double negative. I know it's hard for a programming-hardened brain to understand, but Boolean logic is not really a big part of the normal human's thinking. Let's allow a little imprecision, get off of our high horse, and allpw people to say what they intend to say without busting their ass because they don't feel the need to conform to the rules of some arbitrary seventeenth-century prescriptive grammarian. You understood what the original poster meant, didn't you? You're smart, aren't you? The double negative has a grand tradition in spoken and literary use; if it was good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare it's good enough for me.
With Bruce Lee on my C64. I had a friend with a 1541 who brought it over and we started the game. I played for about a week until I felt an overwhelming urge to write a program.
If the industry is bigger than Hollywood, where are all the limos, drugs, and groupies? Where's the money at?
Good link at http://grumpygamer.com/5378171
Quote: "The 2004 domestic Video and Computer Game Industry is estimated to be around $10B. This is a slightly misleading figure because it includes the sales of the console machines, in addition to the sales of the software, but we'll go with it.
The domestic US box office is estimated to be around $9B for 2004, and this is where the myth starts to take life. The problem is the movie industry is a lot bigger then just the U.S. box office. DVD sales and rentals for 2003 topped $16B. VHS sales and rentals for 2003 was $6.4B. VHS sales are declining fast, but most of that will just shift over to DVDs, which brings the grand total for non-box office movie sales to over $20B, twice the figure for the entire game industry."
It's illegal for *governments* to own places in space.