no longer? as if they ever were? Name me one area in which microsoft has led the way, and no, software bloat doesnt count. Hell, they didnt even come up widos, they just bought out a company and added their own stuff. "embrace and extend" is not a leadership philosphy, you would only use it as a strategy when you were falling behind, and needed to stop your slide, which is why MS uses it so frequently
No, of course you dont get the same properties as silk, you get the same properties as cotton. Silk is not a plant fiber, it comes from caterpillars.
but ere talking about bioengineering here, a previous poster mentioned making plants that can produce synthetics. This is where most of the research is going. If you can grow nylon, or a nylon equivalent in or ona plant, this would be a huge advantage. If you could grow silk that way, it would be even better. I know where silk comes from, I also know its labor intensive to produce said silk, if you could reduce that by producing a plant that grew it, youd have a huge advantage. Regardless, you cant make nylon or silk or synthetics out of hemp, doing so is one of the holy grails of biotech.
3: I and my girlfriend are Canadian, so this is not a problem.
good for you, but some slashdot readers are not, and for those who live in the US, they can get searched if they wear hemp clothes, and like it or not the perception of drug use, wether legitimate or not, will continue to be a barrier to hemp use
I still don't understand why there's so much cash spent on bio-engineering new strains of plants when hemp is a perfectly good as-is solution!
1: because not everyone wants to wear hemp. If i want to wear something that feels like a burlap sack, i will, but most people dont like that.
2:hemp doesnt have the same properties as other materials. You dont get the same dyeability, look, feel etc as you might get with something else. No matter how hard you try, hemp is not going to have the same properties as silk. (unless it were bioengineered, ironically)
3: in most states, wearing something made of hemp is probable cause for an officer to search your person. Think about that the next time youre hiding your stash in your hemp pants.
How long have people been saying Apple is dead? How many armchair CEO's have said this or that about whats will prevent apple from dying, port to i386, allow clones, open source everything, etc. Now we see compaq essentially getting out of the hardware buisness. Where were the people predicting compaq's demise? Who but a very few predicted packard bell, emachines, micron, all going or gone from the computer buisness, yet apple is still going strong. Think about how many computer companes apple has seen die before you predict its immanent doom in the future. That is all
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Washingtonpost.com just today posted a story dealing with online real estate brokers, its a good read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A642 40-2001Jun13.html
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But all make superlative gear for less than you'd think.
Youre absolutely right, Hydrogen wasnt what killed the Hindenburg, the matrials it was made out of did. hydrogen burns with a clear flame, you cant see it. The hindenburg burned with an orange flame, typical of the varnish and other coverings of the airship.as long as you make your airship out of non flammable matterials, fiberglass maybe, you can easily use hydrogen with no more chance of explosion than say your average jetliner, which is to say nonzero, but minimal. Danger is inherent whenever you need concentrated power in a small package.
In case this isnt a troll, ill answer this.
1: how am i supposed to tell my parents
just sit them down and tell them. They may be mad at first, but after a moment of shock theyll just be concerned for your safety.
2: And do I have to go around to everyone I've ever sleeped with and tell them that they might have HIV?
YES YOU DO! Because obviously one of them already has HIV and may not know about it, and everyone youve slept with since then is at risk, even if youve used protection, which you obviously havent at some point. You owe it to those people to let them know they may be at risk.
3:And what about my bf, I don't know how I could ever tell him
if you really care about him, youll tell him. If he had cancer, and you were the only one who knew about it, youd tell him right? Because you want him to get treated as soon as posible. There are treatments for HIV that work to prevent full blown aids and allow you to live a normal life. talk to your doctor about treatment as soon as possible. the sooner you start being treated, the more likely it is you will live a long life.
I doubt it will go under. It cost motorolla $2 billion to put it up, but it was sold off at bankruptcy for $20 million. After it was sold, the new company signed a contract with the state department to provide phones to state department and military personnel for three years and $78 Million. Since it doesnt cost that much to keep them up in orbit, theyve pretty much turned a profit at this point, consumers buying in is just gravy.
By reading this comment, you agree to sell your first-born to Jacob Lee of Cincinnati, OH.
Of course I agree, I set the price of my first born at $1 trillion. If you are unable to pay the full amount you admit to breach of contract. Furthermore in the event of breach of contract you agree to give me all of your assets, financial or otherwise as damages. Reading this statement is a binding contract under UCITA. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Actually your network goes down because you run a token ring lan. If somone unplugs the cable, the token will fall out and the network will go down. you have to find the token and put it back in the cable in order to bring the network back up;-)
The article also talks about magnesium diboride, a newly discovered metallic superconductor, but they make it out to be more than it atcually is. They say it conducts at twice the temperature of similar conductors, which is true, but it still conducts at a lower temperature than what theyre using in detroit. Yes its metallic, yes it superconducts at liquid nitrogen temperatures, but i dont think itll revolutinize things any more than the current crop of ceramic conductors. Give me a room temp superconductor and the world will be a different place, until then the revolution moves slowly.
Also from the faq, the answer to your modified question is "it depends" They state that you will have skill levels in things like blasters, and that as your character advances you can pick up skills like marksmanship and improve on them. The blasters in the original star wars were prefectly accurate, it was the storm troopers who couldnt hit the side of a barn. After all, these are lasers or some derivitive were talking about here, they tavel in straight lines, you just have to point it in the right direction, which is the characters job, not the games.
Well I'll just remodulate my shield harmonics and change the polarity in the grid and your phasers and photon torpedos will bounce harmlessly off. Nyah nyah nyah::thumbing nose::
right but you forget that if they built it on the ground and launched it it would have cost 12 million dollars.
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Smoking anything would be problematic in space, first of all, there is no convection, so smoke doesnt rise, it would just kind of cluster in a ball around the lit tip of your cigarette until it goes out. A real problem that had to be solved was to prevent dead spaces on the station. If you breate too long in one spot, the carbon dioxide will build up and suffocate you and anyone else who happens to try breathing in this spot. As a result the station has an extensive fan system to keep air circulating. On second though you would be able to smoke because of the fans, but youd make it hard on the CO2 scrubbers and dust filters and would probably be thrown out an airlock to smoke by your fellow astronauts, sans space suit.
Once it becomes economically feasible (profitable) See, the thing is, it will never become profitable if the technology isnt developed first. You need some massive R&D to get any space mission off the ground. Somone has to be the initial adopter. Think of computers, the first oomputers were millions of dollars apeice and didnt do all that much. The only people who could afford to build one was the government, because the government needed a computer to crack codes or whatever. After the initial outlay of money for R&D, companies started jumping on board, like the ISS. Russia is building a commercial module for the ISS, and of course the Tito flight shows that if you build it, they will come. Hell, the russians probably made a profit off that soyuz flight, even if thy have to give a little of it to NASA. My point is, in a new risky venture that has the potential for big loss, nobody wants to be first, but everybody wants to be second. If the government absorbs the initial risk, then the commercial interests can come in and exploit it. You really think any buisness looking out for their bottom line would build a 33 billion dollar space station? But any buisness looking out for their bottom line would love to have a spot to research on said space station when it gets built.
Back in HS we had Macs that had some sort of program(I forget the name) that was supposed to prevent you from moving or accessing certain files on the computer, as well as determining where you could save files. Unfortunately for them, they had installed a microsoft product, office, on all the schools computers. Office at this time had a "find file" function that also included a "move file" command, and it worked outside of the operating system. By moving certain preference files you could basically own any box in the school. I always made sure to return the boxes to their original state before i left the lab. Much to my surprise I was called down to the lab one day to tell the guy who ran the lab what id done. Apparantly somone else had seen what id done and copied it, but hadnt covered his tracks as well as I did. Well needless to say I was a bit freaked out on the walk to the computer lab, but the guy was pretty savvy and cool about it, and he just asked what I did and plugged the hole. In retrospect, I could have been in serious trouble, but with the right people, these situations dont have to happen.
I had a good friend who was a quintessential hacker, I remember him once bringing a JAVA book on a boy scout camping trip, and reading the whole thing as we were canoeing down a river. He looked alot like "Screech" from saved by the bell, and was teased mercilessly in jr high and high school. He tended to buck the system rather than fit into it, and as a result his parents sent him to a reform school, where he later committed suicide. He was truly a gifted person, he wroote music, won piano competitions, could program a computer pretty well, and was a fun guy to know. His Dad and the society of bullying in school drove him to suicide.
Dude I moderate every time i get pints, which is about every 2 weeks or so. I usually have about 10 or so posts in my qeue (sp?) and despite my bad spelling i always have 50 or 49 Karma points. All you have to do is mod fairly and you wont get marked down in the metamods.
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no longer? as if they ever were? Name me one area in which microsoft has led the way, and no, software bloat doesnt count. Hell, they didnt even come up widos, they just bought out a company and added their own stuff. "embrace and extend" is not a leadership philosphy, you would only use it as a strategy when you were falling behind, and needed to stop your slide, which is why MS uses it so frequently
but ere talking about bioengineering here, a previous poster mentioned making plants that can produce synthetics. This is where most of the research is going. If you can grow nylon, or a nylon equivalent in or ona plant, this would be a huge advantage. If you could grow silk that way, it would be even better. I know where silk comes from, I also know its labor intensive to produce said silk, if you could reduce that by producing a plant that grew it, youd have a huge advantage. Regardless, you cant make nylon or silk or synthetics out of hemp, doing so is one of the holy grails of biotech.
3: I and my girlfriend are Canadian, so this is not a problem.
good for you, but some slashdot readers are not, and for those who live in the US, they can get searched if they wear hemp clothes, and like it or not the perception of drug use, wether legitimate or not, will continue to be a barrier to hemp use
1: because not everyone wants to wear hemp. If i want to wear something that feels like a burlap sack, i will, but most people dont like that.
2:hemp doesnt have the same properties as other materials. You dont get the same dyeability, look, feel etc as you might get with something else. No matter how hard you try, hemp is not going to have the same properties as silk. (unless it were bioengineered, ironically)
3: in most states, wearing something made of hemp is probable cause for an officer to search your person. Think about that the next time youre hiding your stash in your hemp pants.
How long have people been saying Apple is dead? How many armchair CEO's have said this or that about whats will prevent apple from dying, port to i386, allow clones, open source everything, etc. Now we see compaq essentially getting out of the hardware buisness. Where were the people predicting compaq's demise? Who but a very few predicted packard bell, emachines, micron, all going or gone from the computer buisness, yet apple is still going strong. Think about how many computer companes apple has seen die before you predict its immanent doom in the future. That is all
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The first hit is always free...
1: how am i supposed to tell my parents
just sit them down and tell them. They may be mad at first, but after a moment of shock theyll just be concerned for your safety.
2: And do I have to go around to everyone I've ever sleeped with and tell them that they might have HIV?
YES YOU DO! Because obviously one of them already has HIV and may not know about it, and everyone youve slept with since then is at risk, even if youve used protection, which you obviously havent at some point. You owe it to those people to let them know they may be at risk.
3:And what about my bf, I don't know how I could ever tell him
if you really care about him, youll tell him. If he had cancer, and you were the only one who knew about it, youd tell him right? Because you want him to get treated as soon as posible. There are treatments for HIV that work to prevent full blown aids and allow you to live a normal life. talk to your doctor about treatment as soon as possible. the sooner you start being treated, the more likely it is you will live a long life.
Yup, its called silicon dioxide, its stored and used in solid form though, and if youre not careful, itll make you stoned.
Of course I agree, I set the price of my first born at $1 trillion. If you are unable to pay the full amount you admit to breach of contract. Furthermore in the event of breach of contract you agree to give me all of your assets, financial or otherwise as damages. Reading this statement is a binding contract under UCITA. You have no chance to survive make your time.
He got it backwards, candy is now converted into underwear.