Also - do we really want to do fission - its so 20th century and dangerous - news today - The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium - enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7006056.stm
Strange but nobody seems to be researching the theory that the technologically advanced Dinosaurs became extinct (well apart from the ones still alive and in hiding) after repeated attempts to alter their DNA lead to mass obesity which lead to them using unefficient cars which lead to global warming which roasted their cold blooded insides.
Quite frankly violent crime and yobbish behaviour seem to be rising at quite an alarming rate where I live and commute. The local off-license has been hit 3 times this year, there have been 2 local murders, I personally saw an assult in broad daylight last month and someone threw a punch at my bus driver this morning. This is in an area where 250000 pounds might just get you a 2 bed flat/house.
On top of this we see news today of an 11 year old shot dead by some youth on a bike. Celebs constantly getting away with drug or dangerous driving offenses.
So then someone was using someone uses broadband wifi without their permission - simple solution - just give the victim a weblink showing them how to secure their connection (overall cost £10 max), give the guy stealing bandwidth a talking to and then get on with some real police work - dumb solution - Arrest the evil doer and drag him through the courts (Overall cost - Thousands)
Actually this reminds me of when I was living in South Africa, 1 day there were 2 stories on the same page of a national newspaper, in 1 story someone bizarrely got away with a 500 rand fine for killing someone, in the other someone got a 1000 rand fine for not having a TV license. The obvious joke then did the rounds - If you don't have a TV license and the inspector comes - just kill him, its cheaper.
Parents will generally spend more time with the first child than the later ones (because amount of time available is devided by the children) and so the first child will get a bit more attention and one-on-one learning from the parents when they are very young.
Later, if they have siblings, they will usually be the natural leader and teacher and you really start to learn things well when you have to teach them to someone else.
This would easily account for such a small difference. However, I remember a study that said that the most successful people financially are more likely to come from 80th to 95th percentile - so sometimes it doesn't pay to be too intelligent.
"If it wasn't for this little rubber wonder I doubt I'd be sat at this desk today, working in IT as a career."
Yes - but how many are now thinking that their dilbert like lives may have turned out better if they had got out a bit more, played some sports and asked some girls out on dates?
In the interests of destroying this ghastly idea to violate all of our civil liberties I propose a new sport to put the most unpleasent sectors of society to a sensible use.
Split your teams of yobbos up into groups of 4/5 (ensure that hoddies are worn and identifying clothing etc.. is minimised) - team captains select a la football picks. Each team then has 30 minutes to cause the maximum amount of response from a speaking camera (each team can choose the camera), each sentence/command gets one point, each threat to call the police gets 3 points and if the police turn up then the team gets 10 points (but only if they evade capture in the following 2 days).
The team with the most number of points wins whatever creative thing they can think of.
After the camera's go we will release the snakes to get rid of the yobbos and then release the gorrillas to get rid of the snakes - the gorillas will obviously freeze to death in the winter and we will all be free
Some people like their stuff simple, some people like it more complex. Some people like simple stuff that you can then drill down on so they can decide if it's simple or complex. What design is all about is meeting a demand in a way that the people buying it will like.
Forget simple/complex - remember people!
Letter frequency research seems a slightly bizzare topic in the 21st century - Bring back the Linotype keyboards !!
As regards other languages - http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/words/etaoin.html is a good starting list of letter frequencies.
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If you want to read about the duesburg hypothesis please read the whole story as this is really old stuff and his views are not accepted by the scientific community.
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Every couple of weeks or so the media buy a press release about how 'a new drug' / 'gene therapy' / 'Nanotechnology' could possibly cure AIDS.
Now let's get a few things straight -
Firstly, all these potential cures work against HIV (which causes AIDS).
Secondly, there are already some great meds around for extend life span of people infected with the HI virus by 20+ years as long as people infected are adherrent to their drugs and live healthly lifestyle. Of course when you live in poverty and without access to decent healthcare this is damn hard - hence the problems in resource poor communities.
Thirdly, there is a huge pipeline of new potential drugs which may improve on the current medication regimes and if anyone is interested these tables below will give some indication of the new advanced that may possibly become approved over the next few years after extensive tests: -
Finally, if people are really interested in the latest new drugs for HIV they can get the simply subscribe to thebody.com that has an excellent newsletter which includes new developments. Or look at their latest update on Other Antiviral Drugs in Development- Sept 13 2006 and note the following paragraph
'Antisense Drugs
These are a "mirror image" of part of the HIV genetic code. The drug locks onto the virus to prevent it from functioning. One antisense drug, HGTV43 by Enzo Therapeutics, is starting Phase II trials. VIRxSYS has completed a Phase I trial of its product, VRX496.'
Wapedia is just one of the 3 main sites to access wikipedia via wap - so if one service is down you can use others. see Wikipedia via Wap Access These sites have all been available for a while so this thread is old news I'm afraid.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep
http://dialog.newsedge.com/newsedge.asp?site=2006121916143901110346&block=folderstory&briefs=off&action=XMLStoryResult&smd=true&storyid=p0906509.2rw&rtcrdata=off
Also same site was touting anti-matter proplusion last year http://www.tfot.info/articles/33/new-antimatter-engine-design.html
Also - do we really want to do fission - its so 20th century and dangerous - news today - The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium - enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7006056.stm
Strange but nobody seems to be researching the theory that the technologically advanced Dinosaurs became extinct (well apart from the ones still alive and in hiding) after repeated attempts to alter their DNA lead to mass obesity which lead to them using unefficient cars which lead to global warming which roasted their cold blooded insides.
This meteor stuff is nonsense.
Quite frankly violent crime and yobbish behaviour seem to be rising at quite an alarming rate where I live and commute. The local off-license has been hit 3 times this year, there have been 2 local murders, I personally saw an assult in broad daylight last month and someone threw a punch at my bus driver this morning. This is in an area where 250000 pounds might just get you a 2 bed flat/house. On top of this we see news today of an 11 year old shot dead by some youth on a bike. Celebs constantly getting away with drug or dangerous driving offenses. So then someone was using someone uses broadband wifi without their permission - simple solution - just give the victim a weblink showing them how to secure their connection (overall cost £10 max), give the guy stealing bandwidth a talking to and then get on with some real police work - dumb solution - Arrest the evil doer and drag him through the courts (Overall cost - Thousands) Actually this reminds me of when I was living in South Africa, 1 day there were 2 stories on the same page of a national newspaper, in 1 story someone bizarrely got away with a 500 rand fine for killing someone, in the other someone got a 1000 rand fine for not having a TV license. The obvious joke then did the rounds - If you don't have a TV license and the inspector comes - just kill him, its cheaper.
Parents will generally spend more time with the first child than the later ones (because amount of time available is devided by the children) and so the first child will get a bit more attention and one-on-one learning from the parents when they are very young. Later, if they have siblings, they will usually be the natural leader and teacher and you really start to learn things well when you have to teach them to someone else. This would easily account for such a small difference. However, I remember a study that said that the most successful people financially are more likely to come from 80th to 95th percentile - so sometimes it doesn't pay to be too intelligent.
"If it wasn't for this little rubber wonder I doubt I'd be sat at this desk today, working in IT as a career."
Yes - but how many are now thinking that their dilbert like lives may have turned out better if they had got out a bit more, played some sports and asked some girls out on dates?
In the interests of destroying this ghastly idea to violate all of our civil liberties I propose a new sport to put the most unpleasent sectors of society to a sensible use. Split your teams of yobbos up into groups of 4/5 (ensure that hoddies are worn and identifying clothing etc.. is minimised) - team captains select a la football picks. Each team then has 30 minutes to cause the maximum amount of response from a speaking camera (each team can choose the camera), each sentence/command gets one point, each threat to call the police gets 3 points and if the police turn up then the team gets 10 points (but only if they evade capture in the following 2 days). The team with the most number of points wins whatever creative thing they can think of. After the camera's go we will release the snakes to get rid of the yobbos and then release the gorrillas to get rid of the snakes - the gorillas will obviously freeze to death in the winter and we will all be free
Some people like their stuff simple, some people like it more complex. Some people like simple stuff that you can then drill down on so they can decide if it's simple or complex. What design is all about is meeting a demand in a way that the people buying it will like. Forget simple/complex - remember people!
Letter frequency research seems a slightly bizzare topic in the 21st century - Bring back the Linotype keyboards !! As regards other languages - http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/words/etaoin.html is a good starting list of letter frequencies.
If you want to read about the duesburg hypothesis please read the whole story as this is really old stuff and his views are not accepted by the scientific community.
Wikipedia has a reasonably fair article regarding this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis and science had a damning article regarding it no less than 12 years ago http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/cohen/266-Here's the latest HCV treatment pipeline information if you want to know
The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment PipelineEvery couple of weeks or so the media buy a press release about how 'a new drug' / 'gene therapy' / 'Nanotechnology' could possibly cure AIDS.
Now let's get a few things straight -
Firstly, all these potential cures work against HIV (which causes AIDS).
Secondly, there are already some great meds around for extend life span of people infected with the HI virus by 20+ years as long as people infected are adherrent to their drugs and live healthly lifestyle. Of course when you live in poverty and without access to decent healthcare this is damn hard - hence the problems in resource poor communities.
Thirdly, there is a huge pipeline of new potential drugs which may improve on the current medication regimes and if anyone is interested these tables below will give some indication of the new advanced that may possibly become approved over the next few years after extensive tests: -
Finally, if people are really interested in the latest new drugs for HIV they can get the simply subscribe to thebody.com that has an excellent newsletter which includes new developments. Or look at their latest update on Other Antiviral Drugs in Development- Sept 13 2006 and note the following paragraph
'Antisense Drugs These are a "mirror image" of part of the HIV genetic code. The drug locks onto the virus to prevent it from functioning. One antisense drug, HGTV43 by Enzo Therapeutics, is starting Phase II trials. VIRxSYS has completed a Phase I trial of its product, VRX496.'
Wreck a nice beach? Americans already pretending to do this in Iraq Real-Time Computer-Based Translation in Iraq
Wapedia is just one of the 3 main sites to access wikipedia via wap - so if one service is down you can use others. see Wikipedia via Wap Access These sites have all been available for a while so this thread is old news I'm afraid.
The US military have always been able to Wreck a nice beach but often lack calm incense